The English Historical Review articles from April 2001

The English Historical Review archives from April 2001

Henry II's Heir: the Acta and Seal of Henry the Young King, 1170-83(*).
April 1, 2001... HENRY, son of Henry II, crowned king on 14 June 1170 and re-crowned together with his queen in 1172, is the sole associate king in English post-Conquest history. Though also titular duke of Normandy and count of Anjou, his coronation in his...

Martinus Polonus' Chronicle of the Popes and Emperors: a Medieval Best-seller and its Neglected Influence on Medieval English Chroniclers(*).
April 1, 2001... Is 1278 Martinus Polonus (Martinus Oppaviensis or Martin of Troppau as he is better known on the continent), a Dominican friar formerly holding the office of penitentiary at the papal curia, was appointed Archbishop of Gnesen (Gniezno) in...

A Blueprint for Tyranny? Sir Edward Hales and the Catholic Jacobite Response to the Revolution of 1688(*).
April 1, 2001... IF the momentous events of the winter of 1688-9 in England can be said to have a pivotal, climactic moment, it must be the deposition of James II and VII. Even three centuries later, the resolution of the House of Commons dethroning him retains...

`And your Petitioners &c' Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48(*).
April 1, 2001... AT nine o'clock on Monday morning, 2 May 1842, many thousands of Londoners began to assemble at various points in the metropolis to play their part in what the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, described as a `novel... and...

Looking Back in Anger: A Politically Inspired Appeal against John XXII's Translation of Bishop Adam Orleton to Winchester (1334).
April 1, 2001... THE document printed below, Prickhare's provocacio or appeal against Bishop Orleton's further promotion, was first published in 1899, when a transcript by J. H. Baigent of the entry in the Winchester Cartulary was appended to the third volume...

Cambro-Latin Compositions, their Competence and Craftsmanship.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Cambro-Latin Compositions, their Competence and Craftsmanship. By DAVID HOWLETT (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1998; pp. x+170. IR 45 [pounds sterling]). IN Cambro-Latin Compositions, David Howlett presents a series of interlocking short studies...

The Book of Letters of Saint Patrick the Bishop.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Liber Epistolarum Sancti Patricii Episcopi: The Book of Letters of Saint Patrick the Bishop. Edited and translated by D. R. HOWLETT (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1994; pp. 134. IR 12.50 [pounds sterling]). IN Cambro-Latin Compositions, David...

Domesday: The Inquest and the Book.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Domesday: The Inquest and the Book. By DAVID ROFFE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. xix+282. 25 [pounds sterling]). THIS book challenges most of the current orthodoxies of Domesday scholarship. David Roffe argues that the Domesday Inquest...

England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225.(Review)
April 1, 2001... England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225. By ROBERT BARTLETT (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. xxx+772. 30 [pounds sterling]). ONLY a brave historian would dare accept a commission from the new Oxford History of England. Since...

Les Princes et l'histoire du XIVe au XVIIIe siele.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Les Princes et l'histoire du XIVe au XVIIIe siele (Actes du colloque -- Paris/ Versailles, March 1996). Edited by CHANTAL GRELL, WERNER PARAVICINI and JURGEN VOSS (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1998; pp. xx + 658. N.p.). A COMMENT by one of the...

Selbstmord in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Diskurs, Lebenswelt und kultureller Wandel.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Selbstmord in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Diskurs, Lebenswelt und kultureller Wandel. By VERA LIND (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999; pp. 518. DM 108). SUICIDE is a maverick, making havoc of human emotions and -- as important for the...

Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by S. J. CONNOLLY (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 236. 35 [pounds sterling]). APPROPRIATELY, for a project deriving much of its intellectual inspiration from Professor J. G. A....

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832.(Review)
April 1, 2001... An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Edited by IAIN MCCALMAN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. xiii + 780. 85 [pounds sterling]). TRACES in the text preserve the working title of this volume: a companion to the...

