The captivity and death of Edward of Carnavoron ; Some conflicting tendencies in English administrative history during the 14th century ; Mediaeval and modern warfare . any other things alsomay be studied side by side. Even in stating these contrasts we mustnot over emphasize them. Nothing works out to its logical result, andone tendency is successfully counteracted by another. The historianwho would state all these things too clearly is always exposed to a ENGLISH ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY 27 double danger. In avoiding the Scylla of hasty generalization, he isalways liable to fall into the Chary
The captivity and death of Edward of Carnavoron ; Some conflicting tendencies in English administrative history during the 14th century ; Mediaeval and modern warfare . any other things alsomay be studied side by side. Even in stating these contrasts we mustnot over emphasize them. Nothing works out to its logical result, andone tendency is successfully counteracted by another. The historianwho would state all these things too clearly is always exposed to a ENGLISH ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY 27 double danger. In avoiding the Scylla of hasty generalization, he isalways liable to fall into the Charybdis of a mass of incoherent he states his case in too broad terms, he may well read modem ideasinto mediaeval conditions. If he prudently abstains from more than astatement of the detail that he knows, he is denounced for indulgingin mere antiquarianism. He can only do his best to swim through asea, where alternate currents drive him now in this direction now inanother. He may perhaps console himself, if he turns from the pastto the present, by reflecting that even the civilized world of to-day isbeset with contradictory tendencies equally ABERDEEN : THE UNIVERSITY PRESS MEDIEVAL AND MODERN WARFARE PUBLISHED FOR THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (H. M. McKechnie, Secretary)12 Lime Grove, Oxford Road, Manchester LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. London : 39 Paternoster Row New York : 443-449 Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street Bombay : 8 Hornby Road Calcutta: 6 Old Court Houss Street Madras: 167 Mount Road MEDItEVAL AND MODERN WARFARE A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY ON THE IZTH DECEMBER, 1917 BY T. F. TOUT, , BISHOP FRASER PROFESSOR OF MEDI.^VAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Reprinted front The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, April-October, 1919 Manchester: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY London, New York, Chicago, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras 1919 MEDI/EVAL A
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