D Woolf
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 689748 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Woolf |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Woolf |
| FIRMA | WOOLF D |
| AFILIACIONES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9537-1936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Experiences of Defeat
This essay explores a neglected aspect of the instrumental use of the past: its application not by “victors” and those in power but rather by those on the losing end of struggles and who have experienced either personal or collective defeat and subjugation, and by extension those sympathetic to such loss, themselves often arguing against historiographical orthodoxies. Taking issue with the cliché that “history is always written by the victors” an…
Modern Historiography in the Making
History from Loss
History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety.A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various …
The Revolution in Time
Time is ‘hot’ these days. Its investigation once the preserve of philosophers and horologists, study of the ‘fourth dimension’ has dramatically increased over the past quarter century, within multiple disciplines. The late medieval/early modern centuries have provided ample material for the study of shifting perceptions of and adjustments to time on scales ranging from the hourly to the yearly, and beyond. Apart from intensively empirical researc…
Getting Back to Normal
Normativity has long been a central concept in ethics, medicine, and the social sciences. It has not been fully explored as an element in historiography or historical thought. This article contends that normativity, when taken as a metaconcept that underpins notions of the "normal," "norms," and "normality," can help us understand changing attitudes to the possibility, actuality, and moral exemplarity of historical phenomena, but only if we disag…
Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840, by Mark Towsey
Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840, by Mark Towsey Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840, by Mark Towsey (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2019; pp. 304. £75). Daniel Woolf Daniel Woolf Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 2020, Pages 1339–1341, https://doi.org/10.10…
A Concise History of History
This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present and covering developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, it also touches on the latest topics and debates in the field, such as 'Big His…
In Pursuit of Civility
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. Keith Thomas. The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2018. xvi + 356 pp. $45. - Volume 72 Issue 4
The Oxford History of Historical Writing
The fifth volume of this series offers chapters on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes…
Imagining Early Modern Histories
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English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed’s
This chapter examines a key historical text of Shakespeare’s time (and a major source for his history plays), Raphael Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’, published in two separate and quite distinct editions in 1577 and 1587 respectively. The chapter first situates the Chronicles within the wider context of late medieval and Tudor vernacular historical writing (in particular the chronicling tradition); it then illustrates some of the differences between th…
Historiae Britannicae Defensio / A Defence of the British History
Historiae Britannicae Defensio / A Defence of the British History. John Prise. Ed. and trans. Ceri Davies. British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 6; Studies and Texts 195. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. liv + 336 pp. $150. - Volume 69 Issue 2
Concerning Altered Pasts
This essay provides an extended commentary on Richard Evans' book Altered Pasts from the perspective of a historian of a much earlier period, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essay considers much of the literature discussed by Evans, explores the "scope" and "range" of counterfactual arguments, and offers suggestions as to how and when legitimate counterfactual historical thinking itself came into being. The essay also argues that the…
The Memory of the People
Andy Wood. The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii + 396 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-521-89610-8. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Sacred History
Katherine Van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan, eds. Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxiii + 339 pp. $125. ISBN: 978–0–19–959479–5. - Volume 66 Issue 1
Converting Bohemia
Louthan, Howard. Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Variétés Bibliographiques), on Érudit
Writing History in Renaissance Italy
Gary Ianziti. Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. xiii + 418 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–06152–1. - Volume 65 Issue 4
A most indefatigable love of history’
Over the past ten years or so there has been a good deal written about women's engagement with history in pre-modern England, whether through the writing of it or through more informal engagement with the past. This article explores eighteenth-century women's attitudes to certain histories and historians, conveyed in familiar letters as exemplified by the ‘Bluestockings’, Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Carter. The article suggests that women had…
Early Modern Historiography Four, Fourteen, and Forty Years Out
Renaissance Historicism
Among the current catchy phrases in Renaissance literary criticism is one called "The New Historicism".While this shares some of the techniques and vocabulary of other recent schools (deconstruction, reader response, semiotics), and while it can represent a wide ideological spectrum ranging from American liberalism to British Marxism, it is important to recognize the New Historicism as a movement (it is not exactly a school) separate from those f…
The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth
Cyndia Susan Clegg and Randall McLeod, eds. The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) . San Marino: Huntington Library, 2005. viii + 570. illus. tbls. $325. ISBN: 0-87328-161-6. - Volume 60 Issue 2
English Biography in the Seventeenth Century
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John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past
With the possible exception of the ubiquitous martyrologist John Foxe (volumes and essays on whom appear to be turning up at a dizzying rate), no Tudor historian or antiquary is currently hotter than John Stow. In addition to Barrett Beer's elegant recent monograph and a number of essays in various journals and edited volumes by London-focused scholars such as Ian Archer, we now have the present volume, the fruit of an earlier conference on Stow.…
Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography
