{"id":346,"date":"2012-10-12T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=346"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:02:24","slug":"the-necessity-of-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/10\/12\/the-necessity-of-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Historians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Triumphal arches add to the glory of illustrious men only when the writing upon them informs in whose honor they have been reared, and why.\u00a0 It is the inscription that tells the spectator that the triumphal arch is that of our own Constantine, liberator of his country and promoter of peace.\u00a0 Indeed no\u00a0one has gained permanent fame except as the result of what he has written or of what others have written of him.\u00a0 The memory of fool or emperor is, after a brief lapse of time, the same unless it be prolonged by courtesy of writers.\u00a0 How many great kings\u00a0do you imagine there have been, with regard to whom there is nowhere in the world a thought\u00a0given or a word uttered?\u00a0 Therefore <em><strong>there is no wiser policy for those who crave glory than to cultivate sedulously the favor of\u00a0 scholars and writers<\/strong><\/em>; for their own achievements, doomed to utter darkness unless illumined by the lamp of letters, avail them naught.&#8221;\u00a0 John of Salisbury, <em>Policratus<\/em>, Bk I in <em>The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be An Educated Human Being<\/em>, ed. Richard M. Gamble. Wilmington 2007, p. 269. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Triumphal arches add to the glory of illustrious men only when the writing upon them informs in whose honor they have been reared, and why.\u00a0 It is the inscription that tells the spectator that the triumphal arch is that of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/10\/12\/the-necessity-of-historians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-john-of-salisbury","category-memory","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}