Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Caxton's histories: fact and fiction at the close of the Middle Ages
  • Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine
  • The Antiquarian Enterprise, 1500-1800
  • The Stonesfield Pavement: archaeology in Augustan England
  • Natural history and the new philosophy: Bacon, Harvey, and the two cultures
  • Ancients, moderns, and history
  • Edward Gibbon and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns
  • Eighteenth-century historicism and the first Gothic revival.