The English Historical Review articles from June 1997

The English Historical Review archives from June 1997

Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History.
June 1, 1997... In 1994, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians tackled one of the underlying issues of concern to practitioners interested in the past (and maybe the future) of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the question of the extent to...

Church and Society in Byzantium Under the Comneni: 1081-1261.
June 1, 1997... It is a mark of the achievement of Michael Angold's monumental new study that the two fundamental questions that underlie it: 'What was the Byzantine Church?' and 'What was Byzantine Society?' are so forcibly confronted. The exemplary clarity of...

Thomas Cranmer. A Life.
June 1, 1997... From 1529 until the moment in March 1556 when he stretched into the fire the hand which had signed so many recantations, Thomas Cranmer played a central part in the drama of the English Reformation. Yet his 'private face remains for the most part...

The Younger Pitt. The Consuming Struggle.
June 1, 1997... It is gratifying to welcome the happy conclusion of an ambitious enterprise begun many years ago. Those who welcomed the appearance of John Ehrman's first two volumes in his magisterial biography of the Younger Pitt may well feel an...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, 2 vols.
June 1, 1997... 'Expect not in this sheet so far as concerns order any thing better than the most perfect chaos.' Considering how much of his working life was preoccupied with his impact on posterity, Bentham was strangely indifferent in his letter-writing, and...

Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford.
June 1, 1997... Traditionally historians have placed class and change at the very heart of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British radicalism. In recent years, however, the revisionist 'turns' to (the primacy of) language and political ideas in...

Popular Radicalism in Ninetenth-Century Britain.
June 1, 1997... Traditionally historians have placed class and change at the very heart of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British radicalism. In recent years, however, the revisionist 'turns' to (the primacy of) language and political ideas in...

The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the Great Inflation, 1914-1924.
June 1, 1997... In contemporary popular culture the two most potent myths of the German inflation - it was caused by reparations, and it had an entirely destructive impact on the German economy - remain surprisingly strong. This despite the fact that since the...

The Age of Churchill and Eden: 1940-1957.
June 1, 1997... Twenty years after its inception, the Longman 'History of the Conservative Party' reaches completion. The years have taken their toll. Aside from the withdrawal of two original contributors, the series has suffered distracted purposes and...

Basil of Caesarea.
June 1, 1997... The major patron saint and a pioneer of Eastern monasticism was a natural choice for Philip Rousseau, the author of two previous major studies on early Christian monasticism. His new book, Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California...

A History of Canterburg Cathedral.
June 1, 1997... Cathedral histories have developed in recent years from volumes by single authors, largely about buildings, into works by groups of scholars covering history, liturgy and music, as well as art and architecture. A landmark in this process was the...

Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier. The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert.
June 1, 1997... Angilbert (c. 750-814) served as a key member of Charlemagne's court. As a diplomat he travelled to Rome three times in the 790s to represent the Frankish position to the Roman church; as a poet, dubbed 'Homer' by the court literati, he crafted...

Franks, Moravians and Magyars.
June 1, 1997... Of Charles R. Bowlus's, Franks, Moravians and Magyars. The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907 (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp. xviii + 42o. [pounds]42.75), it may be said that its author's scholarly acumen is matched by his...

The Martyrs of Cordoba. Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion.
June 1, 1997... One of the presuppositions, as revealed in the final element of its subtitle, of Jessica A. Coope's The Martyrs of Cordoba. Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion (Lincoln/London: U. of Nebraska P., 1995; PP. xiv + 113....

The Role of of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church.
June 1, 1997... In The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1995; pp. xiii + 312. [pounds]40), Richard Gameson describes and stylistically analyses the extant ecclesiastical art of the period with impressive thoroughness and...

Les Noces du comte. Mariage et pouvoir en Catalogne, 785-1213.
June 1, 1997... In our present state of learning it is often fair to wonder how the application of feminine perspectives would affect our readings of well-worked stretches of political history. A good test may be found in the story of the rise of Catalonia made...

