The English Historical Review articles from April 1993

The English Historical Review archives from April 1993

Yorkshire justices of the peace, 1389-1413.
April 1, 1993... questions with which this study began. The first concerns the respective attitudes of Richard II and Henry IV towards the kind of self-regarding local sentiment embodied in the parliamentary Commons' aspirations to control the county bench. It...

'The Queenes Court in her councell chamber at Westminster.' (court of law for administering Henrietta Maria's financial and legal needs)
April 1, 1993... 'private' and are not printed in Statutes of the Realm. 3. In 28 Henry VIII c.25 and c.45, the validity of demises and leases of two of Henry VIII's wives had been confirmed. In a draft bill of complaint concerning the port of Topsham in Devon...

Foxite politics and the great reform bill.
April 1, 1993... As the balance between Parliament and King shifted in the latter's favour, so did the very climate of politics. Central to the King's projects was the creation of a context of fear, in which all talk of change would be inconceivable. Imaginary...

The Manner of King Richard's Renunciation: a 'Lancastrian narrative'? (Notes and Documents)
April 1, 1993... UNDER the title, 'The Deposition of Richard II: Three Lancastrian Narratives', Professor G. O. Sayles published in 1981 a transcription of a document which is to be found on fos. 236v-237r of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 59, and which is...

Anglo-Florentine trade in 1451.
April 1, 1993... THE best general accounts of Anglo-Italian trade in the fifteenth century are contained in three articles by E. B. Fryde.(1) They provide an impression of the diversity and quantity of commerce. Among more detailed and specific studies, using...

Mid-Tudor trespass: a break-in at Norwich, 1549.
April 1, 1993... IT is no surprise that the plea rolls of the central common law courts of medieval and early modern England are too little consulted, for their legal terminology and technicalities, and their sheer size and weight, present a daunting prospect....

English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I, 2 vols.
April 1, 1993... PROFESSOR van Caenegem's edition of English Lawsuits has been long and eagerly awaited. As he himself points out, the major initial work on the project was undertaken between 1952 and 1954. As he also makes clear (p. vii), he sees himself, like...

Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, 2 vols.
April 1, 1993... THIS edition is a triumph of scholarship and of major importance for all historians of seventeenth-century religious, political, social, intellectual and cultural history. Baxter's correspondence is one of the most comprehensive surviving...

Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837.
April 1, 1993... IT IS said that English people have great difficulty in distinguishing between England and Britain. That trait was for long a common fault of English historical scholarship. Professor Colley, conscious of Welsh as well as English roots, takes her...

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society: 1740-1890.
April 1, 1993... POLITICAL crises which are judged newsworthy sadly bring in their wake a pack of scavenger media pundits and opportunist researchers who hasten to provide a historical background, explanation or interpretation of what is happening. Ireland, and...

Customs in Common.
April 1, 1993... E. P. THOMPSON'S new volume of essays is a collection of some previously published pieces with the addition of other new or, more accurately, newly published material based on work done some years ago. 'The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in...

Coping with City Growth During the British Industrial Revolution.
April 1, 1993... IF ANY city can be said to have experienced an industrial revolution in all its technological, economic, social and cultural aspects it is Bradford; hence the potential importance of Koditschek's case-study. His aim is to go beyond Thompson's...

Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933.
April 1, 1993... MULTIPLICITY has replaced bipolarity; the conflict between centrifugal and centripetal forces has given way to a variety of autonomous processes, independent variables that all interact in constantly new permutations: these are among the terms...

Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880.
April 1, 1993... OVER the last decades an increasing interest has manifested itself in seeking to unravel the problem of what bound Victorian political parties together, what were the unifying themes which kept the variegated marchers who assembled under the...

British Politics and the Great War, Coalition and Conflict, 1915-1918.
April 1, 1993... THIS is a large and ambitious book which sets out not only to cover a substantial gap in the literature, the war politics of Britain, but also to tie together the various threads of high politics, electoral statistics, industrial relations and...

Hitlers Wahler.
April 1, 1993... IT is inevitable that the prodigious volume of writing on the interwar era in Germany, and particularly on National Socialism, should produce a wide variety of approaches by historians. After all, the field is truly international in scope. The...

Adenauer, 2 vols.
April 1, 1993... GERMAN historians have not on the whole been distinguished as biographers, regarding such a personalized approach to history as dangerously trivial. It is, for example, no coincidence that the best German biography of Hitler was written by a...

