History / Edition 1

by John Higham, Leonard Krieger, Felix Gilbert

Overview

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing, though he does deal with some of the more specialist forms of medieval historiography such as the crusading writers, and chivalrous historians like Froissart. He maintains that ‘modern’ history did not develop until the 18^th Century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138641464
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/07/2016
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Historiography , #31
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Higham, Leonard Krieger, Felix Gilbert

Table of Contents

1. Ancient Historians: Greeks and Romans 2. The Bible: Jewish and Christian Time 3. Medieval Historiography at its Prime: From the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries 5. The Humanist Historian in Fifteenth-Century Italy 6. The Sixteenth Century 7. History and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century 8. Historians and Antiquaries in the Eighteenth Century: The Emergence of the Modern Method

What People are Saying About This

Laurence Veysey

No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does.

— Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz

Richard L. Bushman

A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have.

— Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware