Author: Nicholas Popper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance
Author: Nicholas Popper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence
Author: George Stanley Faber
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic
Author: Helge Kvanvig
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004196129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Most cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the first millennium there were different versions that influenced the concepts of primeval history within Jewish religion, both in the Bible and in the parallel Enochic tradition. Atrahasis and the traditions of primeval dynasties had crucial impact on Genesis; the traditions of the primeval apkallus as cosmic guardians were lying behind the Enochic Watcher Story. The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval time in these three traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004196129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Most cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the first millennium there were different versions that influenced the concepts of primeval history within Jewish religion, both in the Bible and in the parallel Enochic tradition. Atrahasis and the traditions of primeval dynasties had crucial impact on Genesis; the traditions of the primeval apkallus as cosmic guardians were lying behind the Enochic Watcher Story. The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval time in these three traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
Science and Revelation
Author: William Benjamin HAYDEN
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence...three Volumes...
Author: George Stanley Faber
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Egypt's Place in Universal History
Author: C. C. J. Baron Bunsen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Egypt's Place in Universal History
Author: C.C.J. Bunsen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375099207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375099207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Horæ apocalypticæ; or A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel
Author: Edward Bishop Elliott
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Egypt's Place in Universal History
Author: Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
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Category : Book of the dead
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Book of the dead
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description