Works by Herbert Butterfield, Unless Otherwise Stated
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Notes Note: All references are to works by Herbert Butterfield, unless otherwise stated. Introduction 1. 'Paul Vellacott: Master of Peterhouse, 1939-1954', The Sex 114 Oune 1956), 1-4. For Vellacott's style, see his 'The Diary of a Country Gentleman in 1688', CHJ 2 (1926-28), 48-62. 2. 'George Peabody Gooch', The Contemporary Review 200 (1961), 501-5, esp. 502. Cf. Frank Eyck, G. P. Gooch: A Study in History and Politics (1982), esp. pp. 311-405; John D. Fair, Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm (1992), esp. pp. 167-215; SMH, pp. 4-6; and 'Harold Temperley and George Canning', in H. W. V. Temperley, The Foreign Policy of Canning 1822-1827 (1966), p. viii. 3. C. Thomas Mcintire, 'Introduction Herbert Butterfield on Christianity and History', WCH, pp. xxiv-xxv. 4. SM, pp. 40, 45, 71-2, review of Symondson, EHR 87 (1972), 644; and DHI I, p. 403. Cf. C. Thomas Mcintire, 'Introduction Herbert Butterfield on Christianity and History', WCH, pp. xxv-xxvi. 5. 'Early Youth', BP, 7. Cf. Adolf Harnack, Christianity and History (1898); What is Christianity? (1901). 6. John L. Clive, 'The Prying Yorkshireman', New Republic 186 (23 June 1982), 31. 7. EH, pp. 88-90; GNP, pp. 196-206; and GH, pp. 220-4. 8. ' History as the Organisation of Man's Memory', in Knowledge Among Men, ed. Paul H. Oehser, (1966), p. 31. 9. For Butterfield on his writings, see 'My Literary Productions', BP, 269/3. 10. Review of Carr, CR 83 (2 December 1961), 172. 11. CH, pp. 19f. Cf. review of Widgery, The Sunday Times (16 July 1960), 27. 12. Cf. C. Thomas Mcintire, 'Introduction Herbert Butterfield on Christianity and History', WCH (1979), pp. xlv-xlvi; and S. W. Sykes, 'Theology through History', in David F. Ford (ed.), The Modem Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century (1989) II, pp. 25-7. 13. Adam Watson, 'Introduction', OH (1981), p. 7. 14. WIH, p. vi. 15. The Present State of Historical Scholarship (1965), p. 4; and 'Some Trends in Scholarship 1868-1968, in the Field of Modem History', TRHS Fifth Series 19 (1969), 177. 16. W. H. Walsh, An Introduction to Philosophy of History (1967), pp. 11-17. 17. Ernst Troeltsch, Der Historismus und seine Probleme (1922). Troeltsch offered his resolution as 'Ethics and the Philosophy of History', in Christian Thought: Its History and Application, ed. F. von Hugel (1923), pp. 39-129. 18. WIH, pp. 109-32. 19. HHR, pp. 101-30; and 'Moral Judgements in History' (1965), esp. p. 11. 20. See John L. Herkless, 'Meinecke and the Ranke-Burckhardt Problem', HT 9 (1970), 290-321. 217 218 Notes 21. See esp. Alfred J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936). 22. In the Journal of Philosophy 39 (1942), 35-48, extensively reprinted. 23. So terrp.ed by William Dray, Laws and Explanation in History (1957), pp. 1, 18. 24. William H. Walsh, 'Colligatory Concepts in History', in Studies in the Nature and Teaching of History, ed. W. H. Burston and David Thompson (1967), pp. 65-106. 25. Sidney Hook, ed., Philosophy and History (1963); H.-G. Gadamer, Truth and Method (1965); Haskell Fain, Between Philosophy and History (1970); Hayden V. White, Metahistory (1973); and Peter Munz, The Shapes of Time (1977). 26. The discussion is recorded in Scientific Change, ed. Alastair C. Crombie (1963), pp. 370-95. 27. See David Bebbington, Patterns in History (1979), pp. 145-53. Cf. William H. Walsh, An Introduction to Philosophy of History (1967), pp. 42-7, 73-92; Patrick Gardiner, The Nature of Historical Explanation (1952), pp. 32-4; and G. H. von Wright, Explanation and Understanding (1971), esp. pp. 1-33. 28. Leopold von Ranke's famous statement appears in his 1824 'Preface' to his Geschichten der Romanischen und Germanischen VOlker von 1494 bis 1514. G. G. Iggers, 'The Image of Ranke in German and American Historical Thought', HT 2 (1962), 17-40, demonstrates that Ranke should not be read as a crude empiricist. 29. John B. Bury, The Science ofHistory (1903), pp. 18-19, cf. pp. 7, 42. For Bury's modifications of this view, see 'Cleopatra's Nose', Rationalist Philosophical Annual (1916), 16-23; and 'A Letter on the Writing of History' CHJ 2 (1927), 196-7. Cf. CH, p. 110; GIH, p. 111. 30. See Harvey J. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians (1984), for Dawson, Eternity in Time, ed. Stratford Caldecott and John Morrill, (1997). 31. John Kenyon, The History Men (1983), pp. 242-50. 32. For critical assessments of Toynbee, see Toynbee and History, ed. M. F. Ashley Montagu (1956). 33. Owen Chadwick, 'Sir Herbert Butterfield', CR 101 (16 November 1979), 7. 34. HHR, p. 141; 'Universal History and the Comparative Study of Civilization', in Sir Herbert Butterfield, Cho Yun Hsu and William H. McNeill on Chinese and World History, ed. N. H. Fehl (1971), p. 23. 35. EH, pp. 133-6; HHR, p. 102. 36. Review of Carr, CR 83 (2 December 1961), 172. 37. John L. Clive, 'The Prying Yorkshireman', New Republic 186 (23 June 1982), 35. 38. Esmond Wright, 'Professor Sir Herbert Butterfield', Contemporary Review 235 (December 1979), 293. 39. P. G. Lucas, review of MHP, Universities Quarterly 10 (1956), 188. 40. E. H. Carr, What is History? (1961), p. 69. 41. Karl Li:iwith, 'History and Christianity', in Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social and Political Thought, ed. C. W. Kegley and R. W. Bretall (1956), p. 290. 42. Hugh F. Kearney, review of CH, The Month Third Series 3 (1950), 145. 43. W. Stanford Reid, 'Professor Butterfield and a Christian Interpretation of History', His 16 (May 1956), 23-5. 44. Adam Watson, 'Introduction', to OH, p. 7. 45. Ibid., p. 8. For a much more critical discussion see George Watson, 'The War against the Whigs', Encounter New Series 1 (1986), 19-25. Notes 219 46. Esmond Wright, 'Professor Sir Herbert Butterfield', Contemporary Review 235 (1979), 294. 47. John L. Clive, 'The Prying Yorkshireman', New Republic 186 (23 June 1982), 32. 48. Michael Hobart, 'History and Religion in the Thought of Herbert Butterfield', JHI 32 (1971), 543. 49. W. R. Matthews, 'The Philosophy of History', review of CH, Journal of Education 82 (1950), 354. SO. W. A. Speck, 'Herbert Butterfield and the Legacy of a Christian Historian', in A Christian View of History? eds. George Marsden and Frank Roberts (1975), p. lOS. 51. H. P. Rickman, 'The Horizons of History', Hibbert Journal 56 (1956--7), 168. 52. William A. Speck, 'Herbert Butterfield on the Christian and Historical Study', FH 4 (1971), 64. 53. W. Stanford Reid, 'The Problem of the Christian Interpretation of History', FH S (1973), 102. 54. Louis J. Voskuil, 'History: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?' Pro Rege (March 1988), 6. SS. Martin Wight, 'History and Judgment: Butterfield, Niebuhr, and the Technical Historian', The Frontier (August 1950), 301-14; 'History's Theme', Observer (23 October 1949), 7; and 'The Tragedy of History', The Observer (2 September 1951), 7. 56. Ernst Nagel, 'History of History', review of MHP, Nation 182 (3 March 1956), 184. 57. C. Thomas Mcintire, 'Introduction Herbert Butterfield on Christianity and History', WCH, p. xxxix; cf. pp. l-li and xlix-l. 58. Kenneth W. Thompson, 'Butterfield, Herbert', International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences. XVIII (1979), p. 95. 59. Harold T. Parker, 'Herbert Butterfield', in Some 20th Century Historians, ed. S. W. Halperin (1961), p. 100; cf. pp. 94-7. 60. For example, David Knowles, 'St Augustine', DH, p. 19; and Kenneth W. Thompson, 'Butterfield, Herbert', in The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. XVIII (1979), p. 91. 61. Denis Brogan, 'Sir Herbert Butterfield as a Historian: An Appreciation', DH, pp. 3-7. 62. Michael Hobart, 'History and Religion in the Thought of Herbert Butterfield', JHI 32 (1971), 552-3. 63. Kenneth W. Thompson, 'Butterfield, Herbert', in The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. XVIII (1979), pp. 94-S. 64. Butterfield wrote of a 'Namier School' without naming its membership. The term included Romney Sedgwick and John Brooke, probably also Lucy Sutherland and Betty Kemp, and possibly Ian R. Christie. 65. On different categories of evidence, see Richard Pares, 'Round the Georgian Mulberry Bush', review of GH, The New Statesman 54 (23 November 1957), 698. For discussions of Butterfield's critique of Namier, see M. S. Anderson, Historians and Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 (1979), pp. 221-9; and John Kenyon, The History Men (1983), pp. 261-9. For Butterfield, see W. R. Fryer, 'English Politics in the Age of Burke: Herbert Butterfield's Achievement', Studies in Burke and His Time 11 (1970), 1519-42, and on the 220 Notes Namier side, Ian R. Christie, 'George III and the Historians-Thirty Years On', H 71 (1986), 205-21. 66. OMS, pp. 1, 5, 30, 41. 67. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (1957), esp. p. 283; cf. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (rev. edn 1970), p. 85. 68. A. Rupert Hall, 'On Whiggism', History of Science 21 (1983), 45-59; Adrian Wilson and T. G. Ashplant, 'Whig History and Present-centred History', HJ 31 (1988), 1-16; Ernst Mayr, 'When is Historiography Whiggish?' [HI 51 (1990), 301-9; Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams, 'De-centring the "Big Picture": The Origins of Modem Science and the Modern Origins of Science', British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1993), 407-32; and Regis Cabral, 'Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) as a Christian Historian of Science', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 27 (1996), 547-64. 69. Kenneth W. Thompson, 'Butterfield, Herbert', The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences: XVIII (1979), p. 93. 70. Maurice Cowling, 'Herbert Butterfield 1900--1979', PBA 65 (1979), 609.