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What Was History?
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?
Book Details
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: Mar 30th, 2012
- Pages: 330
- Language: English
- Edition: Canto Classics - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781107606159
- Categories: • Historiography• Europe - General• History & Theory - General
Praise for this book
."..Anthony Grafton is teh acknowledged master of his craft. We look to him to set standards for the rest of us to follow." -Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books