
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...
Series: Canto Classics
Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (March 30, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1107606152
ISBN-13: 978-1107606159
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 1943866
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When the late Cambridge historian Herbert Butterfield proposed "whether it would not be worth while to dig deeper in our quest for `origins," he opened the door to the antecedents of Niebuhr and Ranke to reveal the powerful influences of Gatterer, Sc...
n 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?