The English Historical Review articles from February 1994

The English Historical Review archives from February 1994

Keeping the peace on the Northern Marches in the later Middle Ages.
February 1, 1994... In the year 1380 the Scottish Earl of Douglas accused a gang of English knights and esquires of committing various assaults and felonies against his tenants in time of truce. His charges were brought before a formal tribunal convened in the...

Whigs, Jacobites and Charles Spencer, Third Earl of Sunderland.
February 1, 1994... WITH the publication in 1970 of Romney Sedgwick's The House of Commons, 1715--1754, the second part of 'The History of Parliament' to appear, there was launched upon the historical world a new interpretation of eighteenth-century party...

After Palmerston: Britain and the Iberian Peninsula, 1865-1876.
February 1, 1994... PAUL HAYES, in a study of British foreign policy after the death of Palmerston, noted that, notwithstanding the retreat to a position of 'limited liability', there was still a need for 'rather active diplomacy'.(1) This verdict applies even...

Some implications of the 1885 British shift towards single-member constituencies: a note.
February 1, 1994... In 1963 James Cornford called attention, in a justly influential article, to 'a somewhat neglected factor which greatly enhanced both the actual importance and the awareness of the importance of urban Conservatism -- the settlement of...

The Origins of Early Christian Ireland.
February 1, 1994... THIS book is unusual and courageous. It is an attempt to tackle a single major problem in Irish history from a fundamentally archaeological standpoint, but also making use of written evidence. The problem is the contrast between Iron Age and...

The Danelaw.
February 1, 1994... THIS collection is in part one of many (not all) of Dr Hart's publications on the history of the Danelaw, considerably revised. More than half of a long volume is, however, new, and includes, for example, substantial studies of East Anglia...

Le Pape Innocent III et la France.
February 1, 1994... 1998 will bring the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Innocent III's election to the papal throne. Doubtless there will be numerous publications to mark the event. The present volume, however, is not a forerunner of these, but belongs to...

Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past.
February 1, 1994... JANET Coleman is one of those rare scholars who, despite modern academic specialism, brings to the study of medieval thought the combination of historical, philosophical, theological and literary skills and interests which the subject...

The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: From Lyons to Alcazar.
February 1, 1994... THIS major study, which its author describes as a 'general survey', ranges widely in both time and space, carried along by its considerable verve and brisk style. The book covers three hundred years of action which moves from Syria to...

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.
February 1, 1994... As HIS title indicates, Eamon Duffy's central focus is the liturgy. Two-thirds of his book is about the forms of traditional religion; the last third shows how this structure of belief was dismantled and eventually displaced. We learn here...

English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society Under the Tudors.
February 1, 1994... THERE has been a marked trend in the last two decades to stress the extent of popular conservatism in the English Reformation and in this Christopher Haigh has taken a prominent part, both in writing a number of revisionary articles himself...

Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653.
February 1, 1994... PROFESSOR Brenner's enormous new book is an impressive tour de force which elaborates and greatly expands the thesis which he first advanced in an article in Past & Present two decades ago. It provides both an almost inexhaustible mine of...

A History of the French Working Class, 2 vols.
February 1, 1994... ROGER Magraw has attempted an ambitious project -- a study of the non-agricultural working class from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the eve of the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on analyzing and explaining the development of...

Labour's War: The Labour Party and the Second World War.
February 1, 1994... Labour's War is the first scholarly history of the Labour party during the Second World War to be based on extensive research from published and unpublished sources. This archival ballast lends the book an undeniable air of confident...

The European Rescue of the Nation-State.
February 1, 1994... TAKEN together, these two books represent a major contribution to the reconsideration of post-war Western Europe by those scholars sometimes referred to as 'historical political economists'. Milward's book is a sequel to his influential...

Rebuilding Europe: Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction.
February 1, 1994... TAKEN together, these two books represent a major contribution to the reconsideration of post-war Western Europe by those scholars sometimes referred to as 'historical political economists'. Milward's book is a sequel to his influential...

