“Take neither England’s people or the readers seriously”
“Claes Wahlin read two books by Dick Harrison”
“for a Long time, was written in the history books as a kind of stories with a given target. A country’s history led inexorably to what was in the day. This kind of developmental history was interested in the big lines, for kings, wars, and maps. A country’s history originated in its modern borders. What backwards in time, ended up on the wrong side of the border were only the spot if it had something to do with the events inside the border.”
“long Ago choose to historians other boundaries – mikrohistoria, history, or replacing the chronology with the other governing structures. To reduce a country’s history to the exercise of power and political conflicts is to claim to describe an iceberg to dare to peek under the surface of the water.”
“Dick Harrison tvåbandshistoria of England is of this kind of older historiography. At 600 pages, we learn about how monarchs were replacing monarchs, how the fighting between the crown and parliaments of the looks, the geographical expansion of the colonies, and so on.”
“the Outline is typically unfair. The first volume’s 300 pages stretches to around 1600, the three following centuries get around 60 pages each, while the 1900-century-honors 120 pages. That would be händelseflödet smaller the further back in time we looked.”
“What is missing is the deep explanations, the complications are avoided, which allows simplifications in the best of cases, become unclear.”
“People are consistently a anonymous, evasive crowd and mentioned, in principle, exclusively in the indefinite plural: soldiers, peasants, workers, the poor, the masses, and with the priests. The only exceptions are the prominent individuals, and even then it will be always right or fair.”
“What is missing is the deep explanations, the complications are avoided, which allows simplifications in the best of cases, become unclear.”
“When Harrison claims that Henry IV, the regent at the beginning of the 1400s, which seems to let the English (actually medelengelskan) to replace the French language in the administration, so called it finally used the ”people’s language”. The situation of languages in England during the 1300 century is complicated. At least three of the language of ’the people’: anglo-norman, continental French and middle English.”
“Researchers think that all the languages in different combinations were used, and that it is doubtful if any spoke only middle English. On the basis of such complications so opens up the depth of how this came to pass and why it took several decades before Henry IV managed to carry out språkskiftet in the administration.”
“Harrison has also found knowledge of the lollarden John Wyclif, who was involved in the translation of the Bible into middle English of the church’s explicit prohibition, which makes even a perspective on the issue of language is absent. In addition, speaking of the 1300-century, writes of Harrison’s ”peasant uprising” if the unrest of 1381. It suggests that it was a while since he took part of the research on the rising. ”Uprising” is the term the English historians for several decades to use, because there were more groups than farmers who participated.”
“When Harrison shortly thereafter, through the 1600s (one of the more eventful centuries of England’s history) and the execution of Charles I in 1649, as appears to be the years prior to the death of the king as a power struggle between parliament and the king. But here there were a number of factors of great importance: the end of censorship abolition, which, in combination with more efficient printing presses made to the pamphlets of a previously unknown quantity could be printed. This aroused the horror, the printed word was associated with the pöbelvälde and the conflicts involved you read these verses, dangers, naturkunskapens view on how the man worked, and a number of similar complicating factors.”
“the Froth on the surface makes Harrison also during the 1800s, it is the empire, the tories and the whigs; nothing about how the emerging bourgeoisie was perceived as a threat to a society’s social glue, how ideals from ancient Greece sought to educate not only politicians, but also the new middle class.”
“There’s simply no context: religious, social and cultural. The short utvikningarna on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, or Oscar Wilde to scratch, not even on Wikipedia. To the ballads of Robin Hood would be one of the ”late medieval great English literary innovations” are carelessly expressed. ”Literary” is not the word used in these texts, the ”innovation” was not the issue though, rather the adaption. JRR Tolkien is referred to as fantasy writers, not as the respected medeltidshistoriker he essentially was.”
“And why all these references to filmatiseringar of the famous royal episodes? These two bands may align themselves against those who once named the interested public. Is it not more important to really seek form this, or believe Harrison to today’s ”people” is not received for other than the simple and uncomplicated?”
“England’s history I & II”
