“Fresh life from dry records is what Mr. Round aims at.... He has permanently associated his name with the scientific study of Anglo-Norman history.”—Prof. Liebermann in English Historical Review.
“M. J. H. Round vient de nous donner une étude des plus pénétrantes et fécondes ... c’est un véritable modèle, et l’on doit souhaiter pour nos voisins qu’il fasse école.”—Revue Historique.
“Almost, if not quite, the most original effort in history during the last twenty years was a twelfth century biographical study in which the value, picturesque and human, of charter evidence was illustrated with unmatched force.”—Athenæum.
Feudal England
HISTORICAL STUDIES ON THE XIth AND XIIth CENTURIES
pp. xiv., 587
“Every one who has any care for the true, the intimate history of mediæval England will at once get this book.... It contains some of the most important contributions that have been made of late years to the earlier chapters of English history.... The day for the charters has come, and with the day the man.... His right to speak is established, and we are listening.”—Athenæum.
“The whole book leaves the stamp of deep research and of a singularly unbiassed mind.... Mr. Round has set all intending researchers an admirable example ... if we ever get a work which is to do for the early institutions of England what the great Coulanges did for those of France, we expect it will be from the pen of Mr. Round.”—Spectator.
“Not the least of Mr. Round’s merits is that the next generation will never want to know how much rubbish he has swept or helped to sweep away. He has done more than any one scholar to put us in the way of reading Domesday Book aright. He has illustrated by abundant examples the wisdom and the necessity of ... patient study of our documents, ... his acute and ever watchful criticism.”—Sir F. Pollock in English Historical Review.
“In Feudal England as in Geoffrey de Mandeville he displays consummate skill in the critical study of records, and uses the evidence thus obtained to check and supplement the chroniclers.”—Dr. Gross in American Historical Review.