The English Historical Review articles from April 2002

The English Historical Review archives from April 2002

The lands and revenues of Edward the Confessor *.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... IT may be foolhardy but it is not necessarily useless to try once more to arrive at an estimate of the income of Edward the Confessor from his estates and the regular royal dues. Before the attempt is even begun, it is certain that the result...

Carneades' legacy: the morality of eloquence in the humanist and papalist writings of Pietro del Monte *.
April 1, 2002... In 155 BC, the Academic philosopher Carneades was sent on an embassy from Athens to Rome. When in Rome, Carneades set out to impress his hosts with his rhetorical skill. One day, he gained general approval from his audience, which included Cato...

Pre-reformation churchwardens' accounts and parish government: lessons from London and Bristol *.
April 1, 2002... RECENT years have finally witnessed a sustained attempt to engage both with the spiritual and the financial capital that English Christians invested in the Church in the century or more prior to the Reformation. Parish churches, and their...

`A barometer of national confidence': a British assessment of the role of insecurity in the formulation of German military policy before the first world war.
April 1, 2002... IN 1961, with the publication of Fritz Fischer's groundbreaking study Griff nach der Weltmacht, a revolution took place in scholarship on the origins of the First World War. In contradistinction to the consensus that had emerged among German...

Two proposals for raising money by extraordinary means, c. 1627 *. (Notes And Documents).
April 1, 2002... RECENTLY, historians have devoted a good deal of attention to the impact of war upon England during the 1620s. (1) In addition, a good deal of debate has arisen among historians of political thought about the extent and nature of absolutist...

The Early Middle Ages: Europe, 400-1000.
April 1, 2002... Edited by ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvi + 308). IT is an extraordinary fact that post-war generations which have eroded the shelves of bookshops and libraries with high-quality textbooks have yet to produce a...

Karl der Grosse, Herrscher des Abendlandes: Biographie.
April 1, 2002... By DIETER HAGERMANN (Munich: Propylaen Verlag, 2000; pp. 736. N.p.). THIS is, as the publisher's blurb claims, a `monumental biography'. Its monumentality makes it outstanding among other studies evoked by the twelve hundredth anniversary...

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting.
April 1, 2002... Edited by RICHARD GAMESON and HENRIETTA LEYSER (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvi+370. 50 [pounds sterling]). IT is notoriously difficult to review the variety of contents in a Festschrift. A list does not constitute a review, while the...

The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury: 1162-1170.
April 1, 2002... Edited with a translation by ANNE DUGGAN (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; 2 vols., pp. clxxxii+1490. 150 [pounds sterling]). OXFORD Medieval Texts has taken the lead in publishing definitive editions of texts earlier published in the Rolls...

English Seigniorial Agriculture: 1250-1450.
April 1, 2002... By BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. 2000; pp. xxvi+ 517. 60 [pounds sterling]). IF there are, a generation and more from now, still students willing and able to undertake medieval social and economic history, a standard...

Studio e scuola in Arezzo durante il Medioevo e il Rinascimento. I documenti d'archivio fino al 1530.
April 1, 2002... Edited by ROBERT BLACK (Arezzo: Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arti e Scienza, 1996; pp. 873. L150,000). DESPITE the title, the documents published here on university and school education in Arezzo are largely concentrated in the period from...

The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh.
April 1, 2002... Edited by AGNES LATHAM and JOYCE YOUINGS (Exeter: U. of Exeter P., 1999; pp. lxiii + 403. 43 [pounds sterling]). NOTHING about Sir Walter Ralegh was simple or straightforward. He was a famous explorer who disliked the sea; he was at times...

Sully a travers l'histoire: Les avatars d'un mythe politique.
April 1, 2002... By LAURENT AVEZOU (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2001; pp. 554. F 200; 30.48 [euro]). BIOGRAPHY is enjoying a revival in France. Not that it was ever dead at the popular level: The flood of hagiographic, romanticized or scabrous biographies of...

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. 2, 1540-1840.
April 1, 2002... Vol. II: 1540-1840. Edited by PETER CLARK (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxviii+906. 90 [pounds sterling]). INTENDED to be a synthesis of recent and authoritative knowledge of a subject which is critical to historical understanding,...

Oral and Literate Culture in England: 1500-1700.
April 1, 2002... By ADAM FOX (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 497. 45 [pounds sterling]). Tins compelling study explores the interaction between speech, script and print. `One of the fascinating and defining characteristics of English society in the early...

