Walter Ralegh's History of the world and the historical culture of the late Renaissance / Nicholas Popper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popper, Nicholas, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. History of the world.

Raleigh, Walter.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Other Title:

History of the world and the historical culture of the late Renaissance

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh's History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe's intellectual-and political-regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh's History of the World, Popper's book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

General Notes and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Context: Ralegh and Historical Culture

2. Sources: From Scripture to the Stars in Early Modern Chronology

3. Reading: Antiquarian Methods and Geographical Learning

4. Narration: Providence and Human Movement

5. Presentation: Political Practice and the Past

6. Reception: The Afterlife of the History of the World

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781283637909

1283637901

9780226675022

0226675025

OCLC:

816811968