Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter. By C. T. McIntire. Pp. xxvi + 499. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. isbn 0 300 09807 3. £30
A Quarter of a century after his death and three-quarters of a century after the publication of his best-known work, The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900–79) remains a controversial figure among historians. For John Vincent, Butterfield was one of the two ‘great h...
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Jahr: 2005, Band: 56, Heft: 2, Seiten: 785-789 |
| Rezension von: | Herbert Butterfield (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale University Press, 2004) (Wellings, Martin)
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| Zusammenfassung: | A Quarter of a century after his death and three-quarters of a century after the publication of his best-known work, The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900–79) remains a controversial figure among historians. For John Vincent, Butterfield was one of the two ‘great historians of the twentieth century in England’ (An Intelligent Person's Guide to History [London, 1995], p. 58; the other was Sir Lewis Namier); Noel Annan hailed him as ‘the most original historian of his generation’ (The Dons [London, 1999], pp. 265–6); J. M. Turner described him as ‘one of the great lay theologians’, in company with C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot (‘The Christian and the Study of History’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 46 [1987], p. 12). In his biography of G. M. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli229 |