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History on the Face of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Extract

History and Geography, if we would study either thoroughly and intelligently, can never be completely dissevered. The continual influence exercised, from generation to generation, by climate, food, and necessary pursuits upon a people, combined with the influences of the political geography of the surrounding countries, the presence of strong or weak, civilised or barbarous neighbours, all these exercise the strongest pressure upon the original character, and mould the course of the history of every nation. And, therefore, to appreciate the full meaning of that history, a study of the theatre in which the action was played is of importance.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1883

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References

page 5 note 1 Hastings was fought on October 14.

page 6 note 1 Llyn dinas(?)

page 7 note 1 Except for a moment when Philip the Fair seized Guienne; indirectly when Louis VII. married Eleanor of Aquitaine.

page 10 note 1 Nearly sure, because Tenby in South Wales is an exception = Denbigh in North Wales.

page 13 note 1 Observe how alms (pity), charity (love), penance (sorrow), all became in the Middle Ages outward acts.

page 14 note 1 No doubt Wells and Ely owed their existence to the church and abbey.

page 16 note 1 ‘The day will come when sacred Troy

Shall be levelled with the plain;

And, Priam and the people

Of that good warrior slain.’

page 16 note 2 Lactantius, , Div. Instit, vii, 25Google Scholar.