Edgar Prestage

Edgar Prestage (20 July 1869 – 3 March 1951) was an English historian. Quotes The backward condition of Portugal is largely attributable to its lack of instruction, and in view of the want of interest shown by the Government in non-political questions, private societies are endeavoring to apply the remedy. Portugal (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia To say that there was, and that there always remained, a great gulf between the ecclesiastical ideal of Christian knighthood and the militant reality, is merely to say that chivalry was a medieval institution. For nothing more striking distinguishes the Middle Age both from the Classical Antiquity which preceded it, and the Modern Commercialism which supplanted it, than the enormous discrepancies that displayed themselves between its theories and its practices. Chivalry (1928) External links Category:1869 births Category:People from Manchester Category:Historians from England Category:1951 deaths