Sisman, A.J.P. Taylor - A Biography

Abstract

Christopher Dawson and A.J.P. Taylor were major mid-twentieth-century English historians of international repute. Dawson's major interest was the role of Christianity in Western culture, Taylor's English and European history, especially international relations, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both men were also what Russell Jacoby has termed "public intellectuals," speaking out in their time on a variety of political issues. For Dawson these issues had mostly to do with the increasing secularization of Western society and the need to restore the primacy of Christian values to the modem social order.