“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”
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J. B. Bury
J. B. Bury, a renowned British historian, was born on October 16, 1861, and died on June 1, 1927. He is known for his extensive research on medieval and Byzantine history. more
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