| Description |
297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 214-288. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Caxton's histories: fact and fiction at the close of the Middle Ages -- Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine -- The Antiquarian Enterprise, 1500-1800 -- The Stonesfield Pavement: archaeology in Augustan England -- Natural history and the new philosophy: Bacon, Harvey, and the two cultures -- Ancients, moderns, and history -- Edward Gibbon and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns -- Eighteenth-century historicism and the first Gothic revival. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Historiography.
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Historiography -- Great Britain.
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Humanism -- Great Britain.
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| Indexed Term |
English historiography Influence of humanism, 1450-1800 |
| ISBN |
0801418852 alkaline paper |
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