American professor Kelley considers the development of the history
of history from the founding fathers in ancient Greece through to
the rise of modern historical methods during the Enlightenment. He
shows in a lucid account that certain themes have always been the
stuff of history but that the methodologies through which these
concerns have been pursued have changed in ways which reveal much
about the broad sweep of intellectual development in the West.
(Kirkus UK)
In this book, one of the world's leading intellectual historians
offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing
from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald
R. Kelley focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including
questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary
forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism,
theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies, philosophy
of history, and "historicism." Kelley begins by analyzing the dual
tradition established by the foundational works of Greek
historiography-Herodotus's broad cultural and antiquarian inquiry
and the contrasting model of Thucydides' contemporary political and
analytical narrative. He then examines the many variations on and
departures from these themes produced in writings from Greek,
Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity, in medieval chronicles, in
national histories and revisions of history during the Renaissance
and Reformation, and in the rise of erudite and enlightened history
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout, Kelley
discusses how later historians viewed their predecessors, including
both supporters and detractors of the authors in question. The
book, which is a companion volume to Kelley's highly praised
anthology Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment,
will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in
interpretations of the past.
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