Movements in European History

D. H. Lawrence

Cambridge University Press, Apr 11, 2002 - History - 351 pages

Movements in European History was written by D. H. Lawrence during 1918 and 1919 in response to Oxford University Press's invitation to prepare a textbook for schools. It is a vivid sketch of European history from ancient Rome to the early twentieth century, remaining significant in the canon of Lawrence's work as the only school textbook he ever wrote. Crumpton's introduction describes the genesis, publication and reception of the book, gives an account of the little-known Irish edition of 1926 which suffered much censorship, and identifies and analyses Lawrence's methods of using the source-books on which his writing was based. This edition uses the surviving manuscript to present a text as close to that which Lawrence wrote and corrected in proof as is now possible.

Contents

• General editors preface: vii
• Acknowledgments: ix
• Chronology: x
• Cuetitles: xiv
• Introduction: xv
• Composition of Movements in European History July 1918May 1919: xvii
• Publication and Reception: xxv
• Publication and Reception of the Illustrated Edition 1925: xxviii
• The Irish Edition 1926: xxxii
• The Edition of 1972: xxxvii
• Lawrence and His Sources: xxxviii
• MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: 1
• Introduction for the Teacher: 4
• Rome: 4
• Constantinople: 17
• Christianity: 25
• The Germans: 43
• The Goths and Vandals: 53
• The Huns: 64
• Gaul: 75
• The Franks and Charlemagne: 87
• The Popes and the Emperors: 100
• The Crusades: 116
• Italy after the Hohenstaufens: 133
• The End of the Age of Faith: 144
• The Renaissance: 158
• The Reformation: 173
• The Grand Monarch: 183
• The French Revolution: 193
• Prussia: 209
• Italy: 221
• The Unification of Germany: 241
• Epilogue: 253
• Maps: 267
• Explanatory notes: 285
• Textual apparatus: 309
• The Sources of Movements in European History: 325
• A note on pounds shillings and pence: 333
• Index: 335

About the author

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Movements in European History; Volume 2 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence; Volume 2 of Works of D.H. Lawrence / general ed. James T. Boulton; Works, David Herbert Lawrence
• Author: D. H. Lawrence
• Editor: Philip Crumpton
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0521007038, 9780521007030
• Length: 351 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General