Chronicle Into History: An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles

by Louis Green

In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city's vernacular chroniclers. These merchant historians evolved out of the traditional universal chronicle of the Middle Ages an embryonic form of the modern history, exemplified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088380
• ISBN13: 9780521088381
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"