Henry Osborn Taylor

Henry Osborn Taylor
Born	1856
Died	1941 (aged 84–85)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Historian and legal scholar

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.
• 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

1. "Henry O. Taylor, Historic, Dies," The New York Times, April 14, 1941.
2. W. M. Rankin, "The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages," The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature, Vol. XI, 1901.

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