History of Suffrage, 1760-1867.(Review)
April 1, 2001... History of Suffrage, 1760-1867. Edited by SARAH RICHARDSON. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2000; 6 vols: pp. xl+351, 320, 348, 396, 341, 346. 475 [pounds sterling]). THIS series of volumes reproduces some 82 pamphlets, speeches, tracts and...

War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War.(Review)
April 1, 2001... War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War. By H. E. GOEMANS (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2000; pp. 355. 31 [pounds sterling]). THIS book analyses the proposition that countries ruled by oligarchies tend to...

Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966 By ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 347. 50 [pounds sterling]). THE dependent territories of the British Empire were administered through three government departments in London....

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. By PIERS BRENDON (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000; pp. xviii + 701. 25 [pounds sterling]). THIS is an ambitious, venturesome book. Piers Brendon sets himself nothing less than to give a general account...

Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France. By ERNEST R. MAY (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000; pp. 594. $30). ERNEST May, a distinguished professor of US diplomatic history, has produced a study of the fall of France. His focus is...

Kalkulierte Morde: Die deutsche Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weissrussland, 1941 bis 1944.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Kalkulierte Morde: Die deutsche Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weissrussland, 1941 bis 1944. By CHRISTIAN GERLACH (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 1999; pp. 1234. DM 98). THIS books weighs 1.5 kilograms, contains 1151 pages of text, 73...

Carnets de captivite, 1941-1945.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Carnets de captivite, 1941-1945. By PAUL REYNAUD (Paris: Fayard, 1997; pp. 390. F180). ON 6 September 1940, Paul Reynaud, last premier of the Third Republic, was arrested by the Vichy government and spent two years in a series of French...

The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex. Vol. IX: Early Stepney with Bethnal Green.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex. Vol. IX: Early Stepney with Bethnal Green, ed. T.F.T. Baker (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. xxii+298. 65 [pounds sterling]). The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, Vol. IX: Early...

The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire: Vol. XVI: Kinwardstone Hundred.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire: Vol. XVI: Kinwardstone Hundred, ed. D. A. Crowley (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. xxi+ 262. 70 [pounds sterling]). The systematic approach of the VCH has yielded an abundant harvest in The...

Historians and Social Values.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Historians and Social Values, ed. Joep Leerssen and Ann Rigney (Amsterdam: Amsterdam U.P., 2000; pp. 243. Pb.n.p.). Historians and Social Values, ed. Joep Leerssen and Ann Rigney, is the by-product of a conference which took place at the...

Environments and Historical Change: The Linacre Lectures.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Environments and Historical Change: The Linacre Lectures, ed. Paul Slack Oxford: Oxford U.E, 1999; pp. 196. 30 [pounds sterling]). The Yolngu, an aboriginal people of Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, contrast Europeans' relationship to...

Le Chat.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Le Chat, by L. Bobis (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 34. N.p.). The author describes her work as an `oeuvre de mosaiste' which gathers together material from a diversity of sources: archaeological evidence, literary and theological texts, saints'...

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past, by Jeremy Black (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 267. Pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]). This book is about historical atlases -- atlases compiled to present a view of the past. The...

Enclosure Records for Historians.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Enclosure Records for Historians, by Steven Hollowell (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; pp. xiii+175. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Phillimore & Co. have for some years been recognized as probably this country's leading commercial publishers of...

Tithe Surveys for Historians.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Tithe Surveys for Historians, by Roger P. Kain and Hugh C. Prince (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; pp. xiv+146. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Phillimore & Co. have for some years been recognized as probably this country's leading commercial...

Die Geschichte der Staatsgewalt: Eine vergleichende Verfassunsgeschichte Europas von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Die Geschichte der Staatsgewalt: Eine vergleichende Verfassunsgeschichte Europas von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart, by Wolfgang Reinhard (Munich: Beck, 1999; pp. 631. DM 98). Wolfgang Reinhard's Die Geschichte der Staatsgewalt undertakes...

The Nation In History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Nation In History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism, by Anthony D. Smith (Oxford: Polity, 2000; pp. 106. Pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). A. D. Smith's The Nation in History provides us with a concise and lucid...

