Denys Hay

Denys Hay (born August 29, 1915 in Newcastle upon Tyne ; † June 14, 1994 ) was a British historian who dealt mainly with the Italian Renaissance and its impact on Europe. He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh .

Hay studied in Oxford and was a lecturer in Edinburgh from 1945 . In 1970 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy . In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1977 he was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

He was co-editor of the first volume of the New Cambridge Modern History .

Fonts

• Publisher: The Anglica historia of Polydore Vergil , AD 1485-1537 , 1950
• Polydore Vergil: Renaissance Historian and Man of Letters , Clarendon Press 1952
• From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe 1953
  • New edition The Medieval Centuries , 1964
• Europe: the Emergence of an Idea , Edinburgh University Press, 1957
• The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background , Cambridge University Press 1961, 1977
  • German translation: History of Italy in the Renaissance . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.
• Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries , 1966, 2nd edition 1989
• Italian Clergy and Italian Culture in the Fifteenth Century , 1973
• Renaissance Essays , 1988
• Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1380-1530 , Longman History of Italy, 1989
• Annalists and historians: Western historiography from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries , 1977

literature

• George Holmes: Denys Hay (1915-1994) . In: English Historical Review , Volume 110 (1995) No. 435, pp. 1-3 doi: 10.1093 / ehr / CX.435.1 .
• John Larner: Denys Hay, 1915-1994 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 90 , 1996, pp. 391-410 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 8, 2020 . 
2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 18, 2019 .