books.google.co.uk - In these learned essays, Joseph M. Levine shows how the idea and method of modern history first began to develop during the Renaissance, when a clear distinction between history and fiction was first proposed. The new claims for history were met by a new skepticism in a debate that still echoes today....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Autonomy_of_History.html?id=tIEGBimKQSwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Autonomy of History
