{"id":441,"date":"2013-01-27T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-01-27T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T04:04:42","slug":"bringing-back-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/27\/bringing-back-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Back What Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a noble exercise to recount accurately the deeds of princes.\u00a0 To do so is to consider generously all that is subject to time, to celebrate the dead, to entertain the living, and to set out a past life as a model for later generations.\u00a0 It is to<em><strong> bring back what has happened in the past<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 When it\u00a0displays victories, it confers them on the victorious.\u00a0 It eliminates sloth, conveys honesty, presents virtues and\u00a0draws a crowd.\u00a0 We should, therefore, press forward with the greatest effort to read what has been written and to write down what ought to be read.\u00a0 Thus, in reading old things and writing new things, antiquity may be able to satisfy our needs and we may be able to nourish to the fullest the requirements of our posterity.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Ralph of Caen. <em>Gesta Tancredi<\/em>, Preface. Translated by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005), p. 19. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>Ralph of Caen wrote one of the chronicles of the First Crusade in the second decade of the twelfth century.\u00a0 Here he captures the essence of the classical and Christian understanding of the purpose of history.\u00a0 The writers of history should\u00a0seek to bring back past events to recount great deeds and give examples of virtuous\u00a0behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a noble exercise to recount accurately the deeds of princes.\u00a0 To do so is to consider generously all that is subject to time, to celebrate the dead, to entertain the living, and to set out a past life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/27\/bringing-back-what-happened\/\">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":[45,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-crusade","category-history","category-medieval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}