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History Of English: In 1874, after having been twice rewritten, his Short history of English of the English People appeared. This work unified English history of English as no other had yet done. "What Macaulay had done for a period of English history of English," said his fellow historian Mandell Creighton, "Green did for it as a whole." Green's purpose was to show the development of English life by a fusion of constitutional, economic, literary, artistic, and social history—subjects that historians had formerly treated independently. He expanded this very successful work into history of English of the English People (1877-1880).
In preparing the 12-volume history of English of England (1856-1870) he examined tens of thousands }f documents in the English Record Office and in :he archives at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Si-nancas, Spain. No such work from original iources had previously appeared, and it went hrough many editions. Regarding the Reforma-ion as the greatest event in English history of English, he nterpreted the Statute Book in the light of con-emporary records, and was thus compelled to a lualified defense of Henry VIII and to reluctant tcknowledgment that Elizabeth I's wisdom was hat of her ministers, Burghley in particular.
In 1855 J. H. Newman, then rector of the Catholic University at Dublin, called him to the chair of geograph and modern history of English and later the department of English literature was assigned him. His original works comprise lectures On Subjects of Ancient and Modern history of English (1859) ; On Subjects of Modern history of English and Biography (1864) ; On the Life, Writings and Times of Edmund Burke (1869), together with poetry and translations. |
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