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G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, FBA (/ dəseɪntˈkrɔɪ /; 8 February 1910 – 5 February 2000), known informally as Croicks, [1] was a British historian who specialised in examining Ancient Greece from a Marxist perspective. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1977 ...
Dec 28, 2017 · G. E. M. de Ste. Croix was a Marxist, atheist, feminist historian of the ancient Greek and Roman world who came to ancient history in middle age and produced important studies of the role of class and the oppression of the poor throughout ancient Greek and later history.
Aug 29, 2019 · The foundational work here was done by G. E. M de Ste. Croix, who argued that not only was voluntary martyrdom common among early orthodox Christians but that it was a key factor in why they were persecuted by the Romans. 2 Ste. Croix took issue with scholars such as Henry Chadwick and Édmund Le Blant, who claimed that, apart from members of heretical sects, the early Christians did not ...
Oct 1, 2007 · Against Sherwin-White, who holds that contumacia was the ground of prosecution, Ste. Croix urges (a) that the term does not occur in Pliny's letter to Trajan, on which Sherwin-White relies; (b) that the disobedience which was punished by Pliny arose in the course of the trial, and hence cannot have been the occasion of it; (c) that the test of obedience was administered only to those who had ...
- M. J. Edwards
- 2007
10 G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Pierre-Philippe Rey have operated to a high degree within a Marxist tradition, which they have developed in various ways. Several French ancient historians, too, have made much use of Marxist concepts, especially the fundamental one of classes and class conflict, which will be the main theme of the latter part of this ...
By G.E.M. DE STE. CROIX History as we know it (I mean historiography, the writing of history) may in a very real sense be said to have been invented by the Greeks, and it was a creation of the fifth century B.C. The earliest historian whose works we possess-indeed, the earliest of all historians in the proper sense-is Herodotus of Halicarnassus,
The Marxist ancient historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix (1910-2000) was born in Macau, China. His father was an official in the Chinese Customs Service and his mother was a devout Protestant from a missionary family. After attending Clifton College, Bristol, he gained a legal training and became a sollicitor in 1932. [1]
