"Maitland did not write a history of the constitution nor narrative history like Freeman. He thought that Freeman and most English historians (but not Stubbs) were insular. They had not learnt the German way of interpreting history. It should not be interpreted through their rulers, the battles they had fought and the treaties they had made. It should be interpreted through the origins of their land, their institutions, their language and their folk tales and myths. He did not, like Marx, invest an all-embracing theory that would explain the inseparable processes that determined the direction in which society must move."
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Historians from EnglandBiographers from the United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge facultyLawyers from EnglandPeople from London
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Noel Annan, The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (1999), p. 89
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Frederic William Maitland
Frederic William Maitland (28 May 1850 – 19 December 1906) was an English historian and lawyer who is regarded as the modern father of English legal history.
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