The English Historical Review articles from February 2003

The English Historical Review archives from February 2003

Urban conflict in late fourteenth-century England: the case of York in 1380-1 *.
February 1, 2003... DURING a meeting of Parliament at Northampton in 1380, a `great and notorious rumour' circulated among the assembled Commons of a `dreadful thing' which had recently taken place in the city of York. (1) The parliamentary Commons petitioned the...

Languages of loyalism: patriotism, nationhood and the state in the 1790s.
February 1, 2003... IF much of the work published during the past decade on British responses to the French Revolution is to be believed, England was swamped during the 1790s with a tidal wave of conservative loyalism focused on the defence of a British ancien...

`Wholesome object lessons': the Chartist Land Plan in retrospect *.
February 1, 2003... WITH 20,000 shareholders (and at its peak 70,000 weekly subscribers), some 600 local branches and five estates, the Chartist Land Plan is among the most extraordinary organizations of the early-Victorian period. (1) Though originally intended...

Anti-semitism and philo-semitism among the British and German elites: Oxford and Heidelberg before the First World War *.
February 1, 2003... ON a November evening of 1901, a twenty-four year old Heidelberg doctoral student from Alsenz, a small place in the Palatinate, had every reason to celebrate. Professors Georg Jellinek and Otto Karlowa had just passed him in his viva and made...

A lost source for the rising of 1536 in north-west England. (Notes And Documents).
February 1, 2003... THE Pilgrimage of Grace has not yet given up all its secrets. Just as one of the authors of this note was seeing through the press the first comprehensive history for eighty-five years of the coalition of movements in late 1536 and early 1537...

Domesday Explorer: Great Domesday Book on CD-ROM.(Audiovisual Review)
February 1, 2003... By JOHN PALMER, MATTHEW PALMER and GEORGE SLATER (Version 1.0) (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; CD-ROM, 350 [pounds sterling]). THE Domesday Explorer is the first computerized edition of Domesday Book to have been published. Professor John...

The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093-1343.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By R. R. DAVIES (Oxford: Oxford U.P, 2000; pp. 213. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). IF I may begin with a confession: for all the admiration one has for the oeuvre of Rees Davies, I opened this book fearful of being disappointed. He has...

The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest & 'Carmen Campidoctoris' o poema latino del Campeador.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By SIMON BARTON and RICHARD FLETCHER (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. xiv+281. 16.99 [pounds sterling]); `Carmen Campidoctoris' o poema latino del Campeador. By ALBERTO MONTANER and ANGEL ESCOBAR (Madrid: Espana Nuevo Milenio, 2001;...

Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By MEGAN CASSIDY-WELCH (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. xv+293. Eur 50). Dp. Cassidy-Welch's study of thirteenth-century English monasteries, and in particular the eight male houses of the Cistercian order located in Yorkshire, centres on the...

The Ius Commune in England: Four Studies.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By R. H. HELMHOLZ (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvi+270. 41.99 [pounds sterling]). THE ius commune and the common law, similar in name, are two very different systems of law, the first an amalgam of Roman and canon law and the second the...

Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By NANCY BRADLEY WARREN (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 280. 33.50 [pounds sterling]). IT is usual to see the communities of religious women as marginal to the cultural, social and spiritual life of later medieval England....

The Knights Hospitaller.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By HELEN NICHOLSON (Woodbridge: The Boydell E, 2001; pp. 180. 25 [pounds sterling]). SHORT accounts of long-lived institutions are now in fashion with publishers, who make allowance for the impatience of their mouse-clicking readers. When...

Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By TIM THORNTON (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 320; 40 [pounds sterling]). THIS ambitious book argues that the palatinate of Chester, far from being a moribund anachronism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, remained a...

Power and Politics in Tudor England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Essays by G. W. BERNARD (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 240. 45 [pounds sterling]). VARIOUS aspects of its author's distinguished and distinctive achievement as an historian are well represented in this collection of ten essays, of which...

The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By PETER LAKE, with MICHAEL QUESTIER (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. xxxiv+731. 30 [pounds sterling]). THIS is not a volume for the faint-hearted or the weak-willed. It is challenging, exciting, reflexive, wide-ranging, exceedingly...

