Medieval Europe - Couverture rigide

Davis, H W C

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421809400 ISBN 13 : 9781421809403

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2006

Synopsis

All divisions of history into periods are artificial in proportion as they are precise. In history there is, strictly speaking, no end and no beginning. Each event is the product of an infinite series of causes, the starting-point of an infinite series of effects. Language and thought, government and manners, transform themselves by imperceptible degrees; with the result that every age is an age of transition, not fully intelligible unless regarded as the child of a past and the parent of a future. Even so the species of the animal and vegetable kingdoms shade off one into another until, if we only observe the marginal cases, we are inclined to doubt whether the species is more than a figment of the mind. Yet the biologist is prepared to defend the idea of species; and in like manner the historian holds that the distinction between one phase of culture and another is real enough to justify, and, indeed, to demand, the use of distingui-shing names.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

All divisions of history into periods are artificial in proportion as they are precise. In history there is, strictly speaking, no end and no beginning. Each event is the product of an infinite series of causes, the startingpoint of an infinite series of effects. Language and thought, government and manners, transform themselves by imperceptible degrees; with the result that every age is an age of transition, not fully intelligible unless regarded as the child of a past and the parent of a future. Even so the species of the animal and vegetable kingdoms shade off one into another until, if we only observe the marginal cases, we are inclined to doubt whether the species is more than a figment of the mind.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Medieval history begins with the dissolution of the Western Empire with the abandonment of the Latin world to German conquerors. Of the provinces affected by the catastrophe the youngest was Britain; and even Britain had then been Roman soil for more than three hundred years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421809400
• ISBN 13: 9781421809403
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible