02397cam a22002771 4500 9346928 AU-EpEBC 20141029154045.0 750228s1957 xx 000 0 eng 57059330 GB57-15663 (OCoLC)1194627 DLC OCU Uk DLC NEMB premarc D7 .T79 1957 904 EW Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003. Historical essays / H.R. Trevor-Roper. New York : Harper and Row, 1966. 298 p., pbk ; 23 cm. First published 1957, London, Macmillan, and 1957 New York, Harper Brothers, under the title " Men and Events," with an additional chapter "Arnold Toynbee's Millennium." 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 -- Niccoló Machiavelli -- The twilight of the monks -- England's modernizer : 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 king's 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. History. ddc 37922 37922