Excerpt from The Monastic Chronicler and the Early School of St. Albans: A LectureSix hundred years ago, in the second decade of the fourteenth century, the great Italian poet whose fame the world has just been celebrating anew, saw in that Paradise of elect souls of every age and clime which is described in the last section of the Divina Commedia, the radiant spirit of a great Englishman who was also perhaps the most famous of monastic historians. The six centuries that separated Dante himself from the time of the Venerable Bede were charged even beyond bearing with those happenings in national and local life which are the materials of history. It is these which the annalist records and the chronicler describes and illustrates with reflexions and stories grave or gay, a comedy of manners if sometimes, it must be added, of errors too. But while many moralized there were few who could add to the students discipline of patient research in the establishment of facts, the historians insight into causes, his appraisement of values, his sense of a just perspective.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Monastic Chronicler and the Early School of St. Albans: A Lecture (Classic Reprint)

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Claude Jenkins

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Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Records: Three LecturesAn ecclesiastical scribe may be either an ecclesiastic who is a scribe or a scribe who writes documents of ecclesiastical concern or for ecclesiastical purposes; he may be either an original author or one who ministers to the originality of others; and even this does not exhaust the possible permutations and combinations. In every age, again, he will have his conventions and his idiosyncrasies; the materials with which he works may be found to shew a certain amount of variation; more important still, his writing itself will tend to reproduce certain general features of the school to which he belongs and the training that he has received, so that, arguing from Mss. of known provenance and date the palaeographer, like the art critic, will often tell you with some confidence, if with less complete assurance of infallibility, not only when, but where, a particular work was produced, whether at Canterbury, shall we say, or at St. Albans or some other great centre. And the range of the subject, as will be seen, is vast, covering many lands and many centuries, each more than sufficient for a single lecture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ecclesiastical Records: Three Lectures (Classic Reprint)

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The Monastic Chronicler and the Early School of St. Albans: A Lecture (Classic Reprint)

Ecclesiastical Records: Three Lectures (Classic Reprint)