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Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Clarendon’s great ‘History’ was composed largely in exile and published after his death. Hugh Trevor-Roper discusses how the historian had originally intended this great work to be private political advice to the King. Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, was the greatest English statesman on the ...
Before examining the versions of Clarendon’s account of Chalgrove, a recapitulation of the complex story of his personal history is in order. Having fallen out of favour with King Charles II, Clarendon fled into exile in 1667 and died at Rouen in December 1674. As is well known, his second son, Laurence, 1st
Clarendon is unlike any other great English historian. Like Thucydides he wrote the history of one great convulsion, lasting some twenty years or so, in which he himself had played an important part, and in so doing achieved a masterpiece. Again like Thucydides he wrote it in undeserved exile from the country he had loved and served. Like him ...
The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and former advisor to Charles I and Charles II, is his account of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered.
Clarendon, Providence & Historical Revolution 611. exile in France, first in Montpellier and then in Moulins, Clarendon completed. his Autobiography, the earlier part of which he combined with his unfinished historical manuscript to produce the History, with which we are now familiar.
Clarendon’s massive History has since its first publication in 1702-4 dominated our images of the English Civil War. Written by a man who for over a quarter of a century was one of the closest advisers to Charles I and Charles II, it contains a remarkably frank account of the inadequacies of royalist policy-making as well as an astute analysis of the principles and practice of government.
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Oct 25, 2022 · I. Writing history as a moral act. For Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, the writing of history was a moral act, designed to teach succeeding generations the truth about the English Civil War, or, as he thought of it, the Rebellion. Writing in exile in the Scilly Isles on 18 March 1646, he started his great work with the intention.