The Medieval Cult of Saints. Formation and Transformations.
June 1, 1997... Barbara Abou-El-Haj's title, The Medieval Cult of Saints. Formations and Transformations (Cambridge: U.P., 1994; pp. xviii + 456. GBP55), belongs to that infuriating school - Crown and Community in the Medieval West: A Study of Moreton-in-Marsh,...

English Episcopal Acta, vol. 10. Bath and Wells, 1061-1205.
June 1, 1997... A flood of new light is shed upon the ecclesiastical organization of medieval Somerset by the tenth volume in the episcopal acta series: English Episcopal Acta. Vol. X: Bath and Wells, 1061-1205, ed. Frances M. R. Ramsey (Oxford: U.P., for The...

La Monetazione nell'Italia Normanna.
June 1, 1997... The coinage of southern Italy under the Normans (1072-1194) has hitherto been studied separately for Sicily and the mainland, and not very systematically. Lucia Travaini, of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, has put all the numismatic evidence...

Grundherrschaft und bauerliche Gesellschaft im Hochmittelalter.
June 1, 1997... Regional German research on lords and peasants appears with gratifying frequency in conference publications, often more stimulating than the general surveys by west European scholars. Here is a collection of fourteen papers mainly concentrated on...

A Commercialising Economy. England, 1086 to c. 1300.
June 1, 1997... The search for a dominant theme in medieval economic history is as old as the subject itself, and participants have sometimes been tempted to identify their chosen theme with the mono-cause of the changes they seek to explain. Contributors to A...

Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought. The Interpretation of Mary and Martha. The Ideal of the Imitation of Christ. The Orders of Society.
June 1, 1997... A rich and diverse collection of material on the history of ideas is presented by Giles Constable in Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought. The Interpretation of Mary and Martha. The Ideal of the Imitation of Christ. The Orders...

Campagnes medievales. L'homme et son espace. Etudes offertes a Robert Fossier.
June 1, 1997... Some figures may help to describe Campagnes medievales. L'homme et son espace. Etudes offertes a Robert Fossier, ed. Elisabeth Mornet (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995; pp. 736. Pb. F290): 700 pages (without the preliminaries) consisting...

Noble Bondsmen. Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzbur, 1100-1343.
June 1, 1997... 'Noble servitude', the condition of the ministeriales of Salzburg is explored in John B. Freed's Noble Bondsmen. Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1995; pp. xvi + 304. [pounds]38.95)....

The Perfection of Solitude. Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States.
June 1, 1997... Much reminded as we have been of late that crusading was an act of piety and of the rightness therefore of Guibert of Nogent's observation that crusaders were almost as good as monks, it is at this point timely to be introduced by Andrew...

A History of the Russian Church to 1448.
June 1, 1997... A History of the Russian Church to 1448, by John Fennell (London: Longman, 1995; pp. xii + 266. [pounds]34; pb. [pounds]12.99), represents the last, unfinished work of an eminent historian of the medieval eastern Slavs and deals with a subject...

The English Hospital: 1070-1570.
June 1, 1997... In England at least, medieval hospitals have been less well served by modern scholarship than their later successors. No doubt that is partly a consequence of the many diverse purposes which they served, and partly the result of the scarcity of...

Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen.
June 1, 1997... Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1995; pp. xxi + 310. [pounds]39.50), ed. M. J. Franklin and Christopher Harper-Bill, opens with appreciations of her as archivist at Lincoln, Lambeth and...

James of Viterbo. On Christian Government.
June 1, 1997... Perhaps because the papalists' case in the dispute involving Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair has so long been available in Giles of Rome's treatise De ecclesiastica potestate (also translated by Dr Dyson: Boydell, 1986), James of Viterbo's...

The Register of John Kirkby, Bishop of Carlisle, 1332-1352 and the Register of John Ross, Bishop of Carlisle, 1325-32.
June 1, 1997... The surviving registers of the medieval bishops of Carlisle are restricted to the period from 1293 to 1392, of which only the material up to 1324 has previously been printed. R. L. Storey takes forward this process to 1347 with The Register of...

