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  • Authoring the Past

    History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 30 Great Books That Made History

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the books that made - and-remade - the history we know so well are often forgotten.In this panoramic book, distinguished historian ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry

    A Global Perspective

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Series series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
    This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a medieval king such as Peter IV of Aragon; Vico's, Gibbon's and Adams' intellectual self-accounting in modernity; autobiographical revelations and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

    From Documentation to Intervention

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • What Is a Classic in History?

    The Making of a Historical Canon

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do these texts help to maintain the historiographical canon? Jaume Aurell's innovative study ranges from the heroic writings of ancient Greek ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Genealogies of the West

    Civilization, Religion, Consciousness

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Series series Anthem Religion and Society Series
    Genealogies of the West presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges it faces. Through a review of its rich and often controversial history, it recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, characters, and events that structure the West’s tradition and identity, and their presence nowadays. It shows the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Medieval Self-Coronations

    The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

    by Jaume Aurell ...
    Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Jaume Aurell ...
    This book deals with the way historical genres are theorized and practiced in the twenty-first century. In the context of the freedoms inspired by postmodernism and enabled by the development of innovative textual and graphic platforms, new theories of history view genres as flexible living forms that inspire more creative and experimental representations of the past. New ways of articulating ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

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  • The Jesuits

    A History

    by Markus Friedrich ...
    Translated by John Noël Dillon ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look ... Read more

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  • Historiography

    Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

    by Ernst Breisach ...
    A pioneering work that presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition of Ernst Breisach's Historiography narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, ... Read more

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  • Historiography

    by Heather Moore Niver ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    Historiography is the writing of history and the study of such writing, particularly that based on critically examining sources, choosing specific details from authentic materials within those sources, and finally, amalgamating all these details into a history that can withstand an analytical scrutiny. This pithy volume delves into a thorough examination, beginning with Egypt, where the world’s ... Read more

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