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Clio and the Crown : The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421401652
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clio and the CrownDDC classification:
  • 946.0072
LOC classification:
  • DP97.6 .K34 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Official History -- CHAPTER 1 Empire and History -- CHAPTER 2 Historia pro Persona: Emperor Charles V -- CHAPTER 3 Historia pro Patria: Philip II -- CHAPTER 4 "His Majesty's History" -- CHAPTER 5 Defending Imperium -- CHAPTER 6 "To Mortify Our Enemies": History and Propaganda at the Court of Philip IV -- CHAPTER 7 Critical History or Official History? -- CONCLUSION: Rethinking Official History -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Illustrations.
Summary: Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Official History -- CHAPTER 1 Empire and History -- CHAPTER 2 Historia pro Persona: Emperor Charles V -- CHAPTER 3 Historia pro Patria: Philip II -- CHAPTER 4 "His Majesty's History" -- CHAPTER 5 Defending Imperium -- CHAPTER 6 "To Mortify Our Enemies": History and Propaganda at the Court of Philip IV -- CHAPTER 7 Critical History or Official History? -- CONCLUSION: Rethinking Official History -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Illustrations.

Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself.

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