The English Historical Review articles from February 2002

The English Historical Review archives from February 2002

Sub-keepers and constables: the role of local officials in keeping the peace in fourteenth-century England.
February 1, 2002... PEACEKEEPING in medieval England has long been portrayed in terms of a grand centralized design as kings strove to meet the ideological goal and uphold their coronation vow to maintain public order. (1) To a large extent this view has been...

Hans Eworth's portrait of the Earl of Arundel and the politics of 1549-50 *.
February 1, 2002... IN January 1550 Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel was removed from the office of Lord Chamberlain and lost his place at the Council board, a few months after he had been a central figure in the coup against Protector Somerset. The reasons for...

Public opinion and political culture in France during the second half of the eighteenth century.
February 1, 2002... COMMON sense would tell us that, like poverty, public opinion has always been with us. Among leading scholars of the Enlightenment, Daniel Mornet considered the role of government in orienting and shaping public opinion, Peter Gay referred to...

Patronage, the Lansdowne Whigs and the problem of the Liberal Centre, 1827-8 *.
February 1, 2002... IT has been the misfortune of the coalition Whigs of 1827-8 that their politics have been seen through the prism of their opponents' views, particularly on the Whig side. What has slipped from sight is precisely how a section of the Whig...

The Calais staple and the parliament of May 1382 *. (Notes And Documents).
February 1, 2002... THE memorandum printed in the appendix has attracted the attention of scholars only in passing. (1) It is noteworthy in a number of ways, not least because of the light it sheds on opposition to the Calais staple in the late medieval English...

`As true a subiect being prysoner': John Foxe's notes on the imprisonment of Princess Elizabeth, 1554-5. (Notes And Documents).
February 1, 2002... ONE of the most vivid narratives in John Foxe's great martyrology, the Acts and monuments (popularly known as Foxe's `Book of Martyrs'), describes the ordeals (imprisonment and fear of execution) which Elizabeth Tudor suffered during the...

The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. XI: the High Empire, AD 70-192 (second edition).
February 1, 2002... Edited by ALAN K. BOWMAN, PETER GARNSEY and DOMINIC RATHBONE (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxi+1222. 95 [pounds sterling]). NO-ONE will dispute that the new edition of the Cambridge Ancient History (CAH) is an enormous enterprise,...

L'Islam et la mer: La mosquee et le matelot, VIIe-XXe siecle.
February 1, 2002... By XAVIER DE PLANHOL. (Paris: Perrin, 2000; pp. 658. Euro 28.81). DICTA are dangerous. The historian who becomes too attached to a bright idea, thrown out in an idle moment and all too felicitously phrased, may well be donning the guise...

Cosimo de' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance.
February 1, 2002... By DALE KENT (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 537. 40 [pounds sterling]). THIS innovative and challenging study of the art patronage of Cosimo de' Medici has great ambition and will attract attention and debate, especially from...

Index to the Probate Accounts of England and Wales.
February 1, 2002... Index to the Probate Accounts of England and Wales. Edited by PETER SPUFFORD, with MATTHEW BRETT and AMY LOUISE ERICKSON (London: British Record Soc., (2 vols.) Index Library, cxii and cxiii, 1999; pp. cii+714. 60 [pounds sterling]). ...

Die Habsburger im deutschen Sudwesten: Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte Vorderosterreichs.
February 1, 2002... Edited by FRANZ QUARTHAL and GERHARD FAIX (Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke, 2000; pp. 468. DM 98). THE history of Further Austria epitomizes the Habsburgs' special relationship with, and their peculiar position within, the Holy Roman Empire:...

Howell Harris: from Conversion to Separation, 1735-1750.
February 1, 2002... By GERAINT TUDUR (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. 314. 25 [pounds sterling]). AUTOCRATIC, domineering, overbearing, dictatorial, imperious, humourless, stubborn and fallible: these are some of the adjectives used by Geraint Tudur in...

Barbarism and Religion. Vol. I: the Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon 1737-1764; Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government.
February 1, 2002... by J. G. A. POCOCK (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 339, 422. 55 [pounds sterling]). READERS of John Pocock's previous work will not be surprised to hear that the first instalment of his latest magnum opus, loosely focused on...

Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion.
February 1, 2002... By K. D. M. SNELL and PAUL S. ELL (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 499. 50 [pounds sterling]). THE inclusion of a question on religious profession in the 2001 British census came 140 years after the Government mooted such an...

The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2.
February 1, 2002... Edited by M. G. BROCK and M. C. CURTHOYS (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. lv+993. 70 [pounds sterling]). THIS volume completes the official history of Oxford University. It is of formidable bulk (the index alone occupies 114 pages) and...

