The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography

Hershel Baker

Published by University of Toronto Press 1967

The Race of Time

Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography

Hershel Baker

In the series Alexander Lectures

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442656482

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About this book

Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages.

Author / Editor information

Baker Hershel :

Hershel Baker was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, where he taught as Francis Lee Higgonson Professor of English Literature. His publications include John Philip Kemble, The Dignity of Man, The Wars of Truth, William Hazlitt, and (in collaboration with the late Hyder Rollins) The Renaissance in England.

Reviews

Queen's Quarterly:

‘…a well written, brief, stimulating introduction to an important topic. This is a popular work of the best type and will be of interest to general readers as well as to students.’

Renaissance Quarterly:
‘Because the mind of its author is erudite, witty, and equally at home in historical writing and belles-lettres, this delightful book illuminates much more than its announced subject, historiography.’

Choice:

‘…solid erudition, clear, lively writing, reliance on primary sources, and attention to the intellectual and literary activities of the period.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	11
1. The Truth of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Use of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. The Form of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Copyright year: 1967
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 114

eBook

Published: December 15, 1967
ISBN: 9781442656482