Tim Good’s Reviews > Sister Wendy's Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art by Sister Wendy Beckett > Status Update

"Our word 'history' comes, by way of Latin, from the Greek word historien' which means 'to narrate'', and that word comes from another Greek word, histor, 'a judge'.

History not only tells a story, but it passes judgment on it, puts it in order, gives it meaning."