The English Historical Review articles from April 1998

The English Historical Review archives from April 1998

The financial administration of Calais during the reign of Henry IV, 1399-1413.
April 1, 1998... The notion that Calais was expensive to maintain for successive English kings in the fifteenth century is a commonplace among historians. In wartime the cost of the defence of Calais was nearly 18,000 [pounds sterling] per annum; peacetime only...

A vision of empire: Thomas Whately and 'The Regulations Lately Made Concerning the Colonies.'
April 1, 1998... Virtually all historians writing about the early stages of the American Revolution have taken note of the pamphlet written by George Grenville's secretary to the Treasury, Thomas Whately, under the title, The Regulations Lately Made Concerning...

Adam Easton and the condemnation of John Wyclif, 1377. (theologians Adam Cardinal Easton and reformer John Wyclif)
April 1, 1998... In May 1377 Pope Gregory XI condemned as heresy a list of nineteen propositions taken from the work of John Wyclif, largely, as we know thanks to its editor, from De Civili Dominio. Some of these at least, the Pope stated, were views held by...

Love, property and kinship: the courtship of Philip Williams, Levant merchant, 1617-50.
April 1, 1998... Historians of the family have usually had a greater interest in structure than in process. Those interested in the family and gender as cultural constructs have relied primarily on literary and didactic sources -- legal expositions, sermons,...

Garibaldi in Uruguay: a reputation reconsidered. (Italian military, nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi)
April 1, 1998... Almost a century has passed since Setembrino Pereda began his painstaking archival investigation in order to reveal the epic military exploits of Giuseppe Garibaldi on behalf of the Uruguayan republic and to assess the latter's contribution to...

Chamberlain, the Liberals and the outbreak of war, 1939.
April 1, 1998... The last place one might think of looking for Chamberlain's inner thoughts in the days prior to war in 1939 would be among the National Liberal Club Library papers bought by Bristol University Library. Yet Chamberlain expressed his hopes and...

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, vol. I.
April 1, 1998... Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. I, Pt I: Political and Military History. Pt 2: Ecclesiastical History. By IRFAN SHAHID (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995; pp. xl + 1034. $75). No one, least of all late twentieth-century...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, vols. I-III.
April 1, 1998... The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. Vol. I: 350-950. Vol. II: 950-1250. Vol. III: 1250-1520. Edited by ROBERT FOSSIER (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xxiii + 556, xxv + 544, xvii + 554. 100 [pounds sterling] the set). These...

Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650.
April 1, 1998... Reframing the Renaissance. Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650. Edited by CLAIRE FARAGO (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1995; pp. xi + 394.35 [pounds sterling]); The past decade has seen a remarkable change in the nature of art...

Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Italy.
April 1, 1998... Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By MARY HOLLINGSWORTH (London: John Murray, 1996; pp. xii + 452. 25 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) The past decade has seen a remarkable change in the nature of art historical publications...

Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity.
April 1, 1998... Women in Italian Renaissance Art. Gender, Representation, Identity. By PAOLA TINAGLI (Manchester: U.P., 1997; pp. xii + 206. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). The past decade has seen a remarkable change in the nature of art...

Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England.
April 1, 1998... Birth, Marriage and Death. Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. By DAVID CRESSY (Oxford: U.P., 1997; PP. xv + 641. 25 [pounds sterling]). In this new book Professor Cressy brings a large research effort to...

Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963.
April 1, 1998... Freedom with Responsibility. The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963. By A.J. NICHOLLS (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1994; pp. xiii + 422. 40 [pounds sterling]). It has long been fashionable to explain the remarkable revival of the West...

The Romans in Spain.
April 1, 1998... In his The Romans in Spain (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996; pp. 341. 50 [pounds sterling]), J. S. Richardson presents the history of the Iberian peninsula over a period extending for nearly six-and-a-half centuries in terms of the changing nature of...

