Froude’s essays and lectures open with his Royal Institution address doubting that history can ever be a science, then range over Erasmus and Luther, the Reformation’s mark on the Scottish character, the dissolution of the monasteries, England’s forgotten Elizabethan seamen, the Book of Job, Spinoza, Homer, the lives of the saints and the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox.
Victorian historical writing at its most elegant and argumentative, from the historian of Tudor England. Download the free EPUB.