Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder - Rilegato

Kelley, Donald R.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300073089 ISBN 13: 9780300073089

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

In this text, an intellectual historian offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late 18th century. The author focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism, theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies, philosophy of history and "historicism". The author begins by analyzing the dual tradition established by the foundational works of Greek historiography - Herodotus's broad cultural and antiquarian inquiry and the contrasting model of Thucydides' contemporary political and analytical narrative. He then examines the many variations on and departures from these themes produced in writings from Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian antiquity, in medieval chronicles, in national histories and revisions of history during the Renaissance and Reformation, and in the rise of erudite and enlightened history in the 17th and 18th centuries. Throughout, Kelley discusses how later historians viewed their predecessors, including both supporters and detractors of the authors in question.

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Book by Kelley Professor Donald R

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300073089
• ISBN 13: 9780300073089
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 340