What Was History? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107606159)

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?

Author: Anthony Grafton
ISBN-10: 1107606152
ISBN-13: 9781107606159
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2012
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d