A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality
As Ideals of English Political Philosophy from the Time of Hobbes to the Time of Coleridge
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehistoricalsketch0000mait_m5s6
- ISBN-100865972923
- ISBN-139780865972926
- Library of Congress Control Number00027491
- OCLC Control Number43607426
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780865972926
- Open LibraryOL8327673M
Classifications
- LCCJA84.G7 M35 2000
- LCCJA84.G7M35 2000
- LCCJA 84 .G7 M35 2000
Description
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time. The exclusive Liberty Fund edition of F.W. Maitland's classic includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins and a general account of Maitland's life and work, "The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William Maitland, " by Robert Schuyler. A historian's historian, F.W. Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall have to think away distinctions which seem to us as clear as the sunshine; we must think ourselves back into a twilight." To achieve this discipline, Maitland chose his tools of historical analysis with a lawyer's care. For example, to decipher works of medieval law written in Anglo-French patois, he became "grammarian, orthographer, and phoneticist." Thus did none other than Lord Acton declare Maitland to be "the ablest historian in England." In 1875, at only twenty-five years of age, Maitland, in pursuit of a fellowship in Cambridge University, submitted a remarkable work entitled "A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality as Ideals of English Political History from the Time of Hobbes to the Time of Coleridge."--Publisher description.
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