Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France

by Orest Ranum

Overview

Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own glory. Through studying the careers of these men, the author demonstrates how rhetorical, ideological, and social beliefs determined the way history was written.

Originally published in 1980.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807836415
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Series:	Enduring Editions
Edition description:	1
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.82(d)