The English Historical Review articles from February 2004

The English Historical Review archives from February 2004

Dependent priories and the closure of monasteries in late medieval England, 1400-1535 *.
February 1, 2004... IN about 1100, Bishop Herbert de Losinga completed the domestic quarters of his cathedral priory at Norwich, and summoned the monks of the new community down from the chapel of St Leonard in nearby Thorpe wood where they had stayed during the...

Reform without frontiers in the last years of Catholic Scotland.
February 1, 2004... THE summer of 1549 was a good time to be a Scottish Catholic. During the political turmoil and devastating warfare of the previous seven years, heresy had made alarming progress. Even in the last years of James V, the old kirk's position had...

Delville Wood and South African Great War commemoration.
February 1, 2004... IN May 1920, Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and a pushy member of the inner circle of Lloyd George's Imperial War Cabinet, wrote to the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. He expressed his regret at the loss of a large number...

Late medieval churchwardens' accounts and parish government: looking beyond London and Bristol *.
February 1, 2004... AROUND 1500, Englishmen and women formed a heterogeneous social body, but almost all had one thing in common: they were parishioners. Parish studies thus promise unrivalled insights into the public lives of the vast majority of the population....

The broader Church? A rejoinder to 'looking beyond'.
February 1, 2004... AMONG the reasons prompting me to write 'Pre-Reformation Churchwardens' Accounts and Parish Government: Lessons from London and Bristol' (hereafter referred to as 'Lessons'), two were prominent. I hoped to secure not only more attention for...

Law, Laity and Solidarities: Essays in Honour of Susan Reynolds.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by P. STAFFORD, J. T. NELSON and J. MARTINDALE (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 274. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). FESTSCHRIFTEN are going the way of testimonials. Just as no candidate not backed by the purplest panegyric has...

Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: the Royal Diwan.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By JEREMY JOHNS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002, pp. xviii + 389. 50 [pounds sterling]). JOHNS opens this genuinely interdisciplinary and much-anticipated work with a review of comparisons formerly made between the administrations of...

The Seigneurial Residence in Western Europe, AD c. 800-1600.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by GWYN MEIRION-JONES, EDWARD IMPEY and MICHEL JONES (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002 (BAR International Series 1088); pp. 269. 35 [pounds sterling]). IN 1993 the Society of Antiquaries of London published as its fifteenth Occasional...

Hastening Toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Lisa WOLVERTON (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 406. 45.50 [pounds sterling]). THIS is the most substantial and scholarly book on earlier medieval Bohemia that has so far appeared in English. Covering the period...

Kings, Barons and Justices: the Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By PAUL BRAND (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 508. 65 [pounds sterling]). HISTORIANS have always known that the reform of the law had a high priority during the 1258-65 movement, second only to the reform of central and local...

The Realm of St Stephen: a History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By PAL ENGEL. Translated by Tamas Palosfalvi; English edition edited by Andrew Ayton. (London/New York: I. B. Tauris, 2001; pp. xix + 452. N.p.) PAL Engel, who died soon after the publication of this book, graduated as a Byzantinist, but...

Power and Profit: the Merchant in Medieval Europe.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By PETER SPUFFORD (London: Thames and Hudson, 2002; pp. 432. 24.95 [pounds sterling]). PETER Spufford is well known to medievalists as the author of an excellent book on Money and its Use in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1988). In that...

The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson. Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by CAROLINE M. BARRON and JENNY STRATFORD (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2002; pp. 398. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). EVEN though the theme of this volume is remarkably broad, many of the contributors reflect on a number of quite closely...

La Seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento: Dal baco al drappo.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by LUCA MOLA, REINHOLD C. MUELLER, et al. (Venice: Saggi Marsilio, 2000; pp. 568. N.p.). DURING the later Medieval and Renaissance period, Italy and Spain were the main producers of silk fabrics in Europe. The extensive trading...

Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): the Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By DAVID A. LINES (Leiden: Brill, 2002; pp. xxiv + 614. Eur 130). ONLY forty years ago one prominent Renaissance scholar declared that the Renaissance was the age of Plato, in contrast to the medieval age of Aristotle; thanks to studies of...