Acta Pacis, Westphalicae.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Series II B. Vol. IV, Die franzosischen Korrespondenzen 1646. Edited by C. KELCH-RADE and A. TISCHER (Munster: Aschendorff, 1999; pp. lxxii + 975. DM 310). THE year 1646 stands at the high-point of French military success during the...

A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By BARBARA J. SHAPIRO (Ithaca/London: Cornell U. P., 2000; pp. 284. 32.50 [pounds sterling]). IN recent years early modern cultural and intellectual history has taken a factual turn. Thankfully this has been steered neither by a Gradgrind...

Politik-Propaganda-Patronage: Francis Hare und die Englische Publizistik im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By JENS METZDORF (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2000; pp. 566. Eur 58.29). THIS massive study, published as volume 179 of the prestigious series Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur europaische Geschichte Mainz, is a revised version of...

Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By J. M. BEATTIE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xix+491. 48 [pounds sterling]). GIVEN the huge flow of books and articles since, it is surprising to recall that before the 1970s hardly any serious work on the social history of...

England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By BRUCE L. KINZER (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 2001; pp. 292. 35 [pounds sterling]). ALTHOUGH William Gladstone famously dubbed John Stuart Mill `the Saint of Rationalism', we have come to appreciate that, as a philosopher, Mill was...

A History of Harrow School, 1324-1991.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. xx+599. 30 [pounds sterling]). THE rise of Harrow School from the relatively modest 1572 foundation of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon to the second most famous school in the...

Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by HOLGER BERNT HANSEN and MICHAEL TWADDLE (Oxford: James Currey, 2002; pp. 307. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). THIS volume bears eloquent testimony to the vitality and sophistication of contemporary scholarship...

Britain and America since Independence.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By HOWARD TEMPERLEY (Basingstoke/ New York: Palgrave, 2002; pp. 249. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). IT is important both politically and historically that British citizens should have an accurate knowledge and understanding of...

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By IAN KERSHAW (London: Penguin, 2000; pp. xlvi+1115. Pb. 10.99 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a Hitler for the post-Hitler generation. That much is evident both in Kershaw's sources and in his emphases. In his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny...

Slavery in Early Christianity.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Jennifer A. Glancy (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 203. 30 [pounds sterling]). This book is primarily a fairly dry survey of the operation of slavery in the Roman empire which concentrates on the New Testament writings as sources. Many...

Studien zur Corveyer Grundungsuberlieferung.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Karl Heinrich Kruger (Munster: Aschendorff, 2000; pp. 362. DM 89). Dr Kruger's Habilitationsschrift, completed in 1992, surveys the medieval sources for the foundation of the Saxon abbey of Corvey and the differing information they...

Anglo-Saxon Charters IX: Charters of the New Minster, Winchester.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Sean Miller (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2001; pp. lxvii+244. 45 [pounds sterling]). The New Minster was founded at Winchester by Edward the Elder in 901 and took on the dual function of royal mausoleum and borough...

Edward the Elder, 889-924.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. 320. Pb. n.p.). These twenty-two valuable essays review the reign and achievements of `one of the greatest architects of the English state and yet one of the most neglected...

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Nigel Saul (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1997; pp. 308. Pb. 15 [pounds sterling]). Do we really need another one-volume history of medieval England? That it is possible to answer `yes' is a tribute to the freshness and originality of these...

Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation. Vol. II: from 1066-1384.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Kenneth Hylson-Smith. London: SCM Press, 2000; pp. 338. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). The current generation of ecclesiastical historians generally have eschewed grand surveys of their subject, just as they have also shifted the focus of...

The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: a Dynastic History 1099-1125.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Alan V. Murray (Oxford: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000; pp. 280. Pb. n.p.). The question of the family origins and motivations of those involved in the First Crusade and the establishment of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in...

Jerusalem im Hoch- und Spatmittelalter: Konflikte und Konfliktbewaltigung--Vorstellungen und Vergegenwartigungen.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Dieter Bauer, Klaus Herbers and Nikolas Jaspert (Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2001; pp. 492. Eur 56). The past decade has been a good time for crusading. Quite apart from contemporary conflicts, to which the title `crusades' has...

The Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. xxi+234. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This collection of essays is based upon papers delivered at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 1998. Not all...

Dei gesta per Francos: Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. xxiv+434. 55 [pounds sterling]). This Festschrift, presented to Jean Richard by members of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin...

The Making of Gratian's Decretum.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Anders Winroth (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 245. 40 [pounds sterling]). Winroth has had a revolutionary insight about the creation of the Decretum Gratiani, the foundational text of canonical jurisprudence, and the first part...

Arnulf von Lisieux: Die Gedichte Arnulfs von Lisieux (d. 1184).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. and trans. by Ewald Konsgen (Heidelberg: Heidelberg U.P., 2002; pp. xiii+92. Eur 18). Arnulf, bishop of Lisieux in Normandy (1141-1184), was one of the most distinguished prelates of his time in the western church. A reformer, a...

Les Fortifications des Plantagenets en Poitou, 1154-1242.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Marie-Pierre Baudry (Paris: Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2001; pp, 383. Eur 46). This is a thorough and illuminating study of an important subject: the fortified strongpoints constructed by and on behalf of the...

The Council of Bourges, 1225: a Documentary History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Richard Kay (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 620. 67.50 [pounds sterling]). This book has been very long in gestation. Consequently it has a maturity of thought and clarity of expression that are rare in these pressured days. It is...

I canonici e il Capitolo della cattedrale di Trento dal XII al XV secolo.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Emanuele Curzel (Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 2001; pp. 802. Eur 51). The diocese of Trent, like several of the bishoprics in the Alps, was of relatively small extent, not comparable with the vast ecclesiastical territories of Germany...

The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire Eyre.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Aileen M. Hopkinson (Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Soc., 2000; pp. lxx+ 310. N.p.). This excellent calendar adds to the growing series of published eyres, a prime source for both legal and economic history in the thirteenth century....

Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford Paradigm.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Naomi Reed Kline (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2001; pp. xiii+261, 40 [pounds sterling]). Up to a point, Naomi Reed Kline, Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College, New Hampshire, has done for the images on the Hereford Map...

How to Recover the Holy Land: The Crusade Proposals of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Antony Leopold (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 231. 45 [pounds sterling]). The `recovery treatises' produced between 1290 and 1336 offered suggestions as to how the territories and holy sites in Syria and Palestine, which had been...

King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Martin Biddle et al. (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. xvii + 533, 30 [pounds sterling]). `The Rounde Table at Wynchestre beganne/And there it ende and ther it hangeth yet' wrote the chronicler John Hardyng in 1464, using `Round Table'...

Les bourgeois de Calais: Essai sur un mythe historique.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Jean-Marie Moeglin (Paris: Albin Michel, 2002; pp. 462. Eur 29). Even without Shakespeare to help them, the French have found a fertile source of national myths in the Hundred Years War. The subject of this unusual and interesting...

The Black Prince.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by David Green (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2001; pp. 159. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Edward the Black Prince has proved something of an enigma to historians of the modern age. There can be no denying his military prowess, proven in the...

Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Peter Coss and Maurice Keen (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2002; pp. 278. 45 [pounds sterling]). For all but a very small minority of those who lived in the middle ages, the lessons which everyday experience taught about power, prestige and...

Katalog illuminovanych rukopisu: Knihovny Narodniho Muzea v Praze.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Pavel Brodsky (Prague: K.L.P., 2000; pp. xlvii+489. $55). Since 1818, the National Museum in Prague has been the home of one of the most important medieval manuscript collections in Central Europe. Many of its treasures have featured in...

The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum, Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Claude Cahen (tr. and ed. P. M. Holt) (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. 302, Pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). The Seljuk sultanate of Rum forms a central part in the jigsaw of Near Eastern States at the time of the Crusades. Neighbours of both...

The Evolution of the Fishing Village: Landscape and Society along the South Devon Coast 1086-1550.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Harold Fox (Oxford: Leopard's Head P., 2001; pp. 206. Pb. n.p.). Harold Fox has a reticent style, saved from any danger of dryness by the judicious use of understated humour (he describes the Vicars Choral of Exeter Cathedral as...

The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Joseph A. Gribbin (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. xviii + 283. 45 [pounds sterling]). The role of the Regular Canons in England has long been overshadowed by the exploits of their better-known Benedictine colleagues. It is often...

