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What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

By Anthony Grafton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
1107606152, 9781107606159
Language
english
Format
ZIP
Filesize
9 MB (9239303 bytes)
Series
Canto Classics
Pages
330\0
Time added
2017-09-02 10:04:21
Europe;History;Historiography;Historical Study & E

Description

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early-modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight - and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures on What is History?

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