Henry of Huntington Quotes
The knowledge of past events... forms a main difference between brutes and rational creatures
Almost 1000 years later one of America’s leading historians would express the same idea. See {587939}.
Henry of Huntington, 1084-1155, English Historian, Historia Angelorum
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This same view was given be a historian almost 1000 years earlier. See {587996}.
Henry of Huntingdon (Latin: Henricus Huntindoniensis; c. 1088 – c. AD 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy". He served as archdeacon of Huntingdon. The few details of Henry's life that are known originated from his own works and from a number of official records. He was brought up in the wealthy court of Robert Bloet of Lincoln, who became his patron.
