History and Historians

Sir Richard Southern was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912 and educated at the Royal Grammar School there and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol from 1937-61, Chichele Professor of History at Oxford from 1961-9, and President of St John’s College, Oxford from 1969-81. He was knighted in 1974. He died in Oxford in 2001.Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrew’s in Scotland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Chicago and has held Fellowships at the Universities of Michigan, Princeton and Göttingen. His book, The Making of Europe (1993) won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History.

"This collection of selected papers by one of Britain's finest historians, edited and introduced with distinction by R. J. Bartlett, captures the essence of Southern's meditative insights into the nature of the historical experience and the methodologies of historians of tboth the medieval and modern era." History

• Abbreviations viiPlace of First Publication viiiPreface by Janet Nelson xIntroduction 1Part I Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing1 The Classical Tradition from Einhard to Geoffrey of Monmouth 112 Hugh of St. Victor and the Idea of Historical Development 303 History as Prophecy 484 The Sense of the Past 66Part II History5 The Shape and Substance of Academic History 876 The Historical Experience 1047 The Truth about the Past 120Part III Historians8 Review of The Letters of Frederic William Maitland 1379 Sir Maurice Powicke (1879–1963) 14410 Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976) 16811 Richard William Hunt (1908–1979) 19312 Marjorie Reeves as a Historian 21813 Beryl Smalley (1905–1984) 225Notes 240Bibliography of the Publications of R. W. Southern 260Index 271