Byzantium: The Decline and Fall.

Commonweal | May 3, 1996| | Copyright

In the days before social history and statistical "cliometrics," the word "history" implied thick, multivolume chronological narratives of events, usually political and military in nature and almost invariably the consequences of the decisions and actions of kings, emperors, and other leading individuals. This type of history, of course, has not disappeared, any more than novels with traditional plot structures disappeared following Robbe-Grillet. Like the traditional novel, the older sort of history, with its linear sequence of events and focus on individual actors, may often ...

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