Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
History
Date of Award
5-2007
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Colin F. Baxter
Committee Members
Thomas H. Crofts, Dale J. Schmitt
Abstract
This thesis looks at the life and works of Sir Walter Ralegh. Specifically, this study will look at Ralegh's History of the World and its influence on two men, Oliver Cromwell and James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. This study will look at the impact this work may have had on the lives of these two men through their letters and public lives.
Necessarily this study will look mainly at the primary sources of these men including the letters and speeches of Cromwell as compiled by Thomas Carlyle and the Memoirs of Montrose, compiled and edited by Mark Napier. Obviously Ralegh's History of the World will also be a significant part of my research.
This study concludes that Sir Walter Ralegh's Historyhad an emphatic impact on the lives of both Cromwell and Montrose, who took strikingly different paths in life.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Carriger, Steven Preston, "Sir Walter Ralegh's Legacy: His History of the World in the Seventeenth Century." (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2079. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2079
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.