03342nam 2200697 a 450 991097485430332120251116220241.097866117353719781281735379128173537X9780300137958030013795810.12987/9780300137958(CKB)1000000000477755(EBL)3420362(OCoLC)923592564(SSID)ssj0000267134(PQKBManifestationID)11239412(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267134(PQKBWorkID)10332769(PQKB)10865685(MiAaPQ)EBC3420362(DE-B1597)485602(OCoLC)1083593427(DE-B1597)9780300137958(Au-PeEL)EBL3420362(CaPaEBR)ebr10210245(CaONFJC)MIL173537(Perlego)1161407(OCoLC)1083593427(EXLCZ)99100000000047775519901204d1991 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrVersions of history from antiquity to the Enlightenment /edited by Donald R. Kelley1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc19911 online resource (529 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780300047752 0300047754 9780300047769 0300047762 Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-508) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --1. Introduction: Looking Backward --2. Greece --3. Rome --4. The Judeo-Christian Tradition --5. The Middle Ages --6. The Renaissance --7. The Reformation --8. The Science of History --9. The Enlightenment --10. Conclusion: Looking Forward --Select Bibliography --IndexThe problems, purposes, and methods of history writing have been the subject of debate for almost three millennia. Should history be political or philosophical? Is the writing of history an art or a science? What are the limitations of history? This book is an intriguing collection of views on these and other aspects of history writing by eminent Western historians from early Greece to the end of the eighteenth century. The book contains major texts from 112 historians, both well-known and neglected, ranging from the "mythistories" of Homer and Hesiod to the "reasoned" and "philosophical" accounts of Vico and Voltaire. These texts discuss, for example, theories of historical change, problems of anachronism, narrative, and gender, questions of origins, causation, and historical patterns, and historical criticism. Donald R. Kelley, who selected and arranged the writings, also provides essays and commentary that give background material on the themes of historiography and on the authors included in the bookHistoryPhilosophyHistoryPhilosophy.901NB 5100rvkKelley Donald R.1931-153850MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974854303321Versions of history from antiquity to the Enlightenment4353974UNINA