Henry Osborn Taylor

Henry Osborn Taylor (1856 – April 13, 1941)^[1] was an American historian and legal scholar.

Works

• A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Having Capital Stock, The Banks Law Publishing Co., 1904 [1st Pub. Kay & Brother, 1884].
• The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, The Columbia University Press, 1901 (2nd ed., 1903; 3rd ed., 1911; 4th ed. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1957).^[2]
  • The Emergence of Christian Culture in the West: the Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, Harper, 1958.
• The Mediaeval Mind; a History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages, 2 Vols, Macmillan Company, 1911.^[3]
• Ancient Ideals; a Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early times to the Establishment of Christianity, 2 Vols, The Macmillan Company, 1913 (Reprint., New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1964).
• Deliverance, the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World, The Macmillan Company, 1915.
• Prophets, Poets and Philosophers of the Ancient World, The Macmillan Company, 1919 [1st Pub. 1915].
• Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, 2 Vols, Macmillan Company, 1920.
• Greek Biology and Medicine, Marshall Jones Company, 1922.
• Freedom of the Mind in History, New York, 1923 [Reprint., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970].
• Human Values and Verities, Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1928.
• Fact: The Romance of Mind, The Macmillan Company, 1932.
• A Layman's View of History, The Macmillan Company, 1935 [Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1978].
• A Historian's Creed, Harvard University Press, 1939 (Reprint, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1969).
• The Humanism of Italy, Collier, 1962.
• The French Mind, Collier, 1962.

Articles

• "Development of Constitutional Government in the American Colonies," The Magazine of American History, Vol. II, N°. 12, December 1878.
• "Héloïse," The International Quarterly, Vol. VI, 1902/1903.
• "The Worlds of Salimbene," The International Quarterly, Vol. XII, October 1905/January 1906.
• "The Wisdom of the Ages," The Yale Review, Vol. VII, 1918.
• "Modern Civilization," The Saturday Review, November 3, 1928.
• "Annals of Culture," The Saturday Review, April 19, 1930.

Notes

External links

• Works by Henry Osborn Taylor at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Henry Osborn Taylor at Internet Archive
• Works by Henry Osborn Taylor, at JSTOR
• AHA Presidential Addresses: A Layman’s View of History