'In the Footsteps of the Ancients': the Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By RONALD G. WITT (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. 562. 75 [pounds sterling]). EVER since Jacob Burckhardt's Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, successive generations of scholars have set out to remodel 'The Renaissance' in a number of...

The Zimmern Chronicle: Nobility, Memory and Self-representation in Sixteenth-century Germany.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By ERICA BASTRESS-DUKEHART (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 223. 40 [pounds sterling]). THE chronicle of the Zimmern family is a fascinating object of study. The authorship is uncertain, but it was probably written by two of the last members...

Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By WILLEM FRIJHOFF (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2002; pp. 300. Eur 26). WILLEM Frijhoff is undoubtedly one of the most important, innovative and influential historians of religion in the early modern Netherlands, yet his work is little...

Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by P. O'BRIEN, D. KEENE, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 361. 45 [pounds sterling]). IN close succession between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-eighteenth century, the rise of Antwerp, Amsterdam and London astonished...

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589-2000.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By STANLEY CHAPMAN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 328. 55 [pounds sterling]). THE importance of textile manufacture to Britain's economic expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is well recognised and extensively researched....

Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1913.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by DAVID I. KERTZER and MARZIO BARBAGLI (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2002; pp. 420. 30 [pounds sterling]). THIS collection of essays forms Volume 2 of the editors' project, The History of the European Family. The titles of the four...

Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain: the Social Science Association, 1857-1886.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By LAWRENCE GOLDMAN (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xv + 430. 50 [pounds sterling]). SUCCESSIVE generations of historians have pillaged the Transactions of the Social Science Association in exploring mid-Victorian attitudes to a...

The Blood of our Sons': 'Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By NICOLETTA F. GULLACE (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. 284. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE impact of the First World War on the campaign for women's suffrage remains a contended question. Established opinion believes that the...

Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union: Rapallo and After, 1922-1934.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By STEPHANIE SALZMANN (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Society, 2003; pp. 201. 40 [pounds sterling]). THE subject of British foreign policy in the inter-war period has been dominated by studies of appeasement. The earlier...

MacDonald's Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922-1932.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By DAVID HOWELL (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 452. 55 [pounds sterling]). THIS is an important book, written by a scholar who knows the politics, and especially the personalities, of the inter-war Labour parry better than anybody. It...

Interesting Times: a Twentieth-Century Life.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By ERIC HOBSBAWM (London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 20022; pp. 448. 20 [pounds sterling]). HISTORIANS are part of their time; and Eric Hobsbawm more than most. His own life seems to capture the tumults of the twentieth century. Jewish, born in...

Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Andre Vauchez, Barrie Dobson and Michael Lapidge (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2000 (2 vols.); pp. 1624. 195 [pounds sterling]). The publishing history of this encyclopaedia is complicated. The original version was in French and published...

The History of Islamic Political Thought: from the Prophet to the Present.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Antony Black (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. P., 2001; pp. xviii + 377. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). This book fills a serious gap in the literature on Islam. Apart from Tilman Nagel's two-volume work in German published...

Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Rosemary Cramp.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. H. Hamerow and A. MacGregor (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001; pp. 180. 35 [pounds sterling]). You'd expect archaeologists to be tendered Festschrifien. More than in most intellectual disciplines, team-leadership is a prerequisite of...

Wics: the Early Medieval Trading Centres of Northern Europe.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. David Hill and Robert Cowie (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic P., 2001; pp. 143. 45 [pounds sterling]). This is loosely based on the proceedings of a conference held at York in September 1991. It bears the marks of the long interval before...

Annee mille, An Mil.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. C. Carozzi and H. Taviani-Carozzi (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2002; pp. 231. Eur 22). The years around the turning of the first millennium have long been the focus of debate among medieval historians...

The Battle of Hastings 1066.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by M. K. Lawson (Stroud: Tempus P., 2002; pp. 288. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Students of the battle of Hastings have been well served in recent years by Jim Bradbury's The Battle of Hastings (1998) and by Stephen Morillo's editorship...

Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Alan Harding (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; p. 392. 40 [pounds sterling]). Alan Harding examines relationships between developments in vocabulary and in theory and the emerging reality (as he sees it) of the state. The very valulable core...

