Veronica Wedgwood
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 74 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5114-0042-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who generally published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. She specialized in European history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including her still-authoritative study The Thirty Years' War (1938 and many later reprintings) and biographies of Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, William the Silent, and Cardinal Richelieu, as well as the authoritative Caroline trilogy,"The Great Rebellion", which included "The King’s Peace" (1955), "The King’s War" (1958), and "The Trial of Charles I" (1964), reprinted as "A Coffin for King Charles". Thirty years after she published her much-praised biography of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, she returned to the subject and published a much-revised version that was considerably more critical of her subject. Historians often cite Wedgwood's two lives of Strafford as an illustration of...
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