Anthony Grafton, "What was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0521874351, 052169714X | 330 pages | PDF | 12,8 MB
From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works - which often take surprisingly modern-sounding positions - grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship.