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By Donald R. Kelley
Publish yr note: First released in 2003
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The second of the trilogy on historic inquiry around the ages
In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley bargains an authoritative exam of ancient writing through the "long 19th century"--the years from the French Revolution to these simply after the 1st international battle. He offers a accomplished research of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American faculties of ancient notion, their critical figures, and their specified equipment and self-understandings.
Kelley treats the trendy traditions of eu international and nationwide historiography from the Enlightenment to the "new histories" of the 20th century, attending not just to significant authors and colleges but additionally to equipment, scholarship, criticisms, controversies, ideological questions, and family to different disciplines.
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Bertin, J. B. de la Curne de Saint-Palaye, L. G. ≤≠ In 1759, Moreau (royal historiographer from 1774), invoking the great tradition of French historians going back to Du Tillet, initiated a great project to organize and to centralize the public, private, and foreign archival sources of France—and more generally the ‘‘ancient monuments of history’’ discovered since the ‘‘renaissance of letters’’—for purposes both scholarly and legal. ≤∞ His creation, the Cabinet des Chartes (or Bibliothèque de Législation), became associated with other major scholarly enterprises and publications; and though its operations were cut short by the Revolution, they were resumed by other hands in the nineteenth and twentieth and continue still in the twenty-first century.
The Germanic tribes originated in India, and even Africa began as an Indian colony, declared Schlegel, who went on to identify the first Indian hero, Manu, with Minos and Noah. Indian ‘‘influence’’ could be traced also in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, Germany, China, and Japan. This line of research was intended to throw light on the obscurity of the Greco-Roman past in particular; for true history began only in the time of the Persian wars, with Herodotus, as ‘‘external history,’’ in the form of international combat, was succeeded by the ‘‘internal history’’ of civil conflict.
In general the book consisted of parallel columns aligning dates, ‘‘principal facts,’’ and ‘‘historical sources,’’ although he also, according to contemporary fashion, treated, in hierarchical fashion, notable individuals, authors, and achievements in the arts and sciences. The persistence of the myths of monarchy and empire may be seen in the many-faceted image of Charlemagne, whose legend lay at the root of so many fictions and forgeries throughout the medieval and early modern periods. The author (according to Mably) of the first great ‘‘revolution’’ in French history,∞∂ Charlemagne was at once hero and barbarian, the source of absolutism and Germanic liberties, the restorer of empire and the model of constitutional monarchy.