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Richard Charles Cobb (20 May 1917 – 15 January 1996) was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford. He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France, particularly the French Revolution. Cobb meticulously researched the Revolutionary era from a ground-level view sometimes described as "history from below". His works offer exceptionally fine detail culled from a variety of lesser-known sources and analysed within a broad interdisciplinary scope. Cobb is best known for his multi-volume work ''The People's Armies'' (1961), a massive study of the composition and mentality of the Revolution's civilian armed forces. He was a prolific writer of essays, and he fashioned numerous highly regarded collections from his large trove of research on French history. Cobb also found much inspiration from his own colourful life, and he composed a multitude of autobiographical writings and personal reflections. Much of his writing went unpublished in his lifetime, and the weaving of new collections from extant material has been carried on by other scholars long after his death. ==Education and career== Richard Cobb was born in Frinton-on-Sea, England, during World War One. After an education at the Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, he visited France for the first time. He stayed for a year and developed a passion for the country, its people and their history. He returned to England for college studies at the University of Oxford and later served in the British Army during World War Two. After his military discharge, Cobb returned to France and stayed for another nine years. During this time, Cobb honed his style of historical analysis. He worked closely with the French Marxist-school historians Albert Soboul and George Rudé, frequently sharing research at the National Archives.〔See Cobb's Forward to (''The People's Armies'', 1986 ).〕 Unable to obtain French citizenship, Cobb went back to England in 1955 for a succession of academic jobs.〔 He taught at Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds before ultimately returning to Oxford where he was elected as a tutorial fellow of Balliol College in 1962.〔 Eleven years later, he was made Professor of Modern History of Oxford University, a post with a fellowship at Worcester College.〔 In some of his later visits to France, Cobb would give courses of lectures at the Collège de France. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Cobb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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