Power, Competition and the State, vols. 2-3.
April 1, 1993... HISTORIANS of twentieth-century British politics are fixated on party. Hence monographs on party themes abound and every leading party politician attracts a biographer. On their individual merits, such works often rate highly or qualify as...

War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard.
April 1, 1993... SIR Michael Howard is one of the most distinguished of living historians; few are more deserving of the honour of a Festschrift than he. He has had a profound influence on the study of war, as much by example as by his specific contributions, and...

History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History.
April 1, 1993... In History as Text. The Writing of Ancient History (London: Duckworth, 1989; pp. 208. |pounds~16.95), Averil Cameron has collected and edited eight papers which were originally given in a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies...

Ancient Literacy.
April 1, 1993... At the outset, William V. Harris tells us that the purpose of his book, Ancient Literacy (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1989; pp. xv +283. |pounds~27.95), is to answer the question: 'how many people could read, how many people could...

Promissorische Eide im Mittelalter.
April 1, 1993... Lothar Kolmer's Promissorische Eide im Mittelalter (Kallmunz, Opf.: Michael Lassleben, 1989; pp. 371. Pb. DM45) is a version of a well-argued and widely documented habilitation thesis on medieval promissory oaths. Christians took their definition...

The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797.
April 1, 1993... In The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989; pp. xii + 239. |pounds~27.50), Roger Collins develops on an ampler scale some of the themes on which he touched a few years ago in his Early Medieval Spain (rev. ante, c....

The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate.
April 1, 1993... Kathleen Biddick's study of the Peterborough Abbey estate between the eleventh and the early fourteenth centuries, The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1989; pp. xvii + 247. $30),...

Papsturkunden in Frankreich, vol. 8: Diozese Paris I. Urkunden und Briefsammlungen der Abteien Sainte-Genevieve und Saint-Victor.
April 1, 1993... Urkunden und Briefsammlungen der Abteien Sainte-Genevieve und Saint-Victor, ed. Dietrich Lohrmann (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989; pp. 423. Pb. Dm 228), contains only a part of the records for the diocese of Paris. So rich were the...

Medieval Canon Law and the Jews.
April 1, 1993... In recent years the attention of medieval historians has been increasingly drawn to the fate of Jewish communities in the developing kingdoms of western Europe. Much of the work on the subject has arisen from religious preoccupations, and has...

In Die Urkunden der Deutschen Konige und Kaiser, vol. 18, pt.i: Die Urkunden Heinrich Raspes und Wilhelms von Holland, 1246-1252.
April 1, 1993... Following Frederick II's deposition and the beginning of the interregnum, the pope instigated the Rhenish archbishops to set up successive anti-kings in Germany. For Henry Raspe, who died uncrowned within nine months of election, only sixteen...

Strukturen der Grundherrschaft im fruhen Mittelalter.
April 1, 1993... Within the last twenty-five years, four major international conferences have explored the world of the agricultural economy of the early Middle Ages. The first of these was at Spoleto in 1965. Then followed meetings at Xanten (1980), Ghent (1983)...

Die Bistumer der Kirchenprovinz Koln: Das Bistum Munster, vol. 4.
April 1, 1993... Das Domstift St. Paulus zu Munster, part iii, compiled by Wilhelm Kohl (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989; pp. xxx + 662. DM 282), completes a magisterial work of reference whose first two parts were respectively noticed ante, c. 161 and...

England and Her Neighbours, 1066-1453: Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais.
April 1, 1993... For as long as scholars remain willing to acknowledge their debts to their teachers, the melanges will continue to thrive. Pierre Chaplais, former inmate of Buchenwald, editor, scholar, and helper to all who have sought his help, well merits...

Year Books of Edward II, vol. 27.
April 1, 1993... The twenty-seventh volume of the Year Books of Edward II covering 14 Edward II. Michaelmas 1320 (London: Selden Soc., vol. civ, 1988; pp.xliv + 176. N.p.), edited by S. J. Stoljar and L. J. Downer, has an unusual history. The text and the...

Clement VI: The Pontificate and Ideas of an Avignon Pope.
April 1, 1993... There is an inevitable tendency to think of the Avignon popes collectively, and to distinguish their particular characteristics only occasionally. Any attempt to infer something about an individual pope's personality has normally been based on...

Medieval Women in Southern England.
April 1, 1993... Two very different publications between them illustrate the varieties of women's history that medievalists are now offering in such relative profusion. Volume XV of the series of Reading Medieval Studies contains five scholarly articles grouped...