Noble Society in Scotland: Wealth, Family and Culture from Reformation to Revolution.
April 1, 2002... By KEITH M. BROWN (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2000; pp. 369. 50 [pounds sterling]). NOBLE Society in Scotland sets out to challenge the traditional view of the early modern Scottish nobility as violent, backward and reactionary: an...

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740.
April 1, 2002... By Richard Grassby (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xix+ 505. 40 [pounds sterling]). This is the second of three volumes by Richard Grassby about early modern English businessmen and their activities. It rests on a database of over...

Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750.
April 1, 2002... By JONATHAN I. ISRAEL (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xxi + 810. 30 [pounds sterling]). HISTORIANS have long since recognized that studying the edges of what is conventionally accepted as the Enlightenment has given new meaning to the...

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.
April 1, 2002... By PETER LINEBAUCH and MARCUS REDIKER (London: Verso, 2001; pp. 433. 19 [pounds sterling]). THE `hidden history' recounted here is that of successive `moments of revolutionary possibility' forged throughout the Atlantic world between the...

Bodies Politic: Diseases, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.
April 1, 2002... By ROY PORTER (London: Reaktion Books, 2001; pp. 328. 25 [pounds sterling]). In Bodies Politic, Roy Porter and Reaktion have produced a wonderfully accessible work of history. At a time when most presses continue to hike up the price of...

Creating Paradise: The Building of English Country House, 1660-1880.
April 1, 2002... RICHARD WILSON and ALAN MACKlE (London/New York: Hambledon, 2000; pp. xviii + 428. 25 [pounds sterling]). IT would seem as if every aspect of the English country house had already been subjected to the minutest scrutiny: the resident men,...

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne.
April 1, 2002... By ANITA GUERRINI (Norman: U. of Oklahoma P., 2000; pp. xx + 283. $25.95; pb. $15.95). THIS book is exemplary of how much has changed for the better in approaches to the writing of biographies of influential medical practitioners. Far from...

Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa.
April 1, 2002... By PAUL E. LOVEJOY (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xviii + 357. Pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). THE publication of the second edition of Paul Lovejoy's Transformations in Slavery is something of a benchmark for those who study African...

Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe.
April 1, 2002... Edited by DAVID LAVEN and LUCY RIALL (Oxford: Berg, 2000; pp. xiii + 291. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Tins volume assembles the revised versions of papers first given at a conference in the Institute of Historical...

Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of `Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'.
April 1, 2002... By JAMES A. SECORD (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago P., 2000; pp. xx + 624. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). VESTIGES of the Natural History of Creation was a sensation from the moment it appeared in its modest red-cloth covers in October 1844....

The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League.
April 1, 2002... By PAUL A. PICKERING and ALEX TYRRELL (London/New York: Continuum/Leicester U.P., 2000; pp. 294. 45 [pounds sterling]). PICKERING and Tyrrell `both believe that we produce our best work under the pressure of each other's expectations', and...

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales.
April 1, 2002... By ROBERT WOODS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxii+447. 45 [pounds sterling]). IN this clearly written, handsomely illustrated and important book Robert Woods draws together over twenty years of his own research into all aspects of...

Acta Borussica, Neue Folge. I: Reihe, Die Protokolle des Preussischen Staatsministeriums, 1817-1934/38.
April 1, 2002... ed. JURGEN KOCKA and WOLFGANG NEUGEBAUER (Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999-2001); Band 1: 19. Marz 1817 bis 30. Dezember 1829, ed. CHRISTINA RATHGEBER (Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001; pp. 443. N.p.); ...

Das Banner der Bruderlichkeit: Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie vom Vormarz bis zum Sozialistengesetz.
April 1, 2002... By THOMAS WELSKOPP (Bonn: J. H. W. Dietz, 2000; pp. 839. DM 128). FEW topics in German history have been as well researched as that of the German labour movement. Hence any reader may well be sceptical about an undertaking which promises...

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.
April 1, 2002... By JONATHAN ROSE (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 534. 29.95 [pounds sterling]). THE purpose of this study is to enter the minds of working-class readers, to `discover what they read and how they read it'. It is conceived as an...

William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, 1841-1921: No Uncertain Voice.
April 1, 2002... By THOMAS J. MORRISSEY (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 404. 30 [pounds sterling]). WILLIAM Walsh's rule over Ireland's most populous Catholic diocese spanned virtually the entire Home Rule and revolutionary era. He was appointed...

The Tories and Ireland, 1910-1914: Conservative Party Politics and the Home Rule Crisis.
April 1, 2002... By JEREMY SMITH (Dublin: Irish Academic E, 2000; pp. 251. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE vicissitudes of Conservative Party politics before the First World War have long proved difficult for historians to explain, not least because they bear...

