The English Historical Review articles from April 2000

The English Historical Review archives from April 2000

Mahomet, Charlemagne et les origines de l'Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The bold enterprise of reviewing Pirenne's thesis in the light of subsequent (chiefly archaeological) research, undertaken by Hodges and Whitehouse in 1983, made a considerable impact on the anglophone world, for all the rather unprepossessing...

Stephen of Blois, Count of Mortain and Boulogne(*).(Review)
April 1, 2000... STEPHEN count of Boulogne and Mortain was elected and crowned as king of England in December 1135. He was then in his early forties. He had been in the public eye, if often as a largely passive figure, since the turn of the century. His early...

Reformation and Reaction at St Albans Abbey, 1530-58(*).
April 1, 2000... IT has always been assumed that the Benedictine monasteries offered little resistance to the Henrician Reformation. There were individual acts of defiance, such as those of the abbots of Reading, Glastonbury and Colchester, whose refusal to...

The State, Internal Migration, and the Growth of New Industrial Communities in Inter-War Britain(*).(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... THE inter-war years in Britain witnessed the extremely rapid growth of some industrial communities in the South-East and Midlands, considerable migration flows from the depressed areas of `outer Britain' to these centres, and substantial...

`Chirep': The Anglo-American Dispute over Chinese Representation in the United Nations, 1950-71.
April 1, 2000... SCHOLARS of American or Anglo-American policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the Cold War have devoted their attention almost exclusively to the military aspect of containment. The attempt to contain the Communist threat,...

The Last Hours of Simon de Montfort: A New Account(*).
April 1, 2000... ON 4 August 1265 Simon de Montfort was defeated and killed at Evesham by the forces of the Lord Edward and his two lieutenants, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and Roger Mortimer. Though the barons' wars had a long aftermath of continuing...

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales. By J. BEVERLEY SMITH. (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 1998; pp. xvi+664. 25 [pounds sterling]). LLYWELYN ap Gruffudd (d. 1282) was the first and, as it turned out, the last of the rulers of Wales to assume...

The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich. By MURIEL C. MCCLENDON (Stanford, CA/Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xii+340. 32.50 [pounds sterling]). DR MCCLENDON has written one of the best studies of...

The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800. By MARK LAIRD (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. xvii+446. 37 [pounds sterling]). GARDEN history is now a valid academic subject and historic gardens...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. By THOMAS DORMANDY (London: The Hambledon P., 1999; pp. xiv+433. 25 [pounds sterling]). OVER, the 1990s a small rash of edited and (less commonly) single-authored histories of medicine covering...

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times. By DOROTHY PORTER (London: Routledge, 1999; pp. 376. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). OVER, the 1990s a small rash of edited and (less commonly)...

Hitler. Vol. I: Hubris, 1889-1936.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Hitler. Vol. I: Hubris, 1889-1936. By IAN KERSHAW (London: Allen Lane, 1998; pp. xxx+845. 20 [pounds sterling]). IN the preface to this outstanding biography, Ian Kershaw warns that his focus is `not upon the personality of Hitler but...

The Essex Landscape. A Study of its Form and History.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The series of county volumes on `The Making of the Landscape did not include one on Essex. In The Essex Landscape. A Study of its Form and History (Chelmsford: Essex Record-Office, 1999; pp. x + 210. 16.95 [pounds sterling]), John Hunter seeks...

Handbuch der historischen Statten: Bohmen und Mahren.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The series `Handbuch der historischen Statten' has won general recognition as an indispensable guide to the evolution of individual localities, not only throughout the German lands, but also in neighbouring regions, especially those which...

Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Over the past twenty years or so, perceptions of the Vikings have changed dramatically. Here is a volume that takes stock of advances in the subject. To commemorate the twelve hundredth anniversary of the first Viking presence in Ireland, a...

San Maiolo e le influenze cluniacensi nell'Italia del Nord.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The millennium of the death of Maieul, one of the great abbots of Cluny, was celebrated in 1994 by an international congress, the papers of which have been published in San Maiolo e le influenze cluniacensi nell `Italia del Nord, ed. Ettore Cau...

Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The subject and the scope of Barbara H. Rosenwein's study, Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1999; pp. xxii+267. 40.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]),...

The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images, 400-1200.(Review)
April 1, 2000... All readers of Mary Carruthers's The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge: U.E, 1998; pp. xvii+399. 37.50 [pounds sterling]) will find much to stimulate their reflections on medieval culture: some...

Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Emma Cownie, in Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (Boydell & Brewer, for the Royal Historical Soc., 1998; pp. x+ 262. 35 [pounds sterling]), focuses particularly on Norman donations to established Old English houses. From...

God's Peace and King's Peace: the Laws of Edward the Confessor.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The `Laws of Edward the Confessor', edited and translated with a substantial i historical introduction and commentary by Bruce R. O'Brien in God's Peace and King's Peace.' the Laws of Edward the Confessor (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P.,...

King John: New Interpretations.(Review)
April 1, 2000... I am not sure whether the volume, King John: New Interpretations, ed. S. D. Church (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999; pp. xxvi + 361. 45 [pounds sterling]), is intended to be a centenary production, although it is published in the...

Aristocratic Women in Medieval France.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In the introduction to Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. x+272. 33.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15 [pounds sterling]), the editor, Professor Theodore Evergates, and his collaborator, Dr LoPrete,...

In Le pievi trentine: trasformazioni e continuita nell'organizzazione territoriale della cura d'anime dalle origini al XIII secolo.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Much ink has been spilt in discussions of the history of the Italian pievi. In Le pievi trentine: trasformazioni e continuita nell'organizzazione territoriale della cura d'anime dalle origini al XIII secolo (Bologna: EDB, 1999; pp. xii+386, +...

Medieval European Coinage. XIV: Italy (III) (South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia).(Review)
April 1, 2000... There are some books that evoke a sense of joy almost before they are opened. The recent study by Philip Grierson and Lucia Travaini, Medieval European Coinage. XIV: Italy (III) (South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia) (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp....

The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard, c.1100-c.1336.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The debate over nationalism and the future of the nation state will doubtless rage for a long time to come. For those concerned with the Middle Ages, the debate is equally heated and remains polarized between those, such as Professor Adrian...

Food and Eating in Medieval Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2000... It is tempting to try and guess how the eleven essays in Food and Eating in Medieval Europe, ed. Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. xii + 188. 25 [pounds sterling]), came to be published within the same covers....

Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e istituzioni.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e istituzioni, ed. Kaspar Elm and Cosimo Damiano Fonseca (Rome: Vatican, for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, 1998; pp. 521. L60,000), consists of nearly thirty papers and communications...

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Ashgate's `Crusade Texts in Translation' are designed to help satisfy the needs of teachers and taught for translated sources for this popular subject. Already have appeared useful and excellent contributions from Peter Edbury and Helen...

The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500. Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July 1995.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500. Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July 1995, ed. Alan V. Murray (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998; pp. xxiv+328. N.p.), like most volumes arising from...

The Military Orders Vol. II: Welfare and Warfare.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Building upon the success of its predecessor, The Military Orders. Vol. II: Welfare and Warfare, ed. Helen Nicholson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 998; pp. 440. 59.50 [pounds sterling]), sets new standards. The editing is superb and all the contents of...

Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany.(Review)
April 1, 2000... For historians and art historians interested in the role of art in shaping medieval perceptions of saints, Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany (University Park, Pennsylvania:...

Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The argument of Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy, by John Inglis (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1998; pp. x+324. N.p.), is deceptively straightforward. Modern (i.e. nineteenth- and twentieth-century)...

Las Tierras Navarras de Ultrapuertos (siglos XII-XVI).(Review)
April 1, 2000... Medieval Navarre is remembered as a tightly-governed and well-documented entity. Small though it was, it was not uniform. In her study of Las Tierras Navarras de Ultrapuertos (siglos XII-XVI) (Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1999; pp. 358....

La fonction episcopale a Liege aux [XIII.sup.e] et [XIV.sup.e] siecles. Etude de politologie historique.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The episcopal principality based on the Imperial city of Liege developed its virtual independence during the central Middle Ages and survived until the eighteenth century. Two of its formative centuries have been given detailed case-study...

