Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Hundred Years of History: From Record and Chronicle 1216-1327
Another point at which the source-book might very well find an audience is among those who are reading English history at the universities not as their only study but as part of a general course for an ordinary degree. Here the source-book would open the gates to a more personal contact with men and manners of the middle ages, and might even form a foundation for some training in historical method and criticism.
Any source-book, however, is liable to two defects. In the first place, it is likely to be scrappy and nu attractive in appearance, for it will not be one connected whole, set forth with every possible help from print and paper, but instead a series of short extracts, giving each page a broken look, and overweighted with explanations and footnotes. In the second place, it will have to cover so many different aspects of history that it can scarcely be thorough.
The first difficulty I have tried to meet, firstly by selecting extracts as continuously as possible, and often of considerable length, and secondly by reducing the paraphernalia of footnote, explanation, and so forth, to a minimum. The second difficulty is more serious, and cannot be altogether overcome. It is as impossible that an historical source-book should satisfy all the needs of those who use it as that an anthology should include every poem a given reader would like to see there.
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