ABSTRACT
The introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that the interplay between socio-political mores and the practice of historiography in Renaissance Europe was much more complex than the literature reflects. The year 2010 brought Gary's appointment as Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. Ianziti's central argument in Humanistic Historiography thus had important implications for scholars working in Italian Renaissance history. Andrea Rizzi explores the self-fashioning practices of translators in Quattrocento Italy. John Gagn offers a re-evaluation of Milanese history writing after the fall of the Sforza regime in 1499. Christian Callisen takes us away from the Italian peninsula and explores the work of Georg Calixtus, a seventeenth-century German theologian, in light of humanist debates about the study of history.
