The English Historical Review articles from June 1996

The English Historical Review archives from June 1996

Unexpected contacts: Lithuanians at western courts, c.1400.
June 1, 1996... The history of the crusades in northern-central and eastern Europe has made its way into anglophone scholarship in recent years, strengthening the memory of those 'remote and unexpected contacts' which, as R. W. Southern has noted, 'though they...

The recovery of St Andrews Castle in 1547: French naval policy and diplomacy in the British Isles.
June 1, 1996... The recovery of St Andrews Castle by the French in 1547 and its restitution to the government of Scotland were a mere coda to the audacious raid, capture and murder of the then Archbishop of St Andrews, Cardinal David Beaton, on 29 May 1546; and...

Conflict, consensus and charity: politics and the provincial voluntary hospitals in the eighteenth century.
June 1, 1996... The voluntary hospitals were amongst the most original and enduring monuments of Georgian England. Financed on the seemingly flimsy basis of voluntary benefactions and annual subscriptions,(1) they nevertheless flourished in the eighteenth...

The Liberal Cave and the 1914 budget. (downfall of the British Liberal Party)
June 1, 1996... The controversy over the decline of the Liberal party has touched virtually every area of historiography, from high politics to regional history and from religious history to the history of ideas.(1) The most intense of the recent debates have...

The naval service of the Cinque Ports.
June 1, 1996... It was for long an accepted truth of medieval history that the Cinque Ports, 'these powerful and privileged towns',(1) furnished the essential core, if not actually the whole, of the naval strength available to the kings of England. Some scholars...

Slavery in Early Mediaeval England from the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century.
June 1, 1996... This volume, the seventh in Boydell's 'Studies in Anglo-Saxon History' series, is a notable addition to the series. The economic, social and legal significance of slavery in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England is undeniable, yet the questions...

The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545.
June 1, 1996... There have been many biographies and studies of Gerolamo Savonarola, which have cast the Ferrarese Dominican in every conceivable role within and outside the Renaissance. What sets Polizzotto's book apart from any of its predecessors is a shift...

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England.
June 1, 1996... The author of this book, a former Oxford don who some years ago abandoned academe for the business world, draws insights from both into the cast of mind and behaviour of his Stuart business predecessors. While economics and sociology figure...

The Consumption of Culture: 1600-1800.
June 1, 1996... As director of the Clark Library and the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1987 to 1991, John Brewer presided over a research project on 'culture and consumption in the...

Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul.
June 1, 1996... There are three great churchmen in the Latin West in the sixth century who stand out above all others, for their writings as well as their other achievements. Two of the three, Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours, have been the subjects of...

Helvetia Sacra.
June 1, 1996... The Helvetia Sacra series is one of the few such enterprises whose volumes appear with unfailing regularity. Helvetia Sacra. Abteilung I, Band ii: Erzbistumer und Bistumer II. Vols. I-II: Das Bistum Konstanz. Das Erzbistum Mainz. Das Bistum St....

Un Historien et son eglise au Xe siecle. Flodoard de Reims.
June 1, 1996... Among the many remarkable Gesta episcoporum of the pre-Gregorian period (surveyed by Michel Sot in the series Typologie des sources du tooyen age occidental), Flodoard's Historia Remensis ecclesiae, completed after 948, is one of the works that...

Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History.
June 1, 1996... Much attention has recently been given to the Exeter scriptorium in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Elaine M. Drage produced her Oxford D.Phil. dissertation, 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A Reassessment of the...

Die Regularis Concordia und ihre altenglische Interlinearversion.
June 1, 1996... The Regularis Concordia is the central document of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in England: an agreement drawn up under King Edgar, probably written by St Athelwold, and designed to establish uniformity of practice, especially in...

The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact.
June 1, 1996... The second of the bookish commemorations of the Maldon millennium is not quite as rich as the first (The Battle of Maldon AD 991, ed. Donald Scragg [1991; rev. ante, cix. 989]), perhaps because Scragg's team got there earlier. The thirteen...

The Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster.
June 1, 1996... Wimborne Minster, the ecclesiastical institution as distinct from the town of the same name, is an historical curiosity. Patricia H. Coulstock, in The Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1993; pp. xii + 267....

Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c.936-1075.
June 1, 1996... It is extremely useful for students of medieval government to have a new account of itinerant kingship in John W. Bernhardt's Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936-1075 (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xix + 376....

Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 97-1040. A Political Biography of the Angevin Count.
June 1, 1996... A biography of a non-royal medieval ruler is a challenging and difficult enterprise, rarely undertaken. It is to Bernard S. Bachrach's credit that in Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040. A Political Biography of the Angevin Count...

