The English Historical Review articles from February 1999

The English Historical Review archives from February 1999

Henry of Blois and the Lordship of Glastonbury(*).
February 1, 1999... A contemporary goldsmith, who depicted Henry of Blois presenting a gift to God, included in his inscription the hope that the donor might follow the offering to heaven; but not immediately, `lest England weep, for war or peace, turmoil or...

Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions: New Sources and New Perspectives(*).
February 1, 1999... In October 1549, with the nation still reeling from the previous summer's rebellions, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England and uncle to the young King Edward VI, was toppled from power in a coup d'etat orchestrated by the Earl of...

The `Bavarian Mussolini' and his `Beerhall Putsch': British Images of Adolf Hitler, 1920-24(*).
February 1, 1999... When Adolf Hitler stepped into the limelight of world politics as the new German Reichskanzler on 30 January 1933, the first warnings by British observers that he constituted a danger to peace and stability in Europe already dated back a full...

`The Party is Everywhere:' The Italian Fascist Party in Economic Life, 1926-40(*).
February 1, 1999... Historically and historiographically, the Italian Fascist Party or Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) has not recovered from Hitler's contemptuous indictment in September 1943 of a Fascism melting away like snow under the sun at the time of...

Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War.
February 1, 1999... By the Act of Accord of October 1460, Richard Duke of York was named heir to the English throne in place of Henry VI's young son Edward. Thus parliament implicitly acknowledged the superiority of the Yorkist claim to the throne; only the...

A History of the Byzantine State and Society.(Review)
February 1, 1999... A History of the Byzantine State and Society. By WARREN TREADGOLD (Stanford: U.P., 1997; pp. xxiii+1019. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). In 1940 the great Russian Byzantinist George Ostrogorsky published the first...

The Safeguard of the Sea. A Naval History of Britain.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Safeguard of the Sea. A Naval History of Britain. Vol. I: 660-1649. By N.A.M. RODGER (London: HarperCollins, 1997; pp. xxviii + 691. 25 [pounds sterling]). This is a most welcome first volume of what promises to be a very important...

The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886. By K. THEODORE HOPPEN (Oxford; Clarendon P. 1998; pp. xix-787. 30 [pounds sterling]). Is the New Oxford History of England a series for library shelves, or a collection of titles to be read? Are...

Piety and Poverty: Working-Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York 1870-1914.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Piety and Poverty: Working-Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York 1870-1914, by HUGH MCLEOD (New York/London: Holmes & Meier, 1996; pp. xxx+264. 29.95 [pounds sterling]). THE term `secularization' is now very largely accepted by...

Paths not Taken. British Labour and International Policy in th 1920s.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Paths not Taken. British Labour and International Policy in the 1920s. By HENRY R. WINKLER (Chapel Hill/London: U. of North Carolina P., 1994; pp. x+ 245. $39.50) Although for a long period the study of the international history of the...

The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1919-1926.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1919-1926. By EPHRAIM MAISEL (Brighton: Sussex Academic P., 1994; pp. xi+323. N.P.) Although for a long period the study of the international history of the 1920s was comparatively neglected, as...

Percorsi e modelli familiari in Italia tra '700 e '900.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Italian historians have shown increasing interest in family history over recent years. The publication of Percorsi e modelli familiari in Italia tra '700 e '900, ed. Filippo Mazzonis (Rome: Bulzoni, 1997; pp. 262. Pb. L40,000), has added yet...

Medieval Germany, 500-1300.(Review)
February 1, 1999... It is no small achievement to have written a cogent history of medieval Germany over eight centuries in under two hundred pages. This is precisely what Benjamin Arnold in Medieval Germany, 500-1300. A Political Interpretation (London:...

Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Richard Landes's Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1995; pp. xii+404. 34.95 [pounds sterling]) is an intelligent and imaginative study of an author who...

Muslim Spain and Portugal.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Hugh Kennedy's Muslim Spain and Portugal (London: Longman, 1996; pp. xvi+342. 44 [pounds sterling]) provides the first outline account of the whole history of Islamic rule in the Iberian peninsula since the pioneering work of J. A. Conde,...

The Deeds of God through the Franks.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Many modern students would have been described as illiterati -- `unable to read Latin' -- in Guibert of Nogent's time. Robert Levine's The Deeds of God through the Franks. A Translation of Guibert de Nogent's Gesta Dei per Francos...