Gladstone Centenary Essays.
February 1, 2002... Edited by DAVID BEBBINGTON (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P., 2000; pp. 286. 32.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). MORE than a century on, Gladstone casts his colossal shadow over historical studies as he did over his...

Churchill and Appeasement: Could Churchill have Prevented the Second World War?
February 1, 2002... By R. A. C. PARKER (Macmillan, 2000; pp. xi + 290. 20 [pounds sterling]). R. A. C. PARKER'S latest, and sadly last, book has many of the virtues of his earlier seminal study `Chamberlain and Appeasement' published in 1993. Not least...

Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the `Dark Forests' of Matabeleland.
February 1, 2002... By JOCELYN ALEXANDER, JOANN MCGREGOR and TERENCE RANGER (Oxford: James Currey, 2000; pp. 291. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). ANYONE who wants to understand Zimbabwe's current path to authoritarian rule would do well...

The Conservative Government and the End of Empire 1957-1964. British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 4, Parts I and II.
February 1, 2002... Edited by RONALD HYAM and Wm ROGER LOUIS (London: HMSO, for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2000; pp. cix + 825, pp. xxxvii + 811. 150 [pounds sterling] each). FOR the first time in the series, we have a general volume of British...

The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History.
February 1, 2002... ed. R. N. Swanson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000; pp. 397. 40 [pounds sterling]). It is hard to overestimate the grip on Judaeo-Christian-Islamic culture exerted by the narrow strip of land perched between the Arabian desert and...

The Emergence of Monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages.
February 1, 2002... by Marilyn Dunn (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 280. 45 [pounds sterling]). Readers of this journal may remember Dr Dunn's courageously heterodox article of a decade ago, and the lively debate that ensued (see EHR cv (1990), pp. 567-594,...

The Origins of the European Legal Order.
February 1, 2002... by Maurizio Lupoi (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 641. 75 [pounds sterling]). Over the last half-century, Italian scholars have made a speciality of portmanteau volumes on the legal history of the Medieval West -- much as German...

Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: the Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury.
February 1, 2002... by E. G. Stanley (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 158. 35 [pounds sterling]). This is a singular, and a singularly interesting, book. The first section is a republication of a set of articles, first published as a book in 1975....

The Quoit Brooch Style and the Anglo-Saxon Settlement.
February 1, 2002... by Seiichi Suzuki (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000; pp. 218. 50 [pounds sterling]). A work such as this should command the more attention in that its author is expert both in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and in Anglo-Saxon verse. The...

Viking Age Iceland.
February 1, 2002... by Jesse L. Byock (London: Penguin Books, 2001; pp. 450. Pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling]). Most Viking Ages are thought to have ended by 1050 or earlier. Professor Byock's Icelanders are those who lived between then and about 1300, and were...

The Land Legislation of the Macedonian Emperors.
February 1, 2002... tr. and ed. Eric McGeer (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2000; pp. 146. $21.95). For all the subtle probing of sources and earnest rethinking of issues which took place in the second half of the twentieth century, the...

Aliens in Medieval Law: the Origins of Modern Citizenship.
February 1, 2002... by Keechang Kim (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 250. 40 [pounds sterling]). Keechang Kim argues that only in the early modern period did `citizen or alien' finally replace `free or servile' as the basic distinction of personal...

Medieval Scotland.
February 1, 2002... by A. D. M. Barrell (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 296, 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). This new short history finds some recent competitors, but none which shows the same valiant effort to rethink traditional...

Ordering Medieval Society: Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations.
February 1, 2002... ed. Bernhard Jussen, tr. Pamela Selwyn (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 328. 45.50 [pounds sterling]). This stimulating set of essays was conceived with a double purpose: to shed light on some ways in which medieval men...

Peter Abelard's Collationes.
February 1, 2002... ed. and tr. by John Marenbon and Giovanni Orlandi (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. 246. 45 [pounds sterling]). Collationes is the correct title for the work that used to be known as The Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a...

English Episcopal Acta. XXII: Chichester, 1215-1253 and XXIII: Chichester, 1254-1305.
February 1, 2002... ed. Philippa M. Hoskin (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. lxxxii, xxiv + 374. 25 [pounds sterling] and 25 [pounds sterling]). With the publication of these two volumes, the compilation of Chichester episcopal acta begun by Henry Mayr-Harting...

The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Delicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France.
February 1, 2002... by Alan Friedlander (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000; pp. 327. 82 [pounds sterling]). On 17 April 1317, Pope John XXII wrote to the bishops of Narbonne and Beziers summoning from their dioceses those Franciscan friars calling...

The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations.
February 1, 2002... ed. Clifford J. Rogers (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. xxvii+384. 40 [pounds sterling]). This is a useful collection of material, offering a good introduction for undergraduates studying its subject. In addition to 200 pages of...

Waldenser, Wiederganger, Hexen und Rebellen: Biographien zu den Waldenserprozessen von Freiburg in Uchtland (1399 und 1430).
February 1, 2002... by Kathrin Utz Tremp (Freiburg Schweiz: Universitatsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, 1999; pp. 663. Pb.n.p.). For many years, the history of the Waldensian heresy was written almost in a series of linguistic and geographical compartments. To some...

Medieval Women and the Law.
February 1, 2002... ed. Noel James Menuge (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2000; pp. 169. 40 [pounds sterling]). This collection of essays on the theme of women and the law in the Middle Ages is a valuable addition to the burgeoning scholarly literature on the...

Pilgrimage in Medieval England.
February 1, 2002... by Diana Webb (London: Hambledon, 2000; pp. 317. 25 [pounds sterling]). The history of pilgrimage in England is inevitably associated with Chaucer and his motley crew of Canterbury pilgrims but, although the superior `pulling power' and...

The Register of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, 1344-55 (Vol. II).
February 1, 2002... ed. Phyllis E. Pobst (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., for the Canterbury and York Soc., 2000; pp. 248. 25 [pounds sterling]). Professor Pobst completes her edition of Bishop Bateman's register with this second volume, which comes four years...

Universities and Schooling in Medieval Society.
February 1, 2002... ed. William J. Courtenay and Jurgen Miethke (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. 244. Euro 66). Scholarly work on medieval universities has begun to focus on the social history of education, taking a lead from William Courtenay at Wisconsin and...

Wyclif: Political Ideas and Practice; Papers by Michael Wilks.
February 1, 2002... ed. Anne Hudson (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2000; pp. 272. Pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Scholarly work on Wyclif in the last thirty years has generally followed one of three directions. One, practised most perceptively by K. B. McFarlane, was...

D'art et d'argent: Les artistes et leurs clients dans l'Europe du Nord (XIV-XV siecle).
February 1, 2002... by Sophie Cassagnes (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001; pp. 279. F 137.75). Sophie Cassagnes has accomplished a much-needed task in this interesting book. Despite the activities of both historians and art historians over the...

Death, Art, and Medieval England: the Cobham Family and their Monuments, 1300-1500.
February 1, 2002... by Nigel Saul (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 287. 29.99 [pounds sterling]). This is a timely and much needed book. The subject of commemoration has become respectable in recent years. Scholars such as J. M. Winter have tackled the topic...

The Wars of the Roses.
February 1, 2002... by A. J. Pollard (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 141. Pb. 14.50 [pounds sterling]). The Wars of the Roses still dominate studies of fifteenth-century English history, and the second edition of Pollard's book surpasses other recent...

Registrum Octaviani, alias Liber Niger. The Register of Octavian de Palatio, Archbishop of Armagh 1478-1513.
February 1, 2002... ed. M. A. Sughi (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1999; pp. xcix+146, 893 (2 vols.). N.p.) The Armagh Registers contain the most important original documents from the late Middle Ages surviving in Ireland, their only challenger...

Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns.
February 1, 2002... ed. Fiona Kisby (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 188. 40 [pounds sterling]). Despite what might appear to be an obvious relationship between musical culture and city life, Kisby informs her readers that the Consolidated Bibliography...

War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain.
February 1, 2002... ed. Diana Dunn (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P., 2000; pp. 213. 32 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). This is a collection of papers given at a conference at Chester College in April 1999. The conference focused on three English...

The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice.
February 1, 2002... by Luca Mola (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 457. 37 [pounds sterling]). `The development of silk-cloth production... constituted one of the most sensational changes of the Italian economy in the course of the...

Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet.
February 1, 2002... Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet, by Thomas F. Mayer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xvi+468. 50 [pounds sterling]). Cardinal Pole in European Context: A `via media' in the Reformation, by Thomas E Mayer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000;...

Francisco de Borja, Grande de Espana.
February 1, 2002... Francisco de Borja, Grande de Espana, by Enrique Garcia Hernan (Valencia: Inst. Alfons el Magnanim, 2000; pp. 302. N.p.). La Accion diplomatica de Francisco de Borja al servicio del Pontificado, 1571-1572 (Valencia: Organismo Publico...

