The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780199267651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str.

D. W. Bebbington

Opis

William Ewart Gladstone, four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under Queen Victoria, was not only the most celebrated British statesman of his day but also a respected theologian and a dedicated scholar of the ancient Greek poet Homer. By examining the development of his ideas, this book reveals that his political thought as leader of the Liberal party intertwined with his religion and classical scholarship.

Recenzje

Aiming to study the great statesman 'from the inside out', the author succeeds in showing how religious and intellectual ideas provided the chief motivation throughout the complex and ever-changing political life. Although there have been earlier studies of Gladstone's formidable mind, this is by far the most comprehensive and thoroughgoing: making use if much unpublished material.'