Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Southern, R. W
• Bartlett, Robert,

Titel

History and historians : selected papers of R.W. Southern

Ort / Verlag

Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Pub.,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2004]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-259) and index.
• "Bibliography of the publications of R.W. Southern": pages [260]-270.
• History and Historians; Contents; Abbreviations; Place of First Publication; Preface; Introduction; Part I Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing; 1 The Classical Tradition from Einhard to Geoffrey of Monmouth; 2 Hugh of St. Victor and the Idea of Historical Development; 3 History as Prophecy; 4 The Sense of the Past; Part II History; 5 The Shape and Substance of Academic History; 6 The Historical Experience; 7 The Truth about the Past; Part III Historians; 8 Review of The Letters of Frederic William Maitland; 9 Sir Maurice Powicke (1879-1963)
• 10 Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889-1976)11 Richard William Hunt (1908-1979); 12 Marjorie Reeves as a Historian; 13 Beryl Smalley (1905-1984); Notes; Bibliography of the Publications of R. W. Southern; Index
• This book makes a selection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, available to the wider audience they deserve.A collection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern. Offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and ideas that underpinned Southern's work. Contains the series of reflections on medieval historical writing that Southern produced during his tenure as President of the Royal Historical Society. Also includes pieces on the nature of academic history, as well as Southern's appreciations of ot
• English
• Description based on print version record.