More Antiquarian Than Raleigh and Bacon; 1998
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0230
- Title
- More Antiquarian Than Raleigh and Bacon; 1998
- Description
- Professor Peter Marcy gives a brief history of modern British historiography, beginning with Sir Walter Raleigh, William Camden and Sir Francis Bacon. He cites a shift away from uncritical acceptance of received knowledge to an emphasis on documentary evidence and scholarly interpretation that sought to establish causation. In the following century, David Hume, William Robertson and Edward Gibbon were influenced by the Enlightenment, particularly Voltaire, and emphasized social history. The theories of Hume, Voltaire and Gibbon are discussed. The later influence of Sir Walter Scott and subsequently Thomas Carlyle and others showed that history could be interesting and involves an imaginative as well as intellectual understanding of the past. The author discusses the contributions of Leopold von Ranke and Thomas Babbington Macauley, and concludes that modern British historiography includes sophisticated analysis of evidence and addresses anthropological, economic, psychological and intellectual dimensions.
- Date
- 2 April 1998
- Creator
- Marcy, Peter T.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Peter Marcy
- Marcy
- 1998
- history
- British historiography
- Raleigh
- Camden
- Bacon
- Robert Cotton
- British Museum
- wisdom
- Machiavelli
- Guiccardini
- History of the World
- virtue
- spiritual secular
- ecclesiastical history
- Hume
- Edward Gibbon
- philosophical history
- The Spectator
- Voltaire
- William Robertson
- History of Scotland
- History of England
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thomas Carlyle
- Macauley
- Ranke
- romanticism
- enlightenment
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Peter T. Marcy