A01=Joseph M. Levine
Author_Joseph M. Levine
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Collingwood philosophy
early modern English historical writing
eighteenth-century British thought
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historical evidence analysis
objectivity in historical research
Reformation historiography
Renaissance intellectual history
Product details
- ISBN 9780860789536
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How and why did modern historiography take on its present form? Re-enacting the Past addresses the problem in England by looking at some of the ways that the Renaissance and the Reformation affected writing and thinking about history, and left a legacy to modern historiography. Professor Levine concentrates on how neoclassicism in the early modern period both reflected and shaped the English use and understanding of the past. At the same time he shows how religious controversies were also engendering a deepening recourse to history and a new sophistication about historical evidence. By the end of the 18th century, convictions in an ancient perennial wisdom and in the Bible as literal history had been thoroughly challenged and a truly modern historiography was largely in place. Levine concludes with a set of essays about some contemporary views of history, disputing with Quentin Skinner, Peter Novick and Thomas Kuhn, while extolling the virtues of R.G. Collingwood.
Joseph M. Levine is Distinguished Professor of History at Syracuse University, USA.
