He held honorary doctorates from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1983), the universities of Genoa (1992), Portsmouth (1993), Barcelona (1994), Warwick (1995), Brown University (1996), Valencia (1998), Lleida (1999), Complutense University of Madrid (2003), College of William & Mary (2005), London (2007), Charles III University of Madrid (2008), Seville (2011), Alcalá (2012), and Cambridge (2013).[6] Elliott was a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, of whose Founding Council he was also a member.[8]
His studies of the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Empire helped the understanding of the problems confronting 16th- and 17th-century Spain, and the attempts of its leaders to avert its decline.[11] He is considered, together with Raymond Carr and Angus Mackay, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography.[12]
Elliott's principal publications are The Revolt of the Catalans (1963); The Old World and the New, 1492–1650 (1970); and The Count-Duke of Olivares (1986).[7] His Richelieu and Olivares (1987) won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association[13] and, in 1992, the Prize XVIIe. In 2006, his book Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830 was published by Yale University Press, winning the Francis Parkman Prize the following year. In 2012, he published his reflections on the progress of historical scholarship in History in the Making.[7]
Elliott was hospitalised due to pneumonia and kidney complications, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, on 5 March 2022. He died on 10 March, at the age of 91.[14][15]
Works
The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, 1598–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1963; pbk reprint, 1984). ISBN978-0521278904
Europe Divided, 1559–1598 (London 1963; 2nd ed. 2000). ISBN978-0631217800
The Old World and The New 1492–1650 (Cambridge University Press, 1970; pbk reprint, 2008). ISBN978-0521427098
Memoriales y cartas del Conde-Duque de Olivares, 2 vols. (with José F. de la Peña) (Madrid 1978–80). ISBN978-8420401119
Richelieu and Olivares (Cambridge University Press, 1984; pbk reprint, 2003). ISBN978-0521262057
The Count-Duke Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline (Yale University Press 1986, revised repr. 1989). ISBN978-0300044997
Spain and Its World, 1500–1700: Selected Essays (Yale University Press, 1989; pbk reprint, 1990). ISBN978-0300048636
The World of the Favourite (edited, with L. W. B. Brockliss) (Yale University Press, 1999). ISBN978-0300076448
The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604–1655 (with Jonathan Brown) (Yale University Press 2002). ISBN978-0300097610
A Palace for a King, with Jonathan Brown (Yale University Press, 2003). ISBN978-0300101850
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain, 1492–1830 (Yale University Press, 2006). ISBN978-0300123999
Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800 (Yale University Press, 2009). ISBN978-0300145373