Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Leo Wiener
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331822776
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Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Excerpt from Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Vol. 3 My Commentary to the Germanic Laws and Mediaeval Documents, I must confess, suffers from a serious draw back - it is too conservative. When I wrote it, I was dimly conscious of the geological fault underlying the structure of' Germanic history, philology, palaeo graphy, and allied subjects, but I could not tear myself away from many accepted scientific conclusions, be cause it had not occurred to me that the stupendous scientific structure was reared exclusively on a foun dation that would collapse the moment the geological fault led to an earthquake. Therefore I quoted Taci tus, Jordanes, and Auxentius as authorities, or, at least, did not disturb the conclusions to which they led. As my investigation proceeded, it became clearer and clearer that there was something wrong in the cherished authors, but I was totally unable to account for the positive references to Goths in the Greek authors, such as Procopius, and in the Greek synax aries and martyrologies. It seemed incredible that such a distant subject as that dealing with the Goths, who had little in common with the Greeks, should have found its way so permanently into Greek thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.