is merton college, oxford. where talking was professor of english language and literature from 1945. this is when he was just nearing the end of writing a little over the rings. he was writing the last 2 books, including the battle scenes, minnes tourists, which is a fantastic medieval city. and if you're inside there inside the quads, the quadrangles is very much like being inside a medieval city. ah, but oxford wasn't the only source of inspiration for ministerial. the capital of gondor, the literary works also played a role such as the divine comedy by dante allegheny. this is an interpretation by italian painter. sandro bought a chelly. me. he just use whatever was convenient to him. he use the scenery around oxford, the borrowers, the standing stones in the hills or adults and things like that. he used, i believe, memories, scenes from walks. he had been on to so confused, memories, fantasy and reality together. and one place that surely inspired him was barrington bol, the tower near oxford. it resembles

i ask myself quite frequently, where is robert merton? why don't we have sociology of the humanities and perhaps the related social sciences as we do with the scientists? it is really to meet a very, very noticeable lack in our intellectual universe. let me now turn to the subject. what is it that i've concluded in looking over as best i can, basically i'm an american asked, yes, i know with western history but i'm not a specialist in the history of the west. what have i concluded in reviewing what i think is important to know about the history as it has been a suit in the west? in the first place without question it seems to me revisionist history has been with us since the beginning. it is simply wrong to think as many today on the right but some doubt on the left it is wrong to believe that revisionist history is somehow a product of the awful post 1960s decades. and here as my witness i invoke none other than the classicist and historian of classic times donald kagan, marriages of yale. he's a formidable scholar. he has argued in his