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. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.
| ISBN: | 9780802061300 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 1967 |
| Author: | Hershel Baker |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 277 pages |
| Series: | Alexander Lectures |
| Genres: |
Historiography European history: Renaissance General and world history |
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. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.
The Race of Time features in the following genres: Historiography, European history: Renaissance, General and world history
The Race of Time is available in Paperback
The Race of Time was written by Hershel Baker and published by University of Toronto Press
The Race of Time has 277 pages
Yes it is part of Alexander Lectures series