... chronicle, ranging from the crude and simple annals of local monasteries to more orderly and organized accounts such as those of Saxo Grammaticus, Otto of Freising, Roger of Wendover, and Matthew of Paris. The two forms were not infrequently mixed. Attempts at broader histories of peoples, such as the history of the Goths by Cassiodorus (preserved only in the compendium of ... . The modern standard edition is that of J. B. Bury (7 vol., 1896-1900). Enlightenment Background and Basic Tenets The scientific and intellectual developments of the 17th cent.""the discoveries of Isaac Newton, th...

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