Clio's Battles By Jeremy Black: Historical Analysis

The world has seen many great historians such as Greek historian Theopompus to German historian Fritz Fischer who is known for his analysis in World War I. These great historians come from different time periods and also had a different approach’s to their analysis. The novel Clio’s Battles by Jeremy Black argues how the study of history was ultimately altered in the eighteenth century and nineteenth century; by providing how it gradually moved to challenge objectivity and professionalism. In this essay I will provide examples from Clio’s Battles on how the study of history altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth century from the gradually movement of objectivity to professionalism. Historical work in the eighteenth century was more interested in controversies of the present, notably religious, and political struggles. During the eighteenth century many took an approach that worked well with their view of openness to the non-Christian traditions, and their desire to explain here and now. Through history they found a form of knowledge, which was not dependent on a revelation. An example would be Essai sur les moeurs el l’esprit des nation by Voltaire who wrote a
The eighteenth was a stepping-stone for the generation of the nineteenth century to take over and expand. The knowledge of history not only became one of the reasons of the Catholic Church’s downfall, but also another way of discovery and gaining more knowledge. Even till then the catholic church was still used a historical reference due to the paintings that were created and need a background in. the eighteenth century and nineteenth century were both in a way of a stepping stone for one another and through the examples of the Clio’s Battles we can see how they altered the eighteenth century and the nineteenth