Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art. Quotes Like most people, I would imagine, I was eventually taught to love scholarship by a handful of gifted teachers. In Britain, the post-war period was a time of boundless optimism and confidence-a fact which is hard to remember, much less to comprehend, in these depressed and disillusioned post-imperial times, when England has sunk to the level of a third-rate power in almost all fields of endeavor except those of the pure intellect. After all, there are no generalizations, in history or any other discipline, which do not need more qualification. Newsletter American Council of Learned Societies. Winter-Spring 1985. External links Category:1919 births Category:Historians from England Category:1999 deaths