“History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”
Source: Foundations of Psychohistory (1982), Ch. 2, p. 86.
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