The English Historical Review articles from June 1994

The English Historical Review archives from June 1994

Richard II, Edward II, and the Lancastrian inheritance.
June 1, 1994... KING RICHARD II's most infamous -- and almost his last -- act was his confiscation on 18 March 1399 of Henry of Bolingbroke's inheritance. Six months earlier, when he banished him for ten years, Richard had granted letters patent to Bolingbroke...

Politics and the restoration parish: Edward Fowler and the struggle for St. Giles Cripplegate.
June 1, 1994... 2. Bod[leian Library, Oxford], Tanner MS 34, fos. 114, 125, 156; 32, fos. 73, 143. 3. Biographical details for Smythies are taken from his publications and from Alumni Cantabrigienses, part i, comp. J. and J. A. Venn (4 vols., Cambridge,...

Grammars of electoral violence in nineteenth-century England and Ireland.
June 1, 1994... Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ireland', Past & Present, lxxv (1977), 62-93; id., 'Le elites e l'infiuenza elettorale in Irlanda, 1800-1918', Quaderni Storici, NS, lxix (1988), 787-807; id., 'Landownership and Power in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The...

British Labor in Soviet Russia, 1920.
June 1, 1994... IN late April 1920 a group of British Labour party and Trades Union Congress delegates left the port of Newcastle. On 11 May, after a complicated journey in which most of them had been seasick, they arrived at Petrograd. They met Lenin,...

Follower, leader, pilgrim, saint: Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, at the shrine of Simon de Montfort, 1273.
June 1, 1994... IN C. M. Woolgar's recent edition of Household Accounts from Medieval England there lies hidden at least one minor treasure. It is concealed under a descriptive title, 'Diet Account for the Household of a De Vere Earl of Oxford, August to...

Early Irish and Welsh Kinship.
June 1, 1994... THE fruit of many years of labour, this is undoubtedly a substantial contribution to early medieval studies. However, in this reader's opinion its shortcomings are also considerable. The interest that draws Thomas Charles-Edwards to his subject...

The Making of Europe. Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350.
June 1, 1994... PROFESSOR Bartlett has written an exhilarating volume. His theme -- the transformation of Europe or, perhaps more accurately, Latin Christendom in the four centuries between 950 and 1350 -- is a well-worn one and has attracted some of the most...

A History of Anglo-Latin Literature, 1066-1422.
June 1, 1994... THIS excellent book fills a gap in the study of medieval England. A. G. Rigg convincingly demonstrates that in the period from the Norman Conquest until the advent of humanism in the fifteenth century Anglo-Latin literature is a distinct genre...

History and the Historians of Medieval Spain.
June 1, 1994... THE theme of this notable book is the manipulation of Spain's medieval history by Spanish historians, then or later. Early on Peter Linehan draws attention to 'the cumulative effect of the series of distorting lenses interposed between past and...

The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. II: Late Medieval Oxford.
June 1, 1994... THE present work completes the account of the university up to 1500 begun in Volume I (1984: rev. ante, c. 837). Although this volume is centred on the period between 1300 and 1500, it is complementary to its predecessor. Volume I contained...

THe Language of Liberty, 1660-1832. Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World.
June 1, 1994... WHAT type of historian is Jonathan Clark? He is not a research historian, having seemingly eschewed manuscript archives after his first book. He is manifestly not a teaching historian, or he would surely not have produced a book so difficult to...

Deutsche Geschichte, 1866-1918. Vol. II: Machtstaat vor der Demokratie.
June 1, 1994... THIS is the third and final volume of Thomas Nipperdey's magisterial history of Germany in the period 1800-1918, completed just nine months before his death in 1992. The first volume covered German history from 1800 to 1866, the second dealt...

The Economics of the Second World War.
June 1, 1994... IT is fitting that Gyorgy Ranki's last work -- he died before he could achieve a final revision of the manuscript -- should be a comprehensive survey of the economic history of the Second World War. He began there with detailed studies of...

