Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sir Herbert Butterfield as a historian: an appreciation, by D. Brogan.--St. Augustine, by D. Knowles.--Music and religion in modern European history, by K.G. Koenigsberger.--Venetian diplomacy before Pavia: from reality to myth, by F. Gilbert.--The statecraft of Olivares, by J.H. Elliott.--Time, history and eschatolgoy in the thought of Thomas Hobbes, by J.G.A. Pocock.--On the historical singularity of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, by A.R. Hall.--History and reform in the middle of the eighteenth century, by F. Venturi.--The Duke of Newcastle and the origins of the diplomatic revolution, by D.B. Horn.--Cavour and the Tuscan revolution of 1859, by D.M. Smith.--Bibliography of Sir Herbert Butterfield's writings (to 1968), by R.W.K. Hinton (p. 315-325)