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Paperback Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France Book

ISBN: 0807836419

ISBN13: 9780807836415

Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France

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Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own glory. Through studying the careers of these men, the author demonstrates how rhetorical, ideological, and social beliefs determined the way history was...

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