Opis: The Angevin Empire, Vol. 3 - Ramsay James

Excerpt from The Angevin Empire, Vol. 3: Or the Three Reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John (A. D. 1154-1216)

With respect to the latter, I found a careful survey of the locality most instructive. The studies of the battle hitherto published appear to have taken too little account of the testimony of the field itself.

In the matter of commerce and finance I have done the best that I could with the available materials: but it must be admitted that these are far from being as full as we could desire, and that on many points of interest we are still much in the dark.

If there is a subject on which I might claim to have a special mission, it would be that of calling attention to the extraordinary exaggeration commonly found in the Chroniclers in their estimates of numbers, whether numbers of men, or money, or anything else. I have lost no opportunity of testing these, wherever possible, by comparison with more authentic personal or Record evidence, the last being the only authority really trustworthy. The result is that I find again that multiplication by ten might almost be called a normal rate of amplification. Whether dealing with the strength of an army, or the produce of a tax, the student prima facie will do well to take one-tenth of any number given if he would arrive at a prudent estimate. In some cases that proportion would be found too large.

On a much contested point I have called attention to the facts indicating that in the England of the twelfth century there was little that could be called at all English. Not only were all the upper classes of society essentially French, but their ranks were perpetually being recruited by foreigners imported from abroad. These people entered every Chapter and Convent, they filled the Episcopate, the Treasury, and the Bench, and found themselves completely at home there.

Architecture was the art of the period. I have indicated some of the more clearly dated monuments, as landmarks for the guidance of the student and the sightseer.

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Nazwa: The Angevin Empire, Vol. 3 Or the Three Reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John (A. D. 1154-1216) (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Ramsay James
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330758137
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 600
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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