I'm guessing you aren't too familiar with Leopold von Ranke? 
Larry Send a noteboard - 01/11/2010 10:23:09 PM
Larry Send a noteboard - 01/11/2010 10:23:09 PM
It sounds interesting, though exhausting. And of course in terms of learning about Roman history, one can get more reliable sources nowadays, I'm sure... for instance, I may be misremembering this, but I thought Commodus was actually not considered so very bad by modern historians.
Speaking of cultural historians, you may be interested to hear that I started reading Johan Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Autumn of the Middle Ages), if I manage to finish it I'll post a review.
But as I've got a lot of other books to read at the moment, it may take a while, if it ever happens.
Speaking of cultural historians, you may be interested to hear that I started reading Johan Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Autumn of the Middle Ages), if I manage to finish it I'll post a review.
But as I've got a lot of other books to read at the moment, it may take a while, if it ever happens. Huizinga is another classical historian that I need to read at some point.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Thoughts after reading Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. I
- 31/10/2010 09:57:56 PM
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Let me know your thoughts when you get farther into the series.
- 01/11/2010 03:08:56 PM
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I wasn't aware that "wie es eigentlich gewesen ist" was a historical term.
- 01/11/2010 03:44:17 PM
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- 01/11/2010 03:44:17 PM
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I'm guessing you aren't too familiar with Leopold von Ranke?
- 01/11/2010 10:23:09 PM
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- 01/11/2010 10:23:09 PM
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I'm afraid not, no.
- 01/11/2010 10:38:34 PM
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- 01/11/2010 10:38:34 PM
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Ranke founded the Historicist school; I was trained in part by a member of that school
- 01/11/2010 10:49:09 PM
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