Secret History and Historical Consciousness From Renaissance to Romanticism

Peter Burke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Edward Everett Root (Verlag)
978-1-911204-37-4 (ISBN)

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The leading cultural historian Professor Peter Burke offers here several innovative approaches to cultural history. A key topic, from which the volume derives its name, is 'secret history', a phrase that came into use in the later seventeenth century to describe a new genre of historical writing by authors who claimed to be able to go behind the scenes and tell the public the real reasons for important events. The volume is introduced by an important autobiographical essay in which the author attempts to place his own career in its historical context. Professor Burke focusses on key topics that he believes to have been unjustly neglected, such as the rise of 'literal-mindedness' or the history of the idea of context. In the history of historical writing itself, one of these neglected topics is allegorical history - in other words, writing about the past in order to communicate a message about the present. The book ranges from the history of humour to the history of stereotypes (the 'Black Legend' of the Jesuits). Professor Burke studies the history of oral poetry, as well as changing conceptions of biography, linked to changing perceptions of individuals.
He addresses pivotal issues and some familiar themes from unusual angles. These include the case of the anthropology and the geography of the Renaissance, and the study of postmodern views of history as myth, compared with the views of seventeenth-century sceptics.

Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Contents: Introduction: Invitation to historians: An intellectual self-portrait, or the history of a historian. Part I, Historiography: Publicizing the Private: the rise of "secret history"; History as Allegory; Two Crises of Historical Consciousness. Part II. Renaissance: Anthropology of the Renaissance; The Historical Geography of the Renaissance; Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy; Individuality and Biography in the Renaissance; Oral Culture and Print Culture in Renaissance Italy. Part III. Intellectual History: The Rise of Literal-Mindedness; Context in Context; The Black Legend of the Jesuits: an essay in the history of social stereotypes; Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 211 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-911204-37-8 / 1911204378
ISBN-13	978-1-911204-37-4 / 9781911204374
Zustand	Neuware