Der Jurist ging nach Italien – der Historiker kam zurück
Political history is recounted pragmatically in modern scholarship, in whatever way each scholar thinks the dynamics of power played out each time
And what do you know about the development of the pronoun in the fourteenth century?
en entrant dans un lieu célèbre, j’aime à me demander avant tout quelle en est l’histoire
Dumm wie ein Epigraphiker
J’ai l’impression que les politiques aujourd’hui ne font guère l’histoire
the obscure realm of events that are too fresh for history, but too old for journalism
The Greeks loved beauty and therefore youth, the Romans were practical and authoritarian, the Merovingians were barbaric
sandwiched between an extract from a Jacobean work on feudal tenures and a discussion of King Alfred’s will in Hume’s History of England, he copied out a recipe for a beef and vegetable broth
The bad faith of the Habsburgs could not infirm Magyar rights