Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Ancient historians: Greeks and Romans; 2 The Bible: Jewish and Christian Time; 3 The Birth of the Medieval Chronicle; 4 Medieval Historiography at its Prime: from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries; 5 The Humanist Historian in Fifteenth-century Italy; 6 The Sixteenth Century; 7 History and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century; 8 Historians and Antiquaries in the Eighteenth Century: the Emergence of the Modern Method; Notes; Index
