Levine, Joseph M., 1933-
The autonomy of history : truth and method from Erasmus to Gibbon / Joseph M. Levine - xviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
History and Fiction in the English Renaissance. Thomas More and the Idea of History. Philology and History: Erasmus and the Johannine Comma. Thomas Elyot, Stephen Hawes, and the Education of Eloquence -- Ancients and Moderns. The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles. Strife in the Republic of Letters. Giambattista Vico and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- The Autonomy of History: Edward Gibbon and the Johannine Comma. Truth and Method in Gibbon's Historiography. Travis versus Gibbon. Porson versus Travis pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. pt. 3. 7. 8. 9.
"In these learned essays, Joseph M. Levine shows how the idea and method of modern history began to develop during the Renaissance, when a clear distinction between history and fiction was first proposed and defended both in practice and in theory. The dependence of history on rhetoric and theology dissolved as history gradually won its autonomy. He offers a number of case histories to show that by the end of the eighteenth century, recourse to "matter of fact" became pervasive, and the new claims for history were met by skepticism in a debate that still echoes today."--Jacket
0226475417 9780226475417
GB99W1971 bnb GBA075401 bnb
History--Philosophy
History--Methodology
Filosofia da hist©đria
Geschiedfilosofie
Geschiedschrijving
Metodologia da hist©đria
Waarheid
D16.8 / .L485 1999
901
The autonomy of history : truth and method from Erasmus to Gibbon / Joseph M. Levine - xviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
History and Fiction in the English Renaissance. Thomas More and the Idea of History. Philology and History: Erasmus and the Johannine Comma. Thomas Elyot, Stephen Hawes, and the Education of Eloquence -- Ancients and Moderns. The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles. Strife in the Republic of Letters. Giambattista Vico and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- The Autonomy of History: Edward Gibbon and the Johannine Comma. Truth and Method in Gibbon's Historiography. Travis versus Gibbon. Porson versus Travis pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. pt. 3. 7. 8. 9.
"In these learned essays, Joseph M. Levine shows how the idea and method of modern history began to develop during the Renaissance, when a clear distinction between history and fiction was first proposed and defended both in practice and in theory. The dependence of history on rhetoric and theology dissolved as history gradually won its autonomy. He offers a number of case histories to show that by the end of the eighteenth century, recourse to "matter of fact" became pervasive, and the new claims for history were met by skepticism in a debate that still echoes today."--Jacket
0226475417 9780226475417
GB99W1971 bnb GBA075401 bnb
History--Philosophy
History--Methodology
Filosofia da hist©đria
Geschiedfilosofie
Geschiedschrijving
Metodologia da hist©đria
Waarheid
D16.8 / .L485 1999
901