Author:
Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003.
Imprint:New York : Harper, [1957]
Description324 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:London ed. (Macmillan) has title: Historical essays.
Note:The holy land -- The world of Homer -- The Dark Ages -- The medieval Italian capitalists -- Ibn Khaldoun and the decline of Barbary -- Up and down in the country: the Paston letters -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- The twilight of the monks -- England's moderniser: Thomas Cromwell -- The crisis of English humanism: Reginald Pole and his circle -- Hugh Latimer and the English commonwealth -- Sir Thomas More and the English lay recusants -- Elizabeth and Cecil -- The last Elizabethan: Sir Walter Raleigh -- The Jesuit mission in England and the gunpowder plot -- Twice martyred: the English Jesuits and their historians -- The Jesuits in Japan -- Fuller's "worthies" and the Age of English charity -- James I and his bishops -- The Jewish dispersion -- The Sephardim in England -- The Jews and modern capitalism -- Rubens in politics -- Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedish empire -- A case of co-existence: Christendom and the Turks -- The country-house radicals -- The outbreak of the Great Rebellion -- The social causes of the Great Rebellion -- The myth of Charles I: a tercentenary occasion -- "Eikon Basiliké": the problem of the kings' book -- The Quakers -- Huguenots and papists -- Thomas Hobbes -- The anti-Hobbists -- Clarendon and the great rebellion -- Macaulay and the Glorious Revolution -- The Marquis of Halifax -- The Spanish enlightenment -- The Faustian historian: Jacob Burckhardt -- Lytton Strachey as historian -- Karl Marx and the study of history -- Arnold Toynbee's millennium.
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