Economics Without Time: A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change.
June 1, 1996... Two quite separate themes are treated in Graeme Donald Snooks's Economics without Time. A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change (London: Macmillan, 1993; pp. xii + 327. [pounds]45). One is a critique of economics for being divorced...

Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England.
June 1, 1996... John Hudson's Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1994; pp. ix + 320. [pounds]35) is a revisionist work, part of an ongoing attack upon Stenton's view of the honour as an autonomous 'feudal state in miniature'...

'Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitainians' and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France.
June 1, 1996... Elizabeth A. R. Brown, in 'Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitainians' and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Soc., Transactions, Vol. 82; 1992; pp. 189. Pb. $20), contributes both to our understanding of...

Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain: 1000-1300.
June 1, 1996... Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300, by Janet Burton (Cambridge: U.P., 1994; pp. xi + 354. [pounds]40; pb. [pounds]12.95) is the latest of the so-called Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. In the half-century and more since the...

Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation.
June 1, 1996... It is now forty-three years since Lucien Musset published Les Peuples Scandinaves au Moyen Age, and there has been no comparable handbook of Nordic history since. Musset's work had a firm chronological and national framework; it was 'based, in...

The Accession of Henry II in England Royal Government Restored, 1149-1159.
June 1, 1996... The subject of Emilie Amt's book The Accession of Henry II in England. Royal Government Restored, 1149-1159 (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1993; pp. 232. [pounds]35) is an attractive one: the pacification of England following the 1153 settlement...

Die Briefsammlungen des 12. Jahrhunderts in St Viktor, Paris. Entstenhung, Uberlieferung und Bedeutung fur die Geschichte der Abtei.
June 1, 1996... Historians are well aware of the value for French and general history of the twelfth-century letter-collections of Saint-Victor at Paris, the abbey of regular canons founded in 1113 by King Louis VI. Most of the letters have long since been...

Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library.
June 1, 1996... A significant step in the recataloguing of imperfectly catalogued collections of manuscripts in the United Kingdom is marked by the publication of Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library, ed. R. A. B. Mynors and R. M. Thomson,...

Medieval Usury and the Commercialization of Feudal Bonds.
June 1, 1996... Ecclesiastical strictures against lending money at interest were never absolute in the Middle Ages, and enforcement of these strictures by governments was at best sporadic. From the late twelfth century, however, they were sufficient to encourage...

The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple.
June 1, 1996... A reliable, scholarly and up-to-date survey of the Templars has been one of the more glaring gaps in the literature in English on the history of the crusades. In his The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge: U.P., 1994;...

The World of the Troubadours. Medieval Occitan Society, c.1100-c.1300.
June 1, 1996... The subtitle rather than the title best describes Linda M. Paterson's acute and thoughtful study (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xii + 367. [pounds]35). This is not a book about troubadours. They occupy only a shadowy presence as sources of evidence,...

Les Registres de Philippe Auguste
June 1, 1996... John W. Baldwin has put the scholarly community into his debt by editing, as Vol. VIII of the Recueil des historiens de la France, Documents financiers et administratifs, Les Registres de Philippe Auguste, Vol. I: Texte (Paris: Imprimerie...

Innocent III. Leader of Europe, 1198-1216.
June 1, 1996... Pope Innocent III has attracted more than his fair share of biographies. The most recent, by Jane Sayers, Innocent III. Leader of Europe, 1198-1216 (London: Longman, 1994; pp. xiii + 222. [pounds]28; pb. [pounds]10.99) comes only a decade after...

Colibat og kirketugt: Studier i forholdet mellem Innocens III og Anders Sunesen, 119-1220.
June 1, 1996... The reputed realpolitik of Innocent III (in, for example, Pennington's claim that he 'used his decretal letters as a tool to shape his conception of papal monarchy') is examined by Torben K. Nielsen in relation to the campaign for clerical...

Rudolf von Habsburg, 1273-1291. Eine Konigsherrschaft zwischen Tradition und Wandel.
June 1, 1996... The seventh centenary of Rudolf of Habsburg's death in 1291 was marked by a conference which sought to place his kingship in a context between tradition and change. Curiously, the monumental study by Oswald Redlich, itself nearly a century old,...

The Local Customs Accounts of th Port of Exeter, 1266-1321.
June 1, 1996... Discussions of England's international trade in the later Middle Ages have almost invariably started from the national customs accounts: not surprisingly, since their coverage of the country's most valuable export, their long sequence and their...

Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom: A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary.
June 1, 1996... David Burr's Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1993; pp. xiii + 280. [pounds]37.95) is the latest in his series of Olivi studies, extending over almost a quarter of a century,...

