Background
Garrett Mattingly was born on May 6, 1900 in Washington, D. C. He was the son of Leonard Howard Mattingly, an industrialist and civil servant, and of Ida Roselle Garrett.
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For 24 years she was the wife of Henry VIII. England loved her; Henry loved, respected, and finally feared her. Wolsey hated her. Twice she saved England, once from invasion, once from Civil War. Here is one of those rare books, brilliantly readable and buttressed by scholarship and research, which make you see history through new eyes.
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This 1955 work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic traditions of civilized cultures-which have existed as far back as the records of human history extend-took a sharp turn that was the result of new power relations in the newly modern world. Mattingly believed these could be illustrative of how nations and traditions change...and that we might apply those lessons to our own rapidly changing global culture. Discover: • the legal framework of Medieval diplomacy • diplomatic practices in the 15th century • the Italian beginnings of modern diplomacy • precedents for resident embassies • the dynastic power relations of European nations in the 16th century • French diplomacy and the breaking-up of Christendom • the Habsburg system • early modern diplomacy • and more. American scholar of European history GARRETT MATTINGLY (1900-1962) is also the author of Catherine of Aragon (1941) and the bestselling The Armada (1959), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
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PARTIAL LIST OF KEYWORDS: absolutism, albericujs gentilis, altruism, anabaptists, augustinus triumphus, balance of power, council of basel, m emile combes, digna vox, dispensing power, ehud, erastianism, council at ferrara. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Conciliar Movement and the Papalist Reaction; Luther and machiavelli; The Politiques and Religious Toleration; The Monarchomachi; The Jesuits; The Netherlands Revolt.
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Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleetâs infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The esteemed and critically acclaimed historian Garrett Mattingly explores all dimensions of the naval campaign, which captured the attention of the European world and played a deciding role in the settlement of the New World. So skillfully constructed it reads like a novelâ (New York Times), The Armada is sure to appeal to the scholar and amateur historian alike.
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Garrett Mattingly was born on May 6, 1900 in Washington, D. C. He was the son of Leonard Howard Mattingly, an industrialist and civil servant, and of Ida Roselle Garrett.
He attended elementary school in Washington and high school in Kalamazoo, Mich. In World War I he was a sergeant in the 43rd Infantry (1918 - 1919). After his discharge Mattingly entered Harvard College, from which he received the B. A. in 1923, the M. A. in 1926, and the Ph. D. in 1935. A Sheldon traveling fellowship allowed him to study in Europe in 1922-1924.
By then he had begun his teaching career, first at Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. (1926 - 1928) and then at Long Island University (1928 - 1942), where he taught English as well as history. Mattingly was a product of Harvard's golden years. He studied English with Charles Townsend Copeland and George Lyman Kittredge, and published his first article on a Shakespearean subject. He received more technical training from two great medievalists, Charles Homer Haskins and Charles Howard McIlwain, but above all he was the disciple of Roger Bigelow Merriman whom he called "the historian of the Spanish Empire" in a tribute published years later. Under the influence of Merriman (who himself followed William Hickling Prescott), Mattingly began the study of European diplomatic history, and many years of archival research made him an internationally acknowledged master in this field. In 1937, with the aid of the first of three Guggenheim fellowships, he began intensive study of the manuscript sources in London, Brussels, Florence, Vienna, Paris, and Simancas. The major results were his Further Supplement to the Letters, Dispatches, and State Papers of Henry VIII (1940), and, drawing on this, his biography Catherine of Aragon (1941). The second major influence was Mattingly's association with Bernard De Voto, which began in 1926 at Northwestern and lasted until De Voto's death in 1955. "Benny" and "Mat" had not only a lifelong friendship but also a literary collaboration: for Mattingly, De Voto opened up a wider intellectual world and coached him in the art of historical narrative; in return he received professional counsel and virtually a correspondence course in European history for his The Course of Empire. Mattingly's first book, Bernard De Voto, a Preliminary Appraisal (1938), was an apologetic defense of De Voto from attacks by the "literary left" (notably from Edmund Wilson). The relationship continued during World War II, when Mattingly served in the Naval Reserve (1942 - 1945), mainly in Washington. "I'm only joining the Navy, " he joked to De Voto in 1942, "to boost sales of the Armada book by staking my claim to be an old sea dog and an expert on naval warfare. " Already, then, his masterpiece was aweigh. After the war Mattingly (disappointed, as was De Voto, in his hopes for a Harvard appointment) found a position in the adult program of Cooper Union in New York City, and there perfected his dramatic style of lecturing. In 1947 he accepted an appointment at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his life, from 1959 as William R. Shepherd Professor of European History. While teaching his graduate courses, notably "Europe in Transition" and his research seminar, Mattingly completed his last two books. The first was his masterly survey Renaissance Diplomacy (1955), based in part on his Harvard dissertation and stemming from an interest going back to his undergraduate Bowdoin Prize essay; the second was his epic narrative, The Armada (1959). He had planned the latter as a "quickie" seventeen years before and, in the throes of many revisions, despaired of it as "a bloody, dull book. " But critics and book clubs thought differently. So did the Pulitzer Prize committee, which awarded it a special citation in 1960. The last project Mattingly undertook was to have been an interpretation of the Italian Renaissance to "redo Burckhardt, " as he put it. This was the subject of the course he gave as visiting professor at Oxford in the fall of 1962, but his emphysema cut these lectures short. The foul English winter of that year snuffed out his life before he began his book.
(PARTIAL LIST OF KEYWORDS: absolutism, albericujs gentilis...)
( Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the s...)
(This 1955 work is the classic history of the development ...)
(For 24 years she was the wife of Henry VIII. England love...)
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Mattingly took a certain facetious pride in being an old-fashioned "literary" historian, concealing, as he wrote in an early stage of unemployment, "the best qualities of Will Durant, Irving Fisher and William Hickling Prescott. " Later, in another mood and weary of pompous academic novelties, he classed himself among "the dull, plodding political historians" and wrote a sprightly defense of this neglected genre. Like De Voto, Mattingly had a low tolerance for ideologies of either the right or the left (though he called himself "a socialist without being a communist"), and an even lower one for sociological or theological historians (like Arnold Toynbee). What he aimed at in his writings and taught his graduate students was "honest historical workmanship with a minimum of bilge and cant. " And, despite the extraordinary depth and range of his scholarship, he felt the same way about pretentious erudition as he did about pretentious theories. What he did care about was dramatic effect ("When you get a scene, play it, " De Voto had told him), psychological insight, and humor (unleashed most notoriously in his essay on Machiavelli's Prince as satire). More than once he said he would have preferred to be a novelist.
On June 22, 1928, he married Gertrude McCollum; they had no children.