Elton at seventy
Patrick Collinson, 11 June 1992
Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study
by G.R. Elton.
Cambridge, 128 pp., £16.95, October 1991,0 521 41098 3 Show More
by G.R. Elton.
Cambridge, 128 pp., £16.95, October 1991,
“... relatively minor aunt sallies of whom not all readers will have heard, such as a certain Professor David Harlan. But behind these front men lurk the high-priestly figures, whom Elton hints will prove no less evanescent: Foucault, Barthes and M. Jacques Derrida, who is expected to share Sir Geoffrey’s company when honorary degrees are conferred in Cambridge ... ”