What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

Anthony Grafton

319 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 debate...

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