Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing - The Tradition of Collective Biography in Early Modern Europe

A collection of essays and primary sources devoted to the tradition, methods, and functions of collective biography in early modern Europe.

About the author

Patrick Baker, Ph.D. (2009) teaches medieval and early modern history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Cambridge, 2015) and co-editor of Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance (De Gruyter, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Baker
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2017
• EAN: 9789004336032
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33603-2
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 244 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 751 g
• Series: Renaissance Society of America
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day