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Social history sometimes suffers from the
reproach that it is vague and general, unable
to compete with the attractions of political
history either for the student or for the
general reader, because of its lack of
outstanding personalities. In point of fact
there is often as much material for
reconstructing the life of some quite
ordinary person as there is for writing the
history of Robert of Normandy or Philippa
of Hainhault; and the lives of ordinary
people so reconstructed are, if less spectacular, certainly not less interesting. I believe
that social history lends itself particularly to
what may be called a personal treatment,
and that the past may be made to live again
for the general reader more effectively by
personifying it than by presenting it in the
form of learned treatises on the
development of the manor or on medieval
trade, essential as these are to the specialist.
For history, after all, is valuable only in so
far as it lives, and Maeterlinck’s cry, “There
are no dead,” should always be the historian’s
motto.