Historical Sketch of Liberty & Equality - As Ideals of English Political Philosophy from the Time of Hobbes to the Time of Coleridge (Paperback)

A historian's historian, F W Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall have to think away distinctions which seem to us as clear as the sunshine; we must think ourselves back into a twilight." To achieve this discipline, Maitland chose his tools of historical analysis with a lawyer's care. For example, to decipher works of medieval law written in Anglo-French patois, he became 'grammarian, orthographer, and phoneticist'. Thus did none other than Lord Acton declare Maitland to be 'the ablest historian in England'. In 1875, at only twenty-five years of age, Maitland, in pursuit of a fellowship in Cambridge University, submitted a remarkable work entitled 'A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality as Ideals of English Political History from the Time of Hobbes to the Time of Coleridge'.

General

Imprint:	Liberty Fund
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Frederic Maitland
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	215
ISBN-13:	978-0-86597-293-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General
LSN:	0-86597-293-1
Barcode:	9780865972933

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