Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
F. M. Powicke
Born: June 16, 1879
Died: May 19, 1963 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
Known for:
- The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 (1953)
- Handbook of British chronology (1939)
- The Loss of Normandy (1913)