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Readings In European History Volume I
Author: James Harvey Robinson

READINGS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY VOLUME I READINGS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY A collection of extracts from the sources chosen ivith the purpose of il frustrating the progress of ctilture in Western Europe since the German, Invasions BY JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON PROFESSOR OF HISTORY m COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY VOLUME I FROM THE BREAKING UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE... more » PROTESTANT REVOLT GINN COMPANY BOSTON - NEW YORK - CHICAGO - LONDON PREFACE In preparing my Introduction to the JEfistory of IVestern Europe I was forced to forego all the amenities of historical narration, except those of clearness and order, in my anxiety to present a tolerably coherent sketch of the course of events and the development of institutions. In this and the suc ceeding volume I hope that the reader, whether teacher or student, may find some of that life and reality without which historical study must remain arid and well-nigh profitless. I have accordingly made a special effort to select such pas sages as might most readily conciliate the readers interest. Yet they are not the less useful for being interesting. Indeed, I hope that they may prove to be like that river of which Gregory the Great speaks, which is both shallow and deep, wherein the lamb may find a footing and the ele phant float at large for there are few among the excerpts that will not repay careful study and give the teacher abun dant opportunity to test his own and his students insight. The rather long and elaborate bibliographies which follow the several chapters demand a word of explanation. They each fall into three divisions. The first section, -, contains specific references to a collection of forty or fifty standard volumes which should be in any good high-school library. -, Additional readings in English, is especially designed for those who have a good college library at their disposal, although many of the volumes mentioned in this division vii viii Preface might profitably be used by the high-school student. Lastly, under C 9 the teacher and advanced university student will find the necessary guidance in carrying on his work as far as he may feel inclined. In the preparation of the present volume I am under special obligations to Miss Ellen Scott Davison, who greatly aided me in the quest for suitable material and in the transla tion, and to Miss Louise Ropes Loomis, Lecturer in Barnard College, who prepared portions of the bibliographies and also forwarded the translation. With the kind permission of my friends, Professors Cheyhey and Munro, I have used some of the extracts which have already appeared in the Translations and Reprints -, of which we three were the original editors. I have also included some of the pieces in Dr. Hendersons very useful Select Historical J3ocuments of the J fiddle 4. ges, but I have frequently preferred a different rendering from his. I am also indebted to the translations in the Bohn series, although here, too, I have freely modified the wording in the interests of accuracy and clearness. I owe most of all, perhaps, to the admirable Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vbrzeit in clearing up the occasional obscurities of the mediaeval chroniclers. My indebtedness to a consid erable number of translators and editors is acknowledged in the list of citations which follows. J. H. R. HIGH MOWING, JAFFREY, N. H., September i, 1904. CONTKNXS AND LIST OF CITATIONS VOLUME I CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW CHAPTER II WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS PAGE I. Resemblances between Paganism and Christianity 1. Seneca on Gods gifts to man 14 e bcnefictiS Lib. iv, cc. 57, and Lib. i f c. 2 ed. rlosius Teubner, 1900 trans. i by Th. Lodge in the Temple Classics Series 2. Epictetus 15 dissertation es or JSnchiiidion, Book I, Chaps. 30 and 9 trans, from the Greek of Arrian by G. Long in the Bohn Library 3. The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius 17 Book II, Chaps. 1-3 trans, from the Greek by G. Long in the Bohn Library 4...

ISBN-13: 9781406748383
ISBN-10: 1406748382
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 580
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