Outsiders: A History of European Minorities.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Outsiders: A History of European Minorities, by Panikos Panayi (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. 208. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). The dust jacket proclaims that Panikos Panayi's Outsiders is `the first history of all European Minorities'. It...

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia, by Celia Hawkesworth (Budapest: CEU P., 2000; pp. 281. 31.95 [pounds sterling]). In the light of recent events, Celia Hawkesworth's Voices in the Shadows immediately...

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. 298. 45 [pounds sterling]). The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:...

Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance, by H. A. Drake (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 609. 52.50 [pounds sterling]). This heavy book persuasively, indeed massively, attacks the cliche of the Enlightenment...

Die barbarische Gesellschaft: Mentalitatsgeschichte der europaischen Achsenzeit 5.-8. Jahrhundert.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Die barbarische Gesellschaft: Mentalitatsgeschichte der europaischen Achsenzeit 5.-8. Jahrhundert, by Georg Scheibelreiter (Darmstadt: Primus, 1999; pp. 661. DM 98). Georg Scheibelreiter's substantial work, Die barbarische Gesellschaft:...

The Visigoths, from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic Perspective.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Visigoths, from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, ed. Peter Heather (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 563. 50 [pounds sterling]). With the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West and its...

State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000.(Review)
April 1, 2001... State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000, by Matthew Innes (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 316. 40 [pounds sterling]). Matthew Innes asks the right questions about politics and power in an early...

Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne, ed. Alfred P. Smyth (Dublin: Four Court P., 2000; pp. xxii + 478. 39.95 [pounds sterling]). This volume contains forty...

Chronique des Abbes de Fontenelle (Saint-Wandrille).(Review)
April 1, 2001... Chronique des Abbes de Fontenelle (Saint-Wandrille), ed. and tr. Frere Pascal Pradie (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1999; pp. cxliv + 283. Pb.n.p.). Most welcome is a new French translation of the ninth-century Gesta Sanctorum Patrum...

Caledonian Craftsmanship: The Scottish Latin Tradition.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Caledonian Craftsmanship: The Scottish Latin Tradition, by David Howlett (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 208. IR 55 [pounds sterling]). David Howlett has devoted the thirty short chapters of Caledonian Craftsmanship: The Scottish Latin...

The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery, ed. Diana Greenway and Leslie Watkiss (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. lxxiv + 219. 45 [pounds sterling]) The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery, ed. Diana Greenway and Leslie...

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fecamp.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fecamp, ed. David Chadd (London: Boydell P., for Henry Bradshaw Soc., 1999; pp. 378. 35 [pounds sterling]). It is hard to review fully The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fecamp, ed....

The Acta of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 1209 - 1235.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Acta of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 1209 - 1235, ed. David M. Smith (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. liii + 256. 30 [pounds sterling]). The British Academy English Episcopal Acta series adopts, as its cut-off-point for...

Theologie, science et censure au XIIIe siecle: Le cas de Jean Peckham.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Theologie, science et censure au XIIIe siecle: Le cas de Jean Peckham, by Alain Boureau (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1999; pp. 377. F145). At the end of Theologie, science et censure: le cas de Jean Peckham, Alain Boureau pleads for a new...

Las morerias aragonesas durante el reinado de Jaime II: Catalogo de la documentacion de la Cancilleria Real. Vol. I: 121--1310.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Las morerias aragonesas durante el reinado de Jaime II: Catalogo de la documentacion de la Cancilleria Real. Vol. I: 121--1310, by M. Blanca Basanez Villaluenga (Teruel: Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, 1999, pp. 502. N.p.). An index is...

Negotiating Cultures: Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Negotiating Cultures: Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain, by Robert I. Burns, SJ, and Paul E. Chevedden (Leiden: Brill, 1999; pp. xviii + 279. NLG 188). `Look at wooden legs', suggested Mr Vuffin. `If there was only one...

Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278--1378).(Review)
April 1, 2001... Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278--1378), by Andreas Rehberg (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999; pp. 658. DM 192). This book by Andreas Rehberg focuses on the...

Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, ed. Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor (London/Toronto: The British Library/U. of Toronto P., 1996; pp. 287. 45 [pounds sterling]) It comes as no surprise that Women and the Book: Assessing...

The Siege of Jerusalem, in its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Siege of Jerusalem, in its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts, by Bonnie Millar (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 251. 45[pounds sterling]). This study has all the hallmarks of a meticulous doctoral thesis, with its scrupulous...

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales. Vol. II: East Anglia, Central England and Wales.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales. Vol. II: East Anglia, Central England and Wales, by Anthony Emery (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 724. 125 [pounds sterling]). Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, by Anthony...

Men of Learning in Europe at the End of the Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Men of Learning in Europe at the End of the Middle Ages, by Jacques Verger (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame U.E, 2000; pp. 209. Pb. 16.50 [pounds sterling]). In Men of Learning in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, a translation by Lisa Neal...

God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Mediaeval Women Visionaries.(Review)
April 1, 2001... God's Words,Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Mediaeval Women Visionaries, by Rosalynn Voaden (York: Boydell & Brewer, for York Medieval P., 1999; pp. 204. 40 [pounds sterling]). God's Words, Women's Voices,...

Piety, Fraternity and Power: Religious Guilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire 1389-1547.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Piety, Fraternity and Power: Religious Guilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547, by David J. E Crouch (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; PP. 331. 55[pounds sterling]). Piety, Fraternity and Power is an excellent, mature and integrated...

Renaissance Europe, 1390-1530.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Renaissance Europe, 1390-1530, by Stella Fletcher (Harlow: Longman, for Pearson Education, 1999: pp. 337. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99[pounds sterling]). The declared aim of Stella Fletcher's The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe,...

Violence in Medieval Society.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Violence in Medieval Society, ed. Richard W. Kaeuper (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. xiii + 226. 40 [pounds sterling]). It was perhaps only to be expected that the twelve contributions to this volume of conference proceedings should make...

L'Ombre des ancetres: Essai sur l'imaginaire medieval de la parente.(Review)
April 1, 2001... L'Ombre des ancetres: Essai sur l'imaginaire medieval de la parente, by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 458. F175). L'Ombre des ancetres: Essai sur l'imaginaire medieval de la parente, by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, is...

Il `Bauernfuhrer' Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Il `Bauernfuhrer' Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare, by Aldo Stella (Bologna: il Mulino, 1999; pp. 340. L44,000). Studies of the German Peasants' War by German scholars have thinned to a trickle in recent years,...

Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485-1603.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485-1603, by Jonathan Woolfson (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1999; pp. 322. 40 [pounds sterling]). `Without the studio Padua would not be Padua', wrote one of the city's Venetian...

Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585, by A. N. McLaren (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 272. 35 [pounds sterling]). The latest contribution to the steady reassessment of Elizabethan...

Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610, by S. Annette Finley-Croswhite (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 219. 35 [pounds sterling]). Henri IV's conquest, or often purchase, of his kingdom...

The Inquisition.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Inquisition, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (London: Penguin Books/Viking, 1999; pp. 318. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The Inquisition, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, presents a very outdated and misleading account of this...

Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, by Mary E. Giles (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1999; pp. 402. 40.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.50 [pounds sterling]). Feminist historiography of the predicament of women in the early...

Furst und Furstendiener: Gundaker von Liechtenstein, ein osterreichischer Aristokrat des konfessionellen Zeitalters.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Furst und Furstendiener: Gundaker von Liechtenstein, ein osterreichischer Aristokrat des konfessionellen Zeitalters, by Thomas Winkelbauer (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1999; pp. 656. N.p.). For twenty years Thomas Winkelbauer has been rewriting the...

The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793, by Whitney R. D. Jones (London/ Cranbury, NJ: Assoc. U.P., 2000; pp. 394. 48 [pounds sterling]). Academic historians are sometimes accused of over-caution, of lacking the courage to tackle big themes...

Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony, ed. Jane H. Ohlmeyer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 290. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). Traditionally the history of political ideas has been approached through a few...

Matheus Miller's Memoir: A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Matheus Miller's Memoir: A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century, by Thomas Max Safley (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. 226. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Matheus Miller was a merchant in Augsburg in the seventeenth century. During his life...

The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666, by Rosemary Moore (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 314. $29.95). Rosemary Moore's study is intended, she says, to bridge the divergence between...

The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660-1702.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660-1702, by Alan Marshall (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 1999; pp. 234. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). A considerable and expanding body of literature on later Stuart court politics is synthesised...

The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745, ed. Toby Barnard and Jane Fenlon (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. 279. 50 [pounds sterling]). The long career of the first duke of Ormonde as the Stuart monarchy's leading Irish servant would seem at first...

Catholics in a Protestant Country: The Papist Constituency in Eighteenth-Century Dublin.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Catholics in a Protestant Country: The Papist Constituency in Eighteenth-Century Dublin, by Patrick Fagan (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1998; pp. 201. 30 [pounds sterling]). In the last few decades Irish historians have been questioning the...

Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England, by David Underdown (London: Penguin P., 2000; pp. 258. 20 [pounds sterling]). David Underdown's Start of Play is an interesting addition to our knowledge of the world of...

Jugend in der Neuzeit: Deutschland vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Jugend in der Neuzeit: Deutschland vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, by Winfried Speitkamp (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998; pp. 322. DM 49). The phase in life between childhood and adulthood has had varying parameters in differing...

Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation, by Karl Gunnar Persson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 173. 35 [pounds sterling]). Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900, by Karl Gunnar Persson, will have a broad appeal...

Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia, by John Gilman Kolp (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.E, 1999; pp. 249. 38 [pounds sterling]). The half century preceding American independence witnessed the maturation of a...

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean.(Review)
April 1, 2001... An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2000; PP. 357. 41 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17 [pounds sterling]). Previous historians have examined...

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment, by Brian Dolan (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 232. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Brian Dolan sets out to chart fresh terrain in Exploring European Frontiers: British...

La Reinvenzione dei lumi: Percorsi storiografici del novecento.(Review)
April 1, 2001... La Reinvenzione dei lumi: Percorsi storiografici del novecento, by Giuseppe Ricuperati (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2000; pp. 233. N.p.). Five essays on the historiography of the Enlightenment in the twentieth century, all previously...

Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, ed. Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle (Cambridge/Stanford: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 507. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). The...

St Peter Port, 1680-1830: The History of an International Entrepot.(Review)
April 1, 2001... St Peter Port, 1680-1830: The History of an International Entrepot, by Gregory Stevens Cox (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 247. 35 [pounds sterling]). Focusing on the only port and town on a small island, Gregory Stevens Cox's St Peter...

Revolutions et justice penale en Europe: Modeles francais et traditions nationales, 1780-1830.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Revolutions et justice penale en Europe: Modeles francais et traditions nationales, 1780-1830, ed. Xavier Rousseaux, Marie-Sylvie Dupont-Bouchat, and Claude Vael (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999; pp. 388. F 210). The proceedings of a colloquium...

Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885, by Edwin Jaggard (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 238. 45 [pounds sterling]). Edwin Jaggard's Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885, is an important contribution to current...

Thomas Paine: Political Writings.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Thomas Paine: Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuldick (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxx+347. 25 [pounds sterling]; pb. 7.95 [pounds sterling]) Thomas Paine: Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuklick, is the second attempt to produce a...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796, by John Barrell (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 737. 70 [pounds sterling]). John Barrell's innovative examination of trial transcripts, legal manuscripts,...

A State of Mind? The English Constitution and the Popular Imagination.(Review)
April 1, 2001... A State of Mind? The English Constitution and the Popular Imagination, by Ian Ward (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. 250. 20 [pounds sterling]). When F. W. Maitland wrote his seminal lectures on the Constitutional History of England in the 1880s...