The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield

Informationen zum Autor Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and well-known internationally to scholars interested in the history of historical writing. His Companion to Historiography (1997) and popular short guide! Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1999) have become bench texts for courses in historiography. Recently awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship! Professor Bentley is currently writing a comparative analysis of Western historiography since the Enlightenment. Klappentext Bentley's revelatory biography illuminates for the first time the intellectual significance and personal torment of the historian Sir Herbert Butterfield. Zusammenfassung Michael Bentley's revelatory 2011 biography of the major Christian thinker and historian Sir Herbert Butterfield draws on hitherto unseen private sources. They enable him to present a new Butterfield! one deeply troubled by self-doubt! driven by an urgent sexuality and plagued by an unending tension between history! science and God. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Private Intellectual, 1900?: 1. Bronte country; 2. Peterhouse and Princeton; 3. Love, marriage and 'the sex question'; 4. Thinking man's historian; 5. European civilisation and the Third Reich; 6. Wartime ambiguities; Part II. Contours of an Original Mind: 7. Science; 8. God; 9. History; Part III. Public Intellectual, 1945?: 10. Height of his powers; 11. From history to historiography; 12. From diplomatic history to international relations; 13. From autumn to winter.

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Bentley's revelatory biography illuminates for the first time the intellectual significance and personal torment of the historian Sir Herbert Butterfield.

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Michael Bentley's revelatory 2011 biography of the major Christian thinker and historian Sir Herbert Butterfield draws on hitherto unseen private sources. They enable him to present a new Butterfield, one deeply troubled by self-doubt, driven by an urgent sexuality and plagued by an unending tension between history, science and God.

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Part I. Private Intellectual, 1900: 1. Bronte country; 2. Peterhouse and Princeton; 3. Love, marriage and 'the sex question'; 4. Thinking man's historian; 5. European civilisation and the Third Reich; 6. Wartime ambiguities; Part II. Contours of an Original Mind: 7. Science; 8. God; 9. History; Part III. Public Intellectual, 1945: 10. Height of his powers; 11. From history to historiography; 12. From diplomatic history to international relations; 13. From autumn to winter.