Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti
Redaktion: Callisen, Christian Thorsten

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissance and early modern historiography, bringing a unique approach to several of the problems currently facing the field. Contributors engage with critical questions concerning the continued relevance of history for political and social life in the past and present by exploring the challenges, contexts and implications of genre in the reading and writing of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317071280
• Artikelnr.: 44875623

Autorenporträt

Christian Thorsten Callisen is based in Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on interdisciplinary scholarship and the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe. His work has appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas and he is co-author (with Barbara Adkins) of 'Pre-digital Virtuality: Early Modern Scholars and the Republic of Letters', in Park, Jankowski and Jones, The Long History of New Media (New York, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Christian Thorsten Callisen and John Gagné. Part I Tensions and Challenges in Renaissance Historiography: The choices of quattrocento translators
Andrea Rizzi; After the Sforza: making history in Milan during the Italian Wars
John Gagné; The Duchy of Milan in contemporary historical writing
ca 1400-1540
Jane Black. Part II Reading and Writing History Through Individuals: Leonardo Bruni on the legitimacy of constitutions (Oratio in funere Johannis Strozze 19-23)
James Hankins; Machiavelli and humanist historiography
Robert Black; 'To the great aid of our memory': Georg Calixtus on the study of history
Christian Thorsten Callisen; The uses of natural law in early modern Germany: Christian Thomasius's reshaping of the legal persona
Ian Hunter. Part III Questions of Genre: Some reflections on sacred biography
Chris Hanlon; Letters to the editor: the 'awkward truths' in Australia's Italian migration history
1900-1915
Catherine Dewhirst; Robert Graves
I
Claudius and its sequel Claudius the God: history disguised as fiction or vice versa?
Sue Keays; The West in its search for a universal human community: 330 BCE to 2000 CE
John M. Headley. Appendix; Other references; Index.