The English Historical Review articles from February 1996

The English Historical Review archives from February 1996

The transformation of knighthood in early thirteenth-century England.
February 1, 1996... It has long been accepted that the thirteenth century was a time of great change in the nature of knighthood in England. The men of property and standing in local society who held the title of knight at the beginning of the fourteenth century...

The international mercenary market in the sixteenth century: Anglo-French competition in Germany, 1543-50.
February 1, 1996... When Henry VIII declared war on France in June 1543, he was faced by the need to build an army that could operate seriously on the battlefields of Europe. He quickly found, as had the major European powers, that there could be no effective army...

British conservation and class politics in the 1920s.
February 1, 1996... The Socialist appears to restrict his expression of comradeship within class limits, while our conception of it knows no such barriers. The Conservative stands for the unity of a nation, and of all interests, classes and creeds within it. The...

The count, the bishop and the abbot: Armengol VI of Urgel and the Abbey of Valladolid. (includes appendix)
February 1, 1996... Among the holdings of the archive of Palencia Cathedral there survives what is, to all appearances, an original mandate of Count Armengol VI of Urgel (1102-54).(1) It is a fairly unprepossessing document, written on a small scrap of parchment...

Colonization activities in the Frankish East: the example of Castellum Regis (Mi'ilya).
February 1, 1996... In the centre of the Christian village of Mi'ilya, about twenty kilo-metres north-east of Acre, on a hill facing a fertile valley, there are the remains of the Frankish fortress of Castellum Regis. The castle was surveyed already in the...

An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire: 1300-1914.
February 1, 1996... This is a large and important book on a very large and very important subject. The Ottoman state is interpreted not just in its own terms, with a firm base in Ottoman sources, but also in the broad comparative perspective of its 'global context'....

Husitska Revoluce, 4 vols.
February 1, 1996... Frantisek Smahel's Husitska revoluce is a splendid synthesis which draws upon the massive work of several generations of both Czech and international historians and admirably reflects the present state of research on the Hussite movement. At the...

Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership: 1650-1950.
February 1, 1996... This is a very long book, more than 700 pages of text, exclusive of notes, on an extremely interesting and important aspect of English social history, albeit one which has sometimes been seen as rather inaccessible - the legal arrangements...

Gladstone, 1875-1898.
February 1, 1996... Rarely can a single scholar have re-mapped a whole historical territory so grandly as H. C. G. Matthew has done in the case of Gladstone in particular and of Victorian politics and culture in general. The commission to edit Gladstone's vast...

La Frances des Annees Noires, 2 vols.
February 1, 1996... English commentators continue to complain that France hesitates to grapple with her wartime past. In these two amply illustrated, thoroughly erudite volumes, the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present discusses the fate of France, from the Munich...

The English.
February 1, 1996... A Prague schoolboy came to England in 1939. Now, after more than half a century among them, during which time he contributed enormously to understanding their constitutional history, the late Geoffrey Elton has written a book on The English...

Death in Towns. Urban Responses to the Dying and Dead: 100-1600.
February 1, 1996... Steven Bassett's Death in Towns. Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600 (Leicester: U.P., 1992; pp. x + 258. [pounds]49.50) results from a conference held at the University of Birmingham in April 1991, the second in a new series...

Emperor, Prefects and Kings: The Roman West, 395-565.
February 1, 1996... P.S. Barnwell's Emperor, Prefects and Kings. The Roman West, 395-565 (London: Duckworth, 1992; pp. 248. [pounds]35) sets out to examine what the author terms (p. I) 'the administrative structure of the western half of the Roman Empire in the...

Theoderic in Italy.
February 1, 1996... John Moorhead's Theoderic in Italy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992; pp. 300. [pounds]35) is based mainly on the literary sources. The fast-growing archaeological evidence is deliberately subordinated, and hence, religion, politics, ideology, and...

The Early State and the Towns: Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy, AD 568-774.
February 1, 1996... A good new book in English on Lombard Italy is always welcome, and Dick Harrison's The Early State and the Towns. Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy, AD 568-774 (Lund: U.P., 1993; pp. xviii + 310. Pb. SEK240), is both useful and learned....

The Ruthwell Cross.
February 1, 1996... The 1989 Princeton colloquium on the Ruthwell cross brought together some of the leading contributors to the current revival of interest in this major monument. The proceedings have now appeared in The Ruthwell Cross (Princeton: U.P., for Index...

The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia.
February 1, 1996... The question of when Beowulf was composed, and how, has been so avidly re-opened and re-answered over the last fifteen years that the poem seems to grow more and more unfathomable just when historians grow more and more inclined to exploit it, as...