The Dictionary of National Biography. Missing Persons.
June 1, 1994... THIS fascinating volume was bound to be rather different in kind from the original DNB, still more from its twentieth-century supplements, formerly published in decennial and lately in quinquennial volumes. Missing Persons contains the lives of...

A History of Contraception from Antiquity to the Present Day.
June 1, 1994... The principal earlier approaches to the history of contraception presented a progressive account of medical knowledge (N. Himes, A Medical History of Contraception, Baltimore, 1936), or asserted a link between the development of rational...

In the Shadow of Olympus. The Emergence of Macedon.
June 1, 1994... A book about ancient Macedon which leaves out Alexander the Great in its main narrative may seem like a pub with no beer. But Eugene N. Borza's In the Shadow of Olympus. The Emergence of Macedon (Princeton: U.P., 1990; pp. xvii + 333. $39.50)...

Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy.
June 1, 1994... The exact nature of the Roman economy has been something of a scholarly battlefield recently, and of interest to more than ancient historians. Richard Duncan-Jones's Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvi +...

The Fifth-Century Chroniclers. Prosper, Hydatius, and the Gallic Chronicler of 452.
June 1, 1994... The three Latin chroniclers investigated by Steven Muhlberger in The Fifth-Century Chroniclers. Prosper, Hydatius, and the Gallic Chronicler of 452 (Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1990; pp. xi + 329. [pounds]35) are important witnesses to the last...

Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: A Reappraisal.
June 1, 1994... It is a sad fact of Anglo-Saxon archaeology that some of the most significant finds of the period languish unpublished or inadequately published in museums. Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: A Reappraisal, ed. Edmund Southworth (Stroud: Alan Sutton,...

Isle of the Saints. Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland.
June 1, 1994... There is a fluency, even briskness, about Isle of the Saints. Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, by Lisa M. Bitel (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 268. $28.95), which studies Irish monastic communities in...

The Venerable Bede.
June 1, 1994... Rightly enough, Bede has never lacked for admirers, and translations of his principal historical work the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum have proliferated since the mid-nineteenth century. Thus a wider market may well exist for a...

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England.
June 1, 1994... With the almost simultaneous publication of D. P. Kirby's The Earliest English Kings (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990; pp. xv + 241. [pounds]30; pb. [pounds]9.95) and Barbara Yorke's Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (London: Seaby,...

Christianizing Death. The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe.
June 1, 1994... In Christianizing Death. The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 229. $31.50), Frederick S. Paxton demonstrates the historical significance of a corpus of liturgical material still...

Frauen in Spatantike und Fruhmittelalter. Lebensbedingungen - Lebensnormen - Lebensformen.
June 1, 1994... Frauen in Spatantike und Fruhmittelalter. Lebensbedingungen -- Lebensnormen -- Lebensformen, ed. Werner Affeldt (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1990; pp. 348. DM68), a collection of seventeen papers (and three comments by discussants), contains...

Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Vol. XII-XIII: 1988-1989.
June 1, 1994... The international congress commemorating the millennium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine took place in the spring of 1988 in Ravenna -- arguably the most appropriate venue, after Kiev, for such an enterprise. Now we have the Proceedings of this...

English Sheriffs to 1154.
June 1, 1994... English Sheriffs to 1154, by Judith A. Green (London: HMSO, 1990; pp. 105. Pb. [pounds]17.50), a Public Record Office Handbook, replaces the early part of the old Lists and Indexes volume of 1898, reprinted with amendments in 1963. It provides...

De Oorkonden der Graven van Vlaanderen, Juli 1128-September 1191. Part II, Vol. I: Regering van Diederik van de Elzas, Juli 1128-17 Januari 1168.
June 1, 1994... The spectacular assassination of Count Charles the Good in 1127 was followed by a brief contest for power in Flanders. This was eventually won by Thierry of Alsace. His victory had been made possible by the support of the king of England and...