Lordship and Landscape in Norfolk: 1250-1350.
June 1, 1996... Few medieval social and economic historians cannot have dreamt of finding a cache of documents relating to one of the numerous rills in divided lay ownership about which far too little in detail is currently known. The collection of original...

Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death.
June 1, 1996... What kind of relationship existed between the learned form of medicine and that of those other physicians, surgeons and barbers who had no direct access to academic circles? To what extent did medicine based on natural philosophy reach medieval...

Les Princes et le pouvoir au moyen age.
June 1, 1996... Brest was the venue for the twenty-third meeting of medieval historians in French higher education in May 1992, which took as its theme Les Princes et le pouvoir au moyen age (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1993; pp. 334. Pb. F180). As usual...

Rome aux XIII et XIV siecles.
June 1, 1996... Etienne Hubert is the editor of Rome aux XIIIe et XIVe siecles (Rome: Ecole Francaise/Palais Farnese, 1993; pp.xii + 268, Pb.n.p.) in which five articles are collected. C. Carbonetti Vendittelli considers administrative and legal aspects of 'la...

A Plague of Insurrection. Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328.
June 1, 1996... William H. TeBrake's A Plague of Insurrection. Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1993; pp. x + 170. [pounds]28.50; pb. [pounds]11.95) is a pleasantly written book on a turbulent...

England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium.
June 1, 1996... The eleven essays which comprise England in the Fourteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Nicholas Rogers (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1993; pp. xii + 196. [pounds]30) have little in common beyond their allegiance to a...

Mediaeval Cambridge. Essays on the Pre-Reformation University.
June 1, 1996... The utilitarian spirit out of which so much of the genius of Rutherford's and Keynes's Cambridge has sprung did not, until recently, nurture much sense of the university's corporate past. Medieval Cambridge, in particular, has remained rather...

Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert.
June 1, 1996... Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert, ed. Jurgen Miethke (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1992; pp. ix + 301. DM88) comprises a collection of sixteen essays, twelve of which are in German, two in French, and two in English. While there is...

Literacy and Its Uses: Studies on Late Medieval Italy.
June 1, 1996... When J. K. Hyde died in 1986, he had been preparing a study on the uses of literacy in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. Three chapters from that book were sufficiently advanced to warrant publication: on Italian pilgrim literature (this...

Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo.
June 1, 1996... The five chapters in Boaz Shoshan's Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp.xv + 148. [pounds]27.95) are studies of diverse aspects of the subject. By 'medieval' (a term hardly appropriate to Near Eastern history) the author...

Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych.
June 1, 1996... The Wilton Diptych is a panel-painting depicting, on its interior panels, King Richard II being presented by Saints Edmund, Edward the Confessor and John the Baptist to the Virgin and Child with angels, and, on its exterior panels, a white hart,...

Grenzen aan de macht: De Friese oorlog van de graven van Holland omstreeks 1400.
June 1, 1996... The relationship between war and society is the principal theme of Antheun Janse's Grenzen aan de macht. De Friese oorlog van de graven van Holland omstreeks 1400 (The Hague: Hollandse Historische Reeks, 1993; pp.460. Gld 80): a well-composed...

L'azienda agricola Barbarigo a Carpi: Gestione economica ed evoluzione sociale sulle terre di un villaggio della bassa pianura veronese, 1443-1539.
June 1, 1996... Students of Italian agrarian history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance have reason to welcome two recent regional publications, each focused on a limited area - of Emilia and Venetia respectively - but each opening perspectives of far wider...

Kreuzzugsplane und Kreuzzugspolitik des Herzogs Philipp des Guten von Burgund.
June 1, 1996... In his Kreuzzugsplane und Kreuzzugspolitik des Herzogs Philipp des Guten von Burgund (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993; pp. 188. Pb. DM52), Heribert Muller examines the crusading schemes and policies of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy...

William Waynflete: Bishop and Educationalist.
June 1, 1996... The founder of Magdalen College and Magdalen School, Oxford, emerges from this study by Virginia Davis, William Waynflete. Bishop and Educationalist (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1993; pp.xi + 193. [pounds]35) as a man of remarkable shrewdness,...

Richard III: A Medieval Kingship.
June 1, 1996... Richard III. A Medieval Kingship is a collection of essays edited by John Gillingham (London: Collins & Brown, 1993; pp. 154. [pounds]17.99) and published on behalf of History Today. The contributions are written by leading figures in the field...

