The English Historical Review articles from November 1997

The English Historical Review archives from November 1997

Hansard's hazards: an illustration from recent interpretations of married women's property law and the 1857 divorce act.
November 1, 1997... Historians of high politics have long instilled scepticism about politicians' public utterances. As texts, however, Hansard's third series of Parliamentary Debates retain a semi-official, authoritative aura, despite occasional observations that...

Catholic and Reformed. The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought: 1600-1640.
November 1, 1997... By Anthony Milton (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xvi + 599. 50 [pounds sterling]). Anthony Milton has written a splendidly learned and immensely sophisticated book. Indeed, most parties to the current debate about the role of religious conflict...

Thomas Hobbes. The Correspondence, 2 vols.
November 1, 1997... Vol. I: 1622-1659. Vol. II: 1660-1679. Edited by Noel Malcolm (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1994; pp. lxxv + 511, xv + 495. 60 [pounds sterling] each). It is very rare that one comes away from studying a collected edition of the correspondence of a...

Citizens of the World. London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community: 1735-1785.
November 1, 1997... By David Hancock (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xxiii + 477. 35 [pounds sterling]). This is a remarkable book. For once the compliments on the dust jacket are appropriate: `perhaps the finest study ever written on a mercantile group', `this...

The Transformation of British Politics: 1860-1995.
November 1, 1997... By Brian Harrison (Oxford: U.P., 1996; pp. 618. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Once upon a time the British constitution was held up to the world as a model for its instruction. In recent decades, however, its inadequacies and imperfections...

Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity.
November 1, 1997... The development of Art History as an historical discipline has left few historians blind to art as a powerful indicator of cultural transformation. Those who read Jas Elsner's richly illustrated Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of...

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: AD 481-751.
November 1, 1997... Yitzhak Hen sets out rescue the Christian culture of the Merovingian era from the opprobrium with which it was viewed by Carolingian reformers and by modern scholars in Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, AD 481-751 (Leiden: E. J. Brill,...

Settlement and Social Organization. The Merovingian Region of Metz.
November 1, 1997... Guy Halsall, in Settlement and Social Organization. The Merovingian Region of Metz (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xx + 307. [pounds]45), studies the socio-economic history of early Frankish Metz using an ambitious methodological agenda. Part 1...

Oswald. Northumbrian King to European Saint.
November 1, 1997... There has been a tendency in recent Anglo-Saxon historiography to devote separate volumes to the lives and cults of individual saints. Cuthbert, Dunstan and AEthelwold have all been given such treatment, and now it is the turn of one of the most...

The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore.
November 1, 1997... In the absence of manuscripts of the seventh century surviving from the Canterbury libraries, the school of Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian has hitherto been known chiefly from some brief remarks in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Over forty...

Archbishop Theodore. Commemorative Studies on His Life and Influence.
November 1, 1997... In the absence of manuscripts of the seventh century surviving from the Canterbury libraries, the school of Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian has hitherto been known chiefly from some brief remarks in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Over forty...

Frauen im fruhen Mittelalter. Frauenbild und Frauenleben im Frankenreich.
November 1, 1997... After about twenty-five years of intensive, if rather uneven, interest in women's history, and more recently gender history, it is about time to take stock of the results for particular periods, and attempting this for Francia from about 500 to...

Ordines Coronationis Franciae. Texts and Ordines for the Coronations of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages.
November 1, 1997... In the introduction to Ordines Coronationis Franciae. Texts and Ordines for the Coronations of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp. xiv + 283. [pounds]47.50), the first volume of...

Das 'Grossmahrische Reich'. Realitat oder Fiktion?
November 1, 1997... It may be that the answer to the question explicitly asked in the title of Martin Eggers's Das 'Grossmahrische Reich'. Realitat oder Fiktion? (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1995; pp. ix + 525. DM336) is going to be of less moment than that to the...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Facsimile of MS. F: The Domitian Bilingual.
November 1, 1997... Our knowledge and understanding of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has advanced considerably since Charles Plummer's edition appeared at the end of the last century, yet this understanding is far from complete, and there still remains much work to be...

Zur papstlichen Urkundensprache im fruhen Mittelalter. Die papstlichen Privilegien: 896-1046.
November 1, 1997... The wealth of source material made usably available during the 1980s in Harald Zimmermann's edition of Papsturkunden, 896-1046 is impressively exploited by one of his collaborators, Hans-Henning Kortum, in Zur papstlichen Urkundensprache im...

