Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone ( December 4, 1919 *, † June 16, 1999 ) was an English historian.

Stone was founded in 1919 in southern England Epsom, Surrey, was born.

He attended from 1933 to 1938, the elite school at Charterhouse School and then studied at the Sorbonne (1938 ) and Oxford ( 1939-40 and 45-46 ). During the Second World War, Stone served as a volunteer in the reserve of the Royal Navy.

From 1947 to 1963, Stone Fellow at University College, Oxford, until 1990 a professor at the U.S. Ivy League Princeton University.

His son is the documentarian Robert Stone.

Stone has published books on the social history (including history of mentalities ) England in the early modern period; this example, on the elites of England ( " An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 " (1984) ). Another focus was on the history of family and divorce in England from about 1500 until the 20th century.

He represented a strictly descriptive- narrative view of history, with a focus on the history of the people, not abstract circumstances; on the particular and specific rather than the collective and the Statistical. He often combined with historical anthropological methods and approaches.

• Historian
• University teachers ( Princeton University)
• Briton
• Born in 1919
• Died in 1999
• Man