The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the.
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change. As Trevor-Roper explains in his preface, “the crisis in government, society, and ideas which occurred, both in Europe and in England, between the Reformation and the middle of the seventeenth century” constituted the crucible for what “went down in the.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, who became a life peer as Lord Dacre of Glanton in 1989, was born on 15 January 1914. The son of a country doctor in Northumberland, he was educated at Charterhouse and then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read first for a degree in Classics and then for one in History. He became a Research Fellow of Merton College Oxford in 1938. During the second World War he.
Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and intellectual watershed that marked the end of the Renaissance.
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, in full Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, (born January 15, 1914, Glanton, Northumberland, England—died January 26, 2003, Oxford, Oxfordshire), British historian and scholar noted for his works on aspects of World War II and on Elizabethan history.He is probably best known as a historian of Adolf Hitler. Trevor-Roper graduated from Christ Church College.
Hugh Trevor-Roper’s historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and intellectual watershed that marked the end of the Renaissance.
WRITINGS OF HUGH TREVOR-ROPER The bibliography supplied below is supplement by an index to it and by a list of his posthumous publications. Links: Index Posthumous Publications ----- This bibliography, compiled by Richard Foster of Corpus Christi College Oxford, does not pretend to be definitive or complete. Proposals for amendments or additions should please be sent to Blair Worden at blair.
Hugh Trevor-Roper. Hugh Trevor-Roper, the son of a doctor, was born in Northumberland on 15th January, 1914. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, he became a research fellow of Merton College in 1937. His first book, Archbishop Laud, was published three years later. During the Second World War Trevor-Roper served in the Radio Security Service. Later he worked for the Secret.
Hugh Trevor-Roper was raised to the Peerage on 27 September 1979, and was introduced to the House of Lords as Baron Dacre of Glanton, of Glanton in the County of Northumberland; he was granted this title being a great-great-great-grandson of the Hon. and Reverend Richard Henry Roper, second and youngest son of Anne, (16th) Baroness Dacre, by her second marriage to Henry Roper, 8th Baron.
Renaissance Essays, published in 1985, confirmed Hugh Trevor-Roper's reputation as one of the most distinguished writers of history and as an unequaled master of the historical essay.Received with critical acclaim in both England and the United States, the volume gathered wide-ranging essays on both British and European history from the fifteenth century to the early seventeenth centuries.
This a short volume, a kind of long essay with chapters, which details very clearly the origins of the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. The exploits of Matthew Hopkins in England, are well known. Between 1644 and 1646 he had more then 300 people put to death. What is less well known is.
Hugh Trevor-Roper might have been a great historian, taking his place in the Pantheon alongside the great historians of the past, from Xenophon to Macaulay. But the mark of a great historian is.
The Last Days of Hitler written in September 1947 by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer sent to Berlin to investigate the death of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler focuses mainly on the circumstances surrounding his death. Through his skills as a detective and investigations, after carrying out his investigations, he therefore remarked that Hitler had caused his demise as.
An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman Random House, 672 pp. It is worth reading for two reasons. First, it is a model of the biography form.
