Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Invitation to historians: An intellectual self-portrait, or the history of a historian. Part I, Historiography: Publicizing the Private: the rise of "secret history"; History as Allegory; Two Crises of Historical Consciousness. Part II. Renaissance: Anthropology of the Renaissance; The Historical Geography of the Renaissance; Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy; Individuality and Biography in the Renaissance; Oral Culture and Print Culture in Renaissance Italy. Part III. Intellectual History: The Rise of Literal-Mindedness; Context in Context; The Black Legend of the Jesuits: an essay in the history of social stereotypes; Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830

About the Author

Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Reviews

"His erudition is enviable, and his lucid, effortless presentation exemplary." John Pemble, joint winner of the Wolfson Prize for The Mediterranean Passion.