1st Edition

Annalists and Historians Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Century

By Denys Hay Copyright 1977
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing,... Read more

1. Ancient Historians: Greeks and Romans 2. The Bible: Jewish and Christian Time 3. Medieval Historiography at its Prime: From the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries 5. The Humanist Historian in Fifteenth-Century Italy 6. The Sixteenth Century 7. History and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century 8. Historians and Antiquaries in the Eighteenth Century: The Emergence of the Modern Method

Biography

Denys Hay