The uses of history in early modern England /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Other Authors: Kewes, Paulina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, [2006]
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Table of Contents:
  • History and its uses : introduction / Paulina Kewes
  • From hystories to the historical : five transitions in thinking about the past, 1500-1700 / Daniel Woolf
  • Historians and poets / Blair Worden
  • Against the teleology of technique / David Womersley
  • Appropriating history : Catholic and Protestant polemics and the national past / Felicity Heal
  • Guides to reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs / John N. King
  • "A pestilent and seditious book" : Nicholas Sander's Schismatis Anglicani and Catholic histories of the Reformation / Christopher Highley
  • "Methinks the truth should live from age to age" : the dating and contexts of Henry V / Richard Dutton
  • Discourses of history in Elizabethan and early Stuart London / Ian W. Archer
  • An empire to end empire : the dynamic of early modern British expansion / Arthur H. Williamson
  • Remembrancers of the revolution : histories and historiographies of the 1640s / David Cressy
  • History and ideology : Milton, the levellers, and the Council of State in 1649 / Martin Dzelzainis
  • Clarendon, tacitism, and the civil wars of Europe / Paul Seaward
  • "A special kindness for dead bishops" : the church, history, and testimony in seventeenth-century Protestantism / John Spurr
  • Contested histories of the English Church : Gilbert Burnet and Jeremy Collier / Andrew Starkie
  • The Tory interpretation of history in the rage of parties / Mark Knights
  • "Secret history" : or, talebearing inside and outside the secretorie / Eve Tavor Bannet
  • History and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen O'Brien
  • Afterword / F.J. Levy.