Wednesday, August 09, 2023

 

The Historian's Motto

Eileen Power (1889-1940), Medieval People (London: Methuen, 1963; rpt. 1966), p. vii:
For history, after all, is valuable only in so far as it lives, and Maeterlinck's cry, 'There are no dead', should always be the historian's motto.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 8:43 AM


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