The Practice of History

History

Elton, G.R.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

HarperCollins Distribution Services

This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.

Reformation Europe 1517-1559 (Fontana History of Europe)

Europe

Collins

The new edition of G. R. Elton's classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students and general readers of history. It makes a major contribution to the question "what is history?".

Practice of History

Fontana/ Collin

Writings by leading figures in religion, politics, the arts and sciences, as well as official documents, offer original source material on the central issues of European history during this period

Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648

Arts & Photography

Pearson College Div

Reformation Europe: 1517-1559

HarperCollins (paper)

F.W.Maitland

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

(Weidenfield and Nicolson 1985)

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Compares statistical and traditional approaches to the study of history and discusses categories of evidence, standards of proof, and the proper subject matter for history

Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History

Fogel, Robert William

Yale Univ Pr

In the eyes of scholars of history and jurisprudence, F.W. Maitland (1850-1906) is among the very greatest of English historians. However, little has been written about him. G.R. Elton, one of the first-rank historians of his own generation, now remedies this omission with a skilled, succinct, and vigorous essay that is both biography and critique.

F.W. Maitland

In the year 1200, the English Government initiated regular series of record-archives; in 1640, the fall of Charles I's personal government led to the abolition of several central offices and their archives. These events, which both profoundly altered the state of the evidence for the historian, therefore set the limits of this book. For though those 450 years must be studied from a great variety of sources, to the historian they constitute above all the period for which he depends overwhelmingly on official records of all kinds. The core of this book, therefore, is an analysis and description of such materials - their origin, present state and usefulness. However, other materials are not ignored, from the chronicles which provide the main outline of the history that can be known, through the records of the law, private letters (almost non-existent before 1450, suddenly plentiful after 1550) and estate documents, to less familiar historical sources like books, buildings and landscape, and the contribution of the archaeologist.

England, 1200-1640, (The sources of history: studies in the uses of historical evidence)

Hodder&Stoughton

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