Denys Hay

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Denys Hay (29 August 1915 – 14 June 1994) was a historian specializing in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and notable for demonstrating the influence of Italy on events in the rest of the continent.

He taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1954, eventually becoming Professor of Medieval History^[1] until he retired in 1980, and is remembered with the "Denys Hay Seminar" there.

Books

The Anglica historia of Polydore Vergil, AD 1485-1537, editor (1950)
Polydore Vergil: Renaissance Historian and Man of Letters (Clarendon Press, 1952)
From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe (1953), revised as The Medieval Centuries (1964)
Europe: the Emergence of an Idea (Edinburgh University Press, 1957)
The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background (1961, 1977)
Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1966, 2nd ed 1989) ISBN 0-582-49179-7
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) ISBN 0-582-48359-X
New Cambridge Modern History, volume 1 (1957), ed.
Annalists and historians : Western historiography from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries (1977)

References

↑ Collins, Roger and Goodman, Anthony. Medieval Spain: culture, conflict, and coexistence Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 ISBN 0-333-79387-0, ISBN 978-0-333-79387-9 at Google Books

External links

Memoir (PDF)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61639169 LCCN: n50025022 ISNI: 0000 0001 0907 4821 GND: 122981103 NDL: 00442751

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Name	Hay, Denys
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Date of birth	29 August 1915
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Date of death	14 June 1994
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