The Race of Time
Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography
Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography, Renaissance
| Author: | Hershel Baker | ISBN: | 9781442633179 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | Publication: | December 15, 1967 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Hershel Baker |
| ISBN: | 9781442633179 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
| Publication: | December 15, 1967 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.
Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.