Religion and Devotion in Europe: c. 1215-c. 1515.
June 1, 1997... The historical study of spiritual perceptions has both given a new understanding of medieval mentalites and demonstrated the difficulty of identifying what individuals believed, because many records tend to stress deviations from accepted...

Benedictine Monks at the University of Paris, AD 1229-1500. A Biographical Register.
June 1, 1997... Thomas Sullivan's Benedictine Monks at the University of Paris, AD 1229-1500. A Biographical Register (Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1995; pp. xii + 458. DKr190) is an extremely useful addition to the prosopography of university students and...

The God Ship. Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England, 1200-1520.
June 1, 1997... The Good Ship. Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England, 1200-1520, by Ian Friel (London: British Museum P., 1995; pp. 208. [pounds]25), is a book of sound scholarship based on foundations which include the author's eleven years at the...

Herrschaft und Verfahren: Politische Prozesee im mittelalterlichen Romisch-Deutschen Reich.
June 1, 1997... Germany was left with memories of centralized control after the collapse of the Hohenstaufen Empire but little prospect of its return. It was possible, as Friedrich Battenberg points out in his Herrschaft und Verfahren. Politische Prozesse im...

Die Preussenreisen des europaischen Adels.
June 1, 1997... In the second volume of his Die Preussenreisen des europaischen Adels (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1995; pp. 345. DM 128), Werner Paravicini offers just two chapters from his 1982 Habilitationsschrift. Chapter Seven deals with the Reise itself,...

Castillos reales de Navarra.
June 1, 1997... Spain has traditionally been portrayed in popular terms as a land of castles, particularly the territorium castelle of Castile which Muslim chroniclers designated al-Qila (the castles) as early as the end of the eighth century. However, in...

Guerra y sociedad en Navarra durante la edad media.
June 1, 1997... The theme of Jon Andoni Fernandez de Larrea Rojas's Guerra y sociedad en Navarra durante la edad media (Bilbao: Universidad del Pais Vasco, 1992; pp. 152. Pb.n.p.) is that in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries the Navarrese nobility...

The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership. The Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century.
June 1, 1997... The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership. The Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century, by William J. Dohar (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp. xvi + 198. [pounds]30.95), offers an unusually detailed and clear analysis of the...

Bastard Feudalism.
June 1, 1997... So many books and articles have been written in recent years on aspects of late medieval bastard feudalism that any scholar adding to the corpus feels driven to stress the novelty of his or her views. The cover blurb of Michael Hicks's Bastard...

Popular Piety in Late Medieval England. The Diocese of Salisbury, 1250-1550.
June 1, 1997... Andrew D. Brown's Popular Piety in Late Medieval England. The Diocese of Salisbury, 1250-1550 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1995; pp. x + 297. [pounds]35) is a welcome volume, offering a wide-ranging regional analysis of pre-Reformation piety of a sort...

England and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages.
June 1, 1997... The need of weavers in the Low Countries for English wool, and the English requirement for assistance in the wars against France, do much to explain the close relations across the North Sea that are examined in England and the Low Countries in...

Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter.
June 1, 1997... The first thing to emphasize about Maryanne Kowaleski's Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xvi + 442. [pounds]50) is that the book's title is misleadingly modest. Far from dealing 'merely' with local...

Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England.
June 1, 1997... The idea of ignoring the spiritual implications of physical medicine would have seemed pointless to the medieval observer who did not make a sharp distinction between body and soul, between treating physical symptoms and addressing the spiritual...

Changing Values in Medieval Scotland. A Study of Prices, Money, Weights and Measures.
June 1, 1997... Students of Scottish history in the later Middle Ages will be aware of a downward drift in the value of Scottish money, particularly in the second half of the fifteenth century. In the past this was often equated with economic weakness, in spite...

Papstgeschichte und Landesgeschichte. Festschrift fur Hermann Jakobs zum 65.
June 1, 1997... Papstgeschichte und Landesgeschichte. Festschrift fur Hermann Jakobs zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Joachim Dahlhaus and Armin Kohnle (Weimer/Vienna: Bohlau, 1995; pp. xiii + 667. DM138), contains twenty-six papers of high scholarly quality; all of them...