The Penitentiary as a Well of Grace in the Later Middle Ages: the Example of the Province of Uppsala.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... 1448-1527, by Kirsi Salonen (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2001; pp. 458. N.p.). Pope John Paul II opened the records of the Papal Penitentiary to the scholarly world for the first time in 1983. This massive body of...

Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Ken Farnhill (York: York Medieval P., 2001; pp. 237. 50 [pounds sterling]). I wish I could speak better of this book. I would willingly do so if it did not so much resemble a thesis. The over-hasty publishing of theses is imposed upon...

The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Katherine Ludwig Jansen (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2001; pp. xviii+389. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). By the middle ages Mary Magdalen had become, in the West, a somewhat more complex figure than she appears in the Gospels. There she...

L'Ascesa al potere di Pandolfo Petrucci il Magnifico, signore di Siena (1487-1500).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Christine Shaw (ed. Mario Ascheri, tr. Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci) (Siena: Edizioni Il Lecce, 2001; pp. 145. Eur 11.88). This is a rigorously researched short study which presents much new material about the rise to dominance of Siena...

Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Thomas Kuehn (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan P., 2002; pp. 305. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Thomas Kuehn follows his earlier books on Florentine legal and social history with this study of illegitimacy in the fifteenth century, a topic which...

The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Donald Weinstein (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. xix+219. 31 [pounds sterling]). This is, as the author self-deprecatingly declares at the outset, `a book about a street fight in Pistoia... a bloody swordfight between...

Working Women of Early Modern Venice.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Monica Chojnacka (Baltimore/ London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. xxiv+190. 25 [pounds sterling]). Until recently, in-depth studies of early modern Venetian women were few and far between. Those which did exist focused on very specific...

Alle Origini del Sant'Uffizio: Penitenza, confessione e giustizia spirituale dal medioevo al XVI secolo.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Elena Brambilla (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2000; pp. 590. Eur 33.57). Elena Brambilla is professor of Modern History at the State University of Milan and she has published on the history of medicine and science, ecclesiastical history and...

Suomalainen kapina: Talonpoikais levottomuudet ja poliitisen kultuurin muutosta Ruotsin ajalla (n. 1150-1800).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Kimmo Katajala (Helsinki: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Historiallisia Tutkimuksia 212), 2002; pp. 531. N.p.). Kimmo Katajala has an established reputation as a historian of peasant society in Finland, since the publication of his...

Readers and Readings in the Inns of Court and Chancery.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by J. H. Baker (London: Selden Society (Supplementary Series 13), 2001; pp. lxviii+651. N.p.). By a happy coincidence this volume appeared 100 years after the effective founder of the Selden Society, F. W. Maitland, delivered his seminal...

The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by J. H. Baker (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xix+197. 25 [pounds sterling]). This book presents the three Clarendon Law Lectures delivered by Professor Baker under the aegis of OUP and the Oxford Law Faculty in 1999; these are...

Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Part II: 1560-1609,ed. C. S. Knighton (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Westminster Abbey Record Series, ii, 1999; pp. xvi+328. 40 [pounds sterling]). The collegiate church of St Peter at Westminster is unique among English churches in...

The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Graham Darby (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. xxiii+175. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This is a timely collection of essays designed to keep non-specialist readers (sixth-formers, teachers and undergraduates,...

Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Helen Rawlings (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002; pp. xvii+185. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). It is no simple task to present the religious history of a country such as Spain in less than a hundred and fifty pages, and it would be easy as well...

Frieden und Krieg in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Die europaische Staatenordnung und die aussereuropaische Welt.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voss and Martin Wrede (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2001; pp. 622. DM 88). The 350th anniversary of Westphalia generated considerable activity in Germany, with exhibitions, conferences, research projects and...

Le Savoir du Prince, du Moyen Age aux Lumieres.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Ran Halevi (Paris: Fayard, 2002; pp. 371. Eur 25). From a less ambitious agenda than Ran Halevi's, the 1998 colloquium at the Sorbonne, of which the present volume is the product, might have yielded simply an assortment of conventional...

Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. James Daybell (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. xiv+213. 45 [pounds sterling]). James Daybell's thoughtful introduction to this pioneering collection of essays on women's letter writing emphasizes how much they have to tell us about...

Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Harriette Andreadis (Chicago: U. of Chicago E, zooi; pp. 238. 28.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 11 [pounds sterling]). Sappho in Early Modern England takes the history of female same-sex relations in the early modern period far from the...

Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race and Empire in Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2000; pp. 403. 44 [pounds sterling]; pb. 19.50 [pounds sterling]). The editors of this elegantly presented volume on visual culture set themselves and their...

The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Alastair J. Mann (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2000; pp. 308. 25 [pounds sterling]). In this meticulously researched and broad-ranging study, Alastair Mann offers what can legitimately be described as the first modern study of the early...

Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Joseph Marino and Melinda Schlitt (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. xiii+ 509. 60 [pounds sterling]). Festschriften are notoriously as uneven in quality as they are difficult to put together, and this example is no exception to...

Historians and Ideologues: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Kelley.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Anthony T. Grafton and J. H. M. Salmon (Rochester, NY/Woodbridge: U. of Rochester P./Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. 358. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75). This substantial volume of essays by sixteen contemporaries and younger scholars is a...

French Society, 1589-1715.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Sharon Kettering (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. 240. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The declared aim of this new series is to provide short social histories which, while accessible to the student and the general reader, synthesize recent...

Europe, 1600-1789.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Anthony F. Upton (London: Arnold, 2001; pp. 437. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). To summarize two centuries of European history in 370-odd pages is a heroic undertaking, especially when the author unapologetically...

The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Trevor Cooper (Woodbridge: Boydell P., in association with the Ecclesiological Soc., 2001; pp. xxiv+ 551. 50 [pounds sterling]). This is a volume of enormous dedication and enterprise. To enter the dilapidated church of Mickfield, Dr...

The Cry of a Stone.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Anna Trapnel, ed. Hilary Hinds (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State U.P., 2000; pp. 11+123. 24 [pounds sterling]). Anna Trapnel, shipwright's daughter and Fifth Monarchist prophetess, triggered a flurry of political excitement and alarm in...

Stadhouder-koning Willem III: Een politieke biografie.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Wout Troost (Hilversum: Verloren, 2001; pp. 331. Eur 30). Despite William III's importance for Dutch, English and European history, there is no satisfactory biography: the standard two-volume work in Dutch by N. Japikse (1930-33) has...

The Estate and Household Accounts of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall, Westmorland 1688-1701.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. Blake Tyson, from a transcript by Revd B. G. Fell (Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Soc., 2001; pp. 400. 40 [pounds sterling]). Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal was a significant figure among the landed...

`An Exact and Industrious Tradesman': The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal 1711-1720.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... ed. S. D. Smith (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. cxxxii+796. 65 [pounds sterling]). Joseph Symson was a Kendal woollen merchant, who was mayor of the town in 1691 and 1709. Born in 1650, he died in 1731, but what we know of him as a...

An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Geoffrey Plank (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P., 2000; pp. 239. 21 [pounds sterling]). Longfellow's gift for storytelling was never better seen than in his epic Evangeline, one of the most popular of his longer poems. Rich in tender...

General Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester: Soldier-Statesman of Early British Canada.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Paul David Nelson (Madison/London: Fairleigh Dickinson U.P., Associated U.P., 2000; pp. 295. 36.50 [pounds sterling]). Sir Guy Carleton enjoys general recognition for having, with much success, integrated Quebec into the British Empire...

Scott of Amwell: Dr Johnson's Quaker Critic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by David Perman (Ware: Rockingham P., 2001; pp. 368. 28 [pounds sterling]). `What was a Quaker doing building a grotto... and writing poetry?', asks David Perman at the beginning of this detailed and exhaustively researched study of one...

Les arrets de reglement du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siecle Dimension et doctrine & La physiologie de l'arret de reglement du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Philippe Payen (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997: pp. 526. F 198). La physiologie de l'arret de reglement du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siecle, by Philippe Payen (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999; pp. 501. F...

Balancing the Scales of Justice: Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France 1750-1800.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... by Anthony Crubaugh (University Park: Pennsylvania State U.P., 2001; pp. xx+257. $65; pb. $19.95). This book is to be welcomed, if only for the reason that seigneurial justice and the Justices of the Peace have rarely attracted the...