Herzog Geog von Bayern-Landshut und seine Reichspolitik: Moglich-keiten und Grenzen reichsfurstlicher Politik im wittelsbachisch-habsburgischen Spannungsfeld zwischen 1470 und 1505.
June 1, 1996... In his massive and exhaustively researched Munich dissertation, now published as Herzog Georg von Bayern-Landshut und seine Reichspolitik. Moglichkeiten und Grenzen reichsfurstlicher Politik im wittelsbachisch-habsburgischen Spannungsfeld...

War, Culture and Society in Renaissance Venice: Essays in Honour of John Hale.
June 1, 1996... A Festschrift for John Hale might be expected to be unwieldy in reflecting his expansive interests, not to mention those of a wide range of friends and past colleagues and students. The editors, David Chambers, Cecil Clough and Michael Mallett,...

Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453-1524.
June 1, 1996... Francesco Soderini has an assured fame, not so much as anything like a 'typical' Renaissance cardinal, but rather for his interaction with others, whether Piero Soderini and Machiavelli in the Florentine world, or Leo X and other popes in Rome. A...

Visite pastorali ed elaborazione dei dati: Esperienze e metodi.
June 1, 1996... Following an earlier volume edited by U. Mazzone and A. Turchini, Le Visite pastorali. Analisi di una fonte (1989: rev. ante, civ. 199), the Italo-German Historical Institute at Trent has produced what is clearly intended as an interim progress...

Between Friends. Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-15.
June 1, 1996... The memorials of Machiavelli's private life are relatively numerous. Amongst them the letters to his friend Francesco Vettori from the years 1513 to 1515 have a peculiar importance for the light they shed upon Machiavelli's writing. Although they...

La Teologia e la Grammatica: La controversia tra Erasmo ed Edward Lee.
June 1, 1996... Edward Lee became archbishop of York in 1531, where he guided the church in the new discipline until his death in 1544. York was the culmination of a decade of political and diplomatic service to Henry VIII, but Lee first came to public notice...

The Military Survey of Gloucestershire: 1522.
June 1, 1996... The publication of The Military Survey of Gloucestershire, 1522, ed. R. W. Hoyle (Stroud: Alan Sutton, for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Soc., 1993; pp. liii + 265. [pounds]30) is significant for a number of reasons. Though not...

Law, Land and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800.
June 1, 1996... It is a plausible view that historians of succession to land at common law have over-emphasized the technical and economic aspects and underestimated the use of settlements to exclude women. To this extent the history of the law of inheritance...

The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait.
June 1, 1996... The bedpost of Margaret Aston's The King's Bedpost. Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xii + 267 [pounds] 40; pb. [pounds] 16.95) is that on Henry VIII's couch in the famous painting known as 'Edward...

Hunters and Poachers: A Social and Cultural History of Unlawful Hunting in England, 1485-1640.
June 1, 1996... Historians have long recognized that hunting was one of the distinctive forms of leisure activity for all social groups in the early modern period, and have equally been conscious of the importance of what might be described as the illegal...

Anglicizing the Government of Ireland: The Irish Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule, 1556-1578.
June 1, 1996... In Anglicizing the Government of Ireland. The Irish Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule, 1556-1578 (Dublin: Irish Academic P., in association with Irish Legal History Soc., 1993; pp. xiv + 508. [pounds] 37.50), Jon C. Crawford offers...

Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction.
June 1, 1996... William Fleetwood is best known as the Recorder of the City of London from 1571 to 1591; a severe magistrate and an energetic member of parliament for over thirty years. Less well known is the fact that he was a prolific writer on legal subjects,...

The First Jesuits.
June 1, 1996... There is nothing on the early history of the Society of Jesus in any language that can compare in scope or quality with John W. O'Malley's sensitive, dispassionate and informative work, The First Jesuits (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P.,...

The History of the British Coal Industry.
June 1, 1996... In many ways John Hatcher's The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. I: Before 1700. Towards the Age of Coal (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1993; pp. xxii + 624. [pounds] 60) can be said to constitute an extended dialogue with the work of the late...

The Reformation of the Parishes: The Ministry and the Reformation in Town and Country.
June 1, 1996... In the early Reformation, what was the fate of the 'old' priests? Where did the new pastors come from? What was their training? How were they ordained? How were they paid? What was their social status? These fundamental questions have usually...

The Family of Love in English Society: 1550-1630.
June 1, 1996... Many years ago as a neophyte historian I encountered Bishop Richard Cox's fascinating investigation of the Family of Love. It was conducted in 1580 at the urging of the Privy Council, which feared that the 'lewd, heretical and seditious books' of...

