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Roman and the Teuton

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First published: 1864
Pages: 233

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The Roman and the Teuton is the 1864 lecture series Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) delivered as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. The novelist of Westward Ho! tells the collision of the dying Roman Empire with the Germanic tribes as grand moral drama, opening with his famous fable of the forest children, and frankly siding with Teutonic vigour against Roman decadence. Professional historians mauled the lectures then and since, but they remain vivid Victorian reading and a document of how that age imagined the fall of Rome. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.