Clio Case

1. When George Mccaulay Trevelyan said: "the vulgar have been excluded from the court of the Gentiles" he was referring to history. Trevelyan thought that history was about giving us the opportunity to go back in time and to our past. That it should be written as an educational science and not as good or fancy as regular literature. He did not like the fact that historians sometimes did not investigate, write or view history as it should be and tried to make it something different than an informative science, and that was something that upset him.

2. Bury declared history as a science. But according to Trevelyan history is a story not a science. And that is because history to him was a combination of research, imagination and interpretation of events, and a representation in a literary form for people to read. He explains how history is educational and an informative form of a story. History according to Trevelyan should not be declared a science because in order for something to be considered a science it should have a practical use, such as mathematics or chemistry that can be applied to things in the present, and that is something that history cannot do. History is just a way of looking at out past.

3. The point that Trevelyan is making when he contrast "the modern German ideal of history as a methodology to the "old English ideal" was that the Germans saw history in a more controlling, classified, and ordered form. They looked at science as a science. However, the English had a more liberal, intellectual, and traditional way of doing history. The English saw history as literary, for him the English way of doing history was inspirational.