Series Reputations

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Hero or villain? Charlatan or true prophet? Sinner or saint? The volume in the Reputations series examine the reputations of some of history's most conspicuous, powerful and influential individuals, considering a range of representations, some of striking incompatibility. The aim is not merely to demonstrate that history is indeed, in Pieter Geyl's phrase, 'argument without end', but that the study of even contradictory conceptions can be fruitful: that the jettisoning of one these or presentation leaves behind something of value. [...] There is a commitment in each volume to showing how understanding of an individual develops (sometimes in uneven and divergent ways), whether in response to fresh evidence or waning of dominant ideologies, changing attitudes and preoccupations of the age in which an author writes, or the creation of new historical paradigms. [..] [taken from the "General editorial preface", in Edward IV] (English, Unclassified)

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