“The culpable indifference of historical writers to private manners, and more especially to the recreations and amusements of the common people, has occasioned the difficulties that always attend enquiries of this nature, many of which are involved in impenetrable darkness; whilst others can only receive illustration from detached and scattered facts accompanied by judicious inferences and opinions.”
Posted by Sasha at December 26, 2009 09:55 AM | TrackBack