Tag: historiography
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What Does an Intellectual Historian Actually Study? Methodology, Context, and Intentionality
What intellectual historians study, how contextualism works, and why texts are best understood as actions within historical debates.
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Review: Anthony Grafton, ‘Nobility: Arms and Letters’ – E. H. Gombrich Lectures 2026, Lecture III
A review of Anthony Grafton’s final 2026 E. H. Gombrich Lecture on Scaliger, noble identity, scholarly performance and the limits of historical criticism.
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Review: Anthony Grafton, ‘Genealogy: Forms and Uses’ – E. H. Gombrich Lectures 2026, Lecture II
A review of Anthony Grafton’s second 2026 E. H. Gombrich Lecture on Scaliger, genealogy, historical criticism and scholarly identity.
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Review: Anthony Grafton, ‘Scaliger: Critic and Forger’ – E. H. Gombrich Lectures 2026, Lecture I
A review of Anthony Grafton’s first 2026 E. H. Gombrich Lecture on Joseph Scaliger, criticism, forgery and the unstable boundaries of scholarship.
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Rapin: The Forgotten Historian of Party
Paul de Rapin de Thoyras transformed party conflict from a symptom of political decay into a moderated and historically embedded feature of English liberty.
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Michel Foucault: Power, Knowledge and the Practice of History
Explore Michel Foucault’s archaeology, genealogy and power/knowledge, from the medical gaze and Panopticon to the practice of intellectual history.
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Beyond the Age of Reason: Constructing the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was not a single march of reason. This essay reconstructs its competing networks, reforms, religious arguments and later political mythologies.
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Beginnings in Intellectual History: Context, Texts and Method
A personal introduction to intellectual history, exploring Skinner, LaCapra and Popper through debates about context, interpretation and historical method.