The social circulation of the past : English historical culture, 1500-1730 / Daniel Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Historiography.

Great Britain.

History.

Historiography--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge.

Contents:

Pt. I. Past and the Present

1. Consciousness of Change

2. Old and New

Pt. II. Ancestral Past

3. Cultivation of Heredity

4. Genealogical Imagination

Pt. III. Tangible Past

5. Varieties of Antiquarianism

6. Seeing the Past

7. Archaeological Economy

Pt. IV. Past Remembered

8. Ways of Remembering

9. Popular Beliefs about the Past

10. Oral Tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0199257787

9780199257782

OCLC:

59367599

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