The idea of the bad historian in Early Modern Spain (1530-1651)
Abstract
In this article I will examine most of the commonplaces about the vices and errors of the bad historian in the early modern Spanish theoretical discourse on history in order to explain in what ways they were defined, classified and organized hierarchically. My aim is to show the main trends of this discourse in a representative series of late Renaissance and Counter-Reformation theoretical treatises and to demonstrate that the reshaping of Classical ideas about the bad historian was significantly related to the development of historiography in early modern Spain and Europe.
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