The First World War, vol. 1: To Arms.
April 1, 2002... By HEW STRACHAN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xix+1227. 30 [pounds sterling]). FOR once the adjective `monumental' is apposite. Hew Strachan's massive volume has been fifteen years in the making and two more are planned to follow it....

The German Offensives of 1918.
April 1, 2002... By MARTIN KITCHEN (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 284. 25 [pounds sterling]). THIS volume is one of a series on `Battles and Campaigns' edited by the indefatigable Professor Hew Strachan, but Professor Kitchen's expertise on the German Army in...

Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996.
April 1, 2002... By AVNER BEN-AMOS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 425. 1555). AVNER Ben-Amos' study of French political funerals ends with a close-up of tears trickling down Helmet Kohl's cheeks during the funeral of Francois Mitterrand in 1996. Elsewhere...

Der junge Kurt Schumacher 1895-1933.
April 1, 2002... By VOLKER SCHOBER (Bonn: Dietz, 2000; pp. 503. DM 78). VOLKER, Schober's biography deals with his subject's formative years, above all Schumacher's rise in the Wurttemberg SPD during the Weimar Republic. Schober convincingly justifies the...

University, City and State: the University of Glasgow since 1870.
April 1, 2002... Edited by MICHAEL MOSS, J. FORBES MUNRO and RICHARD H. TRAINOR (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2000; pp. 382. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE sale of its original city-centre site to a railway company enabled the University of Glasgow to move to a...

Glasgow.
April 1, 2002... By IRENE MAVER (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2000; pp. 306. Pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). THERE are many histories of Glasgow; it is one of those places whose past can be told in different and often competing ways. A couple of years ago, a...

The British Empire as a World Power.
April 1, 2002... By EDWARD INGRAM (London: Frank Cass, 2001; pp. 282. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). ELEGANTLY written, at times witty, at times acerbic, these erudite ten essays by Edward Ingram, editor of The International History Review, both stimulate and...

The World Since 1945: An International History.
April 1, 2002... By P. M. H. BELL (London: Arnold, 2001; pp. 593. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). AFTER reading 564 pages, we do not reach any uplifting climax to this wide-ranging history of international relations in the period from...

The Oxford Companion to Military History.
April 1, 2002... Edited by RICHARD HOLMES (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvi+1048. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE `companion' to this or that has, in recent years, become a popular publishing format for a number of presses. OUP have an extensive series to...

The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain.
April 1, 2002... by Neil Faulkner (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 192. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Neil Faulkner's thesis perhaps has its genesis in the familiar dictum which Tacitus (Agricola 30) put into the mouth of the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus,...

Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg.
April 1, 2002... translated and annotated by David A. Warner (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 410. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). Self-disgust is seldom a motive for the writing of history, unfortunately. In the case of bishop...

Monasticism in North-Western Europe: 800-1200.
April 1, 2002... by Tore Nyberg (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 295. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). Tore Nyberg's synthesis of the origins and spread of monasticism in northwest Europe up to AD 1200 centres on Scandinavia but includes Saxony and the Frisian...

Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800.
April 1, 2002... (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. 209. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Of two basic premises behind James Muldoon's Empire and Order, the first, defying the conventional historical divide at c. 1500, is that the political ideas of the Middle Ages,...

Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscription and Skaldic Verse.
April 1, 2002... by Judith Jesch (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2001; pp. 330. 50 [pounds sterling]). Almost a century ago, Hjalmar Falk was compiling his long tract on `Old Nordic Maritime Matters' which brought some early ship archaeology together with...

At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture and Material Life in Europe After the Year 1000.
April 1, 2002... by David Levine (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2001; pp. 431. 42.75 [pounds sterling]). By `modernization', David Levine, a demographer and an early modernist, means roughly the development of attitudes and institutions which support the...

The Lives of Thomas Becket.
April 1, 2002... selected sources translated and annotated by Michael Staunton (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 255. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Becket's claim to sanctity, stemming from the almost immediate start of miracles at the martyr's tomb, came...

Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard.
April 1, 2002... by Beverley Mayne Kienzle (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for the York Medieval Soc., 2001; pp. xix+256. 45 [pounds sterling]). Kienzle seeks in the preaching of twelfth-century Cistercians the key to the apparent contradiction between their...

Dating Undated Medieval Charters.
April 1, 2002... ed. Michael Gervers (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 200; pp. 237. 70 [pounds sterling]). This collection of papers focuses on the ongoing DEEDS project which aims, through the computer analysis of matching word patterns and formulae, to...

