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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 ...
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There are two villages named Ste Croix in Normandy, from either of which the family may have come to Jersey.
Robert de Ste Croix, or de Sancta Cruce, was a trustee in a record confirming a grant of land by King John to the monks of the Abbey of Bellozanne in 1200.
This family has been settled in the island from a very early date, for in a confirmation of lands to the monks of St Mary of Bellozanne by KingJohn in 1200, the name of Robert De Sancta Cruce is mentioned as a trustee. One branch of this house, still holding land on the fief of Bellozanne, on an estate known as the "Pied du Cotil", is now represent...
(As borne by Francis-Gautier De Ste Croix) Argent, a lion rampant, sable : quartering, Argent, three spear-heads radiating from the fesse point, between as many mullets of six points, pierced, gules, for De Gascoing ; and Azure, a griffin, segreant, or, for Louvel. Impaling, gules, on a mount, vert, two lions, rampant, supporting a tower, argent, f...
de St Croix - this spelling is incorrect but is found in some documentsde Ste Croix, 1528de Sancta Cruce, 1200de Cruce 1214-5Family trees Several De Ste Croix trees go back to the 16th century and earlier, but they are notoriously difficult to confirm because of the repetition of male given names in such baptism records as can be found, and the absence of any mother's names over a prolonged period. We have been regularly reviewing and updating the trees below, and believ...
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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.
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,
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 ...
reviewer that de Ste. Croix knows more about his own special field than he does himself. G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests (London, Duckworth, 1981). xi, 732 pp. 2 New York Review ofBooks, 2 Dec. 1982, pp. 47-5I. 3 De Ste. Croix, Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek ...
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]