Aux Sources de la Gestion Publique, Enquete Lexicographique Sur.
February 1, 1996... One of the most vigorous and enthusiastic schools of early medieval socio-economic historians currently active in France is, unfortunately, devoted to proving a theory that I find totally unfounded: that the late Roman taxation system survived...

Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies.
February 1, 1996... David N. Dumville's Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England. Four Studies (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1992; pp. x + 193. [pounds]29.50) is a book of great interest, value, and finesse of scholarship. It is primarily about...

Pouvoirs et Libertes au Temps des Premiers Capetiens.
February 1, 1996... The fourteen studies which, together with an introduction by J. Schneider, make up Pouvoirs et libertes au temps des premiers Capetiens, ed. Elisabeth Magnou-Nortier (Maulevrier: Editions Herault, 1993; pp. 326. Pb. F160) originated as lectures...

Cnut: The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century.
February 1, 1996... Cnut's reign in England (1016-35) is, like Oliver Cromwell's protectorate, an interlude of doubtful legitimacy but of undoubted grandeur, a troublesome conjugation. M. K. Lawson, in his Cnut. The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century...

Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony, c.970-c.1130.
February 1, 1996... Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade. The Limousin and Gascony c. 970-c. 1130, by Marcus Bull (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1993; pp. xiv + 328. [pounds]40), is a valuable addition to the growing literature concerned with the Western...

The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century.
February 1, 1996... Over some sixty years, the published work of Gerd Tellenbach has been primarily in the two closely related areas of the development and functioning of the medieval monastic order and the evolution of the German aristocracy. Like his profoundly...

Une Chancellerie Episcopale au XII Siecle: Le cas d'Arras.
February 1, 1996... Benoit-Michel Tock's Une Chancellerie episcopale au [XII.sup.e] siecle. Le cas d'Arras (Louvain-le-Neuve: Universite Catholique, 1991; pp. xviii + 310 + 13 micro fiches. Pb. BF 1500) should be used in conjunction with the author's edition of the...

Elisabeth of Schonau: A Twelfth-Century Visionary.
February 1, 1996... In Elisabeth of Schonau. A Twelfth-Century Visionary (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1992; pp. x + 211. [pounds]25), Anne L. Clark achieves an impressive balance between the study of a unique woman and the recreation of the historical...

Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales.
February 1, 1996... Huw Pryce begins Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1993; pp. xvii + 292. [pounds]35) with an admirably informative account of the legal literature which, in the absence of records of secular or ecclesiastical...

The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos: 1143-1180.
February 1, 1996... In The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xix + 557. [pounds]60) Paul Magdalino sets out to restore Manuel Comnenus to his rightful position among the greatest rulers of the twelfth century. His reign has always...

The Making of the Common Law.
February 1, 1996... If a worthy successor to Holdsworth's History of English Law is ever written, the authors of the medieval volumes will have to pay careful attention to Paul Brand's informative and meticulously detailed papers on the early history of the common...

Tankred von Lecce: Normannischer Konig von Sizilien, 1190-1194.
February 1, 1996... The reign of Tancred of Lecce as King of Sicily between January 1190 and February 1194 is often seen as a mere interlude between the death of the last undisputed king of the Norman line, William II, and the conquest of southern Italy by the...

The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500.
February 1, 1996... The chief merit of David Nicholas's The Evolution of the Medieval World. Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500 (London: Longman, 1992; pp. xiv + 554. [pounds]34; pb. [pounds]14.99) is its range. It not only spans nearly twelve...

Tre Eremo e Citta: Studi su Francesco d'Assisi e sul Francescanesimo Medievale.
February 1, 1996... It would hardly be possible now to write a book about the major themes of early Franciscan history based on new documents, deep research and deploying entirely novel conclusions. This is clearly not the aim of Grado Giovanni Merlo in Tra eremo e...

Receipt and Issue Rolls for the Twenty-Sixth Year of the Reign of King Henry III: 1241-2.
February 1, 1996... Few institutions of medieval government have been studied in such detail as the English royal exchequer. It therefore comes as a particular delight to discover that there are aspects of exchequer administration that have still to yield up their...

Comuni in Guerra: Armi ed Eserciti Nell'Italia Delle Citta.
February 1, 1996... Aldo A. Settia's Comuni in guerra. Armi ed eserciti nell'Italia delle citta (Bologna: CLUEB, 1993; pp.347. Pb. L38,000) appears in the excellent series 'Biblioteca di Storia Urbana medievale'. It contains fourteen papers, of which nine have...

The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians.
February 1, 1996... Documents for the British medieval book-holdings of three religious orders survive so sparsely that they occupy just one volume of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: Vol. III: The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and...

Marco Polo's Book.
February 1, 1996... One may or may not agree with John Critchley's statement that 'All too often [Marco] Polo's book is a tedious recital of "one damned thing after another"' (p. 50), but surely one cannot withhold admiration for the author who could write a book as...

Statuti di Verona del 1327, 2 vols.
February 1, 1996... Italy's current recession and political turmoil seem thankfully not to hamper ongoing publication of important series of historical sources for the northeast: thus the medieval Fonti per la Sotria della Terraferma veneta (cf. ante, cvii. 702),...

The Matter of Scotland: Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland.
February 1, 1996... The Matter of Scotland. Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland, by R. James Goldstein (Lincoln/London: U. of Nebraska P., 1993; pp. xv + 386. [pounds]38), described by the author as 'a case study in power and its representations in historical...

Handellingen van de Leden en van de Staten van Vlaanderen: Regering van Filips de Goede, 10 September 1419-15 Juni 1467, Tot de Onderwerping van Brugge, 4 Maart 1438.
February 1, 1996... The purpose of an impressive series of extracts from town, castelry and government accounts containing information on the consultations among the so-called Members of Flanders (the towns of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres and the district named the Franc...

From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in Italian Renaissance.
February 1, 1996... About 1390 the Byzantine emperor, anxious for support against the Turks, dispatched Manuel Chrysoloras to Venice, and in 1408 to France, England and Spain. In 1396 the Florentine Studio offered the same Chrysoloras a salary for teaching Greek....

The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory.
February 1, 1996... In the course of establishing his case that no one but Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel can plausibly have written the Morte Darthur, P. J. C. Field makes a telling comparison between the 'normal canons of probability' and 'those of detective...

A State of Deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries.
February 1, 1996... In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the tiny city-state of Ragusa achieved a dazzling economic success, with its fleet rivalling those of Venice and Genoa. It enjoyed peace with its neighbours, and a remarkable degree of social stability at...

New World Encounters.
February 1, 1996... Most of the essays in New World Encounters, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1993; pp. xviii + 344. $45; pb. $15) have already appeared in the journal Representations; all but two of these were in a single issue,...

Julius II: The Warrior Pope.
February 1, 1996... The 'Papa terrible' - notorious, Guicciardini wrote, for 'his very difficult nature' and 'for the magnificence with which he always outshone all others' - is at last the subject of a serious study in English, thanks to Christine Shaw's Julius...

Collected Works of Erasmus, 2 vols.
February 1, 1996... Recent volumes in the excellent and lavishly produced edition of Erasmus's works in English reveal both the many sides of the humanist reformer and the essential unity of his thought. Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. LXXV: Poems, and Vol. LXXVI:...

Factional Politics and the English Reformation, 1520-1540.
February 1, 1996... In what has clearly been a labour of love over a great many years, Joseph S. Block offers a narrative of Factional Politics and the English Reformation, 1520-1540 (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Royal Historical Soc., 1993; pp. xi + 176....

Henry VIII and the English Reformation.
February 1, 1996... Richard Rex's Henry VIII and the English Reformation (London: Macmillan, 1993; pp. x + 205. [pounds]30; pb. [pounds]8.99) is more than a useful undergraduate survey. Eschewing a narrative approach, it is a series of essays on aspects of the...

Princes and Propaganda: Electoral Saxon Art of the Reformation.
February 1, 1996... Carl C. Christensen, already well known for his study Art and the Reformation in Germany (1979), sets out in the present essay, Princes and Propaganda. Electoral Saxon Art of the Reformation (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publ., 1992;...

Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados.
February 1, 1996... Ever since Marcel Bataillon discussed the 'alumbrados' in his magisterial study Erasme et l'Espagne in 1937, they have remained an intriguing phenomenon for students of Spanish ecclesiastical history and of mysticism in general. For like the...

Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth: Deep Structure, Discourse and Disguise.
February 1, 1996... The perils of the current fashion for 'discourse' in place of evidence-controlled analysis are handsomely illustrated in a collection of essays on Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth. Deep Structure, Discourse and Disguise, ed. Paul A....

Community and the Clergy: Bristol and the Reformation, c. 1530-c.1570.
February 1, 1996... True to her title, Community and Clergy. Bristol and the Reformation, c. 1530-C. 1570 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1993; pp. x + 319. [pounds]40), Martha C. Skeeters is particularly concerned to chart the experience of Bristol's clergy, that is, of...

The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage.
February 1, 1996... Many different sorts of historian have cause to be grateful to Valerie Wayne for the service she has performed in making more accessible an interesting but relatively little known book, Edmund Tilney's The Flower of Friendship. A Renaissance...

Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol: 1546-1603.
February 1, 1996... Sheila Lang and Margaret McGregor's edition of Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol, 1546-1603 (Stroud: Alan Sutton, for Bristol Record Soc., 1993; pp. xxiii + 145. [pounds]10 plus [pounds]1.50 p.&p., from Secretary of the Society, Dept. of Historical...

L'Assassinat de Coligny.
February 1, 1996... Revisionism in early modern political history has crossed the Channel. The starting-point of the short, sharp and lively reappraisal of events leading up to the Massacre of St Bartholomew in Jean-Louis Bourgeon's L'Assassinat de Coligny (Geneva:...

Utter Antiquity: Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England.
February 1, 1996... In Utter Antiquity. Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England (Durham, NC/London: Duke U.P., 1993; pp. 168. [pounds]21), Arthur B. Ferguson provides a learned disquisition on views of the early history of human society in England between...

The Evolution of Women's Asylums Since 1500: From Refuges for Ex-Prostitutes to Shelters for Battered Women.
February 1, 1996... Sherrill Cohen's The Evolution of Women's Asylums since 1500. From Refuges for Ex-Prostitutes to Shelters for Battered Women (New York: Oxford U.P., 1992; pp. 262. [pounds]35) is part of that growing number of studies of the history of women...

The New Maritime History of Devon, From Early Times to the Late Eighteenth Century.
February 1, 1996... The writing of maritime history is not obviously best approached through a unit of civil administration. It is not necessary to be a Braudel to appreciate how sea and climate interlock, to create patterns of human enterprise rarely curtailed by...

Philosophy and Government: 1572-1651.
February 1, 1996... Richard Tuck's Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xviii + 386. [pounds]35; pb. [pounds]13.95) is a study of Hobbes and other mid-seventeenth century natural law theorists in their intellectual context. It is the...

Women and Religion in England: 1500-1720.
February 1, 1996... Patricia Crawford's Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720 (London: Routledge, 1993; pp.x + 268. [pounds]37.50) is a book of great complexity and richness, at once both an effective general survey and a brilliant work of original scholarship on...

Reichsrebellion und Kaiserliche Acht. Politische Strafjustiz im Dreissigjahrigen Krieg und das Verfahren Gegen Wallenstein: 1634.
February 1, 1996... On the evening of 25 February 1634, Albrecht von Wallenstein, the former imperial supreme commander, met his well-known violent end at the hands of three officers loyal to Emperor Ferdinand II. His death is generally accepted as a major turning...

The Political Career of Oliver St John: 1637-1649.
February 1, 1996... William Palmer's The Political Career of Oliver St John, 1637-1649 (Newark/London: U. of Delaware P./Associated U.P., 1993; pp. 153. [pounds]29.50) seeks to fill a gap in modern biographies of leading seventeenth-century political figures. The...

Not Peace but a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution.
February 1, 1996... In his comprehensive and committed book Not Peace but a Sword. The Political Theology of the English Revolution (London: Routledge, 1993; pp. 239. [pounds]40), Stephen Baskerville declares his intention 'to allow the prophets of the English...

Acta Pacis Westfalicae, Diarium Volmar: 1643-1649.
February 1, 1996... Joachim Foerster and Antje Oschmann have provided a comprehensive listing of all the letters mentioned in the previously-published diary of Dr Isaak Volmar, one of the Imperial ministers at the Congress of Westphalia: Acta Pacis Westfalicae. Vol....

Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England.
February 1, 1996... Phyllis Mack's prize-winning book, Visionary Women. Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1992; pp. xiii + 478. $40), is one of those rare works which makes us rethink many important issues....

Le Droit de Marc d'or des Offices. Tarifs de 1583, 1704, 1748. Reconnaissance, Fidelite, Noblesse.
February 1, 1996... It is by something akin to the tradesman's entrance that Jean Nagle introduces us to a peculiar characteristic of French office-holding in Le droit de marc d'or des offices. Tarifs de 1583, 1704, 1748. Reconnaissance, fidelite, noblesse (Geneva:...

Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan.
February 1, 1996... Pamela M. Jones's Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana. Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xiv + 386. [pounds]55) and Christopher M. S. Johns's Papal Art and Cultural Politics. Rome in the Age of...

Papal Art and Cultural Politics: Rome in the Age of Clement XI.
February 1, 1996... Pamela M. Jones's Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana. Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xiv + 386. [pounds]55) and Christopher M. S. Johns's Papal Art and Cultural Politics. Rome in the Age of...