Clovis.
April 1, 1998... All states and nations seek their founding moments. Myth accretes, commemoration re-enacts, academic controversy flourishes. One such moment, sacred to the French, is the baptism of Clovis. Inconveniently, its date is uncertain -- Christmas...

Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
April 1, 1998... Towns in Transition. Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. N. Christie and S. T. Loseby (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1996; pp. xi + 318. 45 [pounds sterling]), is an extremely valuable addition to a growing bibliography on...

Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland.
April 1, 1998... Marina Smyth's Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. 341. 35 [pounds sterling]) is a curiosity. The Preface describes it as a `revised version' of a 1984 Ph.D. dissertation. Comparison with the...

Land of the Cumbrians: A Study in British Provincial Origins, AD 400-1120.
April 1, 1998... What story can be told about early Cumberland and Westmorland from one indigenous pre-Conquest document, glancing references by chroniclers whose focus is elsewhere, place-names, church dedications, cross-shafts and hogbacks? Charles...

The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025.
April 1, 1998... Mark Whittow is both a historian and an archaeologist with much field experience in Asia Minor and the Near East. Throughout his The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. xxv + 477. 42 [pounds sterling]; pb....

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
April 1, 1998... Presented by its publishers as `the most faithful and complete reading ever published', M. J. Swanton's edition of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London: J. M. Dent, 1996; pp. xxxvi + 363. 20 [pounds sterling]) is, in fact, a modest revision of G....

Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland.
April 1, 1998... Lisa M. Bitel's Land of Women. Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1996; pp. xiii + 307. 27.50 [pounds sterling]) is an ambitious addition to the small, but growing, number of studies concerning gender...

Byzantium and its Army, 284-1081.
April 1, 1998... On 25 April 1800, in the opening phase of the Marengo campaign, General Berthier wrote a letter to Napoleon to inform him that he anticipated crossing the Alps with an army of 30,000 infantrymen, `As a general reckons, not as clerks do, a...

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century.
April 1, 1998... On 25 April 1800, in the opening phase of the Marengo campaign, General Berthier wrote a letter to Napoleon to inform him that he anticipated crossing the Alps with an army of 30,000 infantrymen, `As a general reckons, not as clerks do, a...

Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context.
April 1, 1998... What do we do with the elf charms we find in Christian manuscripts? The answers to that question chart the range of responses to the medieval Church and magic and our growing understanding of the process of conversion. The Protestant...

Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury: Church and Endowment.
April 1, 1998... The pre-Conquest history of Glastonbury Abbey has been largely ignored by scholars, partly due to the paucity of Anglo-Saxon material, and partly due to the unreliability of much of the post-Conquest hagiographical material. Lesley Abrams, in...

Otto III.
April 1, 1998... `Different men felt differently': such was the German chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg's remark about reactions to what he said were the many things that the Emperor Otto III did to revive ancient but largely obsolete Roman custom; Thietmar...

The Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations.
April 1, 1998... The Battle of Hastings. Sources and Interpretations, ed. Stephen Morillo (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. xxxii + 230. 29.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]), launches a new series intended to rescue the history of warfare...

Catalogus Comitum: Versuch einer Territorialgliederung Kampaniens unter den Normannen von 1000 bis 1140 von Benevent bis Salerno.
April 1, 1998... Historians have only recently begun seriously to examine the aristocracy and the structure of landholding in Norman Italy, Walter Schutz in Catalogus Comitum. Versuch einer Territorialgliederung Kampaniens unter den Normannen yon 1000 bis 1140...

Schottenskloster: Irische Benediktinerkonvente im Hochmittelalterlichen Deutschland.
April 1, 1998... From the seventh century onwards Irish monks had left Ireland to go as missionaries to the Continent. By the middle of the eleventh century their main activities were in Germany and the first house Weih-(from vicus)Sankt-Peter was founded in...

Hildegard von Bingen: Nonne und Genie.
April 1, 1998... Hildegard of Bingen continues to generate her own hagiography in the late twentieth century. Christian Feldmann's popularizing account, Hildegard yon Bingen. Nonne und Genie (Freiburg/Basel: Herder, 1995; pp. 288. Pb. DM 17.80), is no...

Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154.
April 1, 1998... Paul Dalton's Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship. Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (Cambridge: U.P., 1994; pp. xxii + 345. 40 [pounds sterling]) is an elaborately detailed account of aspects of the Norman settlement of Yorkshire and its aftermath, in which...

Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion into Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134.
April 1, 1998... During the reign of Alfonso I the Aragonese kingdom more than doubled in extent. In Possessing the Land. Aragon's Expansion into Islam's Ebro Frontier under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134 (Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1995; pp. xvi + 337....

Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations Between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187.
April 1, 1998... The history of the Crusades is currently one of the biggest growth industries in medieval history and one that produces a constant stream of well-written and important work. The two very different books reviewed here are no exception to the...

Cross Cultural Convergences in the Crusader Period: Essays Presented to Aryeh Grabois on His Sixty-fifth Birthday.
April 1, 1998... The history of the Crusades is currently one of the biggest growth industries in medieval history and one that produces a constant stream of well-written and important work. The two very different books reviewed here are no exception to the...

Grand Cartulaire de la Sauve Majeure: Etudes et Documents d'Aquitaine VIII, Parts i-ii.
April 1, 1998... Grand cartulaire de la Sauve Majeure. Etudes et documents d'Aquitaine VIII, parts i-ii, ed. Charles Higounet et al. (Bordeaux: Federation Historique du Sud-Ouest, 1966; pp. 1070. N.p.) is the last and fitting monument to Higounet's scholarly...

Pilger, Mirakel und Alltag: Formen des Verhaltens im Skandinavischen Mittelalter, 12-15, Jahrhundert.
April 1, 1998... Count Paul Riant drew attention to the adventurous long-range pilgrimages of medieval Scandinavians in a work published at Paris in 1865. Now Christian Krotzl brings the subject down to earth in Pilger, Mirakel und Alltag. Formen des...

Die Franzosischen Konige des Mittelalters: Von Odo bis Karl VIII, 888-1498.
April 1, 1998... The most puzzling aspect of Die franzosischen Konige des Mittelalters. Von Odo bis Karl VIII., 888-1498, ed. Joachim Ehlers, Heribert Muller and Bernd Schneidmuller (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1996; pp. 435. DM68), a set of short biographies of all...

Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy.
April 1, 1998... In Before Science. The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1996; pp. 298. 45 [pounds sterling]), Roger French and Andrew Cunningham explore the contrasting versions of natural philosophy produced by the...

Las Rentas del Rey: Sociedad y Fisco en el Reino Castellano del Siglo XIII, 2 vols.
April 1, 1998... It is not often that a single scholar's archival discovery completely transforms the familiar appearance of a significant stretch of the historical past. Such, however, has been the effect of F. J. Hernandez's systematic rummaging in the...

Progress and Problems in Medieval England, Essays in Honour of Edward Miller.
April 1, 1998... For once the publisher's `blurb' on the dust jacket is correct. Progress and Problems in Medieval England, Essays in Honour of Edward Miller, ed. Richard Britnell and John Hatcher (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xv + 317. 35[pounds sterling]), a...

The Cloister and the World: Essays in Medieval History in Honour of Barbara Harvey.
April 1, 1998... The Cloister and the World. Essays in Medieval History in Honour of Barbara Harvey, ed. John Blair and Brian Golding (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. xii + 338. 40 [pounds sterling]), provides a well conceived signpost both to the fourteen...

Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation.
April 1, 1998... The purpose of Paul Binski's Medieval Death. Ritual and Representation (London: British Museum P., 1996; pp. 224. 25 [pounds sterling]) is to provide the general reader and student with a broad overview of medieval death in relation to...

