Harding’s Essentials in Mediaeval HistoryBySamuel Bannister Harding, Ph.D., Professor of European History, Indiana University, in consultation withAlbert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., Professor of History, Harvard UniversityPrice, $1.00This text-book is designed for elementary college classes, having already proved successful as a basis of Freshman instruction in Indiana University. It gives a general survey of mediaeval history from Charlemagne to the close of the fifteenth century. It economizes time without sacrificing anything of real importance. The facts to be taught have been selected with great care. The continuity of the history has been preserved from beginning to end, and the fundamental features of mediaeval life and institutions are clearly brought out. The book affords a clear, scholarly, compact outline, which can be filled in in various ways. At the end of each chapter are suggestive topics and search topics, and numerous specific references to the best books for collateral reading. The aim of the book is to be accurate in substance and definite in statement, to seize the vital and interesting facts, and as far as possible to give that concreteness of treatment which is necessary in dealing with matters so remote and alien as those which fill the history of the Middle Ages.Complete Catalogue of Text-Books in History sent on requestAMERICAN BOOK COMPANYNEW YORKCINCINNATICHICAGOBOSTON
Harding’s Essentials in Mediaeval History
BySamuel Bannister Harding, Ph.D., Professor of European History, Indiana University, in consultation withAlbert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., Professor of History, Harvard University
Price, $1.00
This text-book is designed for elementary college classes, having already proved successful as a basis of Freshman instruction in Indiana University. It gives a general survey of mediaeval history from Charlemagne to the close of the fifteenth century. It economizes time without sacrificing anything of real importance. The facts to be taught have been selected with great care. The continuity of the history has been preserved from beginning to end, and the fundamental features of mediaeval life and institutions are clearly brought out. The book affords a clear, scholarly, compact outline, which can be filled in in various ways. At the end of each chapter are suggestive topics and search topics, and numerous specific references to the best books for collateral reading. The aim of the book is to be accurate in substance and definite in statement, to seize the vital and interesting facts, and as far as possible to give that concreteness of treatment which is necessary in dealing with matters so remote and alien as those which fill the history of the Middle Ages.
Complete Catalogue of Text-Books in History sent on request
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
NEW YORKCINCINNATICHICAGOBOSTON