The uses of history in early modern England
History and its uses : introduction / Paulina Kewes -- From hystories to the historical : five transitions in thinking about the past, 1500-1700 / Daniel Woolf -- Historians and poets / Blair Worden -- Against the teleology of technique / David Womersley -- Appropriating history : Catholic and Prote...
| Summary: | History and its uses : introduction / Paulina Kewes -- From hystories to the historical : five transitions in thinking about the past, 1500-1700 / Daniel Woolf -- Historians and poets / Blair Worden -- Against the teleology of technique / David Womersley -- Appropriating history : Catholic and Protestant polemics and the national past / Felicity Heal -- Guides to reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs / John N. King -- "A pestilent and seditious book" : Nicholas Sander's Schismatis Anglicani and Catholic histories of the Reformation / Christopher Highley -- "Methinks the truth should live from age to age" : the dating and contexts of Henry V / Richard Dutton -- Discourses of history in Elizabethan and early Stuart London / Ian W. Archer -- An empire to end empire : the dynamic of early modern British expansion / Arthur H. Williamson -- Remembrancers of the revolution : histories and historiographies of the 1640s / David Cressy -- History and ideology : Milton, the levellers, and the Council of State in 1649 / Martin Dzelzainis -- Clarendon, tacitism, and the civil wars of Europe / Paul Seaward -- "A special kindness for dead bishops" : the church, history, and testimony in seventeenth-century Protestantism / John Spurr -- Contested histories of the English Church : Gilbert Burnet and Jeremy Collier / Andrew Starkie -- The Tory interpretation of history in the rage of parties / Mark Knights -- "Secret history" : or, talebearing inside and outside the secretorie / Eve Tavor Bannet -- History and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen O'Brien -- Afterword / F.J. Levy |
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| Item Description: | Also publ. as vol. 68, no. 1 and 2, of the Huntington Library quarterly, ed. by Susan Green. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0873282191 |