From Counter Reformation to Glorious Revolution - Hardcover

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

 
9780712657440: From Counter Reformation to Glorious Revolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0712657444 ISBN 13: 9780712657440
Publisher: Pimlico, 1993

Synopsis

The 15 essays in this volume range from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission to China in the late 16th century to a discussion of the Anglo-Scottish Union in 1707. They include essays on medicine at the early Stuart Court, on the plunder of artistic treasures in Europe during the Thirty Years War, on the plans of Hugo Grotius to create a new universal Church on an Anglican base, on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and religious toleration thereafter. There are also biographical studies of Archbishop Laud, Matthew Wren, the Earl of Clarendon and Prince Rupert. The author also wrote "Archbishop Laud", "The Last Days of Hitler", "The Philby Affair", "Princes and Artists", "Religion, the Reformation and Social Change", "Renaissance Essays" and "Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans"

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From the Back Cover

This collection is the third in a series which gathers the best historical essays of Hugh Trevor-Roper, considered by many the unequalled master of the form. The pieces here range from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission in China in the sixteenth century to a discussion of the Anglo-Scottish Union. They include essays on medicine at the early Stuart Court, on the plunder of artistic treasures in Europe during the wars of the seventeenth century, on the plans of Hugo Grotius to create a new universal church on an Anglican base, on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and religious toleration thereafter. There are also biographical studies of Archbishop Laud, Matthew Wren, the Earl of Clarendon, and Prince Rupert. As Noel Annan wrote in Our Age, Hugh Trevor-Roper has "perfected the historical essay as the most beguiling form of enlightening readers about the past. He is the most eloquent, sophisticated and assured historian of Our Age, and has never written an inelegant sentence or produced and incoherent argument".

Synopsis

The 15 essays in this volume range from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission to China in the late 16th century to a discussion of the Anglo-Scottish Union in 1707. They include essays on medicine at the early Stuart Court, on the plunder of artistic treasures in Europe during the Thirty Years War, on the plans of Hugo Grotius to create a new universal Church on an Anglican base, on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and religious toleration thereafter. There are also biographical studies of Archbishop Laud, Matthew Wren, the Earl of Clarendon and Prince Rupert. The author also wrote "Archbishop Laud", "The Last Days of Hitler", "The Philby Affair", "Princes and Artists", "Religion, the Reformation and Social Change", "Renaissance Essays" and "Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans"

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Publisher
Pimlico
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0712657444
ISBN 13 
9780712657440
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
331

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