Monks and Laymen in Byzantium: 843-1118.
November 1, 1997... The flexibility and diversity of Byzantine monasticism's forms are central themes of Rosemary Morris's Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-118 (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; PP. xxii + 330- [pounds]40). The situation was dynamic: more persons sought to...

Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages.
November 1, 1997... Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xiv + 322. 35 [pounds sterling]), is the product of the Bucknell group, comprised of scholars who meet regularly at Bucknell, in...

The English and the Norman Conquest.
November 1, 1997... Ann Williams's The English and the Norman Conquest (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1995; pp. xv + 264. 35 [pounds sterling]) is one of the two most interesting books on the conquest published during the last decade. It is professedly inspired by...

The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, vol 2, Books V-VIII.
November 1, 1997... Only about half the pages in The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni. Vol. 11: Books V-VIII, ed. and trans. Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1995; pp. xv + 341. 45 [pounds...

Salt and the Domesday Salinae at Droitwich: AD 674 to 1690. A Quantitative Analysis.
November 1, 1997... Beatrice Hopkinson's Salt and the Domesday Salinae at Droitwich, AD 674 to 16go. A Quantitative Analysis (Stroud: Droitwich Brine Springs and Archaeological Trust/Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 1994; pp. 58. 15 [pounds sterling]....

Scotichronicon, vol 3, Books V and VI.
November 1, 1997... Walter Bower's Scotichronicon. Vol. III: Books V and VI, ed. John and Winifred MacQueen and D. E. R. Watt (Aberdeen: U.P., 1995; pp. xxxii + 521. 35 [pounds sterling]) is the seventh of the nine volumes in this massive project, bringing it...

From Virile Woman to WomanChrist. Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature.
November 1, 1997... Barbara Newman's remarkable From Virile Woman to Woman Christ. Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp. 355. 37.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.95 [pounds sterling]) deals illuminatingly with the...

Culture of Power. Lordship, Status and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe.
November 1, 1997... In 1991 an interdisciplinary conference was held at Harvard to study the exercise of power in its many aspects 'when it first assumed protostatic forms' in twelfth-century western Europe. Papers contributed to this conference form the basis of...

Le Manuscrit perdu a Strasbourg. Enquete sur l'oeuvre scientifique de Hildegarde.
November 1, 1997... The scientific writing of Hildegard of Bingen is more often singled out by her devotees as evidence of her genius than understood in any detail. There are good reasons for this, not least the complexity of its textual tradition. A single...

Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.
November 1, 1997... Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, by Anna Sapir Abulafia (London: Routledge, 1995, pp. x + 196. [pounds]37.50), is sustained by a powerful and convincing central argument: that the intellectual and spiritual developments...

Des Ecoles aux paroisses. Thomas de Chobham et la promotion de la predication au debut du XIIIe siecle.
November 1, 1997... Franco Morenzoni's Des Ecoles aux paroisses. Thomas de Chobham et la promotion de la predication au debut du [XIII.sup.e] siecle (Paris: Institut des Etudes Augustiniennes, 1995; pp. 323. Pb. DF750) brings together two lines of research, on the...

Pouvoirs et institutions dans la France medievale, 2 vols.
November 1, 1997... In the last generation, historians on medieval France have concentrated on regions, society and mentalities. Even for those heirs of Robert Fawtier who, like Jean Favier or Robert-Henri Bautier, have immersed themselves in the archives of royal...

Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages.
November 1, 1997... What constitutes a nation is one of those questions which historians (and others) never tire of asking but rarely succeed in answering in a fully satisfactory fashion. Medieval historians have a particular problem in this respect, for over and...

Saint Richard of Chichester. The Sources for His Life.
November 1, 1997... In Saint Richard of Chichester. The Sources for his Life (Lewes: Sussex Record Society, 1995; pp. x + 267. [pounds]19.95), David Jones supplies an extremely useful collection of documents relating to St Richard Wych, a native of Droitwich in...

Power of the Weak. Studies on Medieval Women.
November 1, 1997... Since Women in Medieval Society, edited by Susan Mosher Stuard, appeared over twenty years ago, its subject has usually been best served by collaborative volumes of essays. These can mix theoretical stances and kinds of evidence, and they must...

