Book Reviews and Notices : Our Long Heritage. Edited by WILSON OBER CLOUGH. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1955. Pp. xv, 297. $4.50.)

• Author: James L. Busey
• Published date: 01 December 1956
• Date: 01 December 1956
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591295600900425
• Published By: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Subject Matter: Articles

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The introductions to the eight chapters account for nearly half the
book. They show a thorough familiarity with the critical literature and
are written on a very high level - are, for example, enormously more
intelligent and sophisticated than the work of the Carlyles. Not all readers
will agree with all of Mrs. Lewis’ views, and of course there is room for
difference of opinion on the selection of topics and of authors. But it is
doubtful that a more generally satisfactory job could have been done in the
space available.
But the problem of presentation of readings in medieval thought seems
to be insuperable. Most teachers would prefer full texts or longer cuttings
from fewer works, chronologically arranged. The topical arrangement, and
the exclusion of materials not susceptible to subsumption under one of the
eight headings,...