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Chronicle Into History - An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles (Paperback)
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Chronicle Into History - An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the
essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed
into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early
Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in
the works of the city's vernacular chroniclers. These merchant
historians evolved out of the traditional universal chronicle of
the Middle Ages an embryonic form of the modern history,
exemplified at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the
Istoria di Firenze of Goro Dati. In the course of this transition
from chronicle to history, the world-view expressed by the
chronicle - which assumed that all that happened contributed to a
divinely inspired historical plan - yielded before a more selective
conception of the significance of events as possible natural causes
of change. At the same time, the ideals underlying the medieval
sense of cosmic order, with their other worldly overtones, gave way
before the more secular, humanist values of the emerging
Renaissance.
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