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What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Barbara Tuchman
Art, Exercise, Imagination
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.32, Random House

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Barbara Tuchman
Art, Ideas, Christianity
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.212, Random House

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Barbara Tuchman
Art, Church, Littles
Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.63, Penguin UK

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