Introduction / Donald R. Kelley and David Harris Sacks --
Precept, example, and truth: Degory Wheare and the 'ars historica' / J.H.M. Salmon --
Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography / Patrick Collinson --
Thomas More and the English Renaissance: history and fiction in Utopia / Joseph M. Levine --
Little Crosby and the horizons of early modern historical culture / D.R. Woolf --
Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's impertinent history / Richard Helgerson --
Foul, his wife, the mayor, and Foul's mare: the power of anecdote in Tudor historiography / Annabel Patterson --
Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books / Rebecca Bushnell --
Thomas Hobbes's Machiavellian moments / David Wootton --
The background of Hobbes's Behemoth / Fritz Levy --
Leviathan, mythic history, and national historiography / Patricia Springborg --
Protesting fiction, constructing history / J. Paul Hunter --
Adam Smith and the history of private life: social and sentimental narratives in eighteenth-century historiography / Mark Salber Phillips --
Contemplative heroes and Gibbon's historical imagination / Patricia Craddock.
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