Caxton's histories: fact and fiction at the close of the Middle Ages -- Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine -- The Antiquarian Enterprise, 1500-1800 -- The Stonesfield Pavement: archaeology in Augustan England -- Natural history and the new philosophy: Bacon, Harvey, and the two cultures -- Ancients, moderns, and history -- Edward Gibbon and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns -- Eighteenth-century historicism and the first Gothic revival
Analysis
English historiography Influence of humanism, 1450-1800
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-288) and index
Notes
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