Why study history? To understand ourselves? To pass on the tradition of our ancestors to our progeny? To build something new? Jonathan and Ryan compare Richard M. Gamble's and Henri-Irénée Marrou's attempts to answer these questions. They look at Gamble's introduction to his anthology The Great Tradition, and then at Marrou's introduction to his scholarly masterpiece A History of Education in Antiquity.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Evelyn Waugh's Scott-King's Modern Europe: https://amzn.to/43GcAvp
Henri-Irénée Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780299088149
Eric Hobsbawm's The Invention of Tradition: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781107604674
New Humanists episode on Zwingli: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/13263919-only-the-weak-desire-a-quiet-life-episode-liii
New Humanists episode on Melanchthon: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/13181921-return-of-the-old-gods-in-germany-episode-lii
Henri-Irénée Marrou's The Meaning of History: https://amzn.to/4kGYbFr
New Humanists episode on Benjamin Constant: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/16302266-what-the-modern-world-lost-episode-lxxx
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France: https://amzn.to/3TlJM5j
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