The Building of Orford Castle: a Translation from the Pipe Rolls, 1163-78.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Valerie Potter, Margaret Poulter and Jane Allen (Orford: Orford Museum, 2002; pp. xiv + 62. 10.50 [pounds sterling]). In presenting this material, especially for a non-professional audience, Valerie Potter, Margaret Poulter and Jane...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Worcester Cathedral Library.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. R. M. Thomson, with Michael Gullick (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. xlviii + 256. 95 [pounds sterling]). Students of medieval manuscripts are deeply indebted to those who compile catalogues of them, and to those willing to...

English Episcopal Acta XXI: Norwich, 1215-1243.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Oxford : Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. lxxiii + 219. 45 [pounds sterling]). The Norwich volume (No. XXI) is a major addition to this important series. In it are published the surviving acts of three, very different,...

Der 'Kreuzzug' gegen die Albigenser: Ketzerei und Machtpolitik im Mittelalter.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Jorg Oberste (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2003; pp. 222. Eur 24.90). Dr Oberste bases his history mainly on the major chronicles, notably Vaux-de-Cernay, Puylaurens, Pelisson and the Chanson. He also adds an occasional document from the...

Konig Philipp von Schwaben: Itinerar, Urkundenvergabe, Hof.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Konig Philipp van Schwaben: Itinerar, Urkundenvergabe, Hof, by B. Schutte (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften; vol. 51) (Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2002; pp. xxxvii + 594. Eur 65.42). Die Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12....

The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Andrew Jotischky (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 370. 55 [pounds sterling]). The imagination of Baudolino, Umberto Eco's new hero, pales in comparison with the fantastical tales told by Andrew Jotischky's Carmelites in pursuit of their...

Anjou: Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. John McNeill and Daniel Prigent (Leeds: Maney, 2003; pp. 258. Eur 76). Historians who seek to understand the growth of regional identities in medieval France all accept that, although the contribution of political authority was...

English Diplomatic Practice in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Pierre Chaplais (London: Hambledon, 2003; pp. 277. 25 [pounds sterling]). Pierre Chaplais's magisterial book has had an involved history, which has influenced its content and which the author recounts in his preliminary...

The Castle Community: English and Welsh Castle Personnel, 1272-1422.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by John Rickard (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2002; pp. 562. 60 [pounds sterling). Works of reference that list and detail the personnel of government and local administration are of great benefit to the historian, and one thinks of Ralph...

The Registers of Henry Burghersh, 1320-1342. Volume II: Institutions to Benefices in the Archdeaconries of Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, and Collations of Cathedral Dignities and Prebends.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Nicholas Bennett (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Lincoln Record Soc., 2003; pp. 316. 30 [pounds sterling]). This volume completes the bishop's institution register (IV), some of the entries being sede vacante--a lengthy interregnum...

The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Richard Gorski (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2003; pp. 213. 45 [pounds sterling]). In the recent historiography of county and national politics, the fourteenth-century sheriff has not played quite the same central part as his...

Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Philipp Schofield (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002; pp. 274. Pb. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). Philipp Schofield joins a distinguished company: over the past fifty years we have had a notable series of books on English medieval...

Propaganda, Kommunikation und Offentlichkeit (11.-16. Jahrhundert).(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Karel. Hruza (Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002; pp. 274. Eur 49.80). The three interlocking themes which are the subject of these papers have in recent years enjoyed considerable attention in...

Los Rebanos de Gerion: Pastores y trashumancia en Iberia antigua y medieval.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. J. Gomez-Pantoja (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 2001; pp. xvii + 348. Eur 30.05). The sub-title is exact; the colloquium recorded in this tightly and carefully produced volume took place in 1996 and set out to put the familiar story of...

El Naixement d'una colonia; Dominacio i resistencia a la frontera valenciana (1238-1276).(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Josep Torro (Valencia: U.P. of Valencia, 1999; pp. 263. Eur 15.78). The early history of the Christian kingdom in Valencia has been explored in recent years from a number of different angles. Professor Torro starts from a keen interest...

El triunfo de las elites urbanas guipuzcoanas: Nuevos textos para el estudio del gobierno de las villas y de la Provincia (1412-1539).(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Jose Lema, Jon A. Fernandez de Larrea, et al. (Donostia-San Sebastian: Diputacion Foral de Guipuzcoa, 2002; pp. 508. N.p.). The wealth of material contained in the local archives of the Basque provinces has been one of the revelations...