Espace urbain et habitat a Rome du Xe siecle a la fin du XIIIe siecle.
June 1, 1994... Etienne Hubert's Espace urbain et habitat a Rome du Xe siecle a la fin du XIIIe siecle (Rome: Palais Farnese/Ecole Francaise, 1990; pp. 396. Pb. n.p.) has the rare and considerable merit of treating medieval Rome as an Italian City and not as a...

Friedrich Barbarossa und die auswartigen Machte. Studien zur Aussenpolitik, 1159-1180.
June 1, 1994... Wolfgang Georgi's Friedrich Barbarossa und die auswartigen Machte. Studien zur Aussenpolitik, 1159-1180 (Frankfurt/Berne: Peter Lang, 1990; pp. 608. DM48) is his 1989 doctoral dissertation. The author sets out to cover Barbarossa's relations...

Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300.
June 1, 1994... As James Powell writes in his introduction, the contributions to Muslims under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 (Princeton: U.P., 1990; pp. 221 N.p.) are most notable for placing 'obstacles in the way of generalisation'. If there is a unifying theme in...

The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.
June 1, 1994... The assumption that memory is devalued as 'orality' gives way to 'literacy' is challenged in Mary J. Carruthers's The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 393. [pounds]40). Tracing medieval...

Parentesco, poder y mentalidad: La nobleza castellana, siglos XII-XV.
June 1, 1994... In Parentesco, poder y mentalidad: La nobleza castellana, siglos XII-XV (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1990; pp. 371. Pb. n.p.), Isabel Beceiro Pita and Ricardo Cordoba de la Llave make a valuable attempt to study the...

State and Society in Medieval Europe. Gwynedd and Languedoc under Outside Rule.
June 1, 1994... James Given may be said to have two overriding aims in this thought-provoking and ambitious book State and Society in Medieval Europe. Gwynedd and Languedoc under Outside Rule (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1990; pp. xii + 302. $37.95; pb....

Histoire des femmes en occident: Vol. II: Le moyen age.
June 1, 1994... It is some time since women's history ceased to be a set of anecdotes and became as much committed as any other field of historical studies to system and analysis. On a superficial reading, Histoire des femmes en occident. Vol. II: Le moyen...

The Great Wall of China. From History to Myth.
June 1, 1994... Arthur Waldron, in The Great Wall of China. From History to Myth (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 296. [pounds]25), has written a book in which he does nothing less than ask us to reconsider certain deeply embedded modern assumptions about...

Angelo Clareno. Dai poveri eremiti ai fraticelli.
June 1, 1994... The torments which afflicted the Franciscan Order in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century, with debates and conflicts between the Conventual and Spiritual tendencies over the maintenance of St Francis's strict ideas of apostolic...

The Friars' Libraries.
June 1, 1994... The Friars' Libraries, ed. K. W. Humphreys (London: The British Library, for the British Academy, 1990; pp. xliv + 281. [pounds]50) presents the first fruits of the British Academy's Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, which aims to...

City and Countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Essays Presented to Philip Jones.
June 1, 1994... Philip Jones is one of the few historians to have mastery over the entire Italian Middle Ages, and City and Countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Essays Presented to Philip Jones, ed. Trevor Dean and Chris Wickham (London/Rio...

L'Italia delle citta. Il popolamento urbano tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, secoli XIII-XVI.
June 1, 1994... The changing importance of the cities in Italy, from the commercial revolution of the thirteenth century, through the 'crisis' of the fourteenth, to the expanding Europe of the sixteenth, is one of the most debated problems of current Italian...

Salisbury Museum medieval Catalogue, Part II: Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges.
June 1, 1994... Brian Spencer's Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue. Part II: Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges (Salisbury: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, 1990; pp. 144. Pb. [pounds]12.95) describes and for the most part illustrates some 228 badges,...

