Collected historical works Volume 9 - Couverture souple

Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis; Palgrave Sir, Francis; Barker, Geoffrey Palgrave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 117842815X ISBN 13 : 9781178428155

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Every generation depends upon the work of generations before it, and it is no reflection upon the great names of the past to say that they have shewn the way to heights whence lesser men of a later age can overlook a wider view than they could themselves command. The late Sir Francis Palgrave will always be admired for sound work in the elucidation of the early history of mediaeval Europe, of Normandy and of England in particular; for picturesque presentments, and for brilliant generalizations, even though subsequent weighing of evidence may have led later historians to accept these with modifications. Especially he did more than any one in England to restore the due estimate of the continued influence of Imperial Rome, for centuries after the date when the fall of the Roman Empire had been gravely recorded3-. Recorded in some given year as if it were equivalent to the collapse of an Asiatic dynasty, a passing phase of despotism, or the fall of a city republic, interesting in its life but politically unimportant in life or in death. The comprehensive learning of Gibbon made it impossible for him not to recognize the continued life of that system of which he narrated the Decline and Fall. Yet even Gibbon scarcely seems to express sufficiently the fact of the continuity of Imperial law, and of the unity of civilized Europe founded upon the Empire. Viscount Bryce has made it a commonplace of history. As Lord Bryce is to Palgrave, so Palgrave was to Gibbon. If Sir Francis sometimes detected the Imperial purple in the trappings of West Saxon kings or of Norman dukes, who were little conscious of wearing it, we can excuse him for the service rendered by reminding historians that the purple had not been relegated to a museum of outworn curiosities. It remained for the still living historian to draw the complete picture, to reduce the excrescences, to a Palgrave say
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 117842815X
• ISBN 13: 9781178428155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 666
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible