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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Chronicle Into History: An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Louis Green
SeriesCambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:188
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - c 500 to C 1500
ISBN/Barcode 9780521088381
ClassificationsDewey:907.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 October 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the Istoria di Firenze of Goro Dati. In the course of this transition from chronicle to history, the world-view expressed by the chronicle - which assumed that all that happened contributed to a divinely inspired historical plan - yielded before a more selective conception of the significance of events as possible natural causes of change. At the same time, the ideals underlying the medieval sense of cosmic order, with their other worldly overtones, gave way before the more secular, humanist values of the emerging Renaissance.