Abstract
An exhaustive account encompassing historiography from the Italian peninsula, 1000‑1600. Cochrane traces the development of humanist history from the medieval chronicles tradition. Thorough, yet "unlike [Hans Baron, William Bouwsma and Felix Gilbert], Cochrane does not raise new and exciting problems, which address larger themes in intellectual and cultural history: the relationships between historiography and developments in political thought, between political circumstances and political consciousness, between ideological transformations and cultural history in general" (Samuel Cohn, History and Theory, 22 (1983): 222‑27). (Abstract via Allan Megill)