Early Mamluk Diplomacy: 1260-1290. Treaties of Baybars and Qalawun with Christian Rulers.
November 1, 1997... P.M. Holt has added to his already impressive scholarly output on Mamluk and Crusader history with the publication of Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 12601290. Treaties of Baybars and Qalawan with Cbristian Rulers (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995; pp. 161....

Knighton's Chronicle: 1337-1396.
November 1, 1997... An edition of Knighton's Chronicle in this present format has long been a desideratum; students marvelled that so central a source for fourteenth-century England had not been translated, while scholars have known since Galbraith's seminal article...

Representation, pouvoir et royaute a la fin du moyen age.
November 1, 1997... Representation, pouvoir et royaute a la fin du moyen age, ed. Joel Blanchard (Paris: Picard, 1995; pp. 340. Pb.n.p.), consists of eighteen papers, with introduction by the editor and conclusion by Philippe Contamine, presented to a conference...

Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society.
November 1, 1997... There was a time when papers and volumes on women's history told the story of none other than nuns and widows. Nuns' lives were illuminated through clerical and ecclesiastical attention, and widows appeared in sources because of the unusual...

The Power of Women. A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature.
November 1, 1997... The force of the single author monograph is exemplified, by contrast, in Susan L. Smith's The Power of Women. A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp. xviii + 294. 24-50 [pounds sterling]), an...

Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century. Private Grief and Public Salvation.
November 1, 1997... Positivist historians a century ago tried to shake themselves free from the supernatural, like dogs after a bath. So they shunned medieval saints' miracula as sources. But this has changed, and since the 1950s the genre has become a treasury...

A Grammar of Signs. Bartolo da Sassoferrato's Tract on Insignia and Coats of Arms.
November 1, 1997... The tract De Insigniis et Armis of Bartolus of Sassoferrato, the great Perugian law professor (d. 1357), was much copied in the late Middle Ages, and much quoted, as an authoritative academic treatment of heraldry. A Grammar of Signs. Bartolo...

Vorst en onderdaan. Studies over Holland en Zeeland in de late Middeleeuwen.
November 1, 1997... During the late Middle Ages in the Low Countries the political strength of a duke or count can be measured by his eagerness to seek the support of his subjects, more specifically of the town governments, within his territory. Not only was he...

The Palazzo Vecchio: 1298-1532. Government, Architecture and Imagery in the Civic Palace of the Florentine Republic.
November 1, 1997... The Palazzo Vecchio is as emblematic of Florence as its cathedral. The site was probably chosen because it was next to a substantial piazza, and construction began in 1299. By 1312 the new building was already in use. It was to serve as the seat...

Pescia e la Valdinievole nell'eta dei comuni.
November 1, 1997... Italy has a notable tradition of regional and local history, fuelled both by the fact that virtually every city in the northern half of the country has had a period of political independence, and by the eagerness of local administrations,...

La Politique navale des ducs de Bourgogne: 1384-1482.
November 1, 1997... Jacques Paviot, in the course of his research for a these de doctorat nouveau regime upon Burgundian naval affairs in the later Middle Ages, systematically interrogated the rich if uneven material which survives from the archives of the Valois...

Portugal et Bourgogne au XVe siecle: 1384-1482.
November 1, 1997... Jacques Paviot, in the course of his research for a these de doctorat nouveau regime upon Burgundian naval affairs in the later Middle Ages, systematically interrogated the rich if uneven material which survives from the archives of the Valois...

The McFarlane Legacy. Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society.
November 1, 1997... So vibrant are fifteenth-century studies these days that The McFarlane Legacy. Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society, ed. R. H. Britnell and A. J. Pollard (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995; pp. xviii + 218. [pounds]30), the collected papers of...

El trafic de mercaderies a Barcelona segons els comptes de la lleuda de mediona (Febrer de 1434), vol 1.
November 1, 1997... The book of accounts of the customs office levying charges on foreign merchants trading through Barcelona, dating from 1434, is of exceptional interest for the study of the trade in basic foodstuffs. Preserved in the Cathedral archive, it is the...

Crown, Government and People in the Fifteenth Century.
November 1, 1997... For the past twenty-five years much of the best fifteenth-century research has been published through the conference proceedings that are now institutionalized in the Fifteenth-Century Series. Crown, Government and People in the Fifteenth...

The Shaping of a Community. The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish: c.1400-1560.
November 1, 1997... Churchwardens' accounts have figured prominently in recent reappraisals of the impact of the English Reformation. In The Shaping of a Community. The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish, c. 1400-1560 (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1996; pp. xiv +...

