From Counter-Reformation to glorious revolution / Hugh Trevor-Roper

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 331 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A spiritual conquest: Matteo Ricci in China -- Sustaining an Empire : two Spanish Imperial Statesmen -- Medicine at the Early Stuart Court -- Hugo Grotius and England -- The Church of England and the Greek Church in the time of Charles I. -- The Plunder of the arts in the Seventeenth Century -- Archbishop Laud in retrospect -- Little Pope Regulus' Matthew Wren, Bishop of Norwich and Ely -- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon -- Prince Rupert, the Cavalier -- The continuity of the English Revolution -- The glorious Revolution of 1688 -- Our First Whig historian: Paul de Rapin-Thoyras -- Religious toleration in England after 1688 --The Anglo-Scottish union. Subjects; 1603-1714. World history 1600-1699. World history 1500-1599. World history. Essays. 17th Century. History. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714. 1 Kg.…