Runaway Religious in Medieval England, c. 1240-1540.(Review)
April 1, 2000... From bishops' registers, conciliar and papal decrees, records of royal chancery and the courts, papal decrees, records of religious orders, and visitation records, F. Donald Logan, in Runaway Religious in Medieval England, c. 1240-1540...

Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A higher class of clerical roguery emerges in John Aberth's Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P.; pp. xxiv+280. N.p.). Thomas de Lisle, bishop of Ely from...

Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. 35z. 37.95 [pounds sterling]; 15.50 [pounds sterling]) ed. Judith Bennett and Amy Froide, is the first book to explore the position and role of single...

Hertfordshire Lay Subsidy Rolls, 1307 and 1334.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Even when William le Fol is followed by John Sexi, lists of medieval taxpayers do not make immediately enthralling reading, but there is a surprising amount to be gleaned from them. In Hertfordshire Lay Subsidy Rolls, 1307 and 1334, ed. Janice...

Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait.(Review)
April 1, 2000... As William J. Courtenay remarks in his latest book-length study, Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xix + 284. 40 [pounds sterling]), Paris housed `arguably the most important...

Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State.(Review)
April 1, 2000... From at least the mid-thirteenth century, the period of the great Sienese victory over Florence at Montaperti, the Sienese were passionately devoted to the Virgin as the patron and protector of their commune. The relationship was expressed...

Writing East: The `Travels' of Sir John Mandevill.(Review)
April 1, 2000... `Travel' literature was extremely popular in late medieval Europe. Protean, formulaic and widely derivative, it was often acutely aimed at its audiences' aspirations and expectations, appearing as travelogue, spiritual metaphor, blue-print for...

De Provencne et d'ailleurs. Melanges offerts a Noel Coulet.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Thirty-nine pieces, with an introduction, a postface and a select bibliography of the recipient, form De Provence et d'ailleurs. Melanges offerts a Noel Coulet, ed. Jean-Paul Boyer and Francois-Xavier Emmanuelli (Gemenos: Robert, for Federation...

Medieval and Renaissannce Venice.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A variety of themes, periods and historical techniques are represented in this volume in memory of Donald E. Queller, ed. Ellen E. Kittell and Thomas E Madden, Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Champaign, Ill.: U. of Illinois P., 1999; pp. ix +...

Les Rohrbach de Francfort: Pouvoirs, affaires et parente a l'aube de la Renaissance allemande.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In the later Middle Ages, the decline in the monastic, clerical or urban chronicles was matched across western Europe by the increasing appearance of more individual secular memorialists. This is apparent in a number of German towns and cities...

Das Konsil von Konstanz, 1414-1418.(Review)
April 1, 2000... With this volume, Das Konzil von Konstanz, 1414-1418. Band II: Bis zum Konzilsende (Paderborn: Schoningh, 1998; pp. xxiii + 458. DM 156), Walter Brandmuller completes his magnum opus on the council of Constance, begun in 1991. Discussed in...

Decline in History. The European Experience.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The historiography and nature of decline are probed in J. K. J. Thomson's Decline in History. The European Experience (Oxford: Polity P., 1998; pp. xiv + 225. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). He focuses not on recent...

The Atlantic.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The drawbacks of dividing history into national compartments are obvious to all, and the traditional approach makes particularly little sense in maritime history, for the seas join nations far more than they divide. Yet it remains rare to write...

The History of the House of Douglas.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Scottish History has only a few narrative family histories extant before 1700. One important survival is David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Douglas, now edited by David Reid in two volumes, (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Soc.,...

La France du beau XVIe siecle.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A flurry of surveys of sixteenth-century France has appeared during the present decade, offering various periodizations and perspectives. For Janine Garrisson and Arlette Jouanna the sixteenth century extends from 1483 to 1598; for R. J....

Les Inquisitions modernes dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux, 1520-1633.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Since the time of the Revolt itself the religious policies of the Habsburg rulers in the sixteenth-century Netherlands have been the subject of endless debate. In Les Inquisitions modernes dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux, 1520-1633. Vol. I: La...

