The Rise and Decline of the Medieval Community
R. R. Darlington
The accumulation of specialized work and the publication more texts calls for constant modification current conceptions history medieval England. Of means achieving this readjustment most satisfactory is probably lecture, which affords scope individual interpretation development over a wide field yet does not lose its flexibility or arrogate to itself an authoritative character which, owing very nature, no general survey can rightly lay claim. It suggested that twentieth-century medievalist should ignore printing-press altogether, but there much be said concentrating on printing such works-in main, editions texts-as may possibly some value future generations scholars. To demand ‘brighter’ it we11 turn deaf ear, exigencies time extent justify re-interpretations by those competent undertake them, whether text-books assume form co-operative with almost every chapter from different pen, many-volumed expert in charge each century so, one other compartments into commonly divided. these last might deemed least satisfactory, treatment ‘constitutional’, ‘economic’ ‘ecclesiastical’ as self-contained entity seem vicious outworn practice, leading inevitably distortion.
Antiquity