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The Inside of History Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné and Romantic Historiography
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By John B. Roney
ISBN: 0-313-28807-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28807-4
232 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/1996
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Roney's bibliographical labors have been herculean,
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    Sixteenth Century Journal
  • The review's high esteem for what Roney has achieved concerning a theologian/historian who is as fascinating as his context is complex.
    —Studies in Religion
Description: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Genevan historian of Christianity, offered Protestants in post-French revolutionary Europe historical reflections on the origins of their religious and political organizations. Best known for his 13-volume history of the Reformation, Merle d'Aubigné's popularity was without rival in the middle third of the 19th century. Roney argues that Merle d'Aubigné must be seen as an important historian who promoted new historical methods developed in German historical schools and the Romantic study of history. He used contemporary concepts, such as liberty and conscience, to explain the important place of Christianity in Western Civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • The Context
  • Introduction: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné as a Nineteenth-Century Romantic Evangelical Historian
  • The Reformation and the Birth of Modernity: A Nineteenth-Century View
  • The Life and Work of Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné
  • The Heritage of Geneva: The Early Life of Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1817)
  • The Discovery of Luther: The Need for History (1817-1831)
  • Education in Calvin's Geneva: Recovery of the Past (1831-1872)
  • The Writing of History
  • Readers and Popular Romantic Writing
  • The 'Soul' of History: Christianity as a 'New Field'
  • Conception of History: The Past Made Alive
  • The Interpretation of The Reformation in History
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
LC Card Number: 95-504
LCC Class: BR139
Dewey Class: 270
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