Title: Men and events : historical essays.
Authors: Trevor-Roper, H. R. 1914-2003
Publisher: Harper
Year: 1957
Subjects: History.
Contents: 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 -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- The twilight of the monks -- England's moderniser: 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 Basilike': 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 -- Arnold Toynbee's millennium.