The passionate historian : a conversation with Sir John H. Elliott / Open Agenda Publishing.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2013]
  • ©2013
Description
1 streaming video file (1 hr., 4 min.) : digital, sound, color + 1 PDF + 1 podcast.

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Available Online

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Interviewee
Interviewer
Editor
Musician
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Ideas Roadshow
Summary note
In clear, candid and captivating tones, Sir John Elliott tells us how an undergraduate encounter with a 17th century painting led him on a lifelong odyssey that resulted in him becoming one of the greatest Spanish historians of our age.
Notes
Includes MP3 podcast of conversation.
Creation/​Production credits
Editor, Andrew Niblo ; music, Shafton Thomas.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Host, Howard Burton.
Language note
Closed captioned.
Contents
  • Beginnings
  • Franco, objectivity, and the present
  • The role of the present
  • Flexibility, languages, and bad handwriting
  • Historical fashions and the dangers of exceptionalism
  • Biographical dangers, the surprise test and non-barking
  • The historian's life
  • Globalized history
  • Final thoughts.
Other title(s)
Ideas Roadshow.
OCLC
892845861
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