Princes, Power, and the Battle for the Past: Official Historiography in Renaissance Italy, 1400-1500 (2012–2016)
- Abstract:
- This study aims to generate a new account of the origins of Renaissance historical writing, which was in turn a major contributor to early modern historiography. The study will pursue this aim by focusing on the chanceries of fifteenth-century Italy, where humanists were regularly commissioned to write histories under the supervision of Renaissance princes and court officials. The investigation will trace the emergence in this environment of a distinct brand of document-based, political historiography. It will detail how authoritarian regimes, contrary to expectation, actually backed innovation in history, as a means of establishing control over the past, and thus over the present. Outcomes will include a book and a series of articles.
- Grant type:
- ARC Discovery Projects
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- Funded by:
- Australian Research Council
