"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Christmas greetings! (and two eighteenth-century prints of the nativity)
Wishing a merry Christmas to all my readers who celebrate the holiday.
From the vaults:
Artifact of the Moment: Reflections on Nativity Scenes in Two Eighteenth-Century German Bibles
Labels:
Art,
Book History,
From Habent Sua Fata Libelli,
Holidays,
Religion
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