Sentences with phrase «reputation as a historian»

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

... Mr. Irving, the author of more than 30 books on World War II and the Holocaust, some of which historians have praised, sued Ms. Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin Books, saying that the book had severely damaged his reputation as a historian.

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Of the historian Hugh Trevor - Roper's well - earned reputation for flippancy, Epstein reports that on his application for a fellowship to All Souls College in Oxford, the cocky petitioner described Rousseau's Confessions as «a lucid journal of a life so utterly degraded that it has been a bestseller in France ever since.»

Christine Fiori has built an international reputation as an expert on the Inca Road, but she isn't an archaeologist or historian.

Keegan's formidable reputation as a premier military historian is further cemented with this fascinating analytical narrative about myriad aspects of the civil war, including the dramatic battles, appalling costs, and decisive historical results.

As the English writer and critic John Russell wrote in Schapiro's New York Times obituary, «his output in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.&raquAs the English writer and critic John Russell wrote in Schapiro's New York Times obituary, «his output in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.&raquas both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.»

Comprised of several major gifts and purchases — including the private collections of Leo Steinberg, John and Barbara Duncan, and James and Mari Michener, as well as nearly four hundred Old Master drawings acquired as part of the Suida - Manning Collection — the Blanton's collection has an international reputation for its extraordinary works on paper and serves as a resource for art historians and other researchers in the field.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.