Les Jeux au royaume de France du XIIIe au debut du XVIe siecle.
June 1, 1994... In the 600 pages of Les Jeux au royaume de France du XIIIe au debut du XVIe siecle (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. 631. Pb. F198), a mere abridgement of his these d'Etat, Jean-Michel Mehl offers an elegant presentation of all -- perhaps more than all...

Capitale e interesse tra mercatura e poverta nei teologi e canonisti dei secoli XIII-XV.
June 1, 1994... In late medieval scholastic literature the practice of usury was held responsible for all the evils, real or imagined, of nascent capitalism: the spread of poverty and the concentration of wealth in the hands of the merchant class (described as...

The Lancastrian Affinity, 1361-1399.
June 1, 1994... John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was one of the pivotal figures in the politics, diplomacy and warfare of the latter part of the fourteenth century. Yet, as Simon Walker observes, detailed work on his retinue and affinity has progressed little...

The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century.
June 1, 1994... F. R. H. Du Boulay's object in The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991; pp. 147. [pounds]29.50) is not so much to present a picture in the round of England in the...

Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman.
June 1, 1994... Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xii + 256. [pounds]30) is an illuminating study of the relation of the prophetic passages in Piers Plowman to the medieval apocalyptic tradition, and...

Umanesimo e secolarizzazione da Petrarca a Valla.
June 1, 1994... One of the senior Italian (or should one say Florentine?) historians has gathered together several of his pieces, occasional essays and lectures. Riccardo Fubini gives the collection the title Umanesimo e secolarizzazione da Petrarca a Valla...

The Register of John Catterick, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1415-1419.
June 1, 1994... Bishop Catterick's attendance at the Council of Constance meant that he was hardly ever in England, let alone his diocese. The Register of John Catterick, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1415-1419, ed. R. N. Swanson (Woodbridge: Boydell P.,...

Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire.
June 1, 1994... Were the late medieval English provinces 'ruled' by noblemen or by self-sufficient county communities of gentry? The rival hypotheses are tested here clearly and succinctly in an elegant and model case-study. The dozen leading families of...

Die Franzosen, Frankreich und das Basler Konzil, 1431-1449.
June 1, 1994... One despairs when reviewing Die Franzosen, Frankreich und das Basler Konzil, 1431-1449, by Heribert Muller (2 vols. Paderborn/Munich: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1990; pp. xiii + 1015. DM220). On the one hand, Dr Muller has laboured on these thousand...

James II.
June 1, 1994... James II came to power after a remarkably turbulent minority, destroyed the power of the great Black Douglas family, immediately thereafter launched an aggressive and successful foreign policy, and died in a military accident at the age of 29....

Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law.
June 1, 1994... The search for the underlying authority of any particular legal system is difficult, for while the continued existence of a successful system depends on widespread acquiescence, the theorists tend to be few in number and with their own axes to...

The Administration of the County Palatine of Chester, 1442-1485.
June 1, 1994... Cheshire is the only county in England with records sufficiently voluminous to support a detailed administrative history, a distinction it owes to its palatinate status and the long series of records produced by its exchequer, which it alone of...

North-Eastern England During the Wars of the Roses. Lay Society, War and Politics, 1450-1500.
June 1, 1994... A. J. Pollard's North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses. Lay Society, War and Politics, 1450-1500 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xvii + 445. [pounds]45) is an inspiring enterprise. Motivated by a desire both to nail some of the...

Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe.
June 1, 1994... Martin Lowry has continued his exploration of the early years of Venetian printing by going back in time from his previous work on Aldus Manutius to Jenson, the important French contemporary of Venice's first printer, John of Speyer. In...

The Overseas Trade of London. Exchequer Customs Accounts 1480-1.
June 1, 1994... The publication of The Overseas Trade of London. Exchequer Customs Accounts 1480-1, ed. H. S. Cobb (London: London Record Society, 1990; pp. xlvii + 220. [pounds]20) is most welcome. The value of the English customs accounts is well...

