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" What was history? : "
Anthony Grafton
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BL
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705722
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b527911
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| Main Entry
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Grafton, Anthony.
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What was history? : : the art of history in early modern Europe /\ Anthony Grafton
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2007
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ix, 319 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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052169714X
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: 0521874351
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: 9780521697149
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: 9780521874359
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"This book is a revised and enlarged version of the four George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures that I had the honor of delivering at Cambridge University in January and February 2005"--Page vii
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-304) and index
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| Contents
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1. Historical criticism in early modern Europe -- 2. The origins of ars historica : a questions mal posée? -- 3. Method and madness in the ars historica : three case studies -- 4. Death of a genre
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"From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works - which often take surprisingly modern-sounding positions - grew from complex early-modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship. In this book, based on the Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, Anthony 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. What was History? is a deliberate evocation of E.H. Carr's Trevelyan Lectures on What is History?, and will appeal to a broad readership of students, scholars, and historical enthusiasts."--Jacket
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Historiography-- Europe-- History
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History-- Philosophy.
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D13.5.E85G73 2007
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D13.5.E85G73 2007
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