Clinton Locke

The Age of the Great Western Schism (Classic Reprint) Clinton Locke

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from The Age of the Great Western Schism Renan, in the preface to one of his books, says "When I read over what I have written, the matter appears to me very poor, and I perceive that I have put in a multitude of things of which I am not certain." Every writer of history must feel the force of those words. Personal likes and dislikes, race, language, religion, environment, so color testimony that the absolute certainty of even the smallest item seems doubtful. In this account of the great schism, a period particularly marked by fierce passions and violent religious hatreds, the writer has often felt entirely at sea amid the conflicting witnesses. Of course in working over material as often used as the events of the fourteenth century there could not be much originality; everything has been said and resaid a hundred times; but an attempt has been made to give a coherent, concise, and yet interesting recital of a period full of stirring events and rich in glorious promise. It was determined not to have any notes. 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.