Alfonso of Jaen: His Life and Works with Critical Editions of the Epistola Solitarii, the Informaciones and the Epistola Servi Christi.
April 1, 1993... Arne Jonsson's, Alfonso of Jaen: His Life and Works with Critical Editions of the Epistola Solitarii, the Informaciones and the Epistola Servi Christi (Lund: U.P., 1989; pp. 207. Pb.n.p.) is a study devoted to the Spaniard who was the close...

The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane.
April 1, 1993... As the dust-jacket indicates, Beatrice Forbes Manz's The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xi + 227. |pounds~25) is the 'first full scholarly study of Tamerlane', and it would be welcome for this reason alone. It is doubly...

Medieval Artisans: An Urban Class in Medieval England.
April 1, 1993... The world of urban artisans in the later Middle Ages is not an easy one to come to understand in any structured way. Information from gild ordinances, by-laws, tax lists, court records and wills may be abundant, but it comes in gobbets and...

Scotichronicon, vol. 2.
April 1, 1993... Hard on the heels of Scotichronicon, Volume 8 (rev. ante, cvi. 167) comes Volume 2, ed. John and Winifred MacQueen (Aberdeen: U.P., 1989; pp. xxix + 527. |pounds~25), which contains Books III and IV of Walter Bower's great chronicle and spans the...

La Ville: la bourgeoisie et la genese de l'etat moderne.
April 1, 1993... The papers at a conference in Bielefeld in 1985 are collected in La Ville, la bourgeoisie et la genese de l'etat moderne (XII-XVIII siecles), ed. Neithard Bulst and J.-Ph. Genet (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1988; pp. 352....

Crisis or Change: The Concept of Crisis in the Light of Agrarian Structural Reorganization in Late Medieval England.
April 1, 1993... Historians of the late medieval English economy might be expected to feel flattered by the attentions of a Danish historian, Nils Hybel, who has devoted a book to their endeavours, entitled Crisis or Change. The Concept of Crisis in the Light of...

The Records of the Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts: Reports of the Working Group on Church Court Records, part I.
April 1, 1993... Ecclesiastical court records for Austria (the province of Salzburg), Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary (the provinces of Esztergom and Kalocsa), Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland are listed in The Records of the Medieval...

Metodi risultati e prospettive della storia economica secc. XIII-XVIII.
April 1, 1993... The organizers of the well-known Prato 'study weeks' marked twenty years of fruitful foregatherings by devising a special conference with a broad appeal very much in the tradition of the founding fathers Federigo Melis and Fernand Braudel....

Early Tudor England.
April 1, 1993... The Harlaxton Symposia have produced a succession of collected papers on topics in individual medieval centuries; when, in the sixteenth century, evidence gets fuller, it was thought proper to restrict a volume to Early Tudor England, ed. Daniel...

Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
April 1, 1993... Alistair Fox's Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989; pp. ix + 317. |pounds~35) is a comprehensive survey of early Tudor writers, from familiar figures like Skelton, More and Wyatt to the more...

The Order's Early Legacy in Malta.
April 1, 1993... Like the members of all religious orders, the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem were inclined to hang on to the treasures they valued most: relics, icons, church plate and vestments. Their history was turbulent, and their central Convent was...

Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation.
April 1, 1993... When the late P. S. Allen embarked on his monumental edition of Erasmus's letters in 1906, he found the work of identifying the correspondents and incidental references of his subject so intricate that it was not completed, and then by other...

The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII.
April 1, 1993... The purpose of Retha M. Warnicke's The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn. Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xi + 326. |pounds~14.95) is to show that Anne Boleyn was not a significant figure in religion and...

Urban Life in the Renaissance.
April 1, 1993... It is doubtful whether the articles in Urban Life in the Renaissance, ed. Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F. E. Weissman (Newark/London/Toronto: U. of Delaware P./Assoc. U.P., 1989; pp. 303. $47.50) entirely fulfil the promise of their collective...

The Rise and Fall of the English Highland Clans: Tudor Responses to a Medieval Problem.
April 1, 1993... To talk about a labour of love when reviewing a book is to risk the dismal overtones of the professional historian's patronizing attitude to the enthusiastic amateur. This would be quite inappropriate in this case. In his The Rise and Fall of the...

A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England.
April 1, 1993... The Elizabethan cleric William Harrison is familiar as the apparently genial author of A Description of England, part of Holinshed's Chronicles and separately published by F. J. Furnivall: a text plundered by what might be called the 'old' social...

Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance.
April 1, 1993... Carlo Sigonio was one of the giants among sixteenth-century Italian scholars and historians, and any attempt to write his biography is an awesome task. William McCuaig, in Carlo Sigonio. The Changing World of the Late Renaissance (Princeton:...

