Anachronism and the writing of history in John Selden: synchronism, cronology and politics

• Grant number: 16/22915-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: May 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Theory and Philosophy of History
• Principal Investigator: Miguel Soares Palmeira
• Grantee: Bruno Galeano de Oliveira Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Although the relevance it has to history writing, the anachronism is a notion whose historicity is little known. Avoiding take it as something natural to the craft of every historian, this project search into the meaning that anachronism had in the writing of history at the time this idea arose and was established. The objective is to understand how the anachronism, linked to the notion and procedures of synchronism and chronology, figured in the work and political life of a major scholar of seventeenth-century England, John Selden (1584-1654). Through the works of Selden it is possible to identify how the notion of anachronism was established in theoretical terms and how it was also part of political and religious disputes, especially concerning the controversies of tithes and the old constitution. To achieve its objective, this research approaches itself to the History of Historiography and the methodology of the Cambridge School to establish the intellectual context and the dispute in which appeared Selden's history writing.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GONÇALVES, Bruno Galeano de Oliveira. John Selden and the making of an antiquarian history: collection, synchronism, and the controversy over tithes in 17th century England. 2023. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.