Freeman Edward A. Historical Essays. Volume 2

London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. — 354 p.The present collection is that which was spoken of in the Preface to the second edition of ray former series of Essays. The Essays now reprinted chiefly relate to earlier periods of history than those which were dealt with in the former volume to the times commonly known as 'ancient' or 'classical.'
I need hardly say that to me those names simply mark convenient halting-places in the one continuous history of European civilization. They mark the time when political life was confined to the two great Mediterranean peninsulas, and when the Teutonic and Slavonic races had as yet hardly shown themselves on the field of history. I should be well pleased some day to connect the two series by a third, which might deal with the intermediate times, with those times which I look on as the true Middle Ages, the times when the Roman and Teutonic elements of modern Europe stood side by side, and had not yet been worked together into a third thing distinct from either.