From Valois to Bourbon: Dynasty, State and Society in Early Modern France.
April 1, 1993... The anniversary of the assassination of the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine by Henri III of France in December 1588 was marked by a conference held at the University of Exeter in December 1988. The proceedings have appeared as From...

Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature.
April 1, 1993... John C. Briggs, in Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature (Cambridge, Mass./London/Harvard U.P., 1989; pp. xvi + 285. |pounds~23.95), argues for an intimate relationship 'between Bacon's famous reform of scientific method and his less...

The Europe of the Devout: The Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society.
April 1, 1993... Addicts of conspiracy theories, especially those involving Jesuits, may relish the early parts of Louis Chatellier's latest work: The Europe of the Devout. The Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society (Cambridge/Paris:...

Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England.
April 1, 1993... Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989; pp. xiv + 271. |pounds~25), by David Cressy, is an important contribution to two major recent developments....

Dutch Calvinists in Early Stuart London: The Dutch Church in Austin Friars, 1603-1642.
April 1, 1993... Studies of the foreign exile communities of the early modern period have concentrated almost without exception on the sixteenth century, the period of the churches' first foundation and most dynamic growth. It is therefore especially welcome to...

Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany.
April 1, 1993... The history of the German peasantry in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was neglected for many decades. Today, however, we know, thanks to the studies of Helga Schultz, Peter Blickle, Winfried Schulze and others, that peasant revolts...

Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley.
April 1, 1993... A full-dress study of Winstanley's political theory is overdue. George M. Shulman's title, Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1989; pp. x + 269. $35), rouses our...

Inquisitori e mistici nel Seicento italiano: L'eresia di Santa Pelagia.
April 1, 1993... In 1656 the Venetian government banned a religious movement in the Val Camonica known as the Pelagini. Next year the Inquisition at Brescia banished to a variety of Terraferma cities eight leaders of the movement. The charges against them were...

Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society.
April 1, 1993... Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early, Modern Society, ed. John Walter and Roger Schofield (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xiv + 335. |pounds~35) is a fine and fitting tribute to the memory of the distinguished American social demographer,...

'Speculum Britanniae': Regional Study, Antiquarianism and Science in Britain to 1700.
April 1, 1993... Stan A. E. Mendyk's 'Speculum Britanniae': Regional Study, Antiquarianism, and Science in Britain to 1700 (Toronto/Buffalo: U. of Toronto P., 1989; pp. xv + 358. |pounds~31.50) is concerned to place sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors in...

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century.
April 1, 1993... The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Roger French and Andrew Wear (Cambridge; U.P., 1989; pp. 328. |pounds~35), offers eleven case-studies, dating roughly from 1630 to 1730, in how medical ideas changed as 'the classical...

Daniel Defoe: His Life.
April 1, 1993... Daniel Defoe is one of the most prolific writers in the English language. In verse and in prose, in newspapers, periodicals, memoirs, pamphlets and novels, he wrote about a vast range of topics, including religion, politics, commerce, crime,...

The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe.
April 1, 1993... The stream of histoire du livre books coming from France, and usually from the pen or the editorial hand of Roger Chartier, continues, as does their translation into English. The Culture of Print. Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern...

Tradition, Norm, Innovation: Soziales und literarisches Traditionsverhalten in der Fruhzeit der Deutschen Aufklarung.
April 1, 1993... So much research in recent decades has been devoted to the modernity of the Enlightenment that one's interest is immediately kindled by the prospect of a volume of essays devoted to elements of tradition in the German Aufklarung. Expectations...

Le Modele francais de l'Italie savante. Conscience de soi et perception de l'autre dans la repub lique des lettres, 1660-1750.
April 1, 1993... Le Modele francais de l'Italie savante. Conscience de soi et perception de l'autre dans la republique des lettres, 1660-1750, by Francoise Waquet (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 1989; pp. 565. Pb. n.p.), is an exploration of the attitudes of...

A Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640-1784.
April 1, 1993... The historiographical agenda of A Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640-1784, ed. Clyve Jones (London/Ronceverte, W.Va: Hambledon P., 1989; pp. x + 246. |pounds~28), is trenchantly stated at the outset. Modern...

Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland, 1660-1780.
April 1, 1993... It is good to have neglected areas of Scottish social history considered, but one might have hoped for a more rigorous treatment of them than is found in Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland, 1660-1780, by Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman...

