One of the chief tests of the quality of historical work lies in its readability. History, even serious history, is interesting, and the historian who makes it dull deserves the pillory. One of the few benefits that advancing years bring to the historian is an increasing right to refuse being bored by his colleagues.
-G. R. Elton Return to Essentials (70-71)
Friday, September 9, 2011
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