The demonstration as well as the analysis of this intricate sisterhood between Clio and Calliope in
Ranke's historiography constitutes the trajectory of this article, in which I will trace
Ranke's employment of rhetoric to represent history.
Even
Ranke found himself directly under the service of the Prussian government when he was made editor of a short-lived, government-sponsored periodical published explicitly with the aim of attacking progressive ideas (Fontana 128-129).
(2.) See Georg Iggers's accounts of
Ranke in The German Conception of History, (Wesleyan Press, 1968) and his article "The Image of
Ranke in Germany and America," History and Theory, Summer 1975, for an understanding of
Ranke's ambiguous status.
Using Burckhardt's early essays Hinde traces his move away from Hegel and
Ranke, and his growing conviction that history was poetry and art rather than science, accessible by contemplation (Anschauung) rather than rational analysis.
Evans starts with a quick survey of history writing since
Ranke, offering the interesting claim that little history of distinction was written between the early twentieth century and the 1960s due to ideological fallout from the two world wars which in the West produced the anti-ideological pretensions to objectivity of L.B.
Ranke, as everybody knows, transformed the writing of history from a literary genre to a scientific practice, relying on massive comparative study of archival documents to show "wie es eigentlich gewesen" - "how it really was." He often typifies a better age than this one in nostalgic accounts of that bygone era when historians were men and footnotes were footnotes.
Mid-century studies by Macaulay, Leopold
Ranke, Henry Hallam, Francis Palgrave, and William Ruskin, for example, were shaped by contemporary religious tensions between English Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
It is not, in
Ranke's terms, 'what actually happened'.
In the late nineteenth century, American historians who flocked to Germany to study did not always gasp what their mentor Leopold Von
Ranke was saying.
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