Gruffudd ap Cynan.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In Gruffudd ap Cynan. A Collaborative Biography (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. xi + 217. 35 [pounds sterling]), K. L. Maund has assembled a collection of studies of the only Welsh ruler of whom a medieval biography has survived and who...

The First Crusaders, 1095-1131.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 by Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xvi + 300. 30 [pounds sterling]) is an authoritative statement, written with verve, the product of decades of scholarly engagement which asks some fundamental...

Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, ed. C. Warren Hollister (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp-xii+180. 35 [pounds sterling]), offers six essays on the impact of the twelfth-century Renaissance upon the...

Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Konige von Jerusalem.(Review)
February 1, 1999... A monumental and definitive account of a surprisingly neglected subject, Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Konige von Jerusalem, by Hans Eberhard Mayer, (Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Schriften, Band 40, 2 vols., Hannover, 1996; pp. lxxii+906,...

Die Reichschronik des Annalista Saxo und die sachsiche Geschichtsschreibung im 12.
February 1, 1999... The lengthy chronicle which since the early eighteenth century has been designated by the title Annalista Saxo, which was then given to its anonymous compiler, was well described by Bernhard Schmeidler, hitherto the most influential modern...

The Capture of Constantinople. The Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Gunther of Paris.(Review)
February 1, 1999... It is at times salutary for the student of the high Middle Ages to be reminded of the limited and provisional character of the cultural and intellectual achievements of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- in particular, the extent to...

The Growth of the Medieval City from Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century.(Review)
February 1, 1999... David Nicholas's The Growth of the Medieval City from Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (London: Longman, 1997; pp. xviii+413. 48 [pounds sterling]; Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]) is the first of his two volumes for A History of...

Friedrich II Tagung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom im Gedenkjahr 1994.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Between the autumn of 1994 and that of 1995 there took place in Italy dozens of conferences and commemorative events marking the eight-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Emperor Frederick II; the official list of the conferences is itself...

English Episcopal Acta.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The British Academy series of early English Episcopal Acta reaches Vol. XIII with Worcester, 1218-1268, ed. Philippa M. Hoskin (Oxford: U.P., 1997; pp. liv+192. 25 [pounds sterling]), which covers the reigns of three bishops: William of Blois...

Rolls of Arms. Edward I, 1272-1307.(Review)
February 1, 1999... `You foolish man, you do not even know your own foolish business', Lord Chesterfield told Garter King of Arms. But, in its medieval beginnings, heraldry was not a foolish business. It gave identity to the international aristocracy of Latin...

La Fiscalite des villes au moyen age.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The joint Franco-Spanish collection La Fiscalite des villes au moyen age. France meridionale, Catalogne et Castille. Vol. V: Etude des sources (Toulouse: Privat, 1996; pp. 174. Pb. F120) has been put together by Denis Menjot and Manuel...

The Charters of the Abbey of Ystrad Marchell.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Original acts emanating from native Welsh rulers are thin on the ground; in The Charters of the Abbey of Ystrad Marchell (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1997; pp. xi+239. 25 [pounds sterling]), Graham C. G. Thomas has edited the...

The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History.(Review)
February 1, 1999... It is to the immense credit of contributors, editor, and honorand alike that The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. x+262. 49.50 [pounds sterling]) features Le Goff less as Great...

La Ville de Cluny et ses maisons: [XI.sup.e]-[XV.sup.e].(Review)
February 1, 1999... Cluny in Burgundy is remarkable above all for two things: its abbey, and the fabric of the town which grew round it. Yet, paradoxically, the world-famous abbey has been largely demolished, while the riches of the domestic buildings of the...

Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The conference papers, some illustrated, which make up Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe, ed. Anne J. Duggan (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. xxii+357. 50 [pounds sterling]), are a useful if expensive addition to the growing...

Die deutschen Konige und Italien im 14.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The literature review has become the standard introduction to most modern historical monographs. In Roland Pauler's study, Die deutschen Konige und Italien im 14. Jahrhundert. Von Heinrich VII bis Karl IV (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche...

Miscel.lania de Textos Medievals.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Barcelona branch of the Consell Superior d'Investigacions Cientifiques has published an eighth volume of its Miscel.lania de Textos Medievals (Barcelona: 1996, pp. vii + 524. Pb. n.p.), which appear under the imprint of the Institucio...

Year Books of Richard II. 6 Richard II, 1382-1383.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Year Books of Richard II. 6 Richard II, 1382-1383, ed. Samuel E. Thorne in collaboration with Michael E. Hager and Margaret MacVeagh Thorne, with a commentary upon the cases by Charles Donahue, Jr (Cambridge, Mass.: The Ames Foundation, 1996;...

L'Histoire et les nouveaux publics dans l'Europe medievale, [XIII.sup.e]-[XV.sup.e].(Review)
February 1, 1999... For some years now, following in the steps of Bernard Guenee, Jean-Philippe Genet has been opening up the history of European historiography in the Middle Ages. In his edition of L'Histoire et les nouveaux publics dans l'Europe medievale,...

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Longman History of Urban Society in Europe continues with David Nicholas' The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 (London: Longman, 1997; pp. xiv+30. 48 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). The author concentrates on the Germanic...

Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
February 1, 1999... While Parliament was in session in late January and early February 1395, followers of John Wycliffe posted their Twelve Conclusions upon the door of Westminster Hall, calling for the reform of the church. Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later...

Kaiser Sigismund. Herrscher an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit, 1368-1437.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Sigismund was perhaps the most interesting of the late medieval rulers of Germany. He managed to gain control of Hungary, to end the Great Schism at the Council of Constance, to be crowned Emperor in Rome and, after years of struggle, to be...

Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Jean Birrel's English translation of Andrew Vauchez's Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: U.E, 1997, pp. xxvii+645. 65[pounds sterling]), shows a wider readership how the cult of saints developed with the expansion of the church...

The Grief of God. Images of Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Ellen M. Ross in The Grief of God. Images of Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England (Oxford: U.E, 1997; pp. 200. 41.99 [pounds sterling]) explores one of these ideals of holiness, bodily suffering, in the late-medieval preoccupation with...

Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Samuel Cohn's study Women in the Sreets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1997; pp. xi+250. 37 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13 [pounds sterling]), adduces a mass of new evidence and rich argumentation in...

Die Lubecker Zirkel-Gesellschaft. Formen der Selbstdarstellung einer stadtischen Oberschicht.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Imperial cities of late medieval Germany exercised a powerful influence on its politics. They were also divided by internal power struggles as the guilds and the wealthiest families competed for control. It was easier for the latter to...

Gilds in the Medieval Countryside. Social and Religious Change in Cambridgeshire, c. 1350-1550.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The gilds of medieval England have a long history, and long historiography, as Virginia R. Bainbridge demonstrates in her introductory chapter to Gilds in the Medieval Countryside. Social and Religious Change in Cambridgeshire, c. 1350-1550...

The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Jonathan Hughes's thought-provoking study of The Religious Lift of Richard III. Piety and Prayer in the North of England (Stroud: Sutton, 1997; pp. xiv+209. 40 [pounds sterling]) addresses a familiar problem in a new and unprecedently...

The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients.(Review)
February 1, 1999... `I read Galen's book On the bones to the students at least three times before I dared perceive any mistake on Galen's part, although now I can't be sufficiently astonished at my own stupidity... ': Vesalius's report of his turning from the...

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology and Tactics.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Although Bert S. Hall informs his readers that he has been working for ten years on the subject of how firearms became assimilated into European warfare, Weapons and War, re in Renaissance Europe. Gunpowder, Technology and Tactics...

Birth of the Leviathan. Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Thomas Ertman's Birth of the Leviathan. Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xii+363. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]) is an ambitious work of historical sociology. The...

Kent Heresy Proceedings, 1511-12.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The documents presented in Kent Heresy Proceedings, 1511-12, ed. Norman Jenner (Stroud: Sutton, for Kent Archaeological Society, 1997; pp. xxvi+ 129. 20 [pounds sterling]), make an important contribution both to our knowledge of Lollardy and...

Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Machiavelli's correspondence with his friends is important for several reasons: because of the information it affords about Florentine and international politics, because of the vivid impression that it gives of intercourse between educated...

Das Gold der Neuen Welt. Die Papiere des Welser-Konquistadors und Generalkapitans von Venzuela. Philipp von Hutten, 1534-1541.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Das Gold der Neuen Welt. Die Papiere des Welser-Konquistadors und Generalkapitans yon Venzuela. Philipp yon Hutten, 1534-1541, ed. Eberhard Schmitt and Friedrich Karl yon Hutten (Hildburghausen: Verlag Frankenschwelle, 1996; pp. xiv + 209....

The Reformations in Ireland. Tradition and Confessionalism, 1400-1690.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The Irish reformation is a subject on which opinions are more abundant than evidence. Historians continue to debate why Protestant reform failed there, so making Ireland a striking exception to the general rule that the wishes of the state...

Michel de L'Hopital, The Vision of a Reformist Chancellor during the French Religious Wars.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In Michel de L'Hopital, The Vision of a Reformist Chancellor during the French Religious Wars (Kirksville, MO.: Sixteenth Century Journal, 1997; pp. x+216. $40), Seong-Hak Kim provides a new interpretation of this important religious war...

Reformation and Society in Guernsey.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The establishment in the Channel Islands of Presbyterian churches on strict Genevan lines is one of the oddities of Elizabethan history. D. M. Ogler's Reformation and Society in Guernsey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. 223. 39.50 [pounds...

The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Few general surveys of the Reformation era cast more than a cursory glance at the religious history of Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century. The variety and difficulty of the languages which are fundamental to the complex ethnic patchwork...

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany. Family and Power in the Creation of the State.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The creation of regional states in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy has become an area of intensive research and discussion in recent years. Giovanna Benedusi's A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany. Family and Power in the...

Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease in the Sixteenth Century.(Review)
February 1, 1999... There is rather more than meets the eye in A. Lynn Martin, Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease in the Sixteenth Century (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1996: pp. xiv+268. N.p.). Sifting through the...

Sully. L'homme et ses fideles.(Review)
February 1, 1999... This large study of Sully, Sully. L'homme et ses fideles, by Bernard Barbiche and Segolene de Dainville-Barbiche (Paris: Fayard 1997; pp. 698. Pb. F170), is based on an unsurpassed familiarity with the relevant primary and secondary...

Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700.(Review)
February 1, 1999... All previous accounts of the naming of English children in past centuries have been seriously flawed, based as they were on unrepresentative examples and influenced by misconceptions. In by far the most thorough and systematic study so far...

The First Chapter Act Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1574-1634.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The fortunate survival of the muniments of Christ Church, one of the two Protestant cathedrals in Dublin, and their recent transfer to the Church of Ireland's central repository, have stimulated an ambitious programme of publications. This...

The Reckoned Expense. Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits.(Review)
February 1, 1999... A book of articles, commissioned to celebrate the first centenary of the establishment of a Jesuit House of Studies in Oxford, concentrates upon the person of the first English Jesuit martyr after whom the Hall was named and upon recusancy...

From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and Estates.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and Estates (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1994; pp. xxiii+444. 41.50 [pounds sterling]) J. Russell Major provides a summation of his research and writing...

Resistance, Representation, and Community.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Resistance, Representation, and Community, ed. Peter Blickle (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xviii +401. 50 [pounds sterling]), is the second published volume in the series on `the origins of the modern state' sponsored by the European...

Identite regionale et conscience nationale en France et en Allemagne du Moyen Age a l'epoque moderne.(Review)
February 1, 1999... That terrible symbiosis between a contemporary polity and the historiography of its past is, it seems, inescapable. Justification of, adulation of, the nation state are now passe (though they still, alas, find those constrained to provide...

Conforming to the Word. Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Daniel W. Doerksen tells us, in the proud capitals of his publisher's house-style, that Conforming to the Word. Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud (Lewisburg/London: Bucknell U.P./Associated U.P., 1997; pp. 181. 30 [pounds...

Kursachsen und der Bohmische Aufstand 1618-1622.(Review)
February 1, 1999... It has been clear for many years that the Thirty Years' War had a number of different focal points both in terms of the complex political struggles that drove it, and in terms of the bitter wrangles and incompatible aims which time and again...

Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution Revisited.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution Revisited (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xi + 422. 25 [pounds sterling]), Christopher Hill revisits old battlefields. In 1962 I was a sixth-former in the first year of my A Level studies. I...

Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, 1590-1676.(Review)
February 1, 1999... One of the most renowned noblewomen of the Stuart period was that `proud northern lady', Lady Anne Clifford, daughter of George, third Earl of Cumberland, Queen Elizabeth's Champion who was also the `privateering earl'. Lady Anne was born in...

Popular Politics and Religion in Civil War London.(Review)
February 1, 1999... The politics of civil war London have been the subject of so many studies that one might legitimately ask what new can be offered by Keith Lindley in Popular Politics and Religion in Civil War London (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1997; pp. xiv+442....

Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (Scolar Press, 1996; pp. 347. 49.50 [pounds sterling]) is an excellent collection of essays which is intended to rectify the...

Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U.P., 1997; pp. 213. $34), Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann edit a selection of ten papers from a workshop on East Slavic culture in the...

Die Wirtschaft Hispanoamerikas in der Kolonialzeit.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Nowadays it certainly is a praiseworthy enterprise to write such a brief overview of economic history as Die Wirtschaft Hispanoamerikas in der Kolonialzeit (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996; pp. 252. DM 32), when so many students of history...

Union, Revolution and Religion in 17th-Century Scotland.(Review)
February 1, 1999... David Stevenson is the most prolific historian of early modern Scotland. The new Royal Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM lists eleven books by him published before the end of 1992. It also lists thirty-six essays by him, and sixteen...

Italy in the Seventeenth Century.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Stability rather than decadence is stressed in Domenico Sella's Italy in the Seventeenth Century (London: Longman, 1997; pp. xi+246. 44 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Apart from disastrous plagues, in the north in 1630 and...

Inventing A Republic. The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In Inventing A Republic. The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653 (Manchester: U.P., 1997; pp. 254. 29.75 [pounds sterling]), Sean Kelsey addresses a subject curiously ignored by historians of the Commonwealth: how a new...

Der schweizerische Bauernkrieg von 1653.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Historians of the seventeenth-century crisis and of revolutions in early modern Europe have hitherto paid little attention to an uprising which was in both its extent and its ambitions potentially as radical a threat to the existing political...

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England.(Review)
February 1, 1999... `Contours' turns out to be the vital word in Mary J. Dobson's Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xix+647. 65 [pounds sterling]). Her focus is on the counties of Essex, Kent and Sussex between...

European Proto-Industrialization.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In the 1970s and early 1980s proto-industrialization was perhaps the most fashionable area for research in European economic and social history. An excellent retrospective view of the results and implications of that research programme can be...

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry. The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797.(Review)
February 1, 1999... In State Corporatism and Proto-Industry. The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xx + 513. 55 [pounds sterling]), Sheilagh Ogilvie examines some of the basic assumptions about proto-industrial enterprises during...

Imagenes de la diversidad. El mundo urbano en la Corona de Castilla.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Imagenes de la diversidad. El mundo urbano en la Corona de Castilla (S. XVI-XVIII), ed. Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez (Santander: Universidad de Cantabria/Asamblea Regional de Cantabria, 1997, pp. 513. Pb. n.p.) is the proceedings of the second...

John Locke.(Review)
February 1, 1999... John Locke, by W. M. Spellman (Macmillan, 1997; pp. xi+165. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 10.99 [pounds sterling]) is the second title on a political thinker to appear in Macmillan's British History in Perspective series. Spellman is primarily...

Accommodating High Churchmen. The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Jeffrey S. Chamberlain's Accomodating High Churchmen. The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745 (Urbana/Chicago: U. of Illinois P., 1997; pp. xv+192. $32.50) is a lively and often entertaining study which makes an important contribution to the recent...

Conflictividad y Disciplinamiento Social en la Cantabria Rural del Antiguo Regimen.(Review)
February 1, 1999... A principal theme in the study of crime in early modern Europe is the enlargement of the boundaries within which `public' power, in the form of royal courts, exercised its influence and the parallel margination of an older tradition of...

His Majesty's Rebels. Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745.(Review)
February 1, 1999... For some twenty years research into the history of peasant unrest in early modern Germany has been dominated by two hypotheses. The first is Peter Blickle's claim that most peasant unrest represented sporadic communal responses to the...

Illusory Consensus. Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730-1737.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Since the 1960s, the literary and polemical opposition to Sir Robert Walpole has been the subject of much research and writing. This reflects both the high quality of this opposition and its perceived importance. Alexander Pettit's Illusory...