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Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre of Glanton -- Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1957 to 1980 and now Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge -- is an outstanding historian with a wide range of interests. Underlying his work is a conviction that the imagination has a crucial part in all good historical writing and that history is written, above all, to be read. The substantial essays in this book have been composed in his honour by leading scholars in Europe and America, and are offered in recognition both of the distinction of his own work and of the enlivening influence he has exerted on innumerable colleagues and pupils. The themes include Homer and Dante; medieval religion; the Reformation; Renaissance humanism, hermeticism and medicine; Tudor Parliaments, pre-industrial London and the Puritan Revolution; episodes in Jewish, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Scottish and Irish history; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; modern British statesmen and the British Imperial experience. The inaugural and valedictory lectures which Hugh Trevor-Roper gave in Oxford as Regius Professor, and which are concerned with major questions about the historian's role, are also included. It is in the spirit of those lectures that the book has been planned.
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History and Imagination : Essays in Honour of H.R. Trevor-Roper
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1981
ISBN 10: 071561570X
ISBN 13: 9780715615706
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