The Civilizations of Asia and the Middle East: Before the European Challenge.
February 1, 1994... It is with some trepidation that the reviewer settled down to read The Civilizations of Asia and the Middle East. Before the European Challenge, by Jaroslav Krejci, assisted by Anna Krejcova. (London: Macmillan, 1990; pp. xiii + 348....

Papstreskripte im fruhen Mittelalter: diplomatische und rechtsgeschichtliche Studien zum Brief-Corpus Gregors des Groben.
February 1, 1994... The purpose of Papstreskripte im fruben Mittelalter: diplomatische und rechtsgeschichtliche Studien zum Brief-Corpus Gregors des Grossen, by Ernst Pitz (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1990; pp. 382. DM 108), is to shed light, using the...

Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England.
February 1, 1994... Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (Oxford: Oxford U. Committeee for Archaeology, 1989; pp. 213. [pound]25) is a multidisciplinary collection of essays by historians, archaeologists, metallurgists,...

Studien zur Bewertung von Zahlenangaben in der Geschichtsschreibung des fruheren Mittelalters: Die Decem Libri Historiarum Gregors von Tours und die Chronica Reginos von Prum.
February 1, 1994... Bede made perhaps the most singificant contribution to literature and practice in the calculation of dates in early medieval Europe, but he was not alone in seeing the need to place events in time, and in their relation to God's providential...

Archaeology, Economy and Society: England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... Books should, on the whole, be judged by the targets their authors set for themselves rather than by the expectations of reviewers. David A. Hinton's aims and aspirations in Archaeology, Economy and Society. England from the Fifth to the...

Studi Gregoriani, vol. 8: La riforma gregoriana e l'Europa.
February 1, 1994... Students of the Gregorian Reform face an unenviable prospect. The secondary literature on specialist aspects of the subject is vast, while the available syntheses date back for the most part to before the last war and have inevitable been...

Domesday Book Studies.
February 1, 1994... Although complete in themselves, Domesday Book Studies, ed. R. W. H. Erskine, and The Herefordshire Domesday (3 vols. London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1987-88; pp. xi + 179, 50, unpaginated. [pound]240) form part of a series intended...

The Hermit Monks of Grandmont.
February 1, 1994... The history of the austere order of hermit monks of Grandmont has been explored in some detail by various scholars, notably Dom John Becquet in France and Dr Rose Graham in England. But until now the order has lacked an up-to-date outline...

The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-making in Medieval Art.
February 1, 1994... 'When I first saw the statue of St. Gerald, set over the altar... and so clearly fashioned in the likeness of a human figure,... laughing at my friend Bernier... I burst out in Latin with this comment: "What do you make of the idol,...

Medieval Fortifications.
February 1, 1994... Recent years have seen a steady flow of often well-produced and copiously illustrated popular studies of the castle. Many of these, without breaking much new ground, have profited by the current vogue for 'interpretation' with the ever...

England in the Twelfth Century.
February 1, 1994... England in the Twelfth Century, ed. Daniel Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1990; pp. xii + 260. [pound]49.50) comprises the texts of the sixteen papers given at the Harlaxton Symposium in 1988 and seventy-nine illustrations. No attempt...

Das Kreuzfahrerfurstentum Galilaa.
February 1, 1994... For the last fifteen years Professor Hans Mayer has been at the centre of a circle of German scholars, mostly his pupils, who have been studying in minute detail the lordships in the kingdom of Jerusalem. The body of work associated with this...

Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300.
February 1, 1994... Some years ago R. R. Davies published an essay with the provocative title 'In Praise of British History'; now, in Domination and Conquest. The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xviii + 134....

Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... Both Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century, by Elspeth Whitney (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Soc., Trans. vol. lxxx, pt. 1, 1990; pp. 169. Pb. $20) and L'Eglise et la science: Histoire...

L'Eglise et la science: Histoire d'un malentendu, De Saint Augustin a Galilee.
February 1, 1994... Both Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century, by Elspeth Whitney (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Soc., Trans. vol. lxxx, pt. 1, 1990; pp. 169. Pb. $20) and L'Eglise et la science: Histoire...

Precis d'histoire rurale de la Belgique.
February 1, 1994... Adriaan Verhulst, author of a fundamental work on the landed properties of the abbey of St Bavon in Ghent from the seventh to the fourteenth century (1958), followed by a considerable number of publications on Belgia agriculture and...

Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World.
February 1, 1994... Richard C. Dales's Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990; pp. 303. Dfl140), is a valuable study of a central philosophical debate, which stays deliberately close to medieval texts from the Carolingian...

L'Emirato sulle montagne: Note per una storia della resistenza musulmana in Sicilia nell'eta di Federico II di Svevia.
February 1, 1994... The rebellion of the Muslims of Sicily against their Christian rulers was the central event in the history of the island in the first half of the thirteenth century. From 1189 until 1246 the mountainous inteior of western Sicily constituted,...

The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Fifth Year of the Reign of King Henry III: Michaelmas 1221.
February 1, 1994... The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Fifth Year of the Reign of King Henry III: Michaelmas 1221, ed. David Crook (Lincoln: J. W. Ruddock, for Pipe Roll Soc., New Ser. vol. xlviii, 1990; pp. lxi + 371. N.p.), shows an Exchequer emerging from a...

Blanche de Castille.
February 1, 1994... A good example of the French penchant for colourful, narrative-based royal biography is provided by Gerard Sivery's Blanche de Castille (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. 293. Pb. F98). Though firmly rooted in the chronicle, literary and official...

Otto von Freising als Diozesan- und Reichsbischof.
February 1, 1994... Cornelia Kirchner-Feyerabend's Otto von Freising als Diozesan- und Reichsbischof (Frankfurt am Main/Berne: Peter Lang, 1990; pp. 355. Pb. DM34) concentrates (as clearly stated) not on the great chronicle and history for which Otto is justly...

A Tuscan Monastery and its Social World: San Michele of Guamo, 1156-1348.
February 1, 1994... Duane J. Osheim's A Tuscan Monastery and its Social World: San Michele of Guamo, 1156--1348 (Rome: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 1989; pp. ix + 224. Pb. L45.000) is a lucid institutional study of a Benedictine monastery in the vicinity of the...

Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance.
February 1, 1994... For Hispanists, the year 1984 was important because it marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfonso X of Castile. Perhaps not surprisingly, well over a hundred books relating to him and to the Alfonsine legacy have been...

King Dinis of Portugal and the Alfonsine Heritage.
February 1, 1994... For Hispanists, the year 1984 was important because it marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfonso X of Castile. Perhaps not surprisingly, well over a hundred books relating to him and to the Alfonsine legacy have been...

The Political Development of the British Isles: 1100-1400.
February 1, 1994... 'It is too easily forgotten that more than half the geographical area of the English dominions in the British isles was far from being reduced to the condition of the regions that lay south of the Humber and east of the Severn'. So remarks...

Terroirs et communautes rurales dans l'Europe occidentale au Moyen Age.
February 1, 1994... The title of Gerard Sivery's book, Terroris et communautes rurales dans l'Europe occidentale au Moyen Age (Lille: Presses Universitaires, 1990; pp. 248. F120), is somewhat misleading. Although there are references, for comparison, to other...

Scotland and Scandinavia: 800-1800.
February 1, 1994... In September 1987 the first Mackie Symposium for historical study of Scotland's overseas links was held at the University of Aberdeen, and it is the papers given there that make up the bulk of Scotland and Scandinavia, 800--1800, ed. Grant G....

La aljama sarracena de Huesca en el siglo XIV.
February 1, 1994... In a deceptively straightforward book, La aljama sarracena de Huesca en el siglo XIV (Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1989; pp. xxii + 275. Pb.n.p.), Blanca Basanez Villaluenga tells the story of the Muslim quarter...

The Receivers' Accounts of the City of Exeter: 1304-1353.
February 1, 1994... The Receivers' Accounts of the City of Exeter, 1304--1353, ed. Margery M. Rowe and John M. Draisey (Exeter: Devon & Cornwall Record Soc., NS vol. xxxii, 1989; pp. xxxi + 128. Pb. [pound]12. Available from Asst. Sec. to the Society, 7 The...

Work in Towns: 850-1850.
February 1, 1994... The reader may be misled by the title of Work in Towns, 850--1850 (Leicester: U. P., 1990; pp. ix + 250. [pound]29.50), ed. Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene. Here is no concerted attempt to analyse the concept of work; instead, a...

Court Rolls of Ramsey, Hepmangrove and Bury: 1268-1600.
February 1, 1994... The publication of the records of medieval seignorial courts poses great problems for editors and publishers, because their bulk means that a few years of proceedings can fill hundreds of printed pages, and their potential users need to...

Childhood in the Middle Ages.
February 1, 1994... The polemical aim of Shulamith Shahar's comprehensive and scholarly review, Childhood in the Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 1990; pp. x + 342. [pound]35), is explicit from the very beginning, where she argues that Aries was wrong in...

Histoire des bibliotheques francaises. Les bibliotheques medievales du vi siecle a 1530.
February 1, 1994... The first volume of the Histoire des bibliotheques francaises. Les bibliotheques medievales du [vi.sup.e] siecle a 1530, ed. Andre Vernet (Paris: Promodis/Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1989; pp. xxiv + 463. N.p.) is an admirably...

La Maison de Savoie et le pays de Vaud.
February 1, 1994... A band of specialists based in Lausanne has in recent years been identifying, publishing, and writing up much of the source material of the medieval Pays de Vaud. The symposium edited by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Jean-Francois Poudret,...

Geld en macht. De Gentse stadsfinancien en de Bourgondische staatsvorming, 1384-1453.
February 1, 1994... Although money does not always buy happiness, at least it often confers power. The question of how the dukes of Burgundy tried to increase their power by gradually taking over the urban finances of Ghent is discussed in great detail by Marc...

L'Honneur de la couronne de France. Quatre libelles contre les Anglais, vers 1418-vers 1429.
February 1, 1994... Fourteen years ago Alan Ryder's mainly administrative study of The Kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous. The Making of a Modern State (rev. ante, xciii. 395) established him as that rare phenomenon -- an expert in the medieval...

The Kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous.
February 1, 1994... The study of French political texts produced by the great controversies of the Hundred Years War has made huge strides in the past few decades. It is now much easier to appreciate the contribution of the written word to the formation of...

Nord und Sud in der deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Akten des Kolloquiums veranstaltet zu Ehren von Karl Jordan, 1907-1984.
February 1, 1994... Nord und Sud in der deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Akten des Kolloquiums veranstaltet zu Ehren von Karl Jordan, 1907-1984 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1990; pp. 249. DM58). Besides a handsome laudatio of Jordan by Horst Fuhrmann and an...

Lebenslehren und Weltentwurfe im Ubergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit. Politik-Bildung-Naturkunde-Theologie.
February 1, 1994... Lebenslehren und Weltentwurfe im Ubergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit. Politik-Bildung-Naturkunde-Theologie, ed. Hartmut Boockmann, Bernd Moeller and Karl Stackmann (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989; pp. 589. Pb. DM280) contains papers...

Nichtkonigliche Residenzen im spatmittelalterlichen England.
February 1, 1994... Kurt-Ulrich Jaschke's Nichtkonigliche Residenzen im spatmittelalterlichen England (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1990; pp. 344. DM94) is as handsome a volume as could be wished, furnished with end-paper maps, indexes and thirty plan/elevations of...

Los mudejares de Castilla y otros estudios de historia medieval andaluza.
February 1, 1994... Los mudejares de Castilla y otros estudios de historia medieval andaluza (Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1989; pp. 367. Pb. n.p.), consists of previously unpublished work. Nearly a third of the book is devoted to the study which gives the...

The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence.
February 1, 1994... The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence (Princeton: U. P., 1990; pp. xvi + 302. $47.50) tells a persuasive story of the advancement of philosphical learning, both Platonic and Aristotelian, in the great quattrocento city and of...

The Hours of Richard III.
February 1, 1994... The Hours of Richard III (Stroud: Alan Sutton, for Richard III & Yorkist History Trust, 1990; pp. X + 133. [pound]25), a study of Lambeth MS 474, 'is justified more by his ownership than by any other single factor'. The manuscript, here dubbed...

Archivio di Stato di Firenze. Introduzione e inventario.
February 1, 1994... Archivio di Stato di Firenze. Introduzione e inventario, comp. Paolo Viti and Raffaella Maria Zaccaria (Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali/Archivi di Stato, 1989; pp. xxxii + 623. Pb. n.p.). This is undoubtedly the most...

Before Copyright: the French Book-Privilege System, 1498-1526.
February 1, 1994... The privilege or commercial concession cited on the title page of many sixteenth-century French books has not attracted much attention from historians, even though it appears on the majority of new books from the 1520s onwards, and much...

Patrons and Performance: Early Tudor Household Revels.
February 1, 1994... Suzanne R. Westfall, in Patrons and Performance: Early Tudor Household Revels (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xv + 264. [pound]30) takes us into the world of the English aristocratic great household between 1485 and 1558. She seeks to...

The Celts and the Renaissance: Tradition and Innovation.
February 1, 1994... In asking the six main speakers at the Eighth International Congress of Celtic Studies to address as their main theme The Celts and the Renaissance: Tradition and Innovation, ed. Glanmor Williams and Robert Owen Jones (Cardiff: U. of Wales...

Roman Canon Law in Reformation England.
February 1, 1994... In the historiography of the English Reformation the latest clarity to be shattered is the supposed marginalization of Roman canon law following the break with the papacy. The case seemed simple: with the king replacing the pope, canon law...

Kardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi und seine Reform der Aegidianischen Konstitutionen.
February 1, 1994... Close textual analysis, in the legal tradition, is the hallmark of the concise work by Christiane Hoffmann, Kardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi und seine Reform der Aegidianischen Konstitutionen (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989; pp. 207. Pb....

Calendar of Assize Records: Home Circuit Indictments, Elizabeth I and James I, Introduction.
February 1, 1994... As publication of J. S. Cockburn's ten volumes of calendars of assize records has proceeded (rev. ante, xcii. 655; xciv. 923; xcvi. 908; xcviii. 866; c. 663), historians may have wondered whether the results justified these massive labours...

A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
February 1, 1994... During the century between 1543 and 1639, a period sometimes referred to Eurocentrically as 'the first opening of the country' or 'the Christian century,' Japan experienced her first sustained contacts with the West. Outside Japan, the main...

L'epoque de la reforme et du Concile de Trente.
February 1, 1994... Volume XIV of the Histoire du droit et des institutions de l'eglise en occident is the work of Jean Bernhard, Charles Lefebvre and Francis Rapp: L'epoque de la reforme et du Concile de Trente (Paris: Editions Cujas, 1990; pp. 447* F320). The...

Die Kirchenratsprotokolle der Reformierten Gemeinde Emden, 1557-1620.
February 1, 1994... Students of sixteenth-century Calvinism, and of the Dutch Revolt, have long recognized the importance of Emden. Not only was the town an important Reformed outpost in the predominantly Lutheran Empire, it also for two generations served as a...

Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany, A Chronicle of their Lives.
February 1, 1994... A meticulous search for letters written by children to their parents has finally resulted in a fine book and a unique account of adolescence and young adulthood in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Steven Ozment, one of the leading...

Piante di popoli e strade. Capitani di Parte Guelfa, 1580-1595.
February 1, 1994... The collection of maps reproduced in lavish facsimile in Piante di popoli e strade. Capitani di Parte Guelfa, 1580--1595, ed. Giuseppe Pansini (2 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1989; pp. xxxviii + 694. L980,000) constitutes the oldest known...

God's Obvious Design: Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988, with an Edition and Translation of the Account of Francisco de Cuellar.
February 1, 1994... Collections are frequently uneven, but God's Obvious Design. Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988, with an Edition and Translation of the Account of Francisco de Cuellar, ed. P. Gallagher and D. W. Cruickshank (London: Tamesis...

Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique.
February 1, 1994... The Florentine catasto of 1427 is not a cadastral survey. Fortunately, the conference proceedings, Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique ed. J.-L. Biget, J.-C. Herve and Y. Thebert (Rome: Ecole Francaise de...

Camden Miscellany, XXX.
February 1, 1994... Ranging over four centuries, the Camden Miscellany, XXX, Camden Society Fourth Series, Vol. xxxix (London: Royal Historical Soc., 1990; pp. 540. N.p.), is a heftier and even more miscellaneous volume than usual. The quality of editing and...

English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon: 1550-1646.
February 1, 1994... The principal achievement of English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550--1646, ed. Joyce Lorimer (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 171, 1989; pp. xxvi + 499. [pound]25) is that it sheds new light on the diversity of...

Marginal Scotland.
February 1, 1994... The extensive study of relations between Scotland, England and the Continent in the period between 1560 and 1650 as surveyed in John Nyren Buchanan's Marginal Scotland (2 vols. New York/Berne: Peter Lang, 1989; pp. 361, 348. SFr 70) starts...

The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade: 1560s-1620s.
February 1, 1994... The enormous importance of English exports of semi-finished cloth by the Merchants Adventurers is well known, and the role of the Merchants in shifting their mart from Antwerp to new mart towns in the United Provinces and northwest Germany...

Cooperation to Competition: English Perspective and Policy on Anglo-Dutch Economic Relations during the Reign of James I.
February 1, 1994... The enormous importance of English exports of semi-finished cloth by the Merchants Adventurers is well known, and the role of the Merchants in shifting their mart from Antwerp to new mart towns in the United Provinces and northwest Germany...

Galileo: Pioneer Scientist.
February 1, 1994... Galileo specialists will probably find things of interest in Stillman Drake's Galileo: Pioneer Scientist (Toronto/Buffalo: U. of Toronto P., 1990; pp. xviii + 261. [pound]24). Other readers are liable to be seriously misled. Beneath the...

Great Britain's Solomon: King James VI and I in His Three Kingdoms.
February 1, 1994... Great Britain's Solomon: King James VI and I in his Three Kingdoms, by Maurice Lee, Jr (Urbana/Chicago: U. of Illinois P., 1990; pp. xvi + 332. $32.50) is a useful book. It follows up the insight of Dr Wormald's famous article, 'James VI and...

Hugo Grotius and International Relations.
February 1, 1994... Among the many lectures commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Grotius in 1983 was an Oxford series arranged by the late Hedley Bull. His untimely death held up the plan to publish them, but the book has since been...

A Political History of Munhumutapa, c. 1400-1902.
February 1, 1994... The Shona-speaking peoples, who inhabit all of the Zimbabwe plateau and the adjacent coastlands of southern Mozambique, gave birth to scores of little states, of which three, by dint of conquering their neighbours and subjecting them to...

Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War.
February 1, 1994... Brampton Bryan is inescapably remembered for the royalist siege in 1643 and the defence managed by the prolific letter-writer Lady Brilliana Harley. Puritans and Roundheads. The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil...

Parliamentary Army Chaplains: 1642-1651.
February 1, 1994... Historians have often been distrustful of the ability of the rank and file of the British armed forces to think for themselves, and when soldiers vote for political change, as at the end of the Civil War and the Second World War, have wanted...