From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution

by Hugh R. Trevor-Roper

Book Overview

This collection is the third in a series which gathers the best historical essays of Hugh Trevor-Roper, considered by many the unequalled master of the form.

The pieces here 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226812308
• ISBN13: 9780226812304
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"