The English Historical Review articles from February 2001

The English Historical Review archives from February 2001

The Commission De Mutuo Faciendo in the Reign of Henry VI(*).
February 1, 2001... ON 30 April 1439 a letter was dispatched from Exeter in Devon to Westminster. It contained the return of the royal commissioners appointed just over a month earlier on 19 March to raise a loan for the King `in his present necessity' in the...

The Other Black Legend: The Henrician Reformation and the Spanish People.
February 1, 2001... THE arrest of two suspicious strangers in the episcopal town of Salisbury in Wiltshire on 25 July 1541 was brought immediately to the attention of the Bishop, John Salcot. Together with the local dignitary Charles Bulkeley, he examined the...

`An Holy and Sacramentall Paction': Federal Theology and the Solemn League and Covenant in England(*).
February 1, 2001... THE Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 and the oaths of loyalty that preceded it, the Protestation and Vow and Covenant, have received relatively little attention in comparison to their Scottish counterpart, the National Covenant of 1638.(1)...

William Harbutt Dawson: The Career and Politics of an Historian of Germany.
February 1, 2001... IN THE first half of the twentieth century British perceptions of Germany were moulded to a significant extent by historians. John R. Seeley was the first to break with the nineteenth-century historians' almost exclusive concern with English...

Estate Memoranda of c. 1070 from the See of Dorchester-on-Thames(*).
February 1, 2001... ONE of the end-leaves of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 718, a late tenth-century English penitential collection, bears brief memoranda in mid- to late eleventh-century hands (fo. [179.sup.r]).(1) These texts were printed in 1894 and have...

Did Contemporaries Recognize a `Thirty Years War'?
February 1, 2001... OVER fifty years ago S. H. Steinberg controversially attacked the conception of the Thirty Years War as a coherent historical event.(1) Twenty years later he renewed his attack, pithily summing up his argument: `The term "Thirty Years War", as...

The New Cambridge Medieval History III: c.900-c.1024.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. III: c.900-c.1024. Ed. TIMOTHY REUTER (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xxv+863. 75 [pounds sterling]). IN his preface to this volume of the project to renew the Cambridge Medieval History, the editor...

Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085. By H. E. J. COWDREY (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xvi + 743. 85 [pounds sterling]). WHATEVER in the book one might find with which to take issue, H. E. J. Cowdrey's Pope Gregory VII is a marvellous...

Kommunalismus. Skizzen einer gesellschaftlichen Organisationsform.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Kommunalismus. Skizzen einer gesellschaftlichen Organisationsform. By PETER BLICKLE (Munchen: Oldenbourg, 2000; 2 vols: pp. xii+196, ix+422. DM 216). SOME traditions of German nineteenth-century historiography still shape contemporary...

The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c. 1200-1815.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c. 1200-1815. Ed. RICHARD BONNEY (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. xii + 527. 65 [pounds sterling]). PROFESSOR Bonney's editorship of the volume on Economic Systems and State Finance for the E.S.F....

The Reception of Locke's Politics.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Reception of Locke's Politics. Ed. MARK GOLDIE (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999; 6 vols.: pp. lxxxviii+369, 377, 384, 448, 385, 405. N.p.). MARK Goldie's collection of texts which in some way respond to Locke's political arguments...

Reform in Great Britain and Germany, 1750-1850.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Reform in Great Britain and Germany, 1750-1850. Ed. T. C. W. BLANNING and PETER WENDE (Oxford: U.P., for the British Academy, 1999; pp. 179. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). THIS is an important and valuable contribution to the comparative...

Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Reading.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Reading, ed. VICTOR SHEA and WILLIAM WHITLA (Charlottesville: U. of Virginia P., 2000; pp. xxiii + 1057. N.p.) THIS is a great positivistic compendium, with the traditional strengths and weaknesses...

Modern Historiography: An Introduction.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Modern Historiography: An Introduction, by Michael Bentley (London/New York: Routledge, 1999; pp. 182. Pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling]). What should be included in a brief introduction to the history of history-writing? It can offer...

R. G. Collingwood: The Principles of History and Other Writings in Philosophy of History.(Review)
February 1, 2001... R. G. Collingwood: The Principles of History and Other Writings in Philosophy of History, ed. W. H. Dray and W. J. van der Dussen (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. lxxxvii + 293. 48 [pounds sterling]). Both W. H. Dray and W. J. van der...

Historical Perspectives on Memory.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Historical Perspectives on Memory, ed. Anne Ollila (Helsinki: SHS, 1999; pp. 222. N.p.). Perhaps it is too early to say that reports of the death of history have been exaggerated. At least, a postmodern uncertainty about its future...

Continuity and Change in Christian Worship (Studies in Church History, Vol. XXXV).(Review)
February 1, 2001... Continuity and Change in Christian Worship (Studies in Church History, Vol. XXXV), ed. R. N. Swanson, (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999; pp. xxiv + 524. 40 [pounds sterling]). Liturgy often appears as the Cinderella of church history, yet...

Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order, by Peter Hall (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998; pp. 1169. 30 [pounds sterling]). In the bibliography to this massive volume Peter Hall lists no fewer than twenty-four...

Africa's Urban Past.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Africa's Urban Past, ed. David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone (Oxford: James Currey, 2000; pp. 310. 40; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). This volume will be a revelation to many, both for its geographical coverage and the range of subjects...

The Traditions of War: Occupations, Resistance, and the Law.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Traditions of War: Occupations, Resistance, and the Law, by Karma Nabulsi (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. 293. 40 [pounds sterling]). Karma Nabulsi's interest in the laws of war as applied to military occupation has two dimensions that...

Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect, by Leonore Davidoff, Keith McClelland, and Eleni Varikas (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 217. Pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). The controversies that once surrounded gender history have largely...

Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity, ed. Eileen Boris and Angelique Janssens (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 169. Pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). The controversies that once surrounded gender history have largely...

Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867, by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 303. Pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). The controversies that once...

The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present, by Esther Benbassa (tr. M. B. DeBevoise) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 1999; pp. 281. 18.95 [pounds sterling]) Esther Benbassa here examines French Jewry within the wider...

The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden (Berkeley, CA: U. of California P., 1999; pp. 227. $55). This is a fascinating study of a large fortified pilgrimage complex on the Euphrates border between...

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome: An Edition and Translation of Sermones pro Sancto Hieronymo.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome: An Edition and Translation of Sermones pro Sancto Hieronymo, ed. John M. McManamon, SJ (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 1999; pp. 402. 30 [pounds sterling]). ...

A Thousand Years of the English Parish.(Review)
February 1, 2001... A Thousand Years of the English Parish, by Anthea Jones (Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush P., 2000; pp. 336. 25 [pounds sterling]). It is plain that Anthea Jones, in A Thousand Years of the English Parish, has set herself a considerable task,...

A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts.(Review)
February 1, 2001... A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts, by Philip Beale (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. 281. 35 [pounds sterling]). Philip Beale achieves here a better chronological balance than one might expect: concluding with the...

Towns in Decline, AD 100-1600.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Towns in Decline, AD 100-1600, ed. T. R. Slater (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 325. 49.95 [pounds sterling]). The fall of cities is one of the great historical themes, from Babylon and Troy to Carthage and Rome, from Atlantis to the...

Medieval British Towns.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Medieval British Towns, by Heather Swanson (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. 161. Pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). The fall of cities is one of the great historical themes, from Babylon and Troy to Carthage and Rome, from Atlantis to the...

Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons, by Raymond J. S. Grant (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996; pp. 196. Pb. 29 [pounds sterling]). In 1977 (ante, xcii. 345-53), Pamela M. Black made an important contribution...

Ireland and Her Neighbours in the Seventh Century.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Ireland and Her Neighbours in the Seventh Century, by Michael Richter (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1999; pp. 256. 35 [pounds sterling]). This is a thoughtful and interesting book, focused on Ireland, but looking also at the interactions between...

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, by Paul Stephenson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 352. 45 [pounds sterling]). Publication of Paul Stephenson's Byzantium's Balkan Frontier offers a...

Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era, ed. E. J. Cowan and R. Andrew McDonald (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000; pp. 282. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The significance of the term Alba has been raised in Scottish historical circles over...

Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power, by Henk Teunis, Andrew Wareham, and Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 196. Eur 40). There has been a tendency to assume that conflict and hostility rather than...

Les Grandeurs de l'an mille.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Les Grandeurs de l'an mille, by Pierre Riche (Paris: Bartillat, 1999; pp. 367. F 149). One of France's most eminent historians has made a welcome decision to mark the year 2000 with a celebration of the year 1000. Pierre Riche's Les...

Franco-British Studies: Franco-British Relations During the Second Millennium.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Franco-British Studies: Franco-British Relations During the Second Millennium, ed. Christophe Campos (London: Publications of the Brit. Inst. in Paris, 1999; pp. 94. 10 [pounds sterling]). This special issue, devoted to `Franco-British...

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens, ed. Frank Barlow (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. xci + 55. 45 [pounds sterling]). This is an impeccable new edition of the Carmen and a convincing attempt to lay to rest...

Inventer l'heresie? Discours polemique et pouvoir avant l'Inquisition.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Inventer l'heresie? Discours polemique et pouvoir avant l'Inquisition, ed. Monique Zerner (Nice: Centre d'Etudes Medievales de Nice, 1998; pp. 284. N.p.). As the question mark dividing its title indicates, this volume aims at a gentle...

Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy, by Carol Lansing (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1998; pp. 267. 35 [pounds sterling]). The Italian Cathars have inspired nothing like the volume of scholarship lavished on their Southern French...

The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey, ed. Claire Breay (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999; pp. 479. 50 [pounds sterling]). Chatteris nunnery is fortunate in that its substantial cartulary has survived. As Sally Thompson pointed out nearly...

The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215, by Janet Burton (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 352. 40 [pounds sterling]). With the publication of janet Barton's comprehensive survey, what the late Dom David Knowles once called `the...

Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society Essays in Honour of Lester K. Little.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honour of Lester K. Little, ed. Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 2000; pp. 249. 34.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds...

Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England, by Graeme J. White (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 248. 40 [pounds sterling]). Historians have long assumed that the reign of Henry II marked a watershed in the...

La cour Plantagenet (1154-1204): Actes du Colloque a Thouars de 30 avril au 2 mai 1999.(Review)
February 1, 2001... La cour Plantagenet (1154-1204): Actes du Colloque a Thouars de 30 avril au 2 mai 1999, ed. Martin Aurell (Poitiers: U. of Poitiers P., 2000; pp. 361. Pb.n.p.). This is a stimulating collection of papers devoted to illuminating a...

The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family 1171-1221.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family, 1171-1221, by Judith Everard and Michael Jones (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. xxx + 217. 50 [pounds sterling]). The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family,...

True Citizens: Violence, Memory and Identity in Medieval Perpignan, 1162-1397.(Review)
February 1, 2001... True Citizens: Violence, Memory and Identity in Medieval Perpignan, 1162-1397, by Richard Daileader (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. 280. $102). It is not only because post-medieval Perpignan has been separated from the Catalan principality that...

English Episcopal Acta 18: Salisbury, 1078-1217 and 19: Salisbury, 1217-1228.(Review)
February 1, 2001... English Episcopal Acta 18: Salisbury, 1078-1217 and 19: Salisbury, 1217-1228, ed. B. R. Kemp (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for The British Academy, 1999 and 2000; pp. xxvi + 1-214, cxxiii + 215-490, consecutively paginated. 45 [pounds sterling] each)....

The Household Knights of King John.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Household Knights of King John, by S. D. Church (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. xiv+177. 35 [pounds sterling]). Steven Church's The Household Knights of King John is a survey of a military and administrative group well enough...

The Saints of Cornwall.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Saints of Cornwall, by Nicholas Orme (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 302. 55 [pounds sterling]). The Saints of Cornwall, by Nicholas Orme, aims `to furnish all the surviving evidence relating to cults based in Cornwall up to the...

Thomas Becket: His Last Days.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Thomas Becket: His Last Days, by William Urry, ed. Peter A. Rowe (Stroud: Sutton, 1999; pp. 192. 20 [pounds sterling]). This is an edited version of the late Dr Urry's projected study on the life and death of Thomas Becket. That such a...

Original Papal Documents in England and Wales from the Accession of Pope Innocent III to the Death of Pope Benedict XI (1198-1304).(Review)
February 1, 2001... Original Papal Documents in England and Wales from the Accession of Pope Innocent III to the Death of Pope Benedict XI (1198-1304), ed. Jane E. Sayers (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. cxv+678. 120 [pounds sterling]). Jane Sayers's edition...

Croisade et chevalerie, XIe-XIIe siecles.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Croisade et chevalerie, XIe-XIIe siecles, by Jean Flori (Brussels: De Boeck U.P., 1998; pp. 433. F540). Jean Flori's Croisade et chevalerie, XIe-XIIe siecles is divided into five sections: `L'Eglise et la Guerre Sainte', `Croisade et...

Pierre l'Ermite et la premiere croisade.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Pierre l'Ermite et la premiere croisade, by Jean Flori (Paris: Fayard, 1999; pp. 647. F170). Jean Flori's Croisade et chevalerie, XIe-XIIe siecles is divided into five sections: `L'Eglise et la Guerre Sainte', `Croisade et Chevalerie',...

Faire memoire: Souvenir et commemoration au moyen age.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Faire memoire: Souvenir et commemoration au moyen age, ed. Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1999; pp. 370. F250). Among recent publications on the shaping of historical...

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love. The Motherhood of God.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love. The Motherhood of God, ed. and trans. Frances Beer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998; pp. 93. Pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]. The Library of Medieval Women (ed. Jane Chance), to which the above...

The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena, ed. and trans. Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998; pp. x+152. Pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]). The Library of Medieval Women (ed. Jane Chance), to which the above titles belong,...

The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner, ed. and trans. Maya Bijvoet Williamson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998; pp. xi + 79. Pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]). The Library of Medieval Women (ed. Jane Chance), to which the above titles belong,...

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works, ed. and trans. Katharina Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998; pp. 130. Pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]). The Library of Medieval Women (ed. Jane Chance), to which the above titles...

Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, by Diane Watt (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997; pp. 198. 35 [pounds sterling]). Touching upon a wide range of issues such as gender, nonconformity and the...

The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature, ed. W. R. J. Barron (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 999; pp. 395. 35 [pounds sterling]). The multi-faceted and highly changeable character of King Arthur,...

Miscellanea di studi in onore di Iginio Rogger in occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno.(Review)
February 1, 2001... In factis mysterium legere. Miscellanea di studi in onore di Iginio Rogger in occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno, ed. Emanuele Curzel (Bologna: EDB, 1999; pp. 663. L 75.000). Edited by Emanuele Curzel, this is a beautifully-produced...

Registres du Tresor des Chartes Tome II: Regne des fils de Philippe le Bel. Deuxieme parti: Regne de Charles IV le Bel.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Registres du Tresor des Chartes. Tome II: Regne des fils de Philippe le Bel. Deuxieme parti: Regne de Charles IV le Bel, ed. Henri Jassemin, Aline Vallee and Jean Guerout (Paris: Archives Nationales, 1999; pp. 351. F 350). A volume that...

For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh.(Review)
February 1, 2001... For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh, by Frances A. Underhill (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. 221. 40 [pounds sterling]). Widowed three times by the age of twenty-seven, Elizabeth de Burgh, granddaughter of Edward I and sister...

Richard II: The Art of Kingship.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Richard II: The Art of Kingship, ed. Anthony Goodman and James L. Gillespie (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. 299. 40 [pounds sterling]). It has not required the imminence of anniversaries of stirring events to attract historians' attention...

Richard II and the Revolution of 1399.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Richard II and the Revolution of 1399, by Michael Bennett (Stroud: Sutton, 1999; pp. 248. 20 [pounds sterling]). In Richard II and the Revolution of 1399, Michael Bennett draws a compelling portrait of a ruler obsessed with the majesty of...

Ecrit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries medievales: Espace francais, espace anglais.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Ecrit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries medievales: Espace francais, espace anglais, ed. Kouky Fianu and DeLloyd J. Guth (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fed.Int.des Inst.d'Etudes Medievales, 1997; pp. 342. F 310) Seventeen substantive contributions,...

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy, by Richard K. Marshall (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1999; pp. 191. 33 [pounds sterling]). The small Tuscan town of Prato is famed the world over, thanks...

Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434, by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 308. 30 [pounds sterling]). In Creating the Florentine State, Sam Cohn has dug through a mountain of archival...

Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations, ed. Anne J. Duggan (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 285. 50 [pounds sterling]). The organizers of Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts,...

L'evolution de la noblesse belge depuis la fin du moyen age.(Review)
February 1, 2001... L'evolution de la noblesse belge depuis la fin du moyen age, by Paul Janssens (Brussels: Credit Communal, 1998; pp. 507. N.p.). Belgium provides an interesting case for the study of the role of the nobility in the Ancien Regime. It...

Showing Status: Representations of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Showing Status: Representations of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Wim Blockmans and Antheum Janse (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 491. Euro 65). This weighty product of four symposia organized by the Netherlands Research...

The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books and the Law.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books and the Law, by J. H. Baker (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxiv+404. 40 [pounds sterling]). This is a second collection of the papers of the doyen of English legal historians, Professor John...

The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions, by J. W. Tubbs (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 253. 33 [pounds sterling]). In The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions, J. W. Tubbs examines the...

Regionalism and Revision: The Crown and its Provinces in England, 1250-1650.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Regionalism and Revision: The Crown and its Provinces in England, 1250-1650, ed. Peter Fleming, Anthony Gross, and J. R. Lander (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. 178. 38 [pounds sterling]). The papers published in Regionalism and Revision:...

Die neue Zeit: vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten, 1250 bis 1750.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Die neue Zeit: Vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten, 1250 bis 1750, by Heinz Schilling (Berlin: Siedler, 1999; pp. 558. N.p.). This volume by Heinz Schilling, Die neue Zeit, forms part of a publisher's series of `European...

Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance, by John Cunnally (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 1999; pp. 230. 28.50 [pounds sterling]). John Cunnally's Images of the Illustrious concentrates on Renaissance interest...

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe, by Sydney Anglo (New Haven/ London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 384. 35 [pounds sterling]). Sydney Anglo's The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe is that comparatively rare thing, a very scholarly book which...

Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science, by Peter Pesic (Cambridge, Mass: MIT P., 2000; pp. 186. 14.50 [pounds sterling]). This is a fascinating and well expressed book. It explores how several scientific writers, mainly from...

The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry. The Impact of Humanism.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry. The Impact of Humanism, ed. Lucille Kekewich; The three books which form the core texts of the Open University course entitled `The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry', explore humanist...

The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology, ed. Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, and Roberta Wood; The three books which form the core texts of the Open University course entitled `The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry', explore humanist...

The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader, ed. Keith Whitlock; The three books which form the core texts of the Open University course entitled `The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry', explore humanist achievement and human spectacle...

The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Inquiry. Courts, Patrons and Poets.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Inquiry. Courts, Patrons and Poets, ed. David Mateer; The three books which form the core texts of the Open University course entitled `The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry', explore humanist...

The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry. Challenges to Authority.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry. Challenges to Authority, ed. Peter Elmer; (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., for The Open U., 2000; pp. 273, 412, 374, 383, 418. 35 [pounds sterling], pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]; 35 [pounds sterling],...