Author: LingardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Sadler's Abridgment of Lingard's History of England, from the Invasion of J. Caesar to James II
Author: LingardNineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977414
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries
Author: James Joseph WalshPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146552049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Of all the epochs of effort after a new life, that of the age of Aquinas, Roger Bacon, St. Francis, St. Louis, Giotto, and Dante is the most purely spiritual, the most really constructive, and indeed the most truly philosophic. … The whole thirteenth century is crowded with creative forces in philosophy, art, poetry, and statesmanship as rich as those of the humanist Renaissance. And if we are accustomed to look on them as so much more limited and rude it is because we forget how very few and poor were their resources and their instruments. In creative genius Giotto is the peer, if not the superior of Raphael. Dante had all the qualities of his three chief successors and very much more besides. It is a tenable view that in inventive fertility and in imaginative range, those vast composite creations—the Cathedrals of the Thirteenth Century, in all their wealth of architectural statuary, painted glass, enamels, embroideries, and inexhaustible decorative work may be set beside the entire painting of the sixteenth century. Albert and Aquinas, in philosophic range, had no peer until we come down to Descartes, nor was Roger Bacon surpassed in versatile audacity of genius and in true encyclopaedic grasp by any thinker between him and his namesake the Chancellor. In statesmanship and all the qualities of the born leader of men we can only match the great chiefs of the Thirteenth Century by comparing them with the greatest names three or even four centuries later. Now this great century, the last of the true Middle Ages, which as it drew to its own end gave birth to Modern Society, has a special character of its own, a character that gives it an abiding and enchanting interest. We find in it a harmony of power, a universality of endowment, a glow, an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries, at least so generally and so permanently diffused. … The Thirteenth Century was an era of no special character. It was in nothing one-sided and in nothing discordant. It had great thinkers, great rulers, great teachers, great poets, great artists, great moralists, and great workmen. It could not be called the material age, the devotional age, the political age, or the poetic age in any special degree. It was equally poetic, political, industrial, artistic, practical, intellectual, and devotional. And these qualities acted in harmony on a uniform conception of life with a real symmetry of purpose.
Continuity and Anachronism
Author: P.B.M. BlaasPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400997124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Several ofthe themes of this study have been treated in earlier publica tions, some by means of a general analysis and some through a detailed handling of problems raised by a particular theme or historian. Both the more general theoretical treatment of the theme and the concrete historiographical treatment are, I think, indispensable aids to the proper understanding of the development of historical scholarship in nineteenth-and twentieth-century England. There are a number of problems in a concrete historiographical approach: there is first the mass of historians to be faced, and then the immense amount of historical themes dealt with in various periods. As a guideline through the tangle of themes we chose the historiography on the development of the English parliament. We can only hope that we have made a responsible choice of the historians concerned. Un fortunately it was not always possible for us to give extensive biogra phies of some of the more recent historians, as several 'papers' are still firmly in the possession of families, and a number of them mus- despite of years - still be labelled 'confidential.' The Pollard Papers in the London Institute of Historical Research thus remained inaccessible. Fortunately the lack was partly compen sated by some important material being found apart from these Papers.
The History of Huddersfield and Its Vicinity
Author: D. F. E. SykesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huddersfield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Historical Essays
Author: Edward Augustus FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The history of Protestantism
Author: James Aitken WyliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
An Abridgement of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Second ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371434451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description