 | John Horace Round - 1909 - 614 pages
...deplored to " a confused and unhappy nomenclature," for to him names, as I have elsewhere shown, 1 were always of more importance than they are to the...consecutive political history does, in a sense, begin with the Norman Conquest. On the one hand it gave us, suddenly, a strong, purposeful monarchy; on the... | |
 | Frank Barlow - 1983 - 344 pages
...that England's virtues could have sprung from that Germanic morass. 'There must be, surely,' he wrote, 'an instinctive feeling that in England our consecutive political history does, in a sense, begin with the Norman conquest.' This protest against nineteenth-century evolutionary views had its effect... | |
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Professor to assign the tendency he deplored to " a confused and unhappy nomenclature," for to him names, as I have elsewhere shown, 1 were always of more importance than they are to the world at large. More to the point is the explanation given by Mr.... 