The Historical Revolution: English Historical Writing and Thought 1580–1640

✍ Scribed by F. Smith Fussner

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Looks at the way in which English historians of the early 17th century wrote history and their ideas about their work. Also traces the origins of problems of historical inquiry.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1.INTRODUCTION
2. THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
3. THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
4 .THE ANTIQUARIAN MOVEMENT AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH
5. POLITICS, PATRONAGE, AND SCHOLARSHIP: THE INFLUENCE OF SIR ROBERT COTTON
6 .THE VARIETIES OF HISTORY
7. SIR WALTER RALEGH AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY
8. JOHN STOW AND LOCAL HISTORY
9 .WILLIAM CAMDEN AND TERRITORIAL HISTORY
10 .SIR FRANCIS BACON AND THE IDEA OF HISTORY
11. JOHN SELDEN AND PROBLEMATIC HISTORY
12. THE HISTORICAL REVOLUTION: CONCLUSIONS AND CONJECTURES
INDEX