England the Nation: Language, Literature and National Identity, 1290-1340.
April 1, 1998... In evaluating `national identity', historians inevitably rely heavily on literary sources, and since they are not usually well equipped to deal with those texts, they turn, gratefully, to scholars of literature. Whether they will find what...

Ein Konigshof auf Reisen: Der Kontinentaufenthalt Eduards III, von England, 1338-1340.
April 1, 1998... The young Edward III's visit to Flanders and Coblenz in an effort to buy alliances for his attack on the French king is an episode which has been thoroughly examined over the last eighty years. Since Dorothy Hughes investigated the period's...

Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries.(Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 49: 1995.)
April 1, 1998... The history of the lands that once constituted the Byzantine Empire and were to be reconstituted as the Ottoman Empire has normally been written from a Byzantine, Ottoman or Italian perspective. This has tended to divert attention from the...

Diocese d'Amiens.(Fasti Ecclesia Gallicanae, vol. I.)
April 1, 1998... When using Gallia Christiana, which, in Duchesne's gently ironic euphemism, `falls somewhat short of perfection', students of ecclesiastical history have long felt the need for prosopographical lists of bishops on the lines of Fasti Ecclesiae...

"In der Knechtschaft Werdet ihr Verharren ...": Ursachen und Verlauf des Englischen Bauernaufstandes von 1381.
April 1, 1998... Herbert Eiden's `In der Knechtschaft werdet ihr verharren... '. Ursachen und Verlauf des englischen Bauernaufstandes von 1381 (Trier: Trierer Historische Forschungen, vol. 32, 1995; pp. 529. N.p.) is, above all, a diligent undertaking, and...

Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381.
April 1, 1998... We owe to the chronicler Henry Knighton the small collection of cryptic pseudonymous letters from `Jakke Mylner', `John Carter' and others calling the insurgents of 1381 to action. Apparently unable to credit peasants with the capacity for...

Eschatologie und Hussitismus.
April 1, 1998... Eschatologie und Hussitismus, ed. Alexander Patschovsky and F. Smahel (Prague: Historisches Institut, 1996; pp. 186. N.p.) contains die proceedings of an international colloquium held in Prague in 1993. It comprises eleven papers by a number...

Le Service des Ames a la Cour: Confesseurs et Aumoniers des Rois de France du XIII au XV Siecle.
April 1, 1998... For many years theses written at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris were generally accessible only through the brief summaries published annually in the Positions des theses. The situation has recently improved with the mandatory deposit...

Reform von Kirche und Reich zur Zeit der Konzilien von Konstanz, 1414-1418 und Basel, 1431-1449.
April 1, 1998... Reform von Kirche und Reich zur Zeit der Konzilien von Konstanz, 1414-1418 und Basel, 1431-1449, ed. Ivan Hlavacek and Alexander Patschovsky (Konstance: Universitatsverlag Konstanz, 1996; pp. 225. DM78), examines the labyrinthine world of late...

Die Ritterwurde in Mittelitalien Zwischen Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit: Mit Einem Quellenanhang Papstliche Ritterernennungen, 1417-1464.
April 1, 1998... English shires were often content to send `knights' to parliament who were not even `girt with the sword'. In Italy, on the other hand, the prestige of the knightly title developed strongly from the later twelfth century among well-heeled...

Language and Images of Renaissance Italy.
April 1, 1998... `To reconsider problems raised by Jacob Burckhardt's model -- particularly the individualism and modernity he claimed for the Renaissance -- in the light of recent emphasis on family and gender history' was the guiding idea of a conference in...

Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France.
April 1, 1998... The question whether medieval vernacular literature was read aloud in company or silently in. private has long interested literary scholars. Writers like Chaucer often refer to works they have heard read, or to their work being listened to,...

Fur den Gemeinen Nutzen: Politisches Handeln und Politikverstandnis von Rat und Burgerschaft in Augsburg in Spatmittelalter.
April 1, 1998... The internal politics of the cities of the German Empire in the later Middle Ages and the first decades of the sixteenth century are extremely complicated and varied. A great deal has been written both on individual towns and in general and...