Milton: Aristocrat and Rebel.
February 1, 1996... Perez Zagorin's Milton. Aristocrat and Rebel. The Poet and his Politics (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992; pp. xii + 164. [pounds]29.50) appears to be aimed at students who do not know much about Milton or seventeenth-century England. It combines a...

After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660.
February 1, 1996... Following the shock of the Swedish invasion or 'deluge' in 1655, the cause of political reform won support among wide sections of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility. According to an established consensus, King John Casimir (1648-68) wasted this...

Civil War and Restoration in Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609-1683.
February 1, 1996... The decision in 1663 to restore the Catholic Marquis of Antrim to his ample Irish estates exemplified for many Protestants, in England as much as in Ireland, what was wrong with the content and conduct of Stuart policy. It also testified to...

Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671.
February 1, 1996... Restoration tragicomedy, though popular, could appear ludicrous even to contemporaries; to modern critics the complex dilemmas of love and honour on which plots of these plays turn have appeared as silly and as escapist as romance. In Regicide...

Georg Friedrich von Waldeck, 1620-1692: Eine Biographische Skizze.
February 1, 1996... Prince Waldeck is best known to English readers as one of William III's most trusted advisers, but the interest of Gerhard Menk's Georg Friedrich von Waldeck, 1620-1692. Eine biographische Skizze (Arolsen: Waldeckischer Geschichtsvereine V.,...

Britain and the Netherlands, State and Trade: Government and the Economy in Britain and the Netherlands Since the Middle Ages.
February 1, 1996... The series of volumes with the title Britain and the Netherlands which has appeared over the last thirty years is well known to scholars working in Dutch history or in Anglo-Dutch relations but less familiar to scholars working in British...

The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought.
February 1, 1996... In two senses Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs's The Janus Faces of Genius. The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought (Cambridge: U.P., 1992; pp.xii + 359. [pounds]30) is a book from the past. It was begun in 1974, following the author's first work on the...

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain.
February 1, 1996... J. G. A. Pocock's many-faceted investigation of the political languages of early modern Europe has focused on the discourses of law and history in Stuart England and on the role of Florentine civic humanism in shaping the Atlantic republican...

The Latitudinarians and the Church of England: 1660-1700.
February 1, 1996... The Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660-1700, by W. M. Spellman (Athens/London: U. of Georgia P., 1993; pp.x + 228. $40), is in many ways a welcome addition to the growing body of work which portrays the so-called 'Latitudinarians'...

Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660-1715.
February 1, 1996... The last few years have seen a sharp increase in the number of short syntheses or overviews, aimed mainly at the student market. This development must in part reflect the growing pressure on academics to publish, which creates the danger that...

Consumption and the World of Goods.
February 1, 1996... Arising out of a three-year research project at UCLA on 'Culture and Consumption in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter (London/New York: Routledge, 1993; pp. xxi + 564....

Marlborough.
February 1, 1996... 'A major aim of the series' announce the editors of 'British Lives', a series of short biographical studies recently launched by Cambridge University Press, 'is to seek out and scrutinise figures whose current interpretation has become stale or...

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought.
February 1, 1996... When the time came for the celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Isaac Newton, on Christmas Day 1942, most people had other things on their minds. Since then, scholars have exploited the end of the rationing of paper and enthusiasm,...

Medicine and the Five Senses.
February 1, 1996... At first glance, Medicine and the Five Senses, ed. W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xviii + 332. [pounds]40), might seem an ambitious title on which to hang a volume. Pleasingly the fourteen essays and introduction cohere...

Sidney Godolphin, Servant of the State.
February 1, 1996... The appearance of Roy A. Sundstrom's Sidney Godolphin, Servant of the State (Newark/London: U. of Delaware P./Associated U.P., 1992; pp. 323. [pounds]37.95) will be welcomed by specialists in the later Stuart period if only because Godolphin has...

Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580-1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History.
February 1, 1996... In his editorial foreword to Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580-1850. Cultural Provinces and English Local History (Leicester/London: Leicester U.P., 1993; pp. xix + 221. [pounds]39.50), Charles Phythian-Adams emphasizes the need to establish...

A Patriot Press: National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s.
February 1, 1996... Viewed in purely domestic terms, the political environment of Britain in the 1740s is perhaps best characterized by two significant and largely interrelated processes, viz. the fall of Walpole and the rise of the Pelhams. If we turn our eyes...

Parameters of British Naval Power.
February 1, 1996... In the past thirty years there has been a significant shift in emphasis in the interpretation of Britain's maritime history, of which Michael Duffy's edition of the seven articles included in Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850 (Exeter:...