Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980
Duellist
By Quentin Skinner
Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe
by J.H. Hexter
University of Chicago (second edition), 278 pp., $5.95 (paper)
On Historians: Reappraisals of Some of the Masters of Modern History
by J.H. Hexter
Harvard University Press, 310 pp., $16.00
As scholars grow older and more eminent, it has been observed, they tend to write less but to publish more. Among historians, Professor J. H. Hexter is a distinguished case in point. He first began to make books out of his previously published articles as early as 1961, when he issued Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe. Since then there has been no stopping him. In 1971 he reprinted six of his general essays on the historian's craft as Doing History. Two years later he brought together his scattered writings on Renaissance political thought as The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation. And now his original collection of Reappraisals has been reissued in a second edition with two new chapters.
Review, 2537 words
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