| Tudor Historical Thought Contributor(s): Levy, F. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802037755 ISBN-13: 9780802037756 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: Tudor Historical Thought is a revealing account of vital changes in intellectual orientation. Originally published in 1967, F. J. Levy's seminal work explores the factors - humanism, theology, antiquarianism, Machiavellianism - that brought about the changes in historical thinking from the time of Caxton to that of Bacon, Raleigh, and Camden. Earlier, the study of the past was justified on utilitarian grounds, and the purpose of history writing was didactic. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, chroniclers exemplified the workings of Providence and taught personal morality; a hundred years later, however, the idea of teaching practical statecraft had been introduced. The Italian humanists emphasized the political aspects of man, and made the active citizen rather than the cloistered monk their ideal. That citizen needed guidance, and it was the duty of the historian to supply it. Questions of politics, which had been important for nearly half a century, suddenly were placed at the centre, and with that a new kind of history writing appeared in England. An essential text in Renaissance historiography, Tudor Historical Thought will now be available to a new generation of scholars. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 942.050 |
| LCCN: 2004426305 |
| Series: Rsart: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.98" W x 8.98" (1.06 lbs) 317 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Tudor Historical Thought is a revealing account of vital changes in intellectual orientation. Originally published in 1967, F.J. Levy's seminal work explores the factors - humanism, theology, antiquarianism, Machiavellianism - that brought about the changes in historical thinking from the time of Caxton to that of Bacon, Raleigh, and Camden. Earlier, the study of the past was justified on utilitarian grounds, and the purpose of history writing was didactic. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, chroniclers exemplified the workings of Providence and taught personal morality; a hundred years later, however, the idea of teaching practical statecraft had been introduced. The Italian humanists emphasized the political aspects of man, and made the active citizen rather than the cloistered monk their ideal. That citizen needed guidance, and it was the duty of the historian to supply it. Questions of politics, which had been important for nearly half a century, suddenly were placed at the centre, and with that a new kind of history writing appeared in England. An essential text in Renaissance historiography, Tudor Historical Thought will now be available to a new generation of scholars. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levy, F. J.: - F.J. Levy is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington. |