Angelo Gambiglioni, giureconsulto aretino del Quattrocento. La vita, i libri, le opere.
June 1, 1997... A leading centre of learning during the Middle Ages, the Tuscan city of Arezzo produced a series of lawyers whose reputations reached across the Italian peninsula and beyond the Alps. None was more distinguished than Angelo Gambiglioni (?-1461),...

Lucca. 1430-1494: The Reconstruction of an Italian City-Republic.
June 1, 1997... The current view of the world of fifteenth-century Italian politics is a much more complicated one than the traditional accounts of endemic faction and violence suggest. The issues debated by contemporary historians range over the mechanisms of...

The District of the Green Dragon. Neigbourhood Life and Social Change in Renaissance Florence.
June 1, 1997... In 1982 D. V. and F. W. Kent published a pioneering study of one of Florence's late medieval districts or gonfaloni, Neighbours and Neighbourhood in Renaissance Florence. The District of the Red Lion in the Fifteenth Century (rev. ante, c.383)....

Kirche, Kinder, Karrieren. Papstliche Dispense von der unehelichen Geburt im Spatmittelalter.
June 1, 1997... Ludwig Schmugge's Kirche, Kinder, Karrieren. Papstliche Dispense von der unehelichen Geburt im Spatmittelalter (Zurich: Artemis & Winkler, 1995; pp. 512. SF178) is a study of petitions for dispensation from illegitimacy accepted by the papal...

Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries. The Commercial and Political Interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450-1510.
June 1, 1997... If you thought there was nothing more to be said about Anglo-Hanseatic relations in the fifteenth century after Postan, Lloyd and Jenks, then you would be wrong. In his short and well-researched book, Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries. The...

The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence.
June 1, 1997... Ross Fuller's The Brotherhood of the Common Life and its Influence (Albany: State U. of New York P., 1995; pp. xxi + 353. $16.95) surveys the works of Gerard Groote, Gerard Zerbolt, Florence Radewijns and the writers influenced by them, including...

The Medieval Military Revolution. State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
June 1, 1997... Although The Medieval Military Revolution. State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price (London/New York: I. B. Tauris, 1995; pp. 208. [pounds]39.50), contains a good deal of new...

Herren und Diener. Die soziale und politische Mentalitat des russischen Adels. 9.-17. Jahrhundert.
June 1, 1997... Model Number One: the Russian nobility of the pre-Petrine era barely deserve the label. They were weak, subservient and almost wilfully ignorant. From the sturdy retinues of the pre-Mongol princes, they degenerated into the helpless instruments...

L'Ordre de Saint-Jean de Jerusalem, l'Empire ottoman et la Mediterrannee orientale entre les deux sieges de Rhodes, 1480-1522.
June 1, 1997... Histories of Crusades and Crusading Orders occupy a marginal position in European historiography, and too often fail to provide a convincing account of their subject matter because they rely solely on Christian sources, and usually reflect an...

The Transformation of Natural Philosophy The Case of Philip Melanchthon.
June 1, 1997... Philip Melanchthon, canonized in Lutheran historiography as the Praeceptor Germaniae, wrote textbooks indefatigably on all sorts of subjects: on theology (the Common Places), on rhetoric, on world history and on natural philosophy. In The...

The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation.
June 1, 1997... Copious quotation, mainly in translation, is the hallmark of Erika Rummel's study of The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1995; pp. 249. [pounds]35.95). One purpose of the book...

Politics, Religion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honor of De Lamar Jensen.
June 1, 1997... De Lamar Jensen is best known for his Diplomacy and Dogmatism. Bernardino de Mendoza and the French Catholic League (Cambridge, Mass.: 1964), a study of Spanish diplomatic activity in France before and after the Armada. It is fitting, therefore,...