Godliness and Governance in Tudor Colchester.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Colchester was one of the leading centres of reformed religion in Tudor England. Marked by Lollardy and anti-clericalism before the Reformation, the town saw an early reception of Protestant ideas with a number of town leaders active if...

Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Scholars and students alike will find an admirable introduction to a complex and controversial field in Barry Reay's Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750 (London/New York: Longman, 1998; pp. ix+235. 39.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 11.99 [pounds...

Bishop Still's Visitation 1594 and the `Smale Booke' of the Clerk of the Peace for Somerset, 1593--5,.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Bishop Still's Visitation 1594 and the `Smale Booke' of the Clerk of the Peace for Somerset, 1593--5, ed. Derek Shorrocks (Bristol: Arrowsmith, for Somerset Record Soc., 1998; pp. 193. 15 [pounds sterling]) combines in one volume two sets of...

`Property' `Order' und `Civil War': zum Diskurs uber Eigentum in England, 1580-1649.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Discourse analysis has been much talked about by early modern historians in recent years, but not always performed as effectively as the complex source material in some fields deserves. Doris Losch's `Property' `Order' und `Civil War': zum...

England in Conflict, 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth.(Review)
April 1, 2000... For the same author to write a second general account of the same period of English history within thirteen years or so, for the same publisher, on the same scale, and for the same broad readership, is probably unprecedented, yet in this case...

Sir Arthur Chichester: Lord Deputy of Ireland 1605-16.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Until recently a gap yawned in the historical treatment of early seventeenth-century Ireland. In comparison with the detail lavished on Elizabethan viceroys such as Sussex, Sidney and Perrot, or on Wentworth in the 1630s, the Jacobean period...

King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire.(Review)
April 1, 2000... David M. Bergeron's King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire (Iowa City: U. of Iowa P., 1999; pp. 250. 23.70 [pounds sterling]) brings to a climax, one might say, his studies of James VI and I. His last book dealt with the king's marriage,...

A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown.(Review)
April 1, 2000... David L. Smith's A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998; pp. xviii+430. 60 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) is the second volume in a new five-volume textbook series. This is,...

The Limits of Royal Authority. Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Limits of Royal Authority. Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile, by Ruth MacKay (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xii + 196. 37.50 [pounds sterling]), presents an interesting and original argument that is certainly best...

The Thirty Years War. The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-1648.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The post-1945 displacement of German as the language of international scholarship has cantonized a mass of detailed, sophisticated and revisionist historical writing about the history of the Holy Roman Empire and its constituent territories....

By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660.(Review)
April 1, 2000... It is sometimes best for a reviewer to start by quoting an author's own intentions. Philip H. Round explains that By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (Hanover, NH/London:...

Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A doctoral dissertation provides the basis of Michaeal O Siochru, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649. A Constitutional and Political Analysis (Dublin: Four xxx Courts Press, 1999; pp. 295. 35 [pounds sterling]). With the Ulster rising of...

Milton and Heresy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The twelve essays which Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich have edited in Milton and Heresy (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. x+272. 35 [pounds sterling]) vary in their interest for historians and indeed in their relevance to heresy, but...

The New England Knight. Enrichment, Advancement and the Life of Sir William Phips, 1651-1695.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Most seventeenth-century biographies need a good deal of context to make much sense, or indeed to be worth attempting at all. The subject of Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid's The New England Knight. Enrichment, Advancement and the Life of Sir...

Louis XIV.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In his relatively short textbook on Louis XIV (London: Macmillan, 1998, pp. xxii+202. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]), David J. Sturdy provides a remarkably sure-footed guide to a long and eventful reign. This is quire...

Worterkrieg. Politische Debattenkultur in England, 1689-1750.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The inordinate length (nearly 1000 pp.) of Karl Tilman Winkler's study, Worterkrieg. Politische Debattenkultur in England, 1680-1750 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999; pp. xv+987. DM 198), is due, according to the author, to the fact that...

Krieg und Frieden. Militar und Gesellschaft in der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The creation and maintenance of standing armies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had consequences that extended beyond a narrow range of military and political issues. As the contributors to Krieg und Frieden. Militar und...

History of Christianity in India.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The History of Christianity in India, Vol. III: The Eighteenth Century, by E. R. Hambye (Bangalore: Church History Assoc. of India, 1997; pp. xxiv+562. $40), has had a difficult gestation. A typescript was apparently completed and submitted to...

Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Despite its outmoded Marxist contextualization, Jurgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere has attracted considerable interest from eighteenth-century historians. His notion that the emergent bourgeoisie devised its own venues, such as...

Herrschaft in der Herrschaft. Die vorderosterreichische Obervogtei Triberg von 1737 bis 1780.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Much of the history of early modern Germany is concerned with the tensions between the territorial rulers and their estates and how these affected government, both on the central and local level. In particular how effective were the attempts of...

Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Nicholas Rogers has published many important contributions to scholarly debate on eighteenth-century Britain over the past twenty-five years, and Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xii+291. 40...

Izvoarele rascoalei lui Horea. Ser. A: Diplomataria.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Second only to the Pugachev rebellion in Russia, the revolt in 1784-5 of Transylvanian serfs led by Nicolae Ursu, known as Horea, was the wildest jacquerie of eighteenth-century Europe. Since it was largely -- though by no means exclusively-an...

Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doleances of 1789.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The cultural turn has been so predominant in many recent works on the French Revolution that it comes almost as a kind of back-to-the-future shock to encounter a work as thorough-goingly committed to social science values and language as...

A War of Ideas. British Attitudes to the War against Revolutionary France, 1792--1802.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In A War of Ideas. British Attitudes to the War against Revolutionary France, 1792--1802, Emma Vincent Macleod (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. xiv+ 240. 45 [pounds sterling]) surveys British attitudes to the French Revolutionary Wars through a...

Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999; pp. x+ 300. 45 [pounds sterling]), David S. Nash provides a scholarly and readable account of one of the great anomalies of modern British society. After tracing the...

Naissance du Pantheon. Essai sur le culte des grands hommes.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The idea of a `religion of humanity', in which man is substituted for God, was a nineteenth-century invention. Associated chiefly with Auguste Comte and the positivists, it typified an important strand in the intellectual history of the age....

Catalogue des manuscrits de l'abbaye de Maredsous.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Catalogue des manuscrits de l'abbaye de Maredsous, ed. Luc Knapen (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; pp. xx+229. Pb. n.p.), is the first volume of a Bibliotheca manuscripta monasteriorum Belgii, sponsored by the Encyclopedie Benedictine, which will...

The Luddite Rebellion.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Brian Bailey's The Luddite Rebellion (New York: U.P., 1999; pp. xvii + 182. 18.99 [pounds sterling]) seeks `to tell as clearly and accurately as possible what actually happened'. The book is packed with detail, and Bailey's lucid prose is...

Earl Bathurst and the British Empire.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In his Earl Bathurst and the British Empire (London: Leo Cooper, 1999; pp. xii + 308. 25 [pounds sterling]), Neville Thompson provides an accessible scholarly biography of a politician whom he rightly suggests has been largely neglected....

Armut in Berlin. Die sozialpolitischen Ansatze Christian von Rothers und der Koniglichen Seehandlung im vormarzlichen Preussen,.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Together, two books, Armut in Berlin. Die sozialpolitischen Ansatze Christian von Rothers und der Koniglichen Seehandlung im vormarzlichen Preussen, by Wolfgang Radtke (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993; pp. 290. DM98) and Gemeinwohl und Lokale...

Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Two new studies confirm how strong the excellent Heinemann Social History of Africa series currently is in the fields of gender and women's history. Though a century (and half a continent) apart in focus, both innovate with imaginative skill...

Fraternity among the French Peasantry. Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Scholars unlucky enough to have been raised on what the Modern History Faculty at Oxford used to call Historical Geography will be intrigued by this smart addition to the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Alan R. H. Baker's Fraternity...

Policing Provincial England, 1829-1876: The Politics of Reform.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Policing Provincial England, 1829-1876: The Politics of Reform, by David Philips and Robert D. Storch (London: Cassell, 1999; pp. x+342. 55 [pounds sterling]), will be of value to more than the specialist interested in the history of crime and...

The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension, ed. Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1999; pp. 320. 39.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.50 [pounds sterling]), follows up the editors' two earlier collections on The Irish...