Clovis and Constantine. The Uses of History in Sixteenth-Century Gallicanism
J. H. M. Salmon
A strong case has been made for the appearance of a new kind history in late sixteenth-century France. Whether or not it deserves label ‘historicist’, credited with desire to discover objective face past, critical approach sources, and even, though more rarely, attempts explain historical process. Prominent among brand historians are Jean du Tillet, Charles Moulin, Pierre François Pithou, Claude Fauchet Etienne Pasquier. All these men robe also celebrated as defenders liberties Gallican Church. The tradition shared an attitude towards past that was quite contrary history. It did accept change its own sake, nor see improvement pointing present.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History