Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History and Kindred Subjects: Delivered at Oxford Under Statutory Obligation in the Years 1867-1884

by William Stubbs

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

William Stubbs (21 June 1825 – 22 April 1901) was an English historian and Bishop of Oxford.
The son of William Morley Stubbs, a solicitor, he was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in classics and a third in mathematics.

Reviews

[Vince · Rating 3 out of 5]

This will be much more interesting to history students who already have a background in the subjects Stubbs discusses than it was to me, I think. I could follow some details, but the details of legal acts and lists of names with little introduction as to who is who were almost completely lost on me.

Of course, this is an old book now, and in itself has interesting insights into Stubbs's era rather than just the ones further in the past that he lectured about. In one of his inaugural lectures, he discusses the value of primary sources - it tickles me that that lecture is now included in a book which one could treat as a primary source, if they were more interested in the late 19th Century study of history than Henry VII and the history of the Canon Law.