Studies in History (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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MY object in preparing these Studies has been to illustrate the life of the Middle Age by a sketch of some of its characteristic institutions. I have selected those prominent features in that life which it inherited from Roman and Christian society before the extinction of the Western Empire in 476, and which were moulded and shaped after that event by the peculiar ideas and habits Of the barbarian invaders.

My experience as a teacher has convinced me that to the genuine student the unbroken continuity of history is its most attractive and instructive feature, and that so far as the Middle Age is concerned the most important lesson which its history teaches us is that, while it was mainly the outgrowth of a previous condition, it was also the source Of much that is most valuable in our modern life and civilization.

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