The Phases of European History and the Nonexistence of the Middle Ages
C. Warren Hollister
I stand here before you to deliver the 1991 presidential address on occasion of eighty-fourth annual meeting American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch. do hope all realize what a heartwrenching task this is for me. am an historian medieval Europe. Only small handful are medievalists -and brought almost myself--to applaud me after my talk. There something deeply incongruous about Europe presiding at Big Island Hawaii--but it thoroughly enjoyable--not mention salubrious. Yet also, as said, daunting. We have had splendid banquet, with abundance excellent wine. not want put sleep boring, highly specialized address. And yet if talk too fluffy will up well when published in our journal, Review. Worse yet, Norris Hundley might turn down. should examined how past presidents, especially such dear friends Robert Ignatius Burns and late Lynn White, coped problem. But file Review perished great Santa Barbara fire June 27, 1990, which caused home its contents: computer, computer disks, print-out
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