This Virtual Reading Group Extra with Dr. Shannon Chamberlain and Christy Lynn Horpedahl is a brief conversation about Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Part I and David Hume's The History of England, Vol. III, Chapter XXIX.
Change is in the English air and Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey's man of business and not-so-secret Protestant, is in a position to take advantage. Mantel's Cromwell and Hume’s on the causes of the Protestant Reformation raise questions what makes a specific moment historically interesting, how is modern virtue different from "ancient" virtue, why you should read historical fiction, and how much can one man from Putney matter in the directions of history.
You can read the Hume, The History of England, Vol. III, Chapter XXIX, at the Online Library of Liberty:
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Also, a brief post by Christy Lynn Horpedahl on reading Hume's history for the first time is at AdamSmithWorks:
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Shannon Chamberlain is a tutor at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, and this conversation is, in part, inspired by a virtual reading group hosted by Liberty Fund on The Messiness of Progress: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and David Hume’s Essays and Histories.
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6 окт 2024
