Historians' virtues from antiquity to the twenty-first century
Why do historians so often talk about objectivity, empathy, and fair-mindedness? What roles do such personal qualities play in historical studies? And why does it make sense to call them virtues rather than skills or habits? Historians' Virtues is the first publication to explore these question...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675740306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The historian's character: why virtues mattered
- What virtues, which aims? why historians disagreed
- Discourse meets practice: virtues as performance criteria
- Who can be virtuous? inclusion and exclusion
- What happened to virtue? continuity and discontinuity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
