Vicki’s Reviews > The History Of Medieval Europe > Status Update

Next chapter is "The Rise of Mohammedanism". This is a fairly old history book, copyright 1917, and I am very interested in the historians take on the religion. It's a fairly substantial chapter, as was the previous chapter on Pope Gregory titled "Gregory the Great."

This is one of the books from my Dad's collection, Copyright 1917. In the opening chapter Thorndike advocates using original sources as references (pg. 7) his reasoning being "One must be careful, then, where one gets ones historical information and especially any sweeping generalizations." (pg. 8) These days there aren't as many historians who follow that scholarly precept.