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An analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, looks at the work of individual historians and how they presented the past in terms of their perspectives, beliefs, and historical periods.
In "A history of histories" bespreekt John Burrow geschiedschrijvers vanaf de Griekse oudheid tot aan het heden. Hij kijkt hierbij naar de manier waarop historici in bepaalde perioden tegen het verleden aankeken en geeft daarbij aan welke geschiedschrijvers hij meer en minder interessant vind. Vooral de stukken over geschiedschrijvers die ik al gelezen heb vond ik interessant. ( )
I have just one regret at reading this ambitious survey of 2500 years of the practice of history—my only contact with almost all of the historians surveyed has been through this book. That's nothing against John Burrow, who admirably covers an enormous range of work here, without imposing any kind of strained overall narrative. But it does leave me thinking that it's a shame how dependent we've become on this kind of work. We're not going to read 20 ancient great historians, 10 more medievals, and 30-some more moderns, in their entirety... not in our lifetimes, most of us. I'll be lucky if I make it to the end of my twice-started Herodotus. So, until I win the lottery or buy that reading chair on my retirement, there are books like this.
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Great thanks, laud, and honour ought to be given unto the clerks, poets, and historiographs that have written many noble books of wisedome of the lives, passions, and miracles of holy saints, of histories of noble and famous acts and faites, and of the chronicles since the beginning of the creation of the world unto this present time, by which we be daily informed and have knowledge of many things of whom we should not have known if they had not left to us their monuments written. --WILLIAM CAXTON (1484)
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Why 'A History of Histories', or, more explicitly, why not 'The History of History'? (Introduction)
History—the elaborated, secular, prose narrative (all these qualifications are necessary) of public events, based on inquiry—was born, we can claim with confidence, in Greece between roughly 450 and 430 BC. (Prologue)
An analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, looks at the work of individual historians and how they presented the past in terms of their perspectives, beliefs, and historical periods.
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