文档介绍：ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
AND LEARNING
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
AND LEARNING
BY
REGINALD LANE POOLE
SECOND EDITION. REVISED
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE PANY
1920
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
KICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
PARIS GARDEN, STAMFORD ST., . 1,
AND BUNGAV, SUFFOLK.
PREFACE.
To republish a book after a lapse of thirty-six
years can only be excused by the fact that it has
long been out of print and that it is still asked for.
When a new edition was proposed to me. my first
intention was to issue the book as it stood, with
no more change than the correction of obvious mis-
takes. But further consideration showed me that
a good deal more than this was necessary if it was
to be republished at all. Such revision, however,
as I have made has been designedly made with a
sparing hand, and the book remains in substance
and in most details a work not of 1920 but of 1884.
Had I written it now, the point of view would not
have been quite the same. A large literature on
the subjects I dealt with has appeared in the
interval, and a fresh examination of the materials
would certainly have mended a different
selection of ' illustrations' from that which I made
then. It was indeed fortunate that I gave the
book the title of Illustrations, because it made no
claim to be a coherent history, though it has
sometimes been mistaken for one.
The long interval of time which separates the
new edition from the original seems to justify
some statement as to the manner in which the
essays collected in the book came to be written.
In 1881 I resigned a post which I held in the
department of manuscripts in the British Museum
in order to spend two years in study on the
Continent. This plan was made feasible by my
election to a travelling scholarship on the Hibbert
foundation, and I cannot too heartily express my
VI PREFACE.
gratitude to the tr