Geoffrey Elton citations

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton est un historien politique et constitutionnel britannique d'origine allemande, spécialisé dans la période Tudor. Il enseigne au Clare College de Cambridge et y est professeur Regius d'histoire moderne de 1983 à 1988. Wikipedia

✵ 17. août 1921 – 3. décembre 1994

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Geoffrey Elton: Citations en anglais

“[On postmodernism] We historians are, in a way, fighting for our lives. Certainly, we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact. Any acceptance of these theories – even the most gentle or modest bow in their direction – can prove fatal.”

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Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Return to Essentials (2002)

“Prolonged involvement with Parliament has in the end convinced me that the customary concentration on it as the centre of public affairs, however traditional it may be, is entirely misleading. This is a message, it seems to me, that needs to be absorbed into the general history of England.”

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Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, The Parliament of England, 1559-1581 (1986)

“English government has a special claim to be studied. It developed in comparative freedom from outside interference, producing a curious blend of decentralized and popular freedom with strong, efficient, and centralized administration.”

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Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Tudor Revolution in Government (1953)

“In history there are no authorities: history is a free study in which no man can claim rule, or credence for his mere ipse dixit, and in which the only true sin is to deny a hearing to views with which one happens to disagree.”

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Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, 'Presidential Address: The Historian's Social Function' (1976)

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