Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series)

Nixon, Mark

Royal Historical Society（2011/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780861933105
• DDC分類 907.2092

Full Description

A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period.

Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] is the colossus of seventeenth-century historiography. His twenty-volume history of Britain from 1603 to 1656 and his many editions of key texts still serve to underpin almost all study of the Civil Wars and of the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Yet, despite his importance, his work has often been reduced by historians of historiography to simple caricature, in which his personal politics and his denominational allegiances got the better of his worthy empiricism. This book seeks to challenge the inadequate view of him and his work, offering a rich contextualisation by locating his writings within a wide range of literary and philosophical milieux,British and continental European. In so doing it not only suggests new ways of looking at Victorian historiography in general, but also proposes a new approach to the growing history of historical writing.

Mark Nixon is an independent scholar and museum curator.

Contents

Introduction
Theory
Practice
Religion
Politics
Writing
Conclusion
Appendix: The published writings of S. R. Gardiner
Bibliography