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.