Die Inquisition, die Lebenden und die Toten: Venedigs deutsche Protestanten.
April 1, 1993... Die Inquisition, die Lebenden und die Toten. Venedigs deutsche Protestanten, by Stefan Oswald (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1989; pp. 125. DM 36), is a study of Protestant religious life within the German merchant community in Venice, mainly from...

The Question of Hu.
April 1, 1993... The Question of Hu (London: Faber & Faber, 1989; pp. xvii + 187. |pounds~12.99) is a sad little story of Sino-Western misunderstanding recounted with his customary elegance by Jonathan D. Spence. It is an extreme case of a disastrous attempt by a...

Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution.
April 1, 1993... John Gascoigne's Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment. Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xi + 358. |pounds~32.50) examines the apparently paradoxical coupling of...

John Potter: An Eighteenth-Century Archbishop.
April 1, 1993... 'Potter', Lord Hervey wrote to Walpole on learning that he was likely to succeed Wake as Archbishop of Canterbury, 'is a man of undoubted great learning, of as little doubted probity.... The Queen loves him; his character will support you in...

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
April 1, 1993... Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, ed. J. W. Yolton and L. E. Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1989; pp. xii + 515. |pounds~25) contains the usual miscellany of items, mostly relating...

Death, Ritual and Bereavement.
April 1, 1993... Considering that it is one of only two universal elements in the human life-cycle, death was for a long time a relatively under-researched historical phenomenon, studied far more for its demographic and medical aspects than for its social...

Fursorge und Disziplinierung im Zeitalter des Absolutismus. Das Pforzheimer Zucht - und Waisenhaus und die badische Sozialpolitik im 18. Jahrhundert.
April 1, 1993... As aspect of relations between subjects and state in a south-west German town in the eighteenth century is the common subject-matter of two new books. It is the more surprising that they occupy such separate historical and historiographical...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.
April 1, 1993... The editors of Volume 27 of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven/ London: Yale U.P., 1989; pp. lxix + 727. |pounds~45) describe the quantity of material on Franklin's role in Paris as 'mountainous'. The four months covered by this volume,...

Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada.
April 1, 1993... 'What did you call this place before the coming of the White Man?', a visiting Canadian politician ingratiatingly asked a native elder. Back came the laconic reply: 'Ours'. The exchange could form a motto for J. R. Miller's Skyscrapers Hide the...

Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electorate of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832.
April 1, 1993... Frank O'Gorman's Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electorate of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1989; pp. xiv + 445. |pounds~40) is an important and richly suggestive book which extends our understanding not...

The French Revolution and British Culture.
April 1, 1993... Volumes celebrating the French Revolution have many and diverse objectives. The French Revolution and British Culture, ed. Ceri Crossley and Ian Small (Oxford: U.P., 1989; pp. xviii + 225. |pounds~19.50), sets out to examine British cultural...

La Revolution liegeoise de 1789 vue par les historiens belges.
April 1, 1993... Works on historiography have a great deal to offer students of history, who are too often inclined to see historical writing as unchallengeable fact. Unfortunately Philippe Raxhon's La Revolution liegeoise de 1789 vue par les historiens belges...

La politica alla prova: Appunti sulla rivoluzione Francese.
April 1, 1993... Haim Burstin is already known to scholars of the French Revolution for his excellent study of the social and economic history of the Faubourg Saint Marcel during the revolutionary period. La politica alla prova. Appunti sulla rivoluzione francese...

La Revolution du Journal: 1788-1794.
April 1, 1993... The roll-call of the thirty-four contributors to La Revolution du Journal, 1788-1794, ed. Pierre Retat (Paris: CNRS, 1989; pp. 354. Pb. F135) provides a guarantee of quality for anyone interested in studying the press during the critical years of...

Die Mainzer Republik, vol. 3: Die erste burgerlich-demokratische Republik auf deutschem Boden.
April 1, 1993... In 1989 Heinrich Scheel crowned a lifetime's work on the 'German Jacobins' with the publication of the third and final volume of his study of the short-lived Mainz republic of 1793: Die Mainzer Republik III. Die erste burgerlich-demokratische...

The Unquiet Countryside.
April 1, 1993... Three of the eight contributions comprising The Unquiet Countryside, ed. G.E. Mingay (London: Routledge, 1989; pp. 136. |pounds~30) are reprinted from the same editor's two-volume The Victorian Countryside, of 1981 vintage. The present volume's...

Cromartie: Highland Life, 1650-1914.
April 1, 1993... The fascination of the Highlands for historians of Scotland remains as strong as ever. In recent years there have been welcome moves away from general works to more detailed studies of the development of particular estates. In Cromartie: Highland...