Historians' virtues : : from antiquity to the twenty-first century / / Herman Paul, Leiden University.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge ; New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (66 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2022). |
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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.