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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baker, Hershel

Titel

The Race of Time : Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography

Ist Teil von

• Alexander Lectures

Ort / Verlag

Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2016]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of "ation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries