The English Historical Review articles from April 2004

The English Historical Review archives from April 2004

The origins of the manorial economy: new insights from late antiquity.
April 1, 2004... BETWEEN the fifth and the seventh centuries AD, the lands bordering the shores of the Mediterranean underwent profound social, political and cultural change, study of which has constituted one of the most fruitful areas of historical research...

'The greatest disgrace': the making and unmaking of JPs in Elizabethan and Jacobean England *.
April 1, 2004... IN August 1587 Lord Burghley asked the bishops for advice on the remodelling of county commissions of the peace. Scambler of Norwich apologized that his information might not be correct, for which 'I desier to be excused, for that the Commicon...

A reassessment of Anglo-French strategy during the Phony War, 1939-1940.
April 1, 2004... 'PHONY WAR' and 'Drole de guerre': two expressions in two languages used to describe the period from the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 to May 1940 when Germany launched its military offensive in the West. The expressions reflect...

The separation of portions between abbot and convent at Bury St Edmunds: the decisive years, 1278-1281.
April 1, 2004... THE separation of the property and revenues between the abbot and convent of St Edmunds first received adequate legal protection on 16 November, 1281, the date of the royal confirmation. (1) The separation existed before the Norman Conquest:...

Royal Charter Witness Lists for the Reign of Henry IV, 1399-1413 *.
April 1, 2004... FOR both William Stubbs and Frederic Maitland, royal charters were among the most important components in tracing and understanding the evolution and development of the English Constitution. (1) Yet, it is well known that when the charter rolls...

Storia di Torino.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Storia di Torino. Edited by GIUSEPPE RICUPERATI (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 9 vols., 1997-2002). GIUSEPPE Ricuperati's nine-volume Storia di Torino is a monumental achievement in all senses of the word. Each slip-cased volume is at...

Storia di Torino. I. Dalla preistoria al comune medievale.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Storia di Torino. I. Dalla preistoria al comune medievale. Edited by GIUSEPPE SERGI (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1997; pp. xxvi + 923. Eur 56.81). 2. Il basso medioevo e la prima eta moderna (1280-1536). Edited by RINALDO COMUA (Turin:...

Storia di Torino. 3. Dalla dominazione francese alla ricomposizione dello stato (1536-1630).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Storia di Torino. 3. Dalla dominazione francese alia ricomposizione dello stato (1536-1630). Edited by GIUSEPPE POCUPERATI (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1998, pp. xxxiii + 732. Eur 67.14). 4. La citta fra crisi e ripresa (1630-1730). Edited...

Storia di Torino. 6. La citta nel Risorgimento (1798-1864).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Storia di Torino. 6. La citta nel Risorgimento (1798-1864). Edited by UMBERTO LEVRA (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2000; pp. clx + 896. Eur 67.14). 7. Da Capitale politica a capitale industriale (1864-1915). Edited by UMBERTO LEVRA (Turin:...

Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066. By NICHOLS BROOKS (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xvi + 308. 40 [pounds sterling]). Communities and Warfare, 700-1400. By NICHOLAS BROOKS (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xv + 298. 40 [pounds...

Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Edited by ALAN T. THACKER and RICHARD SHARPE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xiv + 581. 85 [pounds sterling]). ACCORDING to the editors, this book aimed 'to inquire how and why...

The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284. By DAVID CARPENTER (London: Allen Lane/Penguin P., 2003; pp. xxiv + 616. 25 [pounds sterling]). To write the history of Britain 1066-1284 is a formidable task. It is true that Carpenter's...

The Experience of Crusading: Vol. I: Western Approaches; Vol. II: Defining the Crusader Kingdom.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Experience of Crusading: Vol. I: Western Approaches; Vol. II: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. Edited by MARCUS BULL, PETER EDBURY, NORMAN HOUSLEY and JONATHAN PHILLIPS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. xvi + 307 and xv + 311. 85 [pounds...

The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West. By J. HIGGITT (London: The British Library/U. of Toronto P., 2000; pp. xxii + 362 + CD-ROM. 50 [pounds sterling]). THE Murthly Hours is an 'English'...

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by S. H. RIGBY (Oxford: Blackwell, for the Historical Association, 2003; pp. xviii + 665. 85 [pounds sterling]). AT a time when the study of medieval history has minimal claims on the...

Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments: the Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. By H. G. KOENIGSBERGER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 381. 50 [pounds sterling]). PROFESSOR Koenigsberger showed his mastery of...

The Early Reformation on the Continent.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Early Reformation on the Continent. By OWEN CHADWICK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2003; pp. 446. 65 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a most enjoyable book. Owen Chadwick, always a generous writer and expansive historian, gives a highly personal...

Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Popular Politics and the English Reformation. By ETHAN H. SHAGAN (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 341. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). THE back cover of this book proclaims that 'it answers the twenty-year-old...

Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: a Social History of Calvinism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. By PHILIP BENEDICT (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2002; pp. xxvi + 670. 30 [pounds sterling]). FOR some time historians have been rather wary of writing books with the word...

Transformations of Love: the Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. By FRANCES HARRIS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. 330. 25 [pounds sterling]). IN 1672, John Evelyn, a middle-aged intellectual in government service, and...

Le Catholicisme classique et les peres de l'Eglise: Un retour aux sources (1669-1713).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le Catholicisme classique et les peres de l'Eglise: Un retour aux sources (1669-1713). By JEAN-Louis QUANTIN (Paris: Institut des Etudes Augustiniennes, 1999; pp. 672. F 170). THE development of French Catholicism during the grand siecle...

The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial. By JOHN H. LANGBEIN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. xxii + 354. 30 [pounds sterling]). IT usually comes as a surprise to those unfamiliar with the details of English legal history that advocacy in...

Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840. By WILLIAM W. HAGEN (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 679. 75 [pounds sterling]). THERE is a well-known picture of rural East-Elbian Prussia under the old regime: a...

Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism. By STEPHEN SMALL (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. 307. 45 [pounds sterling]). IN the last decade or so much has been written on Irish politics in the later...

Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820. By PETER JONES (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. xiv + 306. 45 [pounds sterling]). THIS is the latest in a series of studies which Peter Jones has made of...

Hannah More: the First Victorian.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hannah More: The First Victorian. By ANNE STOTT (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. xxiii + 384. 25[pounds sterling]). HANNAH More (1745-1833) was one of the best-selling authors and cultural commentators of her day. Her Cheap Repository...

'Democracy versus Dictatorship': Die Herausforderung des Faschismus und Kommunismus in Grossbritannien, 1932-1937.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... 'Democracy versus Dictatorship': Die Herausforderung des Faschismus und Kommunismus in Grossbritannien, 1932-1937. By CHRISTINA BtSSSFELD (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 2000; pp. 336. Eur 51.60). THE longstanding debate about the reasons...

British Strategy and Politics During the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... British Strategy and Politics During the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. By NICK SMART (Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood, 2003; pp. 267. N.p.). NICK Smart is not the first historian to find the label 'The Second World War'...

The 'Special Relationship': La 'relation speciale' entre le Royaume-Uni et les Etats Unis.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The 'Special Relationship': La "relation speciale' entre le Royaume-Uni et les Etats Unis. Edited by ANTOINE CAPET and AISSATOU SY-WONYU (Rouen: Rouen U.P., 2003; pp. 235. N.p.). THE weight of opinion among the fourteen contributors to the...

Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Edited by RICHARD BESSEL and DIRK SCHUMANN (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 363. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). ...

The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain?(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain? By LAWRENCE BLACK (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003; pp. 263. 45 [pounds sterling]). 'CONSUMPTION has always occupied an awkward place within the ideology...

Deforesting the Earth: from Prehistory to Global Crisis.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. By MICHAEL WILLIAMS (Chicago, IL: U. of Chicago P., 2003; pp.xxvi + 689. 49 [pounds sterling]). MICHAEL Williams has taken on, by his own admission, an enormous topic and produced a...

L'Europe en chemise noire: Les extremes droites europeennes de 1945 a nos jours.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... L'Europe en chemise noire: Les extremes droites europeennes de 1945 a nos jours. By PIERRE MILZA (Paris: Fayard, 2002; pp. 482. Eur 22). PIERRE Milza's study is an attempt to make sense of the wave of radical right-wing political movements...

Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 244. 35 [pounds sterling]). At the beginning of their hook Lees and Overing state:...

Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017, by Ian Howard (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003; pp. 188. 45 [pounds sterling]). Dr Howard is engaged in writing a companion volume reappraising the reign of King AEthelred...

Etudes clunisiennes.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Etudes clunisiennes, by Dominique Iogna-Prat (Paris: Picard, 2002; pp. 239. Eur 34). In this volume Dr Iogna-Prat assembles, after light revision, seven of his papers on the development of Cluny from its foundation in 910 until c.1150...

Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-79: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-79: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours, by Charles M. Padding and Francis Newton (New York: Columbia U.P., 2003; pp. 197. 34.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13...

Papato e monachesimo 'esente' nei secoli centrali del Medioevo.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Papato e monachesima 'esente' nei secoli centrali del Medioevo, ed. Nicolangelo D'Acunto (Florence: Firenze U.P., 2003; pp. 236. Eur 15). The six studies here assembled, three of them previously unpublished, concern monasteries that were...

From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta: England, 1066-1215.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta: England, 1066-1215, by Christopher Daniell (London/New York: Routledge, 2003; pp. xiv + 258. Pb.n.p.). The date limits of Christopher Daniell's book suggest that he intended it to be a basic book for a...

Surveys of the Estates of Glastonbury Abbey c.1135-1201.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Surveys of the Estates of Glastonbury Abbey c.1135-1201, ed. N. E. Stacy (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001: pp. 309. 45 [pounds sterling]). Dr Neil Stacy's edition of these twelfth-century surveys, a most welcome expansion and elaboration of his...

What were the Crusades?(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... What were the Crusades?, by Jonathan Riley-Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. 114. Pb.n.p.). In the twenty-five years since its first appearance, Jonathan Riley-Smith's attempt to provide what Hans Meyer called 'an...

The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, by Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad (tr. D. S. Richards) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 265. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Saladin remains the best-known of all the Muslim leaders at the time of the Crusades,...

Kastilien, die Staufer und das Imperium: Ein Jahrhundert politischer Kontakte im Zeichen des Kaisertums.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kastilien, die Staufer und das Imperium: Ein Jahrhundert politischer Kontakte im Zeichen des Kaisertums, by Bruno B. Meyer (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 2002; pp. 234. Eur 40). Volume 466 of the Historische Studien series belongs to a...

The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives, ed. Patricia Skinner (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2003; pp. 175. 45 [pounds sterling]). Among those medieval minorities that already attract a...

Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany, by Michael Toch (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; pp. 344. 57.50 [pounds sterling]). Michael Toch's scholarly career has focused on south-east Germany, principally Bavaria and Franconia. Since his...

Women in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Women in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500, by Jennifer Ward (Harlow: Longman, 2002; pp. 322. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). In this book (one of a series on the History of European Women) Jennifer Ward bravely tackles an impossible task. Three...

The Origins of the English Gentry.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Origins of the English Gentry, by Peter Coss (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2003; pp. 329. 45 [pounds sterling]). The gentry, it has been observed, are always rising; it is in their nature. It is the gentry's sheer vigour over the...

'Anima mea': Prieres privees et textes de devotion du Moyen Age latin.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... 'Anima mea': Prieres privees et textes de devotion du Moyen Age latin, by Jean-Francois Cottier (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. clxx + 326. Eur 84). This is a critical edition, with copious commentary and introductory material, of...

Historiam Perscrutari: Miscellanea di studi offerti al prof. Ottorino Pasquato.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Historiam Perscrutari: Miscellanea di studi offerti al prof. Ottorino Pasquato, ed. Mario Maritano (Roma: Editrice LAS, 2002; pp. 882. Eur 50). This rich Festschrift for the distinguished professor of Church History at Ateneo Salesiano in...

English in the Middle Ages.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... English in the Middle Ages, by Tim William Machan (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. 205. 45 [pounds sterling]). In this interesting and engaging book, Tim Machan examines the post-Conquest history of the functions and significance of English...

Charles V: Le roi lettre. Essai sur la pensee politique d'un regne.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Charles V: Le roi lettre. Essai sur la pensee politique d'un regne, by Jeannine Quillet (Paris: Editions Perrin, 2002; pp. 367- Eur 22.50). Jeannine Quillet's study of political thought in France during the reign of Charles V (1364-80)...

Provisioner og Processer: Den romerske Rota og dens behandling af danske sager i middelalderen.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Provisioner og Processer: Den romerske Rota og dens behandling af danske sager i middelalderen, by Per Ingesman (Aarhus: Aarhus U.P., 2003; pp. 829. N.p.). This study of Danish suits in the highest court of the Latin church over the period...

Gloucestershire's Forgotten Battle: Nibley Green, 1470.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gloucestershire's Forgotten Battle: Nibley Green, 1470, by Peter Fleming and Michael Wood (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2003; pp. 144. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). R.L. Storey's classic End of the House of Laneasttr revealed just how...

Tudor Cornwall.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Tudor Cornwall, by John Chynoweth (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2002; pp. 384. 25 [pounds sterling]). Propaganda and the Tudor State." Political Culture in the Westcountry, by J. P. D. Cooper (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2003; pp. xii + 283. 50...

The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Beginnings of English Protestantism, ed. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 242. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Twenty years ago, it was complained that the Catholics had been left...

Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England, by Will Coster (Aldershor: Ashgate, 2002, for St Andrews Studies in Reformation History; pp. 342. 52 [pounds sterling]). Baptism was a routine religious ritual beset by occasional...

Pelerinages et miracles a Guadalupe au XVIe siecle.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Pelerinages et miracles A Guadalupe au XVIe siecle, by Francoise Cremoux (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 2001; pp. 252. Eur 27.04). This study of the shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe in southwestern Spain is the text of a 1993 thesis at the...

Elizabeth's Wars: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Elizabeth's Wars: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604, by Pad E. J. Hammer (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003; pp. 324. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This is an excellent work of synthesis,...

Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England, by Elizabeth Lane Furdell (Rochester, NY: Rochester U.P., 2002; pp. 282. 50 [pounds sterling]). The interrelationship between medical men and the printing press in the eighteenth century has...

Guilds, Society and Economy in London, 1450-1800.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Guilds, Society and Economy in London, 1450-1800, ed. Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis (London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, in association with Guildhall Library (Corporation of London), 2002; pp. xvii +...

Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800, ed. Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giraldez and Richard yon Glahn (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; pp. xiii + 209. 47.50 [pounds sterling]). The bulk of this eminently useful volume derives from a...

Naming, Society and Regional Identity.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Naming, Society and Regional Identity, ed. David Postles (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2002; pp. 271. 17.50 [pounds sterling]). Ten of the eleven papers that were presented at a symposium at the University of Leicester in 1990 are published here,...

Furor et rabies: Violencia, conflicto y marginacion en la Edad Moderna.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Furor et rabies: Violencia, conflicto y marginacion en la Edad Moderna, ed. Jose I. Fortea, Juan E. Gelabert, Tomas A. Mantecon (Santander: U. de Cantabria P., 2003; pp. 501. N.p.). Social discipline, violence and tribunals of justice are...

Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe, ed. Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. xiv + 226. 49.50 [pounds sterling). Conceived for a conference on printed religious texts in early modern...

The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, by Daniel Goffman (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xxiv + 273. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). The advertising copy for this book makes a good case for it. It begins,...

Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century, by Peter N. Miller (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. xvi + 234. 30 [pounds sterling]). Frans Franken's depiction of the Interior of a Picture Gallery (c. 1625),...

Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton, by Blair Hoxby (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2003; pp. 320. 30 [pounds sterling]). Quite a spate of recent studies have been re-examining the ways in which Milton's works, both...

Warfare in the Seventeenth Century.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Warfare in the Seventeenth Century, by John Childs (London: Cassell, 2003; pp. 240. Pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Readers anticipating that the present volume will offer another of John Childs's detailed and nuanced examinations of the...

Arbiter und Friedensstiftung: Die Auseinandersetzung um den politischen Schiedsrichter im Europa der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Arbiter und Friedensstiftung: Die Auseinandersetzung um den politischen Schiedsrichter im Europa der Fruhen Neuzeit, by Christoph Kampmann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 2001; pp. 394. Pb.n.p.). In the human mind the idea of an arbiter is...

Les Annees Fouquet: Politique, societe, vie artistique et culturelle dans les annees 1650.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Les Annees Fouquet: Politique, societe, vie artistique et culturelle dans les annees 1650, ed. Chantal Grell and Klaus Malettke (Munster: LIT Verlag, 2001; pp. 131. Pb. DM 29.80). With a frankness uncharacteristic of our profession, one of...

Ingenieurs et fortifications avant Vauban: L'organisation d'un service royal aux XVIe et XVIIe siecles.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ingenieurs et fortifications avant Vauban: L'organisation d'un service royal aux XVIe et XVIIe siecles, by David Buisseret (Paris: Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2001; pp. 142. Eur 33). The present short volume is a...

Rivalites europeennes et hegemonie mondiale, XVIe--XVIIIe siecle.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Rivalites europeennes et hegemonie mondiale, XVIe--XVIIIe siecle, by Alain Hugon (Paris: Armand Colin, 2002; pp. 202. Eur 14.50). Meeting the demands of university faculties for course textbooks would seem to account for a significant part...

The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire, by Paula Sutter Fichtner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. xxiv + 222. Pb. 16.50 [pounds sterling]). In compressing her huge and intractable subject into so few pages the...

George III, King and Politician, 1760-1770.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... George III, King and Politician, 1760-1770, by Peter D. G. Thomas (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. 262. $45; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]) Fifty years ago, historians were greatly exercised about the behaviour of George III,...

Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, by Elizabeth R. Lambert (Newark: U. of Delaware P., 2003; pp. 212. 35 [pounds sterling]). The Burke of the biographical record is overwhelmingly the public man. Although over two thousand of his letters...

The French Revolution, 1787-1804.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The French Revolution, 1787-1804, by P. M. Jones (Harlow: Longman, Pearson, 2003; pp. xvii+154. Pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling]). Peter Jones's contribution to the Seminar Studies in History is intended to introduce students to the labyrinthine...

The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France, by Richard Wrigley (Oxford/New York: Berg, 2002; pp. 256. 42.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This book, which ought really to be entitled the...

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Writings on the Poor Laws.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Writings on the Poor Laws, Volume I, ed. Michael Quinn (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. 1vii + 359. 55 [pounds sterling]). The crisis years of 1795-6, when bread...

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution, ed. Philip Schofield, Catherine Pease-Watkin and Cyprian Blamires (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp....

From Contact to Conquest: Transition to British Rule in Malabar, 1790-1805.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... From Contact to Conquest: Transition to British Rule in Malabar, 1790-1805, by Margret Frenz (New Delhi: Oxford U.P., 2003, pp. 209. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). This book, the text of which has been translated into English, originated in a...

The Forgotten Mughals: a History of the Later Emperors of the House of Babar (1707-1857).(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Forgotten Mughals: A History of the Later Emperors of the House of Babar (1707-1857), by G. S. Cheema (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2002; pp. 552. Rs 895). One of the most interesting issues in the study of the Mughal Empire is,...

Thomas Davis and Ireland: a Biographical Study.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Thomas Davis and Ireland: A Biographical Study, by Helen F. Mulvey (Washington, DC: The Catholic U. of America P., 2003; pp. 278. $54.95). In one sense it would be hard to find a more attractive subject for a biography than Thomas Davis....

The Oxford Movement: a Thematic History of the Tractarians and their Times.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and their Times, by C. Brad Faught (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P., 2003; pp. 184. $29.95). The Oxford Movement has all the ingredients to appeal to a large...

Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Antoine Prost (tr. Jay Winter) (Oxford: Berg, 2002, pp. 354. Pb.n.p.). This collection of essays by Antoine Prost is an attempt...