The English Historical Review articles from April 1995

The English Historical Review archives from April 1995

The rewards of royal service in the household of King John: a dissenting opinion.
April 1, 1995... Scholars have long recognized the importance of the household knight to late medieval kingship. As early as 1901, Morris examined the place of the royal military household in the armies of Edward I.(1) And the late medieval household knight has...

Union with England traditional, union with England radical: Sir James Hope and the mid-seventeenth-century British State.
April 1, 1995... [W]e are but of yesterday (and therefore had need of the wisdom of those that were before us)... our days upon the earth are but as a shadow in respect of the old ancient days and times past. Sir Edward Coke, 1608 And why should we be afraid...

Monarchy and bureaucracy in late eighteenth-century Austria.
April 1, 1995... Joseph II's institutional reforms in the central lands of the Austrian Monarchy, and the administrative reconstruction under his brother Leopold II and nephew Francis II, largely in reaction to the storms he had aroused, form a leading theme of...

Keynes and the German inflation.
April 1, 1995... As is well known, John Maynard Keynes's early celebrity as an economist owed less to any academic work than to his 1919 pamphlet, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and the numerous pieces of journalism which he published on the question of...

Cnut's geld and the size of Danish ships.
April 1, 1995... In a well-known passage, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E text) relates how Harthacnut in 1040 imposed a severe geld on the English to pay for his fleet: 'hi geraedden pet man geald lxii scipon aet aelcere hamulan viii marc.'(1) This sentence has...

A new source for the siege of Calais in 1436.
April 1, 1995... British Library Additional MS 14848 is the first volume of the Register of William Curteys, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds from 1429 to 1446.(1) The manuscript is written upon vellum and remains in its original binding with a brass ornamental clasp...

Lanfranco di Pavia e l'Europa del secolo XI nel IX centenario della morte: 1089-1989.
April 1, 1995... This massive volume of studies on Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury is the product of the conference at Pavia which was held to celebrate the ninth centenary of his death, and assembles papers from a distinguished gathering of international...

Friedrich Barbarossa. Handlungsspielraume und Wirkungsweisen des staufischen Kaisers.
April 1, 1995... This volume, containing twenty-one essays and a substantial introduction by the editor, is the product of two conferences on the Reichenau organized by the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis fur mittelalterliche Geschichte to celebrate both the completion...

The Return of the Armadas. The Last Years of the Elizabethan War Against Spain, 1595-1603.
April 1, 1995... The Return of the Armadas concludes the narrative of the Elizabethan war with Spain that R. B. Wernham began in After the Armada (1984: rev. ante, ci. 936). This major work, combined with his editing of the first five volumes of the List and...

Adapting to a New World. English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.
April 1, 1995... In recent years the attention of historians of colonial North America has increasingly shifted south, from New England to the Chesapeake Bay. Where studies of the Bible commonwealths once tended to overwhelm the historiography of the subject, now...

The Gladstone Diaries. With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence, vols. 12-14.
April 1, 1995... The foundation for this remarkable achievement was laid by M. R. D. Foot and built upon, and out from, by H. C. G. Matthew with consistency sustained to this, the triumphant end. The two final volumes of text tell two very different stories, for...

Stalin and the Bomb. The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956.
April 1, 1995... Although the main title of this book catches the eye and takes in the author's central thrust, it to some extent undervalues what has been achieved. David Holloway has dealt with at least three important and quite different themes: the history of...

The Labour Government and the End of Empire, 1945-1951, vols. 1-4.
April 1, 1995... With the launching of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project, of which Ronald Hyam's volumes are the first to appear, the study of the break-up of the British colonial empire has entered a new phase. For long it seemed that the...

Anticolonialism in British Politics. The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964.
April 1, 1995... With the launching of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project, of which Ronald Hyam's volumes are the first to appear, the study of the break-up of the British colonial empire has entered a new phase. For long it seemed that the...