Die Supplikenregister der Papstlichen Ponitentiarie aus der Zeit Pius II, 1458-1464.
April 1, 1998... At last with the work of Ludwig Schmugge, Patrick Hersperger and Beatrice Wiggenhauser, Die Supplikenregister der papstlichen Ponitentiarie aus der Zeit Plus II., 1458-1464 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1996; pp. xii + 273. N.p.), we have a modern...

Lorenzo the Magnificent: Culture and Politics.
April 1, 1998... Papers from a conference held in 1992 are collected in Lorenzo the Magnificent. Culture and Polities, ed. Michael Mallett and Nicholas Mann (London: Warburg Institute, 1996; pp. x + 324. [pounds sterling] 28). F. W. Kent shows how the...

Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d'Este, 1471-1505, and the Invention of a Ducal Capital.
April 1, 1998... Ercole d'Este, second duke of the papal vicariate of Ferrara and of the imperial fief of Modena and Reggio, commenced ruling in 1471, and exercised authority for thirty-four years. His endeavours in the Ferrarese vicariate to surpass by...

Nel IX Centenario della Metropoli Ecclesiastica di Pisa.
April 1, 1998... On 21 April 1092 Pope Urban II granted to Bishop Daimbert of Pisa the status of archbishop, with metropolitan rights over Corsica. It was an important acknowledgement of the rise of Pisa during the eleventh century. From relative obscurity...

The Fortunes of the "Courtier": The European Reception of Castiglione's "Cortegiano."
April 1, 1998... In his The Fortunes of the Courtier. The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano (University Park: Pennsylvania State U.P., 1995; pp. xi + 210. $40; pb. $16.95), Peter Burke has set out `to reconstruct the local and personal meanings'...

Les Voies d'Allah: Les Ordres Mystiques dans l'Islam des Origines a Aujourd'hui.
April 1, 1998... Two elements define pre-modern, and to some extent, modern Islam. The first is law, which before this century played the central role in defining Islamic orthodoxy, much as theology did in Christendom. The second, which is possibly more...

Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1518-1530.
April 1, 1998... Although Hans-Joachim Kohler's comprehensive collection of Reformation pamphlets is available on microfiche, there has been little systematic attempt so far to analyse and categorize lay responses to the Reformers' message. In her Conflicting...

Karl V: Politik und Politisches System, Berichte und Studien aus der Arbeit an der Politischen Korrespondenz des Kaisers.
April 1, 1998... The scope of Karl V. Politik und politisches System. Berichte und Studien aus der Arbeit an der politischen Korrespondenz des Kaisers, ed. Horst Rabe (Konstanz: Universitatsverlag, 1996; pp. 362. Pb. DM78), is rather different from that...

Documentary History of the Jews of Italy.
April 1, 1998... The invaluable Documentary History of the Jews of Italy, edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, takes a somewhat new direction in its eleventh volume, The Jews of Rome. Vol. 1: 1536-1551, ed. Kenneth Stow (Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1995; pp. lxxx +...

Power Elites and State Building.
April 1, 1998... Wolfgang Reinhard is the general editor of Power Elites and State Building (Oxford: Clarendon P., for European Science Foundation, 1996; pp. xv + 316. 45 [pounds sterling]), a jointly-authored volume on the origins of the modern state from the...

Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France.
April 1, 1998... The central goal of the recent work by Kristin Elizabeth Gager, Blood Ties and Fictive Ties. Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France (Princeton: U.P., 1996; pp. xi + 197. 29.95 [pounds sterling]), `is to offer a social and cultural...

One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century.
April 1, 1998... In 1516 King Francis I threatened to have two representatives of the Parlement of Paris thrown into a deep pit, declaring that there would be no Venetian Senate in France. Forty-seven years later, the Parlement was deliberately snubbed when...

