'Historians’ identities form the subject matter of this geographically wide-ranging, well-researched and theoretically framed collection of essays.'
R. C. Richardson, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education, July 2019

Notes on contributors
Introduction. Scholarly personae: what they are and why they
matter – Herman Paul
1 The contested persona of the historian: on the origins of a
permanent conflict – Ian Hunter
2 Ranke vs Schlosser: pairs of personae in nineteenth-century
German historiography – Herman Paul
3 Fixing genius: the Romantic man of letters in the university
era – Travis E. Ross
4 Generational continuities and composite personae: French
historiography from the 1870s to the 1950s – Camille Creyghton
5 Pasha and his historic harem: Edward A. Freeman, Edith
Thompson and the gendered personae of late-Victorian
historians – Elise Garritzen
6 Interpretative and investigative: the emergence and
characteristics of modern scholarly personae in China,
1900–30 – Q. Edward Wang
7 Coalescence and conflict: historians and their personae in the
Portuguese New State – António da Silva Rêgo
8 The emergence of the English Marxist historian’s scholarly
persona: the English Revolution debate of 1940–41 – Sina
Talachian
9 Of communism, compromise and Central Europe: the scholarly
persona under authoritarianism – Monika Baár
10 What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in
UNESCO’s General History of Africa – Larissa Schulte Nordholt
11 The finitude of personae: Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshof
and the biography of Pirenne – Henning Trüper
Index