The past recaptured: great historians and the history of history

Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1983
AuthorsM. A Fitzsimons
PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
CityNotre Dame, Ind.
ISBN Number0-268-01550-3 978-0-268-01550-3 0-268-01566-X 978
Short TitleThe past recaptured
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Contents: Herodotus : history and inquiry -- Thucydides : history, science, and power -- Tacitus : the mind of the moralist historian -- Bede : monastic historian in a barbarian world -- William Camden : the English Renaissance and the modern state -- Voltaire : history unexemplary and en philosophe -- Edward Gibbon : history as art -- Ranke : history as worship -- Burckhardt : history as a humanity -- Acton : history and conscience.