TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paul,Herman
TI  - Historians' virtues: from antiquity to the twenty-first century 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
SN  - 9781108993067 (ebook)
AV  - D16.9 .P277 2022
U1  - 901 23/eng/20220727
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Historians
KW  - Professional ethics
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Virtue
KW  - Objectivity
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2022); Introduction -- The historian's character: why virtues mattered -- What virtues, which aims? why historians disagreed -- Discourse meets practice: virtues as performance criteria -- Who can be virtuous? inclusion and exclusion -- What happened to virtue? continuity and discontinuity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography; Open Access
N2  - Why do historians so often talk about objectivity, empathy, and fair-mindedness? What roles do such personal qualities play in historical studies? And why does it make sense to call them virtues rather than skills or habits? Historians' Virtues is the first publication to explore these questions in some depth. With case studies from across the centuries, the Element identifies major discontinuities in how and why historians talked about the marks of a good scholar. At the same time, it draws attention to long-term legacies that last until today. Virtues were, and are, invoked in debates over the historian's task. They reveal how historians position themselves vis-à-vis political regimes, religious traditions, or neoliberal university systems. More importantly, they show that historical study not only requires knowledge and technical skills, but also makes demands on the character of its practitioners. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993067
ER  -