Excerpt from The Beginnings of Town Life in the Middle Ages, Vol. 10 The economist who seeks to learn something of the social history of the past is not seldom in an embarrassing situation. His first impulse, of course, is to turn to the professed historian for the information he craves; and, more particularly, when the matter is of a constitutional or legal character, to the historian; of law. But, when he does so, he is only. Too likely to find one of two things. Either the information he receives, while it has a gram ...
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Excerpt from The Beginnings of Town Life in the Middle Ages, Vol. 10 The economist who seeks to learn something of the social history of the past is not seldom in an embarrassing situation. His first impulse, of course, is to turn to the professed historian for the information he craves; and, more particularly, when the matter is of a constitutional or legal character, to the historian; of law. But, when he does so, he is only. Too likely to find one of two things. Either the information he receives, while it has a gram matical consistency, yet leaves him quite in the dark as to the daily life of the people concerned, he asks for a picture and receives a formula; or, instead of one answer to his inquiry, he is given several, all from eminent authorities and absolutely irreconcilable. Then, probably, he gives up the quest, and falls back On some neat little a priori theory of his own as to what the course of economic evolution must have been. If he does not, but makes up his mind to go to the original sources for himself, he will be fortunate if he escapes an occasional sly thrust from historian and lawyer for venturing beyond his last. His lot, therefore, Is not altogether a happy one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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