Early Modern Genres of History

Introduction – Early Modern Genres of History   

Emil Nicklas Johnsen and Ina Louise Stovner                                   

Part 1: Antiquarian and material negotiations

Chapter 1: Antiquarian poetry and royal performance

Anne Eriksen                                               

Chapter 2: “Compiled from original authors”: On the status of compilers and compilation as historiographical practice in the eighteenth century

Thomas Ewen Daltveit Slettebø

Chapter 3: ‘History from Marble’: Church notes and the rise of epigraphy in early modern England

Angus Vine

Part 2: Visual understandings of history

Chapter 4: History painting and/as genre              

Mark Salber Phillips                                                                                                                           

Chapter 5: Constructing a Moment in History. The Tableau as a Communicational Mode and Genre in the end of the 18^th-Century.

Ina Louise Stovner                                                                    

Part 3: Genres of history and the public sphere

Chapter 6: Royal historiographer without the title: Niels Ditlev Riegels (1755–1802) and the role of historical genres
in the late 18th-century public sphere

Emil Nicklas Johnsen          

Chapter 7 : From amusement to study?:  Historical genres in the18th-century essay periodical press

Claire Boulard Jouslin                                                                                                        

Chapter 8: Court intrigues between public and secret history: some 18th-century Danish solutions

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen                                                                                                                                                     

Part 4: Traveling historical genres

Chapter 9: Historical transfers: Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi and the transformations of his late eighteenth-century histories of Denmark and Norway

Håkon Evju

Chapter 10: ‘For no other cause than the lack of writers’: Travel knowledge and the preservation of memory

Anne Helness                                                             

Chapter 11: Histories from Barbary. Empirical and imperial aspirations in an eighteenth-century history

Svein Atle Skålevåg

Chapter 12: Between Vico and the Virgin: Image and genres of history in Lorenzo Boturini’s Idea de una nueva historia general de América septentrional

John Ødemark                  

Part 5: Afterword                                                                                                               

Afterword: Some reflections on genre in early modern histories.

Daniel Woolf

Biography

Emil Nicklas Johnsen, PhD History of Ideas, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. Johnsen has published extensively in Nordic intellectual history, with particular interest in historiography and the dynamics of the public sphere. In addition, he has long experience as editor in Arr. Idéhistorisk tidsskrift (Journal of the History of Ideas) and is currently writing the textbook Vestens idéhistorie fra 1800 til i dag. (History of Ideas in the Western World from 1800 until today).

Ina Louise Stovner, PhD Cultural History, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. Stovner’s research interests include topics within cultural history, understanding of history, and memory studies, and she has special expertise in visual sources 1750 to 1840. She has extensive teaching experience in cultural history and museology at UiO and several years of experience as a member of the editorial team in Tidsskrift for kulturforskning (Journal of Cultural Studies).