What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Canto Classics) - Softcover

Grafton, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107606152 ISBN 13: 9781107606159

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

This book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas. Elegant and accessible, it is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.

About the Author:

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, and one of the most distinguished and influential cultural historians writing today. His many previous publications include The Footnote (Harvard University Press, 1997), Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press and Penguin, 2000), and Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (Harvard University Press, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107606152
• ISBN 13: 9781107606159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330