G. R. Elton (1921–1994)
Autore di Reformation Europe 1517-1559
Sull'Autore
English historian Geoffrey Elton was born in Germany but educated at the University of London. In 1967 he became professor of constitutional history at Cambridge University. A scholar of Tudor administrative history, his studies have emphasized the development of modern governmental machinery, mostra altro under the direction of Thomas Cromwell, as the central feature of the Tudor era. He has written many excellent works, a recent one being The English (1992). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Royal Historical Society
Opere di G. R. Elton
Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648 (Ideas & institutions in western civilization) (1963) 142 copie
The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII (1953) 63 copie
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946-1972 (v. 1) (1974) 11 copie
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946-1972 (v. 2) (1974) 9 copie
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1973-1981 (v. 3) (1927) 7 copie
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1982-1990 (v. 4) (1911) 6 copie
Politics and Society in Reformation Europe: Essays for Sir Geoffrey Elton on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (1987) 5 copie
The body of the whole realm; Parliament and representation in medieval and Tudor England (1969) 4 copie
The Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence - England: 1200-1640 (1974) 1 copia
Royal History Society Annual Bibliography: British and Irish History Publications of 1979 (1981) 1 copia
English law in the sixteenth century: Reform in an age of change : Selden Society lecture delivered in the Old Hall of… (1979) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory (1999) — Collaboratore — 270 copie
Politics and the Nation, 1450-1660: Obedience, Resistance and Public Order (1974) — A cura di — 74 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Elton, G. R.
- Nome legale
- Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph
- Altri nomi
- Ehrenberg, Gottfried Rudolf
- Data di nascita
- 1921-08-17
- Data di morte
- 1994-12-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK (naturalized 1947)
Germany (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- Tübingen, Germany
- Luogo di morte
- Cambridge, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Tübingen, Germany
Prague, Czech Republic
Cambridge, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of London (BA|1943)
University College London (Ph.D|1949) - Attività lavorative
- historian
professor - Relazioni
- Elton, Ben (nephew)
Lambert, Sheila (wife)
Elton, Lewis (brother)
Ehrenberg, Victor (father) - Organizzazioni
- University of Cambridge (Clare College)
University of Glasgow
British Army (WWII)
Ecclesiastical History Society (President, 1983-84)
Selden Society (President, 1983-85)
List and Index Society (founder and president) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Knight Bachelor (1986)
British Academy (1967)
Royal Historical Society (President, 1974-77) - Breve biografia
- Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (Ehrenberg) was born in Germany in 1921, the son of Victor Leopold Ehrenberg and his wife Eva Sommer. The family emigrated to England in 1939. Elton was educated at the University of London and began teaching at Cambridge in 1949, the same year he was awarded PhD. He became Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, 1954, Professor of Constitutional History at Cambridge, 1967-1983 and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1983-1988. Elton was President of the Royal Historical Society, 1972-1976. As a scholar of Tudor administrative history, Elton reassessed historical conceptions of the Tudor era. He was Knighted in 1986 and died 3 December 1994. Publications include The Tudor Revolution in Government (1953); England under the Tudors (1955), The Tudor Constitution (1960), Reformation Europe (1963), Reform and Renewal (1973), Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558 (1977), The Parliament of England 1559-1581 (1986), and The English (1992).
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