We are very nearly at the sesquicentennial of the publication of the book that virtually invented the Renaissance in its modern formulation, Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Not surprisingly, the world of the condottieri and the humanists, and of the artists and the worldly prelates, looks rather different than it did in the day of the brilliant but idiosyncratic Swiss historian. A stock-taking of Renaissance historiog…
The Oxford history of historical writing vol 3 1400 - 1800
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in soci…
The Social Circulation of the Past
This book investigates the changing historical culture in England between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. Based on a wide variety of manuscript and printed sources from local and central repositories, it focuses on the social framework within which historical knowledge was generated, modified, and preserved, rather than on historiography or historical method. Woolf begins his study by examining the ways in…
The Oxford History of Historical Writing
The fifth volume of this series offers chapters on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes…
"The "Common Voice
THE “COMMON VOICE”: HISTORY, FOLKLORE AND ORAL TRADITION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Get access D. R. Woolf D. R. Woolf Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 120, Issue 1, August 1988, Pages 26–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/120.1.26 Published: 01 August 1988
The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe
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Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography
We are very nearly at the sesquicentennial of the publication of the book that virtually invented the Renaissance in its modern formulation, Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Not surprisingly, the world of the condottieri and the humanists, and of the artists and the worldly prelates, looks rather different than it did in the day of the brilliant but idiosyncratic Swiss historian. A stock-taking of Renaissance historiog…
Erudition and the Idea of History in Renaissance England
It has become a commonplace that Tudor and early Stuart historical authors recognized a formal distinction between “antiquities” and “history,” yet neither the grounds nor the extent of the distinction has been explored in depth. Because some Tudor historical writers could and, on occasion, did ignore it in practice, the distinction has sometimes been deemed a technicality of only minor interest. Nearly twenty-five years ago, F. Smith Fussner des…
Concerning Altered Pasts
This essay provides an extended commentary on Richard Evans' book Altered Pasts from the perspective of a historian of a much earlier period, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essay considers much of the literature discussed by Evans, explores the "scope" and "range" of counterfactual arguments, and offers suggestions as to how and when legitimate counterfactual historical thinking itself came into being. The essay also argues that the…
From Hystories to the Historical
Drawing on recent work in early modern historiography as well as original sources, Daniel R. Woolf argues that several fundamental changes occurred in the perception of “history” in early modern England that collectively led, by the early eighteenth century, to the development of “historical knowledge” as a category, whereas two centuries previously there had been histories and some knowledge of the past, but no sense of the historical as a disti…
Two Elizabeths? James I and the Late Queen’s Famous Memory
The Royal Household and the King’s Affinity
After falling out of fashion in the middle decades of the century, medieval administrative history seems to be getting a second wind.Recent scholars such as G
Notes on Vita Dei Campi
Because VITA DEI CAMPI was Verga's first significant work in the impersona manner, it has been customary to assume that the collection is united by a coherent inspiration so that the similarities between the stories rather than their differences have been underlined. This unitary view has distorted our evaluation of the individual works that comprise the collection; separate analysis of each story not only reveals radical differences in conceptio…
Notes on Vita Dei Campi
Three Stories from the Novelle rusticane
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Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631
"Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe." Canadian Journal of History, 17(2), pp. 332–333
Two Elizabeths? James I and the Late Queen’s Famous Memory
Puritans, Politics, and Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Erudition and the Idea of History in Renaissance England
It has become a commonplace that Tudor and early Stuart historical authors recognized a formal distinction between “antiquities” and “history,” yet neither the grounds nor the extent of the distinction has been explored in depth. Because some Tudor historical writers could and, on occasion, did ignore it in practice, the distinction has sometimes been deemed a technicality of only minor interest. Nearly twenty-five years ago, F. Smith Fussner des…
Servility and Service
"Servility and Service: the Life and Work of Sir John Coke, by Michael B. Young." Canadian Journal of History, 22(2), pp. 255–256
The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Genre into Artifact
Bench and Bureaucracy
"Bench and Bureaucracy: the Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636, by L.M. Hill." Canadian Journal of History, 23(3), pp. 402–403
Community, Law and State
"The "Common Voice
THE “COMMON VOICE”: HISTORY, FOLKLORE AND ORAL TRADITION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Get access D. R. Woolf D. R. Woolf Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 120, Issue 1, August 1988, Pages 26–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/120.1.26 Published: 01 August 1988
The Private Journals of the Long Parliament
Speculum Britanniae”
Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Bonfires and Bells
The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
Arnaldo Momigliano. The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography. Ed. Anne Marie Meyer. (Sather Classical Lectures, 54.) Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California Press, 1991. xiv + 162 pp. $24.95. - Volume 45 Issue 4
The Mental World in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England
Gerald Aylmer at Balliol, Christopher Hill Gerald Aylmer in Manchester and York, Gordon Leff Gerald Aylmer as a scholar, Austin Woolrych cases of conscience in 17th-century England, Keith Thomas public duty, conscience and women in early modern England, Patricia Crawford private conscience and public duty in the writings of James VI and I, Kevin Sharpe divine rights in the early 17th century the conflicting loyalties of a vulgar counsellor - the …
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700
This volume is an annual periodical reflecting the growth of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Encompassing the study of manuscripts produced in the British Isles between the Conquest and the end of the seventeenth century, it provides a forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of both medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and aims to stimulate the awareness o…
Noble Government
Francis Bacon
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