Frederic William Maitland
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Excerpt from Frederic William Maitland: Two Lectures and a Bibliography It has been said, History does not advance; but History does advance since it has adopted the new method, the following up of (a) analytic by (b) constructive treatment, a combination best studied in Maitland´s work, (a) is seen in his rule of retracing backwards, in his use of a comparative method, in his acute sense of differences. But he goes on to (b), the visualizing of his subject, putting it in concrete cases; compare Macaulay´s felicity of illustration; similar examples from Maitland. This concreteness is one mark of his style; and a second mark is the recurrence of a leit-motif, e.g. in Township and Borough. - His constructive work is aided also (2) by his tolerance of coexistent opposites just as in real life; e.g. lordship, the shire moot, the test of freedom, the concepts of corporateness and of dominium; (3) by his pointed phrases used not for mere wit but to clinch an argument, examples: and also by use of modern parallels, examples. But above and beyond his method rises his conception of History on its spiritual side. For, as he says, ´the writing of history is in some sort a religious act,´ and a real historian cannot be anti-religious in any true sense; cp. Lord Acton´s definition of the true historian. Maitland´s intense sympathy with the past, his ardour and self-sacrifice; these and not Pietism make work religious. The other side of his conception of History is its humanity, examples, especially from his Domesday; the greatest of all methods is to enter into the past, by historic imagination; ´what men have done and said, above all what they have thought, that is history.´ It is this which justifies the humour which is the most prominent quality in Maitland; an examination of his mode of using it in various books, especially in the chapter on The Reformation Settlement, and in the Et cetera title of Elizabeth, and in the sketch of Scotland 1560; the new points in his view of Elizabeth, his open-mindedness, and his appreciation of religious parties. But the extreme condensation lays him open to some criticisms, e.g. for coining new terms, for being over allusive; examples. But might not Maitland have become a great narrative historian? 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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