Background
Henry Hallam was born on July 9, 1777 in United Kingdom. He was the only son of Rev John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol.
The memorial to Hallam in St Paul's Cathedral
A blue plaque at 67 Wimpole Street in London commemorating Hallam
A drawing of a bust of Hallam's son Arthur by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
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(complete vol 1 & 2) The Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries continues a topic broached in the View of the Middle Ages. In the first chapter Hallam sketches the state of literature in Europe down to the end of the 14th century: the extinction of ancient learning which followed the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Christianity; the preservation of the Latin language in the services of the church; and the revival of letters after the 7th century.
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Henry Hallam described his work Middle Ages as a series of historical dissertations for the period from the 5th to the 15th century. The work consists of nine long chapters: the histories of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and of the Greek and Saracenic empires, fill five chapters. Others deal with major institutional features of medieval society: the feudal system, the ecclesiastical system, and the political system of England. The last chapter sketches society, commerce, manners, and literature in the Middle Ages.
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Henry Hallam was born on July 9, 1777 in United Kingdom. He was the only son of Rev John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol.
Henry Hallam educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799. Called to the Bar, Henry Hallam practised for some years on the Oxford circuit; but his tastes were literary, and when, on his father's death in 1812, he inherited a small estate in Lincolnshire, he gave himself up to study.
Henry Hallam had become connected with the brilliant band of authors and politicians who led the Whig party, a connection to which he owed his appointment to the well-paid and easy post of commissioner of stamps; but took no part in politics himself. He was, however, an active supporter of many popular movements - particularly of that which ended in the abolition of the slave trade; and he was attached to the political principles of the Whigs.
Hallam's earliest literary work was undertaken in connection with the Whig periodical, the Edinburgh Review, where his review of Walter Scott's Dryden attracted attention. His first major work, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (two volumes), was published in 1818, and was followed nine years later by The Constitutional History of England (1827, two volumes). Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (four volumes) appeared in 1837. A volume of supplemental notes to his Middle Ages was published in 1843, and in 1852 Literary Essays and Characters: Selected from "An Introduction to the Literature of Europe" was published. These works represent nearly all of Hallam's career.
Henry Hallam died in London on 21 January 1859, aged 81. He has a memorial in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London, and there is a blue plaque at 67 Wimpole Street in London installed by the London County Council commemorating the fact that he once lived there.
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In 1807 Henry Hallam married Julia Maria Elton (daughter of Sir Charles Elton). She died in 1847. He lost his children, one after another. His eldest son, the poet Arthur Henry Hallam died in 1833 at the age of 22. In 1850 his second son, Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, also died.