Man on his past: the study of the history of historical scholarship.

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Main Author: Butterfield, Herbert, 1900-1979.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1955.
Series:Wiles lectures ; 1954.
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Table of Contents:
  • The history of historiography
  • The rise of the German historical school
  • Lord Acton and the nineteenth-century historical movement
  • Ranke and the conception of 'general history'
  • The reconstruction of an historical episode : the history of the enquiry into the origins of the Seven Years War
  • Lord Acton and the Massacre of St Bartholomew
  • Appendices.
  • La Popelinière's Histoire des histoires.
  • Acton and Italian scholarship.
  • Acton and Döllinger.
  • Acton's earliest account of the historical movement.
  • Acton and the Middle Ages.
  • Acton and Johann von Müller.
  • Acton on Ranke.