He is a historian, with the great merit of a historian's long view.

It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.

In historian J. E. Neale's view, Elizabeth may not have declared her wishes openly to James, but she made them known with " unmistakable if veiled phrases ".

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

The Cymean historian Ephorus held the same view, and the idea gained support in antiquity on the strength of a false etymology which derived his name from ho mḕ horṓn (: " he who does not see ").

The linguist and historian Ehret believes that in view of the similarity of the Ziwa / Gokomere pottery to the Nkope of the ancestral Nyasa language speakers, the Ziwa / Gokomere people spoke a language closely related to the Nyasa group.

" However, during modern times, Luke's competence as a historian is questioned, although that depends on one's a priori view of the supernatural.

This traditional view, that the Epistola represents a contradiction of the letter to Æthelberht, has been challenged by the historian and theologian George Demacopoulos, who argues that the letter to Æthelberht was mainly meant to encourage the King in spiritual matters, while the Epistola was sent to deal with purely practical matters, and thus the two do not contradict each other.

According to historian Richard P. McBrien, the view of Anastasius II as a traitor is unjust.

The early years of the 21st century have seen a shift of opinion in Scott's favour, in what cultural historian Stephanie Barczewski calls " a revision of the revisionist view ".

Thucydides has no political aim in view: he was purely a historian.

" According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, " A good number of his fellow senators supported his view of the citizenship clause.

The historian H. C. G. Matthew states that Gladstone's chief legacy lay in three areas: his financial policy ; his support for Home Rule ( devolution ) that modified the view of the unitary state of the United Kingdom ; and his idea of a progressive, reforming party broadly-based and capable of accommodating and conciliating varying interests, along with his speeches at mass public meetings.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

The historian Robert Mantran argues that from this point of view it was successful-from this point on, the Muslims were no longer primarily concerned with survival but with expansion and conquest.

But " this view of Cubism is associated with a distinctly restrictive definition of which artists are properly to be called Cubists ," writes the art historian Christopher Green: " Marginalizing the contribution of the artists who exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1911 [...]"

This view has been criticized as a " pastoral of fear " by modern historian Jean Delumeau.

An alternative view of these events was proposed by an American historian Stephen Christopher Rowell, where he believes that Gediminas never intended to become a Christian himself, since that would have offended the staunchly pagan inhabitants of Žemaitija and Aukštaitija.

It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill.

The Russian historian A. S. Mylnikov gives us a very different view of Peter III:

The military historian Victor Davis Hanson shares his view about the battle's macrohistorical placement:

In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, his portraiture " remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement, penetration into character, and a combined richness and purity of style ".

Examples of journeys to the realm include " Thomas the Rhymer " and the fairy tale " Childe Rowland ", the latter being a particularly negative view of the land.

Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled What Is it Like to Be a Bat ?.

However, classical liberals rejected Adam Smith's belief that the " invisible hand " would lead to general benefits and embraced Thomas Malthus ' view that population expansion would prevent any general benefit and David Ricardo's view of the inevitability of class conflict.

In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a " historically-intractable farrago of ' evidence ', heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism ".

Later biographies are critical of Brinnin's view, especially his coverage of Thomas ' death.

Some took a more benign view ; Thomas Carlyle in his book Sartor Resartus, wrote that a dandy was no more than " a clothes-wearing man ".

Lewis Thomas believed that Earth should be viewed as a single cell ; he derived this view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism.

: Because children below the age of reason did not commit actual sin, theologians came to the common view that these unbaptized children feel no pain at all or even that they enjoy a full, though only natural, happiness through their mediated union with God in all natural goods ( Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus ).

Adherents of this view include Thomas Hobbes and many modern philosophers.

In the essay What is it like to be a bat ?, Thomas Nagel famously argued that explaining subjective experience — the " what it is like " to be something — is currently beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, because scientific understanding by definition requires an objective perspective, which, according to Nagel, is diametrically opposed to the subjective first-person point of view.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

Norman Doe notes that St. Germain's view " is essentially Thomist ," quoting Thomas Aquinas's definition of law as " an ordinance of reason made for the common good by him who has charge of the community, and promulgated.

The Roman Catholic Church holds the view of natural law set forth by Thomas Aquinas, particularly in his Summa Theologica, and often as filtered through the School of Salamanca.

Thomas Hobbes, well known for his theory of the social contract, goes on to expand this view at the start of the 17th century during the English Renaissance.

The basic view of knowledge that motivated the emergence of social epistemology can be traced to the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, which gained in prominence at the end of the 1960s.

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

* August 5 – 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.

A famous passage from Thomas Morley's A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke ( 1597 ) supports the view that the madrigal had superseded the motet in the favour of Catholic patrons, a fact which may explain why Byrd largely abandoned the composition of non-liturgical motets after 1591.

Medieval church leaders ( e. g., Thomas Aquinas ) took a more expansive view of gluttony, arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively costly foods.

" Metaphysical libertarians ", such as Thomas Reid, Peter van Inwagen, and Robert Kane, are those incompatibilists who accept free will and deny determinism, holding the view that some form of indeterminism is true.

Early seventeenth century occult philosophers such as Michael Maier, Robert Fludd and Thomas Vaughan interested themselves in the Rosicrucian world view.