Denys Hay

Denys Hay ( born August 29, 1915 in Newcastle upon Tyne, † 14 June 1994) was a British historian who dealt primarily with the Italian Renaissance and its impact on Europe. He was a professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh.

Hay was educated at Oxford and was a lecturer from 1945 in Edinburgh.

He was co-editor of the first volume of the New Cambridge Modern History.

Writings

• Publisher: The Anglica historia of Polydore Vergil, AD 1485-1537, 1950
• Polydore Vergil: Renaissance Historian and Man of Letters, Clarendon Press 1952
• From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe 1953 New edition of The Medieval Centuries, 1964

• German translation: history of Italy in the Renaissance. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.