Marian Protestantism: Six Studies.
April 1, 1998... New work on the religious history of the Marian period is always welcome. Though sustained over many years by the formidable scholarship of David Loades, serious study of Queen Mary's restoration or reaction (the terminology remains...

Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558-1561, 1584-1586.
April 1, 1998... Fascinating light is shed on a great Elizabethan at two important stages of his career in Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558-1561, 1584-1586, ed. Simon Adams (London: Royal Historical Society,...

The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76.
April 1, 1998... Early modern France may have been the largest, richest and most populous state in western Europe, but to translate those natural assets into political power required the deployment of military force. In the first half of the sixteenth century,...

A City in Conflict: Troyes During the French Wars of Religion.
April 1, 1998... A recent shift of focus in the historiography of the French Wars of Religion has served to validate their name. By turning attention away from the political and military activities of the Crown and the nobility towards the wars, as they...

An Elizabethan Progress: The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578.
April 1, 1998... A. E Pollard famously dismissed George Cavendish's life of Cardinal Wolsey as the valet's view of history. In An Elizabethan Progress. The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578 (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1996; pp. xiv + 169. 18.99 [pounds...

Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us: Policies, Perceptions and Presence of Aliens in Elizabethan England.
April 1, 1998... One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century economic policy was the attempt by the English government to stimulate the domestic economy by encouraging the settlement of skilled foreign artisans. This campaign was skilfully managed...

The English Ordnance Office, 1585-1625: A Case Study in Bureaucracy.
April 1, 1998... Much attention has been paid to the importance of warfare in affecting the development of early modern states in Europe, but there is comparatively little recent work on the English case. Richard Winship Stewart, in his study of The English...

The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago.
April 1, 1998... Interest among early modernists in a `new British history' has been keen in recent years, as historians grapple with ever more complex concepts of identity. The British Isles (the `Atlantic Archipelago' to cognoscenti) have featured in several...

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief.
April 1, 1998... A bumper crop of books on the perennially popular subject of witchcraft was produced in 1996. Growing out of a conference held at the University of Exeter in September 1991, Witchcraft in Early Modem Europe. Studies in Culture and Belief, ed....

An Exile of Ireland: Hugh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster.
April 1, 1998... Micheline Kerney Walsh's An Exile of Ireland. Hugh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1996; pp. 154. Pb. 7.95 [pounds sterling]) concentrates on the last decade of his career. Defeated by the English at Kinsale in 1601, within...

The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714.
April 1, 1998... A book in a series which is meant to meet the need for `broad-ranging text books', aiming to be `welcomed by students and sixth-formers' should not be judged in the same way as an academic monograph intended primarily for fellow scholars and...

The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598-1661.
April 1, 1998... Originally published in French in 1992, Yves-Marie Berce's textbook on early seventeenth-century France has received its English translation as The Birth of Absolutism. A History of France, 1598-1661 (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 262. Pb....

Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State.
April 1, 1998... Christian IV must be the nearest Denmark has to a national historic heroic figure, and especially after the 1988 quadricentennial, perhaps the only Danish monarch readily identified by foreigners. Yet there has been a curious lack of scholarly...

The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay in the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History.
April 1, 1998... Alastair MacLachlan's The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England. An Essay in the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 431. Pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]) promises savage iconnoclasm in its very title. The...

Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: Essays in Honour of Derek A. Watts.
April 1, 1998... Twenty-one scholars from British, French and Australian universities have paid tribute to a respected colleague in Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth-Century France. Essays in Honour of Derek A. Watts, ed. Keith Cameron and Elizabeth Woodrough...

Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England.
April 1, 1998... It is pleasant to encounter a national study of early modern scholarly enterprise placed in transnational European context. G. J. Toomer's Eastern Wisedome and Learning. The. Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon...

Oliver Cromwell.
April 1, 1998... Having written a dissertation on the politics of the 1650s, and having then become an authority on the military history of the 1640s, Peter Gaunt is well equipped to write Oliver Cromwell (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996; pp. 263. 18.99 [pounds...