New Humanists Gamble, Marrou, and the Uses of History | Episode XC
Why study history? To understand ourselves? To pass on the tradition of our ancestors to our progeny? To build something new? Jonathan and Ryan compare Richard M. Gamble's and Henri-Irénée Marrou's attempts to answer these questions. They look at Gamble's introduction to his anthology The Great Tradition, and then at Marrou's introduction to his scholarly masterpiece A History of Education in Antiquity.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Evelyn Waugh's Scott-King's Modern Europe: https://amzn.to/43GcAvp
Henri-Irénée Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780299088149
Eric Hobsbawm's The Invention of Tradition: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781107604674
New Humanists episode on Zwingli: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/13263919-only-the-weak-desire-a-quiet-life-episode-liii
New Humanists episode on Melanchthon: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/13181921-return-of-the-old-gods-in-germany-episode-lii
Henri-Irénée Marrou's The Meaning of History: https://amzn.to/4kGYbFr
New Humanists episode on Benjamin Constant: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/16302266-what-the-modern-world-lost-episode-lxxx
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France: https://amzn.to/3TlJM5j
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