Reading History in Early Modern England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780521023344
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Historiography; History: World; History; History - General History; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Great Britain--Historiography; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: Jonson's caricature of a chronicler desperate to find news with which to stuff his tome, having promised his stationer to use at least three reams of paper, may well have amused his audience, but it would scarcely have surprised them.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History