Between Known Men and Visible Saints. A Study in Sixteenth-Century English Dissent.
June 1, 1997... Scholarly interest in those early modern Englishmen and women who rejected the magisterial aspirations of 'official' Protestantism and claimed the right to formulate and live out their own religious convictions has more usually focused on the...

Le Siecle des Platter: 1499-1628, vol. 1, Le mendiant et lei professeur.
June 1, 1997... The Platter family papers at the University of Basle are a remarkable collection covering the 1500s and early 1600s. The Platters were a humble Swiss family which settled in Basle and prospered through the printing trade. Since 1724 when the...

Reports from the Lost Notebooks of Sir James Dyer, 2 vols.
June 1, 1997... James Dyer, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, died in 1582. His notebooks of cases passed to his nephews Richard Farwell and James Dyer, who came under pressure (perhaps from Dyer's successor as Chief Justice, Edmund Anderson) to permit...

Thomas Norton. The Parliament Man.
June 1, 1997... Michael A. R. Graves's Thomas Norton. The Parliament Man (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994; pp. xi + 420. [pounds]45) has had a long gestation, but it is none the worse for that. One benefit is that it enables Professor Graves to begin his book with a...

John Dee. The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance.
June 1, 1997... In John Dee. The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts P., 1995; pp. xiv + 291. [pounds]33.25), William H. Sherman provides an original and arresting account of the career of the Elizabethan...

The Courtier and the King. Ruy Gomez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain.
June 1, 1997... Early in The Courtier and the King. Ruy Gomez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain, by James M. Boyden (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1995; PP. x + 239. $35), its author makes the discovery that the biography of its subject...

Tewkesbury Churchwardens' Accounts: 1563-1624.
June 1, 1997... Churchwardens accounts are finally getting their due attention. In addition to several important recent monographs and essays, we now have C. J. Litzenberger's excellent edition of Tewkesbury Churchwardens' Accounts, 1563-1624 (Stroud: Alan...

Kent at Law, 1602, The County Jurisdiction. Assizes and Sessions of the Peace.
June 1, 1997... Louis A. Knafla's edition of Kent at Law, 1602. The County Jurisdiction. Assizes and Sessions of the Peace (London: HMSO, in assoc. with Public Record Office, 1994; pp. xl + 410. [pounds]50) is the first in a seven-volume series that also will...

Das Papsttum, die Christenheit und die Staaten Europas, 1592-1605, Forschungen zu den Hauptinstruktionen Clemens' VIII.
June 1, 1997... Das Papsttum, die Christenheit und die Staaten Europas, 1592-1605. Forschungen zu den Hauptinstruktionen Clemens' VIII, ed. Georg Lutz (Tubingen: Max Hiemeyer, 1994; pp. xxviii + 248. DM76), assembles the revised versions of papers given at a...

The Letters of lady Arbella Stuart.
June 1, 1997... Poor Arbella Stuart! Daughter of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, and, as great-granddaughter of Margaret Tudor, third in line for the English throne after Mary Queen of Scots and James VI, she was deprived of her Scottish inheritance when six...

Violence and Religion. Attitudes Towards Militancy in the French Civil Wars and the English Revolution.
June 1, 1997... There is less to Judy Sproxton's Violence and Religion. Attitudes towards Militancy in the French Civil Wars and the English Revolution (London: Routledge, 1995; PP. 103. [pounds]30) than meets the eye. It is short; parts of one chapter have...

The Early Modern City: 1450-1750.
June 1, 1997... The early modern town is enjoying something of an academic boom. The Early Modern City, 1450-1750, by Christopher R. Friedrichs (London: Longman, 1995; pp.x + 381. [pounds]39.99; pb. [pounds]14.99), and Small Towns in Early Modern Europe, ed....

Pastors and Parishioners in Wurttemberg During the Late Reformation: 1581-1621.
June 1, 1997... In 1978 Gerald Strauss's book on 'Luther's House of Learning' sparked a controversy among historians and challenged the traditional view that Protestantism had a deep and lasting effect on all levels of sixteenth-century life. His findings have...

