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The Race of Time : Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography / Hershel Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Alexander LecturesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1967]Copyright date: ©1967Description: 1 online resource (114 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802061300
  • 9781442656482
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 907.2 22
LOC classification:
  • D116 .B3 1967eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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