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The uses of history in early modern England

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"Also published as volume 68, numbers 1 and 2, of the Huntington Library Quarterly, edited by Susan Green"--T.p. verso.

Contents

History and its uses : introduction / Paulina Kewes
From hystories to the historical : five transitions in thinking about the past, 1500-1700 / Daniel Woolf
Historians and poets / Blair Worden
Against the teleology of technique / David Womersley
Appropriating history : Catholic and Protestant polemics and the national past / Felicity Heal
Guides to reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs / John N. King
"A pestilent and seditious book" : Nicholas Sander's Schismatis Anglicani and Catholic histories of the Reformation / Christopher Highley
"Methinks the truth should live from age to age" : the dating and contexts of Henry V / Richard Dutton
Discourses of history in Elizabethan and early Stuart London / Ian W. Archer
An empire to end empire : the dynamic of early modern British expansion / Arthur H. Williamson
Remembrancers of the revolution : histories and historiographies of the 1640s / David Cressy
History and ideology : Milton, the levellers, and the Council of State in 1649 / Martin Dzelzainis
Clarendon, tacitism, and the civil wars of Europe / Paul Seaward
"A special kindness for dead bishops" : the church, history, and testimony in seventeenth-century Protestantism / John Spurr
Contested histories of the English Church : Gilbert Burnet and Jeremy Collier / Andrew Starkie
The Tory interpretation of history in the rage of parties / Mark Knights
"Secret history" : or, talebearing inside and outside the secretorie / Eve Tavor Bannet
History and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen O'Brien
Afterword / F.J. Levy.

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