Myths and Myth-Makers

by John Fiske and Fiske John

Book Overview

Book Excerpt: ...fatal field, half dead with fear. He describes, with the loving minuteness of a contemporary, all the incidents of the Swiss revolution, but nowhere does he say a word about William Tell. This is sufficiently conclusive. These mediaeval chroniclers, who never failed to go out of their way after a bit of the epigrammatic and marvellous, who thought far more of a pointed story than of historical credibility, would never have kept silent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1981606726
• ISBN13: 9781981606726
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"