Los Lazos del poder. Obligaciones y parentesco en una elite local castellana en los siglos XVI y XVII.
June 1, 1997... In recent years a number of important studies have much expanded our knowledge of the working of patron-client relationships at the centre of Spanish government and in some of the major cities. In Los Lazos del poder. Obligaciones y parentesco en...

Report on the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Downshire Formerly Preserved at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire. vol. 6, Papers of William Trambull the Elder: September 1616-December 1618.
June 1, 1997... The publication of Historical Manuscripts Commission 75, Report on the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Downshire Formerly Preserved at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire. Vol. VI: Papers of William Trumbull the Elder, September...

Grantham During the Interregnum. The Hall Book of Grantham, 1641-1649.
June 1, 1997... Local history is of more than usual interest during the Civil War, so one welcomes an edition of the records of a market town in the Lincoln Record Society's 83rd volume, Grantham during the Interregnum. The Hall Book of Grantham, 1641-1649,...

Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676. Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy.
June 1, 1997... According to his first biographer, Matthew Hale 'used to say, "no man could be absolutely a master in any profession, without having some skill in other sciences"'. That the polymath Hale was preaching what he practiced emerges clearly from Alan...

'Die Profiantirung der Keyserlichen Armaden Ahnbelangendt'. Studien zur versorgung der Kaiserlichen Armee, 1634/35.
June 1, 1997... The mechanisms by which armies were fed and supplied have long been accepted as fundamentally important to historical understanding of how wars were fought, won and lost. However, in the context of early modern Europe, this recognition has not...

Astrology and the Seventeenth Century Mind. William Lilly and the Language of the Stars.
June 1, 1997... Ann Geneva's Astrology and the Seventeenth Century Mind. William Lilly and the Language of the Stars (Manchester: U.P., 1995; PP. xxi + 298. [pounds]47) is the most important book in its field for some years. Dr Geneva addresses the intellectual...

Ireland from Independence to Occupation: 1641-1660.
June 1, 1997... It is a tribute to current historical writing on early modern Ireland that a volume of such substance and quality as Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660, ed. Jane H. Ohlmeyer (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. lii + 324. [pounds]40),...

Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy: 1550-1730.
June 1, 1997... In an impressive study, James R. Farr provides in Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy, 1550-1730 (New York/Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1995; pp. x + 252. [pounds]25) a revealing insight into life in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation....

The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century. Slavic Orthodox Society and Culture Under Ottoman Rule.
June 1, 1997... That it does much to fill a large historical void is not the least of the virtues of Dennis P. Hupchick's The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century. Slavic Orthodox Society and Culture under Ottoman Rule (Jefferson, NC/London: McFarland and Co.,...

America in European Consciousness: 1493-1750.
June 1, 1997... The quincentenary of 1492 continues to reverberate, long after the final conferences ended and the last manuscripts reached their publishers. America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Chapel Hill/London: U. of...

American Beginnings. Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega.
June 1, 1997... Facts, to the young Lord Peter Wimsey, were 'nasty hard things, all knobs. Uncompromisin'.' Historians of early colonial North America enjoy a richer, subtler experience of facts. Their sources are fanciful maps, promotional literature, utopian...

The British in the Americas: 1480-1815.
June 1, 1997... There is a whig view of British America which sees it as the prologue to the history of the United States of America. Thus many historians concentrate exclusively on the thirteen mainland colonies which successfully exerted their independence...

Popular Culture in England: c. 1500-1850.
June 1, 1997... According to its editor Tim Harris in his introductory essay, Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (London: Macmillan, 1995; pp. xi + 293. Pb. [pounds]12.99) intends, in response to Peter Burke's seminal work in this area, not to attempt a...

Two East Anglian Diaries, 1641-1729. Isaac Archer and William Coe.
June 1, 1997... Two East Anglian Diaries, 1641-1729. Isaac Archer and William Coe, ed. Matthew Storey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Suffolk Record Soc., vol. xxxvi, 1994; pp. x + 285. [pounds]19.50), is a most welcome addition to the stock of religious journals...