Cicero, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Cicero, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws, ed. James E.G. Zetzel (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. xlviii + 207. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb 13.95 [pounds sterling]); The Constitution of the Roman Republic, by Andrew Lintott (Oxford:...

Incunabula and their Readers: Printing, Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Kristian Jensen (London: The British Library, 2003; pp. 291. 35 [pounds sterling]). Incunabula and their Readers is a collection of some of the papers delivered at a conference which was organised by the editor of the volume, Kristian...

History, Literature and Music in Scotland, 700-1560.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. R.A. McDonald (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 2002; pp. xix + 243. 28 [pounds sterling]). History, Literature and Music in Scotland, 700-1560 originated with a 1998 symposium at the University of Toronto and is a welcome Canadian tribute...

Stair Society Miscellany Four, by Various Authors.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Hector L. MacQueen (Stair Society, Vol. XLIX) (Edinburgh: The Stair Soc., 2002; pp. 262. N.p.). Miscellany volumes, by definition, seldom succeed in bringing together essays that are closely related thematically or chronologically....

Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade: Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'islam.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Jean Flori (Paris: Seuil, 2002; pp. 335. Pb.n.p.). Jean Flori, in Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade, has produced an able and agile short survey of a complex and politically thorny subject. There are elements in his exposition of the...

Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Norman Housley (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 238. 35 [pounds sterling]). This book is based on wide and catholic reading in several languages; it has plenty to say for itself, but is generous in acknowledging the work of others. It is...

Reforming the Scottish Church: John Winram (c.1492-1582) and the Example of Fife.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Linda J. Dunbar (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. xix + 239. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). In various ways the Scottish Reformation was unique. The last in time and the only one not to follow the principle of cujus regio, ejus religio, for...

The Trial in History. Vol. I: Judicial Tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Maureen Mulholland and Brian Pullan (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2003; pp. 186. 40 [pounds sterling]); Vol. II: Domestic and International Trials, 1700-2000, ed. R.A. Melikan (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2003; pp. 196. 40 [pounds...

The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by D. Buisseret (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. xxi + 227. 20 [pounds sterling]). Why were there so few maps in Europe in 1400 and yet so many by 1650? This is the central problem addressed by David Buisseret in this attractive book. In...

Devon Maps and Mapmakers: Manuscript Maps before 1840.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Mary R. Ravenhill and Margery M. Rowe (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Soc. (new series, vols. 43, 45), 2002; pp. 433. 40 [pounds sterling]). These two well-produced volumes of carto-bibliography describe and give visual substance to...

The English Experience in France c.1450-1558: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. David Grummitt (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 228. 39.99 [pounds sterling]). Recent years have brought lively reassessment of many aspects of Anglo-French relations between the fall of Normandy and the fall of Calais, but different...

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage, and Leadership.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Hazel Pierce (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2003; pp. 273. 40 [pounds sterling]). Quite recently academic studies of significant second-rank Tudor men or women were discouraged, in the absence of appropriate personal papers. Increasing...

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Barbara J. Harris (Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2002; pp. xvi + 346. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). We should all welcome Professor Harris's fine study of English aristocratic women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth...

When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Bernard Capp (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. 398. 55 [pounds sterling]). Bernard Capp extends and deepens our understanding of the English patriarchal system in this distinguished book. He takes the patriarchal edifice, as he calls it,...

The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. 286. 49.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). The cover of this useful collection of essays on the significance of oral culture in Britain contains an...

Cases Concerning Equity and the Courts of Equity, 1550-166, Vol. I: 1550-1611 and Vol. II: 1611-1660.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. W. H. Bryson (London: Selden Soc., 2001; pp. lv + 821. 60 [pounds sterling] each vol.). W. H. Bryson's collection of 'previously unpublished equity reports in the period 1550-1660 includes cases of substantive equity prosecuted by...

Islam in Britain, 1558-1685.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Nabil Matar (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1998; pp. 226. 47.50 [pounds sterling]). This is an excellent book on an important theme. On one level at least, it is a reply to Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), which promoted the current...

