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A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper (2022)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2022). A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Notes and Queries, 69(3), 263-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac057

In March 1959 Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, took his wife Xandra, the daughter of Field Marshal Haig, to convalesce in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. From there he wrote a long letter to the Yale historian Wall... Read More about A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus (2022)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2022). The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus. Hermes, 150(1), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0005

Tacitus opens the Annals with a succinct sketch of the constitutional history of Rome from the kings to Augustus (1.1.1). The common interpretation holds that Tacitus adopts a cyclical view of this history which identifies the supremacy of Augustus w... Read More about The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus.