I have sometimes thought that the best way to learn history is not to read a textbook or historical synthesis, but to read about one event, one person, or one cultural artifact. In order to understand the significance of any historical particularity, we must understand the surrounding context. But if we wish to understand the context, we can grasp it through that particularity.The philosophical remarks are necessary, as it is that idea--that we can begin to understand the dynamics of a culture through a particular event--that undergirds Adam Nicolson’s methodology in God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
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