Language: English
Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo, 1990
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, only slightest wear, fresh attractive dark red brown cloth, fine condition. WOOLF, D. R. The idea of history in early Stuart England: erudition, ideology, and 'The light of truth' from the accession of James I to the Civil War. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1990, xxii, 377pp., . CONTENTS: The structure of Elizabethan and early Stuart historiography -- Early Jacobean historiography -- Samuel Daniel and the emergence of the early English state -- Politic biographers and the Stuart court -- The historian as counsellor -- The Roman world -- Selden: From antiquarianism to history -- Through a prism. 9780802058621 ISBN 0802058620.