
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 ...
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (March 29, 2012)
Publication Date: November 4, 2013
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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...
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, What Is History?.