Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by J. B. Bury

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish historian J. B. Bury.
Last updated on November 6, 2024.
J. B. Bury

John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1902 until his death.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. — © J. B. Bury
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.
History is a science, no more and no less.
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
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