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. vol 18, Papal Letters.
November 1, 1997... The centenary year of the CPL was marked by publication of a second volume dealing with official letters emanating from Alexander VI, Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Vol. XVII, Part...

The Reign of Henry VIII. Politics, Policy and Piety.
November 1, 1997... During the last twenty-five years or so Macmillan Press has published a stream of impressive volumes on early modern British history in the Problems in Focus series, which aims to make new research available to students. Diarmaid MacCulloch's...

The Later Tudors. England: 1547-1603.
November 1, 1997... The second volume of the New Oxford History to appear, The Later Tudors. England, 1547-1603 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1995; pp. xxi + 606 25 [pounds sterling]), displays all the virtues his admirers would expect from Penry Williams: clarity of...

Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire.
November 1, 1997... In Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., 1995; pp. xxii + 684. 39 [pounds sterling]), Claire Cross and Noreen Vickers have produced a valuable contribution to the prosopography of late...

Darnley. A Life of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Consort of Mary Queen of Scots.
November 1, 1997... Caroline Bingham has written many books in that worthy if little regarded genre appealing both to the general reader and to scholars. Her main field of interest is the Stewart dynasty of Scotland, and in Darnley. A Life of Henry Stuart, Lord...

Johann Sturm on Education.
November 1, 1997... Lewis W. Spitz and Barbara Sher Tinsley, in their Johann Sturm on Education (St Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995; pp. 429. $21.95), offer three essays on Sturm, and translations from nine texts with introductory notes (pp. 59-339), by...

From Madrid to Purgatory. The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain.
November 1, 1997... Few things were as important to the propertied sixteenth-century Spaniard than that he should pass securely from this life to the next in full confidence that he had done the best he could, not only to ensure the salvation of his soul, but...

Labour, Science and Technology in France: 1500-1620.
November 1, 1997... Henry Heller's Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; Pp. xii + 258. 35 [pounds sterling]) successfully yokes the history of sixteenth-century economics, technology and scientific ideology in order to...

Trading Nations. Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean.
November 1, 1997... In the early 1570s the Jewish population of Venice, dominated by pawnbrokers, dealers in second-hand goods and eastern traders, faced threats of expulsion. Their removal would be both an act of thanksgiving for the Christian victory over the...

The Reformation and Rural Society. The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach: 1528-1603.
November 1, 1997... In 1974 A. G. Dickens coined the famous phrase 'the Reformation was an urban event'. Considering the state of knowledge on which it was based, this argument was circular. Research had at that time concentrated on only a few of the sixty-five...

Die Katholische Konfessionalisierung.
November 1, 1997... Die Katholische Konfessionalisierung (Munster: Aschendorff, 1995; pp. xiii + 472. Pb. DM148), is edited by two eminent German professors, Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling, who have independently introduced the term, 'confessionalization' in...

Robert Persons. The Biography of an Elizabethan Jesuit: 1546-1610.
November 1, 1997... Of the many eminent Elizabethans clamouring for a modern biography, Robert Persons has had to wait far too long. Past neglect is perhaps understandable: admirers of Gloriana had little time for this archtraitor, while recusant historians were...

The Privateering Earl. George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland: 1558-1605.
November 1, 1997... In lovingly painstaking detail, including full descriptions of the bowls and basins given on his marriage, the life of The Privateering Earl. George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605 is narrated by Richard T. Spence (Stroud: Alan...

Calvinists and Libertines. Confession and Community in Utrecht: 1578-1620.
November 1, 1997... The Dutch Republic was distinguished from most of contemporary Europe by a remarkably high degree of religious toleration; Protestant dissenters from the official Calvinist church enjoyed almost complete religious freedom, and even Catholics had...

Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy. Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular.
November 1, 1997... That attachment to local culture and history was enhanced rather than diminished in Italy by the supposedly centralizing force of the Counter-Reformation is well demonstrated by Simon Ditchfield in Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine...

A Deed Without a Name. The Witch in Society and History.
November 1, 1997... Until recently, the most common books on the European witch-hunt have been either one country studies or general surveys of the field. There were at least five of the latter in the 1980s, of which the best (by Brian Levack) has recently gone into...

