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Book SynopsisHugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as well as maintaining a fascination with the workings - and personalities - of Nazi Germany. In this volume, a variety of contributors - many of whom knew Trevor-Roper personally - engage with his scholarship and analyse his finest achievements as an historian. Covering the full range of Trevor-Roper''s interests, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand this great academic and his work.
Trade ReviewThis book is full of good things. Noel Malcolm's chapter...is a model of clear exposition, sense and wit...Blair Worden's introduction is a consummate summary of Trevor-Roper's work as a historian. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read, written in limpid, even beautiful prose that would have brought a smile of satisfaction to its fastidious subject's face. This is an excellent book, with first-class contributors. -- Adam Sisman * Literary Review *
Table of ContentsThe Life The Writings Introduction -
Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK) Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions 1. The General Crisis of the Sevententh Century -
John Elliott (University of Oxford, UK) 2. The Puritan Revolution -
Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK) 3. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution -
Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield, UK) Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c. 1500 – 1800 4. Ecumenicalism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 -
Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford, UK) 5. Intellectual History: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment -
John Robertson (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment -
Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews, UK) Part Three: Hitler and his World 7. Special Service in Germany and
The Last Days of Hitler -
E.D.R Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK) 8. ‘The Chap with the Closest Tabs’: Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler -
Richard Overy (University of Exeter, UK) 9. Himmler’s Masseur -
Gina Thomas (Independent Scholar, UK) Part Four: The Mind and the Style 10. Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensibility –
B.W. Young (University of Oxford, UK) 11. The Classicist –
S.J.V. Malloch (University of Nottingham, UK) 12. The Historian as Public Intellectual –
Rory Allan (Independent Scholar, UK) 13. The Prose Stylist -
John Banville (Independent Scholar, UK) 14. A Conversation Notes
