18 THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE B. Select some one of the above books for closer examination From its table of contents or by skimming its chapter and pag> headings determine what period it covers, to what lands i applies, and whether it is pretty exclusively devoted to politica history or treats of other matters. Open the book somewher else than at the very beginning or end, read a few consecutiv pages, and form an opinion as to its readability and reliability C. Distinguish between the following books in respect to lengtl and authorship: — Cambridge Medieval History, vol. I. Munro and Sellery, Medieval Civilization. Thatcher and McNeal, Source-Book of Medieval History. Dow and Seignobos, Feudal Regime. D. Compare the following two works in subject, period covered length, and method of treatment: — Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Readings on History and its Study. Polybius, Shuckburgh's English translation, book n, p. 56; book 11: p. 31 ; book xii, p. 27; book xv, p. 36. The views of a writer ove two thousand years ago. Lord Bolingbroke, Letters on the Study and Use of History (in any editio of his works). The views of an English statesman, writer, and phi! osopher two hundred years ago. Carlyle, Essay on History. J. T. Shotwell, History, in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopadi Britannica. J. H. Robinson, History, in The New History (New York, 1912). G. T. Warner, Landmarks in English Industrial History, pp. 1-8. Freeman, History of Sicily, vol. 1, Preface, pp. viii-xii. Sabatier, St. Francis of Assisi (1894), pp. xi, xxi, xxxiii. Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. 1, chap. 1.