L'etat moderne. Genese. Bilans et perspectives.
June 1, 1994... The French take the state seriously. In 1984, well ahead of 1992, 'l'action thematique programme (l'ATP) was inaugurated under the auspices of the CNRS to explore the process of state building over 'la longue duree' from 1250 to 1750, a project...

The Growth of English Education, 1348-1648. A Social and Cultural History.
June 1, 1994... In The Growth of English Education, 1348-1648. A Social and Cultural History (University Park/London: Pennsylvania State U.P., 1990; pp. xiii + 286. [pounds]33.25), Michael Van Cleave Alexander has quite consciously set out to write a synthesis...

Thomas More. The Search for the Inner Man.
June 1, 1994... Louis M. Martz is Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the great Yale Thomas More project. I find his Thomas More. The Search for the Inner Man (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1990; pp. xii + 112. [pounds]12.95) to be puzzling. He begins with a...

The German Peasant War and Anabaptist Community of Goods.
June 1, 1994... The radical wing of the Reformation has in recent years been well served by a growing monograph literature. Both the works reviewed here make significant contributions to improving our understanding of figures and practices previously all too...

Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France.
June 1, 1994... In an earlier work, Henry Heller painted a sombre picture of social discontent in France during the period of the Renaissance. In Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France (Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P., 1991; pp. xiv +...

Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy.
June 1, 1994... W. J. Torrance Kirby's erudite and intelligent book, Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy (Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1990; pp. xi + 136. Dfl172), rides on the crest of a creative wave of reinterpretation of the political thought...

Leicester and the Netherlands, 1586-1587.
June 1, 1994... It is rare for a monograph to be both essential to the field and at the same time slightly out-of-date, but there is no better description of F. G. Oosterhoff's Leicester and the Netherlands, 1586-1587 (Utrecht: HES Publishers, 1988; pp. 231....

The Pursuit of Stability. Social Relations in Elizabethan London.
June 1, 1994... Ian W. Archer enquires how it came about that despite the desperate social conditions prevailing in London during the 1590s, the consequent unrest was contained within manageable limits. One important reason he identifies as 'the loyalty of the...

The Word of a Prince. A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents.
June 1, 1994... Maria Perry's The Word of a Prince. A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1990; pp. 352. [pounds]18.95) is not an orthodox biography, because each chapter or section is built around one or more of...

Monasteres benedictins et cisterciens dans les Albums de Croy, 1596-1611.
June 1, 1994... The Revue Benedictine was founded in 1884 at the Belgian abbey of Maredsous; since then the scholarly quality of its articles, editions of documents, reviews, and bulletins has made it an indispensable journal for students of monastic history....

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.
June 1, 1994... Linda Levy Peck's Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990; pp. xii + 319. [pounds]35) gives us a series of concentric studies of corruption and patronage, in the court, the county of Buckinghamshire, in...

The English Poor Law, 1531-1782.
June 1, 1994... Paul Slack provides an admirably concise survey of The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, for the Economic History Soc., 1990; pp. 79. Pb. [pounds]4.99) in four pithy chapters. The first traces the development of the law until...

Early Stuart Mariners and Shipping. The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall, 1619-35.
June 1, 1994... Early occupational censuses, especially maritime, are rare; Devon and Cornwall are among the best documented in the country. Todd Gray's well-edited volume, Early Stuart Mariners and Shipping. The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall, 1619-35...

The Formation of Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655.
June 1, 1994... The study of local communities in colonial America continues to thrive. For many years it seemed as if the kind of records available would limit such research to the history of New England townships; latterly, however, and especially since D....

Richelieu.
June 1, 1994... Armand-Jean du Plessis is once more arousing the interest of historians. In recent years a number of British scholars have contributed significantly to our understanding of how Cardinal Richelieu first acquired and then consolidated both his...

The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. Erudition, Ideology and 'The Light of Truth' from the Accession of James I to the Civil War.
June 1, 1994... D. R. Woolf's The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. Erudition, Ideology and 'The Light of Truth' from the Accession of James I to the Civil War (Toronto/Buffalo: U. of Toronto P., 1990; pp. xxii + 377. [pounds]27.50) is a useful book....

Armeefinanzierung im Dreissigjahrigen Krieg. Der Niederrheinisch-Westfalische Reichskreis.
June 1, 1994... Few have doubted that the treaty of Prague in 1635, and the agreements immediately following, did in some measure revive the battered constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. For one thing, the armed forces of the signatories were each to become...

Becoming a French Aristocrat. The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715.
June 1, 1994... Although a great deal of attention has been concentrated in recent years on the history of education in early modern France, Becoming a French Aristocrat. The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715, by Mark Motley (Princeton: U.P., 1990 pp....

Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe.
June 1, 1994... John Miller has assembled a team of eight scholars to contribute some very useful essays on Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1990; pp. 268. [pounds]35; pb. [pounds]9.99). Following a stimulating introduction by the...

Fierce Communion. Family and Community in Early America.
June 1, 1994... Helena M. Wall's Fierce Communion. Family and Community in Early America (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1990; pp. x + 243. [pounds]23.95) is a documented study of the interaction of individual and community down to 1700. It examines...

The English Spa, 1560-1815. A Social History.
June 1, 1994... In recent years the growth of spas and other leisure towns has been a major theme of urban history between 1660 and 1815. Such towns have been recognized as important components of English urbanization, and the social and cultural life they...

Sophia. Regent of Russia, 1657-1704.
June 1, 1994... In Sophia. Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1990; pp. xvii + 345. [pounds]19.95), Lindsey Hughes offers a detailed and scholarly reassessment of the career of Peter the Great's elder half-sister. When Tsar Fedor...

John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. New Interpretations.
June 1, 1994... The papers in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. New Interpretations, ed. Edward J. Harpham (Lawrence: U. of Kansas P., 1992; pp. xii + 239. $29.95), were originally delivered at a Liberty Fund conference, so it is hardly surprising that...

Notaries Public in England Since the Reformation.
June 1, 1994... Unlike some commissioned histories of particular occupational groups, Notaries Public in England since the Reformation, by C. W. Brooks, R. H. Helmholz and P. G. Stein (Norwich: Erskine P., for Society of Public Notaries, 1991; pp. ix + 146....

Avebury Reconsidered. From the 1660s to the 1990s.
June 1, 1994... The multiple authorship of Avebury Reconsidered. From the 1660s to the 1990s (London: Unwin Hyman, for Inst. of Archaeology, Univ. College London, 1991; pp. xiv + 293, plus transparencies. [pounds]60), by Peter J. Ucko, prehistorian, Michael...

Lebenserwartungen in Deutschland vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert.
June 1, 1994... Arthur E. Imhof's Lebenserwartungen in Deutschland vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert (Weinheim: VCH, Acta Humaniora, 1990; pp. 493. DM148) is an appropriate testimony to the achievements of the research team involved in a large-scale project funded...

The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century. Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia'. The Yorkshire Parishes, 1714-1725.
June 1, 1994... Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', his survey of the diocese of Chester, first appeared in print in the mid-nineteenth century under the auspices of the Chetham Society. That edition, however, was restricted to the parishes in Lancashire and...

The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire, 1530-1910.
June 1, 1994... Landownership in Yorkshire since 1500 has proved a fruitful field of study, encompassing the very differently directed works of R. B. Smith, J. T. Cliffe, P. Roebuck, R. G. Wilson, G. Mee, T. W. Beastall, and J. T. Ward. The approach of Barbara...

Kings in Conflict. The Revolutionary War in Ireland and its Aftermath, 1689-1750.
June 1, 1994... Kings in Conflict. The Revolutionary War in Ireland and its Aftermath, 1689-1750, ed. W. A. Maguire (Belfast: Blackstaff P., 1990; pp. XIV + 203.[pounds]14.95), records an exhibition in 1990 at the Ulster Museum. This origin explains the...