Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. NOTE ON CITATIONS xii
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Art, Nature, and Convention 15
7. II. Convention in the Sixteenth Century 67
8. III. Convention and the Sixteenth-Century Arts of Speech 137
9. IV. Contextualism and the Role of Convention in Historiography 203
10. V. The Triumph of Convention 241
11. Index 349