Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979)
Autore di Le origini della scienza moderna
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Serie
Opere di Herbert Butterfield
A Short history of science; origins and results of the scientific revolution, a symposium (1959) — A cura di — 21 copie
The History of Science: Origins and Results of the Scientific Revolution; a symposium (1951) 4 copie
Reviews and Short Notes 2 copie
The discontinuities between the generations in history ; their effect on the transmission of political experience (1972) 1 copia
Routledge Revivals : The Lindsay Memorial Lectures given at the University College of North Staffordshire (2017) 1 copia
Maquiavelo y el art de gobernar 1 copia
History & Human Relations 1 copia
Sir Lewis Namier as Historian 1 copia
Opere correlate
I sonnambuli : storia delle concezioni dell'universo (1959) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 976 copie
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fourth series, volume XXIX (1947) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1900-10-07
- Data di morte
- 1979-07-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Oxenhope, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Trade and Grammar School, Keighley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Cambridge University - Attività lavorative
- Regius Professor of Modern History (1963-68)
Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge (1959-61)
Master of Peterhouse (1955-68) - Organizzazioni
- University of Cambridge
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Knighthood (1968)
James Scott Prize Lectureship (1958-1961)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 1,462
- Popolarità
- #17,576
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 54
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
What he proposes instead is that many of the major historical events were carried out for very different purposes, personal and/or political, that have nothing to do with the goals that we retrospectively assign to the main actors. One of the main examples he uses is the Reformation, which he discusses convincingly.
He suggests that the role of historians should be, before describing events, to try to understand the actions of historical figures in the context of their real lives, motivating factors, worldviews, and past societies, including the politics and religions of the time - instead of trying to explain their actions from the perspective of here and now.
A convincing and concise attack on the faults of major historians past, and a lesson to be learnt for the historians of the future.… (altro)