Reading and writing history from Bruni to Windschuttle: essays in honour of Gary Ianziti
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1. Verfasser: Callisen, Christian Thorsten (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd ©2014
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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 -- Leonardo Bruni on the legitimacy of constitutions (oratio in funere Johannis Strozze 1923) / 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 -- Some reflections on sacred biography / Chris Hanlon -- 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: Bibliographia Ianzitiana
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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