6/2/2023 0 Comments White metahistoryClassical (Thucydides, Tacitus) and Renaissance (Pontano, Guicciardini) historians always took for granted that histories could take and actually took rhetorical forms (Burke 2013).To the problems that inherently entails contextualizing and giving an appropriate historical meaning to the True History, there are also those of not having enough Pre-Hispanic sources -only a handful of Pre-Hispanic codices survived destruction. Ho wever, the modern exponent of this thesis, Hayden White, proposed it in writing more that four decades ago, and exemplified it with four nineteenth-century historians: Michelet, von Ranke, Tocqueville and Burckhardt(White 1975).It is important to note that, in a similar way to what happened with history made by eyewitnesses, the refusal to consider a rhetoric of history is a relatively new phenomenon which begins with nineteenth-century positivism.
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