Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Published on 28. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-350-16615-8 (ISBN)
Description
Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as well as maintaining a fascination with the workings - and personalities - of Nazi Germany. In this volume, a variety of contributors - many of whom knew Trevor-Roper personally - engage with his scholarship and analyse his finest achievements as an historian. Covering the full range of Trevor-Roper's interests, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand this great academic and his work.
Reviews / Votes
This book is full of good things. Noel Malcolm's chapter...is a model of clear exposition, sense and wit...Blair Worden's introduction is a consummate summary of Trevor-Roper's work as a historian. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read, written in limpid, even beautiful prose that would have brought a smile of satisfaction to its fastidious subject's face. This is an excellent book, with first-class contributors. -- Adam Sisman * Literary Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-16615-8 (9781350166158)
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Person
Blair Worden is one of Britain's pre-eminent historians of the 17th century and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK. His books include Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (2001), Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (2007), The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (2010) and God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (2012).
Content
The Life
The Writings
Introduction - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)
Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions
1. The General Crisis of the Sevententh Century - John Elliott (University of Oxford, UK)
2. The Puritan Revolution - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)
3. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution - Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c. 1500 - 1800
4. Ecumenicalism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 - Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford, UK)
5. Intellectual History: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment - John Robertson (University of Cambridge, UK)
6. The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment - Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews, UK)
Part Three: Hitler and his World
7. Special Service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler - E.D.R Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK)
8. 'The Chap with the Closest Tabs': Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler - Richard Overy (University of Exeter, UK)
9. Himmler's Masseur - Gina Thomas (Independent Scholar, UK)
Part Four: The Mind and the Style
10. Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensibility - B.W. Young (University of Oxford, UK)
11. The Classicist - S.J.V. Malloch (University of Nottingham, UK)
12. The Historian as Public Intellectual - Rory Allan (Independent Scholar, UK)
13. The Prose Stylist - John Banville (Independent Scholar, UK)
14. A Conversation
Notes
The Writings
Introduction - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)
Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions
1. The General Crisis of the Sevententh Century - John Elliott (University of Oxford, UK)
2. The Puritan Revolution - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)
3. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution - Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c. 1500 - 1800
4. Ecumenicalism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 - Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford, UK)
5. Intellectual History: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment - John Robertson (University of Cambridge, UK)
6. The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment - Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews, UK)
Part Three: Hitler and his World
7. Special Service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler - E.D.R Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK)
8. 'The Chap with the Closest Tabs': Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler - Richard Overy (University of Exeter, UK)
9. Himmler's Masseur - Gina Thomas (Independent Scholar, UK)
Part Four: The Mind and the Style
10. Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensibility - B.W. Young (University of Oxford, UK)
11. The Classicist - S.J.V. Malloch (University of Nottingham, UK)
12. The Historian as Public Intellectual - Rory Allan (Independent Scholar, UK)
13. The Prose Stylist - John Banville (Independent Scholar, UK)
14. A Conversation
Notes