The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire.
June 1, 1996... The gradual seclusion of the Ottoman sultan and his male relatives in the harem led to a corresponding increase in the political power and activities of the women of the Ottoman dynasty. Contemporary Ottoman critics and European observers...

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550-1680.
June 1, 1996... The continuing economic problems of Coventry after the crisis of the early sixteenth century form the background to Ronald M. Berger's The Most Necessary Luxuries. The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550-1680 (University Park: Pennsylvania State...

Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England.
June 1, 1996... Early modern political historians have for some time recognized the need to take account of recent developments in literary and critical scholarship; but few have achieved this as effectively as the contributors to Culture and Politics in Early...

The Maynard Lieutenancy Book: 1608-1639.
June 1, 1996... The Maynard Lieutenancy Book, 1608-1659, ed. B. W, Quintrell (2 vols. Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1993; pp. xcviii + 450. Pb. [pounds] 18), is a collection of letters and papers dealing mainly with militia affairs in Essex between 1608 and...

Women and Property in Early Modern England.
June 1, 1996... Our understanding of the legal position of ordinary women has been gravely distorted by our reliance on literary treatises and our exclusive focus on the common law. So argues Amy Louise Erickson in an important study, Women and Property in Early...

Piracy and the English Government: 1616-1642.
June 1, 1996... The Barbary pirates posed a formidable challenge to English commerce in the early seventeenth century. In Piracy and the English Government, 1616-1642 (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1994; pp. xv + 303. [pounds] 45) David Delison Hebb estimates English...

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem.
June 1, 1996... Robert C. Evans and Barbara Widemann's edition of 'My Name Was Martha' A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem (West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill P., 1993; pp. xiv + 117. $22.50) exemplifies a problem common to all who discover a short but...

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury: 1636-1638.
June 1, 1996... Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1636-1638, ed. Nesta Evans (Wood-bridge: Boydell P., for Suffolk Records Soc., 1993; pp. xii + 348. [pounds] 19.50) continues the Society's series Wills of the County of Suffolk. Surprisingly little, however,...

The Varieties of British Political Thought: 1500-1800.
June 1, 1996... The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. J. G. A. Pocock et al. (Cambridge: U.P., for the Folger Inst., Washington, DC, 1994; pp.x + 173. [pounds] 40), a collection of essays worked up from a series of seminars held at the...

Das Alte Reich: 1648-106.
June 1, 1996... Early modernists with an interest in the political functioning of the Holy Roman Empire from Westphalia to Napoleon will welcome Karl Otmar von Aretin's definitive work on the subject, Das Alte Reich, 1648-1806. The first volume Fideralistische...

Divulging of Useful Truths in Physick: The Medical Agenda of Robert Boyle.
June 1, 1996... Robert Boyle is arguably the most neglected of the great names in seventeenth-century science. No comprehensive study of his works has yet been attempted; indeed there are very few reliable monographs devoted to more limited aspects of his work....

Le Roi de guerre: Essai sur la souverainee dans la France du Grand Siecle.
June 1, 1996... Historians have long recognized the significance of warfare for the development of the state in seventeenth-century France, but until now no one had drawn the various aspects of this theme together into an interpretative essay. Joel Cornette's Le...

Die Cambridge Platonists: Religion und Freiheit in England im 17. Jahrhundert.
June 1, 1996... In his Die Cambridge Platonists. Religion und Freiheit in England im 17. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Peter Lang, 1993; pp. 171. Pb. DM25), Stefan Weyer sets out to analyse the concept of freedom in the writings of Whichcote, More,...

Surveying the People: The Interpretation and Use of Document Sources for the Study of Population in the Later Seventeenth Century.
June 1, 1996... The later seventeenth century is an especially fascinating period in English fiscal, social and demographic history. Parliamentary acceptance in principle of the need to guarantee the Crown a sufficient income facilitated an unprecedented range...

Boughton House: The English Versailles.
June 1, 1996... England was one of the few European states where the prince would not emulate Versailles, and subjects (with the exception of the Churchills at Blenheim) could not. Boughton in Northamptonshire, the subject of Boughton House. The English...

Rethinking Social History: English Society, 1570-1920 and Its Interpretation.
June 1, 1996... 'Social history' is not defined, but some of its current problems and potentialities are described and illustrated, in a collection of essays edited by Adrian Wilson, Rethinking Social History. English Society, 1570-1920 and its Interpretation...

Les Gazettes europeennes de langue francaise (XVII-XVIII siecles).
June 1, 1996... The past two decades have seen a steady rise in the importance attributed, both within France and abroad, to the study of francophone periodicals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This increasing awareness has largely been stimulated...