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Item Details
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THE SOCIAL CIRCULATION OF THE PAST
ENGLISH HISTORICAL CULTURE 1500-1730 |
| By: |
Daniel Woolf |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£147.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199257787 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199257782 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 April, 2003 |
| Pages: |
440 |
| Description: |
Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge. |
| Synopsis: |
This book investigates the changing historical culture in England between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. Based on a wide variety of manuscript and printed sources from local and central repositories, it focuses on the social framework within which historical knowledge was generated, modified, and preserved, rather than on historiography or historical method. Woolf begins his study by examining the ways in which early modern people acclimatized themselves to accelerating changes in their physical, social, religious, and economic environments. A developing, if uneasy, accommodation to change went hand in hand with shifting attitudes to the acceptability of novelty and innovation. The family was the central social unit throughout most of this time, and Woolf examines views of ancestry and heredity with a particular emphasis on the circulation of genealogical knowledge and its status relative to other forms of knowledge about the past. The third part |
| Illustrations: |
numerous halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the John Ben Snow Prize 2004. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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