The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Robert Poole (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. xiv + 226. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Robert Poole intends this volume of essays, based on a conference held in 1999, to be enjoyed by academics and general readers alike. This is...

Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500-1789.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. xxxii + 365. 30 [pounds sterling]). This is the first of three volumes designed to survey the history of the European family between 1500 and 2000. The aims of...

Integrazione ed emarginazione: Circuiti e modelli: Italia e Spagna nei secoli XV-XVIII.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. L. Barletta (Naples: CUEN, 2002; pp. 512. Eur 22). The history of Naples, both city and kingdom, offers good opportunities for the study of those socially marginal and marginalised. The two categories are distinguished with care in the...

Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Philip C. Almond (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 240. 35 [pounds sterling]). The story of Adam and Eve bears on many aspects of human wondering about origins. What were the origins of people and to whom are particular peoples...

The History of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Vol. I: Physicians and Surgeons, 1599-1858; Vol. II: The Shaping of the Medical Profession, 1858-1999.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Fiona MacDonald, and Andrew Hull, (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. xviii + 478 and xxxi + 288. 30 [pounds sterling] each volume). These two sequential histories of the medical profession in Glasgow from the end...

Rendre ses voeux: Les identites pelerines dans l'Europe moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles).(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Philippe Boutry, Pierre-Antoine Fabre and Dominique Julia (Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2000; pp. 587. F350). Pilgrimage has been a neglected aspect of Catholic renewal in early modern Europe, but these 21...

The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and his Century.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Marc Fumaroli, tr. Jane Marie Todd (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame U.P., 2002; pp. 536 $49.95). This substantial book is not confined to the animosity between La Fontaine and his king, Louis XIV. It is a chronicle of two opposing cultures,...

Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: the Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Helen Berry (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; pp. 264. 40 [pounds sterling]). The Athenian Mercury was one of the most innovative periodicals in English history. Published by the irrepressible John Dunton in the early 1690s, it invited readers...

The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. David Hancock (London: London Record Soc., 2002; pp.xlix + 408. 25 [pounds sterling]). This London Record Society volume comprises 376 letters of a West India merchant, William Freeman, during his time in London, which followed his...

The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688: the Lions of Judah.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Matthew Glozier (Brighton: Sussex Academic P., 2002; pp. 228. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.95 [pounds sterling]) Matthew Glozier concentrates on the Huguenot soldiers, mostly gentry and nobles, who entered the Dutch and English armies as...

Il merito e la frusta: Assistenza, disciplina e mobilita sociale nel pensioro politico inglese del Settecento.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Franco M. Di Sciullo (Rome: Aracne, 2000; pp. 267. Eur 13). 'The carrot and the stick' might be rather too loose, but would not be inapt as a translation of the title of this book. Its scope and its primary concern with...

Religions en transition dans la seconde moitie du XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Louis Chatellier (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000; pp. 300. 40 [pounds sterling]). The work under review here has its origins in a 1995 conference in which French and Italian historians came together to discuss how their research...

Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... ed. Hannah Barker and Simon Burrows (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 263. 45 [pounds sterling]). Fuelled by interest in the public sphere, studies of the press have flourished in recent decades, right across Europe. No single...

Solitary Sex: a Cultural History of Masturbation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Thomas W. Laqueur (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2003; pp. 501. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). The culture of Thomas Laqueur's book is 'high' culture. He is concerned primarily with what philosophers, clerics, physicians and others wrote about...

Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Nicolas Barker (London: The British Library, 2003; pp. 514. 50 [pounds sterling]). This celebratory selection of Nicolas Barker's papers and essays covers a formidable range of subjects and chronology, from the early middle ages to the...

British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Richard Price (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 349. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). This is a significant and thought-provoking book which should be of great interest to readers of this journal, particularly when...

The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Kathleen Wilson (London/New York: Routledge, 2003; pp. xiii + 282. Pb. n.p.). As 'a monograph masquerading as a book of essays', Kathleen Wilson's book presents us with a powerful and engaging form of writing history. Developing her...

The Descent of Ideas: the History of Intellectual History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... by Donald R. Kelley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 320. 40 [pounds sterling]). The prospect of one of the leading intellectual historians of his generation turning his attention to his own discipline is an appealing one. Unfortunately, the...