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Author:   Christian Thorsten Callisen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   Festschrift
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9781409457053

ISBN 10:   1409457052
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Christian Thorsten Callisen and John Gagné. Part I Tensions and Challenges in Renaissance Historiography: The choices of quattrocento translators, Andrea Rizzi; After the Sforza: making history in Milan during the Italian Wars, John Gagné; The Duchy of Milan in contemporary historical writing, ca 1400-1540, Jane Black. Part II Reading and Writing History Through Individuals: Leonardo Bruni on the legitimacy of constitutions (Oratio in funere Johannis Strozze 19-23), James Hankins; Machiavelli and humanist historiography, Robert Black; ’To the great aid of our memory’: Georg Calixtus on the study of history, Christian Thorsten Callisen; The uses of natural law in early modern Germany: Christian Thomasius’s reshaping of the legal persona, Ian Hunter. Part III Questions of Genre: Some reflections on sacred biography, Chris Hanlon; Letters to the editor: the ’awkward truths’ in Australia’s Italian migration history, 1900-1915, Catherine Dewhirst; Robert Graves, I, Claudius and its sequel Claudius the God: history disguised as fiction or vice versa?, Sue Keays; The West in its search for a universal human community: 330 BCE to 2000 CE, John M. Headley. Appendix; Other references; Index.

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’A well-edited and highly stimulating work on historiography in the West, this volume forms a moving tribute to the life and works of Gary Ianziti.’ Parergon

'A well-edited and highly stimulating work on historiography in the West, this volume forms a moving tribute to the life and works of Gary Ianziti.' Parergon

Author Information

Christian Thorsten Callisen is based in Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on interdisciplinary scholarship and the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe. His work has appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas and he is co-author (with Barbara Adkins) of ’Pre-digital Virtuality: Early Modern Scholars and the Republic of Letters’, in Park, Jankowski and Jones, The Long History of New Media (New York, 2011).

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