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This e-book makes a variety of writings by means of the nice medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, to be had to the broader viewers they deserve.
- A choice of writings by way of the nice medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern.
- Offers a desirable perception into the ideals and ideas that underpinned Southern’s paintings.
- Contains the sequence of reflections on medieval historic writing that Southern produced in the course of his tenure as President of the Royal old Society.
- Also comprises items at the nature of educational background, in addition to Southern’s appreciations of different medievalists.
- Brings jointly texts that might rather be tricky to find.
- Makes those writings available to the broader viewers they deserve.
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The Fall left mankind wholly disorientated, feeble in body, weak in will, divorced from God. In this situation, the first thing that was needed was that men should discover the extent of their weakness through the experience of their moral, mental, and physical disintegration; and that from this experience they should come to desire and seek a Savior. Hence in this first period of human history, comprising some 2,000 years between the Fall and Abraham, God stood aside like a physician awaiting a call, while men learned how weak they were and began to desire a cure.
11 Naturally these are very shocking to a modern scholarly conscience, though it is doubtful whether the author took any liberties with the facts of history that Suetonius and Sallust would not have felt free to take. If we grant these liberties, which are those of a historical method rather than an individual; and if we grant, as we must, that there is not a single speech, document, description, or insinuation of motive in any of the works written in this tradition that can be accepted unreservedly by a modern historian in search of a fact, then we may judge that the Encomium Emmae is not only a work of great literary skill, but even of some nobility and historical insight.
It was in Germany that the best subjects suitable for treatment according to the rhetorical rules were to be found; and it was in Germany too that the chief schools existed where these rules were taught. But scholarship is an international asset, and the two works which most brilliantly imposed on recalcitrant material the dramatic unity and elevation of sentiment that the rhetorical ideal demanded were written by foreigners in England. The authors of these works wrote in praise of two English queens, Emma and Edith, the wives of Cnut and Edward the Confessor.