Donald R. Kelley

The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History

Contents: Introduction: What was the history of ideas? Prelude: The new philosophy of Victor Cousin Eclecticism in retrospect The light of philosophy reborn The way of ideas and the ways of words The new eclecticism The history of literature The history of science Human sciences The history of philosophy After the new histories Index.

The historical imagination in early modern Britain : history, rhetoric, and fiction, 1500-1800

1. Introduction Donald Kelley and David Harris Sacks 2. Example and truth: Deggory Wheare and the ars historica J. H. M. Salmon 3. Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography Patrick Collinson 4. Thomas More and the English Renaissance: history and fiction in Utopia Joseph Levine 5. Ancestral and antiquarian: Little Crosby and early modern historical culture Daniel Woolf 6. Murder in Faversham: Holinsheds impertinent history Richard Helgerson 7. Foul, his Wife, the Mayor, and Fouls Mare: anecdote in Tudor historiography Annabel Patterson 8. Thomas Hobbes Machiavellian moments David Wooton 9. The background of Hobbes Behemoth Fritz Levy 10. Leviathan, mythic history, and natural historiography Patricia Springborg 11. Adam Smith and the history of private life Mark Phillips 12. Protesting fiction, constructing history Paul Hunter 13. Contemplative heroes and Gibbons historical imagination Patricia Craddock 14. Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books Rebecca Bushnell.

The writing of history and the study of law

Contents: Introduction Humanism and history Tacitus Noster: The Germania in the Renaissance and Reformation Johann Sleidan and the origins of history as a profession History as a calling: the case of La PopeliniAre Martyrs, myths and the massacre: the background of St. Bartholomew History and the encylcopedia Ancient verses on new ideas: legal tradition and the French historical school Mythistory in the Age of Ranke Robert Flint, historian of ideas The science of anthropology: an essay on the Very Old Marx a /Second naturea : the idea of custom in European law, society and culture Civil science in the Renaissance: the problem of interpretation Jurisconsultus perfectus: the lawyer as Renaissance man Men of law and the French Revolution Index.