| What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe Canto Classics Edition Contributor(s): Grafton, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107606152 ISBN-13: 9781107606159 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Europe - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 940.072 |
| LCCN: 2012376010 |
| Series: Canto Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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? |