Elizabeth: Apprenticeship.
February 1, 2002... by David Starkey (London: Vintage, 2001; pp. 372. 7.99 [pounds sterling]). Measured against its author's ambitions, this readable account of Elizabeth's life up to the first year of her reign must be rated a great success, since,...

The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony.
February 1, 2002... by Mary Hill Cole (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts P., 1999; pp. 277. 32 [pounds sterling]). Though Queen Elizabeth I's progresses and entertainments are by no means a new subject, Mary Hill Cole has valuable new information to add and a...

Later Calvinism: International Perspectives Vol. XXII: Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies.
February 1, 2002... ed. W. Fred Graham (Kirksville, MO: North-East Missouri State U.P., 1994; pp. 564. $50). This volume stands alongside a number of recent edited collections which consider the role of Calvinism in early modern Europe from an international...

Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800: Three Seasons in European History.
February 1, 2002... by Gregory Hanlon (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 444. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Writing a history of early modern Italy is always an awkward enterprise. The awkwardness lies in setting its geographical limits and, in turn, in...

The Royal Image and the English People.
February 1, 2002... by Nicola Smith (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 234. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). This thoughtful and well-written work considers the representation of the monarch in a variety of public monuments, both surviving and lost, in which the...

Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1799.
February 1, 2002... ed. Andrew Bradstock (London: Frank Cass, 2000; pp. 173. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.50 [pounds sterling]). Andrew Bradstock has edited a lively but uneven volume of essays on Winstanley and the Diggers. He concludes his introduction...

Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70.
February 1, 2002... by Frederick Valletta (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 272. 45 [pounds sterling]). The premiss upon which this work is based is potentially interesting. In the propaganda war of the 1640s and the theological debates of the next decade all...

Memoirs and Memorials of Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby, 1600-1657.
February 1, 2002... by Jack Binns (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., 2000; pp. 205. 50 [pounds sterling]). As the author of a book and several articles on the Whitby--Scarborough area under the Stuarts, Jack Binns brings plenty...

Krieg und Frieden im Ubergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit: Theorie-Praxis-Bilder.
February 1, 2002... ed. H. Duchhardt and P. Veit (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2000; pp. 328. DM 63.55). This volume is a very substantial collection of papers given at a conference to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Treaty of Westphalia which...

Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism.
February 1, 2002... by Tim Cooper (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 238. 45 [pounds sterling]). Dr Cooper has written an impressive first book. He seeks to relate the career of Richard Baxter to his hatred of Antinomianism. If we were to settle on a single...

La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627-1693.
February 1, 2002... by Vincent J. Pitts (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 367. 32.50 [pounds sterling]). Numerous historians and literary scholars have been attracted to the memoirs of the duchesse de Montpensier, granddaughter of Henri IV, niece of...

A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16th to the 20th Century.
February 1, 2002... by Georges Vigarello (Oxford: Polity P., 2000; pp. 306. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Georges Vigarello is a distinguished cultural historian of early modern France who has concerned himself with the origins and...

Correspondance consulaire des ambassadeurs de France a Constantinople, 1668-1708.
February 1, 2002... ed. Raia Zaimova (Paris: Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, 1999; pp. 273. F 300). Of necessity, given the ever-growing quantity and richness of its collections, detailed inventories have been an unsystematic, but extremely...

London in the 1690s: a Social Atlas.
February 1, 2002... by Craig Spence (London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, U. of London, 2000; pp. 200. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). Do not be misled by this book's title, nor by the glowing colours of the early...

The Glorification of Emperor Leopold I in Image, Spectacle and Text.
February 1, 2002... by Maria Goloubeva (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2000; pp. 254. DM 72.90). Maria Goloubeva's study of the images, dramatic performances and texts which sought to glorify the Habsburg emperor and monarch Leopold I draws evidence from...

R. R. Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755: Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish Perspective.
February 1, 2002... tr. Torsten and Peter Berg (London: Cromwell P., 2001; pp. 378. 34.95 [pounds sterling]). Reinhold Rucker Angerstein's diary of his tours in England and (to a small extent) Wales has long been known to historians of the iron industry as...

The Journals of Captain James Cook. Volume III: the Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780.
February 1, 2002... ed. J. C. Beaglehole (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, for the Hakluyt Society, 1999; pp. ccxiv+718. 595 [pounds sterling] full set of 4 parts). This is a principal source for understanding European exploration of the Pacific in the...

Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810.
February 1, 2002... by Harriet Guest (Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 2001; pp. 352. $49; pb. $20). Harriet Guest's study is a book many a literary critic will wish to have published and as many historians of the period will want to read. It displays a wealth of...

Union-Konversion-Toleranz: Dimension der Annaherung zwischen den christlichen Konfessionen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.
February 1, 2002... ed. Heinz Duchhardt and Gerhard May (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2000; pp. 365. DM 54). This collection of essays emerged from a conference held at the Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte at Mainz. It is concerned with a little-explored...

A Population History of North America.
February 1, 2002... ed. Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 736. 45 [pounds sterling]). This comprehensive collection of essays on the population history of North America (with Mexico and the Caribbean included by...

Landesgeschichte und historische Demographie.
February 1, 2002... ed. Michael Matheus and Walter G. Rodel (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000; pp. 194. DM 78). Historical demography in the German-speaking world has become well established since the late 1970s, and, as this volume testifies, central...

Valistus ja kansallinen identiteetti: Aatehistoriallinen tutkimus 1700-luvun Pohjalasta.
February 1, 2002... by Juha Manninen (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2000; pp. 263. N.p.). Manninen's book (translated, The Enlightenment and National Identity) concerns the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Sweden-Finland, and the...

Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805.
February 1, 2002... by Leonard N. Rosenband (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 210. 31 [pounds sterling]). One of the great themes in the historiography of early industrialization has been the imposition by ruthless employers of mechanical...

Improper Pursuits: the Scandalous Life of Lady Di Beauclerk.
February 1, 2002... by Carola Hicks (London: Macmillan, 2001; pp. 403. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). One of the more tangible benefits of the feminist decades is the rehabilitation of talented women, who have hitherto been pushed out of the limelight. Sometimes...

Mozart: a Cultural Biography.
February 1, 2002... by Robert W. Gutman (London: Secker & Warburg, 2000; Pimlico Edition 2001; pp. xxii + 839. Pb. 16 [pounds sterling]). A book with this title arouses expectations. Essentially it is a narrative of Mozart's life, eminently readable, and...

The Life of Marie d'Agoult.
February 1, 2002... by Phyllis Stock-Morton (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 283. 33 [pounds sterling]). This is a strange, rather old-fashioned biography. Stock-Morton's work lacks many of the features of modern historical writing:...

Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Union: Ireland in the 1790's.
February 1, 2002... ed. Jim Smyth (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 245. 35 [pounds sterling].). This is an extraordinarily good collection of essays, given the very many not so good works generated by the recent bi-centennial of the 1798 Irish...

Britain in the Age of the French Revolution, 1785-1820.
February 1, 2002... by Jennifer Mori (Harlow: Longman, for Pearson Education, 2000; pp. 259. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). There has been a considerable amount of scholarship devoted to the study of Britain and the revolutionary period in the last thirty...

Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848.
February 1, 2002... by Edward Royle (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 214. 145 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Edward Royle's long essay on the old question of the extent to which Britain `trembled on the brink of revolution', as E. P....

Napoleon the Novelist.
February 1, 2002... by Andy Martin (London: Polity Press, 2000; pp. 191. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). Napoleon's literary ambitions have never been unknown, and the directness and lucidity of his style have always been famous. He wrote...

After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontents.
February 1, 2002... ed. Howard Temperley (London: Frank Cass, 2000; pp. 320. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.50 [pounds sterling]). With a broad geographical focus covering the northern Atlantic World, India, Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa, this edited volume...

British Envoys to Germany, 1816-1866. Vol. I: 1816-1829.
February 1, 2002... ed. Sabine Freitag and Peter Wende (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. for the Royal Historical Society/ German Historical Institute London, 2000; pp. 592. 40 [pounds sterling]). The dominating form of political contact between Britain and the...

The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale, 1780-1868.
February 1, 2002... ed. R. P. Fereday (Kirkwall: Bellavista Publications, 2000; pp. 308. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). In this volume R. P. Fereday has provided us with a compendium of information on Samuel Laing (1780-1868) of Papdale, the nineteenth-century...

How the English Made the Alps.
February 1, 2002... by Jim Ring (London: John Murray, 2000; pp. 287. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). Ring traces the history of British people shaping the perceptions of, and the activities performed in, the Alps. The author undoubtedly chose the single most...

The Arctic in the British Imagination, 1818-1914.
February 1, 2002... by Robert G. David (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 278. 46 [pounds sterling]). Histories of polar exploration have tended to be the preserve of the popular rather than the academic historian. The years from the search for the...

John Ruskin: No Wealth but Life. A Biography.
February 1, 2002... by John Batchelor (London: Pimlico, 2001; pp. 381. 12.50 [pounds sterling]). This is a judicious and full account of Ruskin's life and work. Batchelor takes the view that he is a species of Romantic writer, comparable to Byron even, not...