History of the Norman Kings of England, From a New Collation of the Contemporary Chronicles (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of the Norman Kings of England, From a New Collation of the Contemporary Chronicles In writing of our Norman Kings from my own collation of the materials extant, I refer almost exclusively to those annalists who lived among the people and scenes they describe, whose reflections are in accord with the spirit of their time, whose point of view is real and picturesque. And I discharge myself of unwarranted augmentations by later chroniclers, of the so-called ´philosophies of history´ and of rhetorical flourishes which involve the false with the true. I seek to be accurate and clear rather than elegant. Of my authorities - familiar to the student, - I have to confess that they are apt to exaggerate: they have formuloe to express their passions: they seem credulous, uncritical as we say. But, with these characteristics of recluse life, I insist that they possessed mother-wit and conscience; and it is no less certain that they took pains to be well informed. In fact the intellectual monks were the thinkers as well as the writers, the clerici and just centre of civilisation, through whom alone we can appreciate their era. Nor were they so limited by their order as to be in capable of lay interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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