History and Historians Selected Papers of R.

This book makes a selection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, available to the wider audience they deserve. A collection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern. Offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and ideas that underpinned Southern's work. Contains the series of reflections on medieval historical writing that Southern produced during his tenure as President of the Royal Historical Society. Also includes pieces on the nature of academic history, as well as Southern's appreciations of other medievalists. Brings together texts that would otherwise be difficult to locate. Makes these writings accessible to the wider audience they deserve.

Sir Richard Southern was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912 and educated at the Royal Grammar School there and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol from 1937-61, Chichele Professor of History at Oxford from 1961-9, and President of St John’s College, Oxford from 1969-81. He was knighted in 1974. He died in Oxford in 2001.

Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrew’s in Scotland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Chicago and has held Fellowships at the Universities of Michigan, Princeton and Göttingen. His book, The Making of Europe (1993) won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History.

Abbreviations

vii

Place of First Publication

viii

Preface

x

Janet Nelson

Introduction

1

(10)

Part I Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing

The Classical Tradition from Einhard to Geoffrey of Monmouth

11

(19)

Hugh of St. Victor and the Idea of Historical Development

30

(18)

History as Prophecy

48

(18)

The Sense of the Past

66

(21)

Part II History

The Shape and Substance of Academic History

87

(17)

The Historical Experience

104

(16)

The Truth about the Past

120

(17)

Part III Historians

Review of The Letters of Frederic William Maitland

137

(7)

Sir Maurice Powicke (1879--1963)

144

(24)

Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889--1976)

168

(25)

Richard William Hunt (1908--1979)

193

(25)

Marjorie Reeves as a Historian

218

(7)

Beryl Smalley (1905--1984)

225

(15)

Notes

240

(20)

Bibliography of the Publications of R. W. Southern

260

(11)

Index

271

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