The Fortunes of a Norman Family: The De Verduns in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1216.
April 1, 2002... 1066-1216, by Mark S. Hagger (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2001; pp. 286. 39.38 [pounds sterling]). The de Verduns were an Anglo-Norman baronial family of middling wealth, power, influence and importance. The main features of their history...

Charters and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Society.
April 1, 2002... ed. Karl Heidecker (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 253. Euros 50). Every now and then one catches an edge of desperation in the work of students of the diplomatic of the Middle Ages, as if they suspect that we doubt their worth. They are...

Cluniacensis Ecclesia: Der cluniacensische Klosterverband, 10-12 Jahrhundert.
April 1, 2002... by Dietrich W. Poeck (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998; pp. 619. DM 128). The bulk of this impressive monograph consists of a catalogue of Cluniac abbeys and priories, with details of the way in which they became and were subjected to...

The Bolton Priory Compotus, 1286-1325: Together with a Priory Account Roll for 1377-1378.
April 1, 2002... ed. Ian Kershaw and David M. Smith (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., for Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., 2001; pp. 636. 50 [pounds sterling]). Monastic accounts can tell us a great deal about the internal life of the monastery in question, but...

Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt.
April 1, 2002... by Anthony Musson (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 274. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The opening chapter of Dr Musson's book may deter the fainthearted from going further. Perplexingly entitled `Towards a Psychology of Law',...

Medieval Children.
April 1, 2002... by Nicholas Orme (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 387. 25 [pounds sterling]). In this attractively-produced book on childhood in England from the Anglo-Saxon period to the sixteenth century (containing 125 illustrations, many in...

The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations.
April 1, 2002... by Anne Curry (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2000; pp. 474. 40 [pounds sterling]). Anne Curry has performed a valuable service to scholars, teachers and general readers by compiling this comprehensive source-book for Henry V's Agincourt...

Art, Memory and the Family in Renaissance Florence.
April 1, 2002... ed. Giovanni Ciapelli and Patricia Lee Rubin (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 316. 45 [pounds sterling]). The wealth of Florentine visual art and, on the other hand, the extraordinary store of written documents contained in the...

Coniugi nemici: La separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.
April 1, 2002... ed. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2000; pp. 570. L 64,000). `Can't a husband beat his wife?' So asked a Sienese man when upbraided for breaking his wife's arm during an argument. The normality of marital...

Nunneries, Learning and Spirituality in Late Medieval English Society: The Dominican Priory of Dartford.
April 1, 2002... by Paul Lee (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 243. 50 [pounds sterling]). This book has a broad title. Its justification is that Dartford Priory is unique. It does indeed stand out from other English nunneries. The only house of...

Inward Purity and Outward Splendour: Death and Remembrance in the Deanery of Dunwich, Suffolk, 1370-1547.
April 1, 2002... by Judith Middleton-Stewart (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., in association with The Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2001; pp. 328. 60 [pounds sterling]). This is in every sense a solid book. It is heavy to...

After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text.
April 1, 2002... by Brian Stock (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 132. N.p.). Stock seeks to explore the legacy of Augustine as a model for the Western reader through the medieval period and the Renaissance. He sees Augustine as the chief...

Erasmus the Reformer.
April 1, 2002... by A. G. Dickens and Whitney R. D. Jones (London: Methuen, 2000; pp. 367. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Historians have found Desiderius Erasmus, `Erasmus the ambivalent' (p. 64), as hard to pin down as did his contemporaries. In this...

Bishops and Reform in the English Church: 1520-1560.
April 1, 2002... by Kenneth Carleton (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2001; pp. 226. 45 [pounds sterling]). This is an interesting book. The sixteenth-century episcopate has been studied in a variety of ways over fifty years. There are a number of quality...

The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy.
April 1, 2002... ed. C. S. Knighton and D. M. Loades (Aldershot: Ashgate, for Navy Records Soc., 2001; pp. xxi + 198. 580 [pounds sterling]). In 1546 Anthony Anthony presented Henry VIII with a pictorial representation of the royal fleet, including the Mary...

English Warfare: 1511-1642.
April 1, 2002... by Mark Charles Fissel (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. xviii + 38z. Pb. n.p.). There is a need for a book on English (or preferably British) land-warfare in the Tudor and Early Stuart period. Unfortunately this is not it. Confidence is...

Mary Queen of Scots.
April 1, 2002... by Susan Watkins and Mark Fiennes (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001; pp. 224. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). This lavishly-illustrated volume makes a considerable visual impact upon the reader. On such a well-worn theme as Mary, Queen of Scots, it...

Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete.
April 1, 2002... by Sara Tilghman Nalle (Charlottesville/London: U.P. of Virginia, 2001; pp. 240. $49.50; pb. $16.95). Mad for God provides an innovative insight into popular religious deviance in early modern Spain as practised by a member of the Old...

The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850.
April 1, 2002... ed. Tim Harris (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 295. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Tim Harris's declared intention in editing this collection of nine essays is to provide a convenient overview of current trends in the understanding of...

L'Inquisizione romana: Metodologia delle fonti e storia istituzionale. Atti del seminario internazionale, Montereale Valcellina.
April 1, 2002... ed. Andrea Del Col and Giovanna Paolin (Trieste: Edizioni Universita di Trieste, 2000; pp. 347. N.p.). This latest of many similar volumes of studies on the Inquisition, published by various presses in Italy in recent years, reproduces...

Macht und Ohnmacht der Verflechtung: Rom und Bologna unter Paul V. Studien zur fruhneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik im Kirchenstaat.
April 1, 2002... by Nicole Reinhardt (Tubingen: Bibliotheca Academica Verlag, 2000; pp. 481. DM 98). This substantial volume represents the best traditions of German doctoral scholarship, even as to the numbering of its many sections. In this case,...

Irlanda y el rey prudente.(three books on Irish politics)
April 1, 2002... by Enrique Garcia Hernan (Madrid: Ed. del Laberinto, 2000; pp. 286. Pb. n.p.). Die Beziehungen zwischen Spanien und Irland im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert: Diplomatie, Handel und die soziale Integration katheolischer Exulanten, by Karin...

Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s.
April 1, 2002... ed. Micheal O Siochru (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2001; pp. 288. 35.44 [pounds sterling]). This volume brings together some of the foremost writers of early modern Irish history in a series of essays in honour of Donal Cregan. It is an...

A Companion to Milton.
April 1, 2002... ed. Thomas N. Corns (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. 528. 80 [pounds sterling]). Twenty-eight scholars from both sides of the Atlantic contributed to this Companion to Milton, edited by Thomas Corns. At the start, Barbara Lewalski gives them...

Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays.
April 1, 2002... ed. Charles W. A. Prior (Victoria: U. of Victoria P., 2000; pp. 144. Pb.n.p.). For reasons not always easy to detect, the historiography of intellectual figures often follows uneven patterns. Intense periods of great interest and...

John Bennet and the Origins of Methodism and the Evangelical Revival in England.
April 1, 2002... by Simon Ross Valentine (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow P., 1997; pp. xxii+370. $85). This is a richly documented study of an early Methodist itinerant preacher. John Bennet, who has gone down in history, and Methodist folklore, as the man who...

Kurie und Politik: Stand und Perspektiven der Nuntiaturberichtsforschung.
April 1, 2002... ed. Alexander Koller (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998; pp. 532. DM 152). The reports of Papal nuncios, whether substantial general accounts written at the end of an assignment or the week-by-week correspondence despatched to the Curia,...

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution.(book and CD-ROM)
April 1, 2002... by Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., pp. 212 + CD Rom. $50; pb. $19.95). I have seen the future, and it whirrs. For this is not a book, but an integrated multi-media package, in which old and new information...

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France: a Critical Edition.
April 1, 2002... ed. J. C. D. Clark (Stanford, CA/Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 446. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). This is the fifth English edition of Burke's classic text since 1959, but it comes from an editor with a...

Massacre at the Champ de Mars.
April 1, 2002... by David Andress (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 239. 35 [pounds sterling]). On 17 July 1791, in the aftermath of the French royal family's unsuccessful escape from the capital, the Paris national guard opened fire on a disorderly...

Napoleon.
April 1, 2002... by R. S. Alexander (London: Arnold, 2001; pp. 273. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). This ambitious and provocative book is strikingly original in its approach to some parts of its subject, yet largely derivative in its...

Napoleonische Herrschaft in Deutschland und Italien -- Verwaltung und Justiz.
April 1, 2002... ed. Christof Dipper, Wolfgang Schieder and Reiner Schulze (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1995; pp. 297. DM 98). This book well typifies the modern genre in Napoleonic studies, in which the emphasis is less on the force of personalities and...

Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution.
April 1, 2002... by Martyn Lyons (London: Macmillan, 1994; pp. 344. N.p.). Martyn Lyons has produced a work of synthesis which might well have been dedicated to its sources. Although the author quite often intrudes with cutting flourishes, sometimes...

The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870.
April 1, 2002... by Eric J. Evans (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. xxxix + 585. Pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). Since its first edition in 1983, The Forging of the Modern State has established itself as one of the best text-book introductions to Britain in this...