What was history? : the art of history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.

Title: 
What was history? : the art of history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.

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Author/Artist: 
Grafton, Anthony.
Publisher: 
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description: 
ix, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Historiography Europe History.
History Philosophy.
Bib ID: 
126584
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
D13.5.E85G73 2007z
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Notes: 
"This book is a revised and enlarged version of the four George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures that I had the honor of delivering at Cambridge University in January and February 2005."--P. vii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-304) and index.
Contents: 
1. Historical criticism in early modern Europe --
2. The origins of ars historica : a questions mal posée? --
3. Method and madness in the ars historica : three case studies --
4. Death of a genre.
ISBN: 
9780521874359 (hbk.)
0521874351 (hbk.)
9780521697149 (pbk.)
052169714X (pbk.)