FROM COUNTER-REFORMATION
TO GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER
SEEKER & WARBURG: LONDON
1992
Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays have been published over many years in widely different forms and are now difficult to find. This is the third collection to be published.
The fifteen essays 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 inelegent sentence or produced an incoherent argument.'
CONTENTS
Introduction
A Spiritual Conquest? Matteo Ricci in China
Sustaining an Empire: Two Spanish Imperial Statesmen
Medicine at the Early Stuart Court
Hugo Grotius and England
The Church of England and the Greek Church in the Time of Charles I
The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century
Archbishop Laud in Retrospect
'Little Pope Regulus': Matthew Wren, Bishop of Norwich and Ely
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Prince Rupert, the Cavalier
The Continuity of the English Revolution
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Our First Whig Historian: Paul de Rapin-Thoyras
Religious Toleration in England after 1688
The Anglo-Scottish Union
Sources
Index
24 x 16 cm. xvi + 331 pp.
Very good + condition, pages slightly age toned towards edges.
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