Hugh Trevor-Roper : the historian / edited by Blair Worden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Worden, Blair, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

Historians--Great Britain--Biography.

Historians.

Great Britain.

Storbritannien.

Local Subjects:

Storbritannien.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

More than any other historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) remains a vitalizing intellectual presence in Britain and beyond. convinced of the historian's duty to inform and stimulate the public mind, he traversed the boundaries of professional specialization in search of broad conclusions, drawn from reflection on problems across time and space, that would bring a historical dimension to contemporary thought and debate. These essays, whose authors include some of the most distinguished historians of their own generation, supply the first extensive assessment of the development and content of his historical philosophy and of tachievementsnts and significance of his writing. Drawing on his rich private archive, with its voluminous drafts and revealing correspondence, the essays address a wide range of his subject-matter, as well as exploring recurrent features of his work: his belief in controversy, his espousal of unconventional opinions, his literary sensibility, and his exhilarating prose. There is particular attention to the two historical areas on which he wrote most: the era, British and Europeafrom thethe Renaissance, through the wars of religion, to the Enlightenment; and the Second World War, which, after his own career in wartime intelligence, produced his most famous book, The Last Days of Hitler. The essays illuminate not only Trevor-Roper's own career but the preoccupations and values of a generation shaped by the struggle against Hitler and then by the Cold War, experiences now sufficiently distant to be brought into historical focus.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

The life

The writings. Introduction / Blair Worden. Part 1 Seventeenth-century revolutions : The "general crisis of the Seventeenth Century" / John Elliott

The Puritan revolution / Blair Worden

Three foreigners: the philosophers of the Puritan revolution / Mark Greengrass. Part 2 Ideas and their contexts, c.1500-1800 : Ecumenism and erasmianism: the Wiles Lectures, 1975 / Noel Malcolm

Intellectual history: "the religious origins of the Enlightenment" / John Robertson

The politics of the Scottish Enlightenment / Colin Kidd. Part 3 Hitler and his world : Special service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler / E.D.R. Harrison

"The chap with the closest tabs:" Trevor-Roper and the hunt for Hitler / Richard Overy

Himmler's masseur / Gina Thomas. Part 4 The mind and the style : Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: history and sensibility / B.W. Young

The classicist / S.J.V. Malloch

The historian as public intellectual / Rory Allan

The prose stylist / John Banville

A conversation. Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-336) and index.

ISBN:

9781784531249

1784531243

OCLC:

939861262