An Introduction to the Old English History
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BOK. ENG.AD1684
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Title |
An Introduction to the Old English History
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Description |
This book was written by the revolutionary British historian Robert Brady, who helped shift the perception of English history from mythical to rational. The tradition of history-keeping in which Brady was raised held the belief that the origins of British history was "a statute whose making was 'beyond memory' [and] of greater authority than one whose beginnings were known" (Pocock). His work, contrarily, focused on removing myths as the only canon of history and rooting England in its factual past.
Such a shift is important in straying away from the belief of a divine mandate carried by a single nation, often inspiring them to imperialism. However, as history has shown, this did not stop England from doing just that. * * * Pocock, J. G. A. "IV. Robert Brady, 1627–1700. A Cambridge Historian of the Restoration." Cambridge Historical Journal 10, no. 2 (1951): 186-204. doi:10.1017/S1474691300002778. |
Date Created |
1684 AD
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Creator |
Robert Brady
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Publisher |
Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Lowndes
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Temporal Coverage |
17th Century
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Format |
Print
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Collecting Areas |
English
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Language |
English
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Provenance |
"Mrs. Norman [Harker] Rt 1 [Box] 89 Shelley, Idaho & Mrs Ruth [Oler] Shelley, Idaho" handwritten on the recto side of the first endpaper
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Subject |
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Type |
Historiography
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Bibliographic Citation |
Brady, Robert, 1627–1700. An Introduction to the Old Englifh HIftory, Comprehended in Three feveral Tracts. London: Tho. Newcomb, 1684.
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