Malevolent Nurture. Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England.
November 1, 1997... Until recently, the most common books on the European witch-hunt have been either one country studies or general surveys of the field. There were at least five of the latter in the 1980s, of which the best (by Brian Levack) has recently gone into...

Scandinavia in the European World-Economy: ca. 1570-1625. Some Local Evidence of Economic Integration.
November 1, 1997... John P. Maarbjerg's Scandinavia in the European World-Economy, ca. 1570-1625. Some Local Evidence of Economic Integration (New York/Washington, DC: Peter Lang, 1995; pp. xii + 300. $34) is significant on two counts: on the one hand, it challenges...

Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia. The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles.
November 1, 1997... Everybody acquainted with Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov will have an inkling of what Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia. The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles, by Maureen Perrie (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xvii + 269. 40...

Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years War: 1630-1635.
November 1, 1997... The Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev wrote prolifically on a surprisingly wide range of subjects, but little of his work has hitherto been available in any west European language. The appearance of his Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years...

Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England. Essays Presented to David Underdown.
November 1, 1997... David Underdown has always been one of the more innovative and interesting historians of early modern England. He has long traversed a series of historiographical boundaries: elite and popular, local and national, political, social and...

London's Dreaded Visitation. The Social Geography of the Great Plague in 1665.
November 1, 1997... That there is still a great deal to be learned, both about the history of plague and about the history of the socio-economic circumstances which influenced it, appears clearly from a short but thorough and innovative analysis of the last...

Mazarin. The Crisis of Absolutism in France.
November 1, 1997... Geoffrey Treasure's Mazarin. The Crisis of Absolutism in France (London: Routledge, 1995; pp. xv + 413. 40 [pounds sterling]) comes with the startling publisher's assertion that `it will prove the definitive text on this period'. This is a...

The Diary of John Evelyn.
November 1, 1997... Ever since it was rediscovered and published in 1818, John Evelyn's Diary has been one of the most widely-read works emanating from late Stuart England, combining an eye-witness account of the great events and personalities of his day with a...

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain.
November 1, 1997... In Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1995; pp. xii + 345. [pounds]55), Michael Hunter has gathered together fifteen of his essays, thirteen published in a variety...

Robert Boyle. By Himself and His Friends, with a Fragment of William Wotton's Lost Life of Boyle.
November 1, 1997... In Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1995; pp. xii + 345. [pounds]55), Michael Hunter has gathered together fifteen of his essays, thirteen published in a variety...

Science and Social Status. The Members of the Academie des Sciences: 1666-1750.
November 1, 1997... David J. Sturdy declares that he has a threefold purpose in his study of Science and Social Status. The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750 (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1995; pp. xiv + 461. [pounds]65). First, he will examine the members...

Dorf und Religion. Reformierte Sittenzucht in Berner Landgemeinden der Fruhen Neuzeit.
November 1, 1997... Dorf und Religion. Reformierte Sittenzucht in Berner Landgemeinden der Fruhen Neuzeit (Stuttgart/Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1995; pp. xvi + 425. DM128) is in essence Heinrich Richard Schmidt's Habilitationsschrift (super-doctorate) in the University...

A la sombra de la corona. Poder local y oligarquia urbana. Madrid: 1606-1808.
November 1, 1997... Madrid definitively became the capital of the Spanish monarchy in 1606. Mauro Hernandez's A la sombra de la corona. Poder local y oligarquia urbana. Madrid, 1606-1808 (Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno de Espana Editores, 1995; pp. xix + 422. Pb. Ps3500)...

The State in Early Modern France.
November 1, 1997... James B. Collins has built upon his monographs on seventeenth-century state finance and society to produce The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xxxiv + 280. [pounds]30; pb. [pounds]10.95), a textbook of considerable...

Polite Landscapes. Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England.
November 1, 1997... The landscape park of the eighteenth century is traditionally regarded as England's unique contribution to the arts. In explaining the triumph of naturalism over the geometric, garden historians have generally stressed the influence of...

Inventing Human Science. Eighteenth-Century Domains.
November 1, 1997... Inventing Human Science. Eighteenth-Century Domains, ed. Christopher Fox, Roy Porter and Robert Wokler (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1995; pp. xv + 357. [pounds]24), addresses the theme of the Enlightenment creation of what are now...

Richard Pococke's Irish Tours.
November 1, 1997... In a recent review article entitled 'Irish travel writings as source material' (Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXVIII, No. 110, November 1992, pp. 171-183), C. J. Woods noted that in the course of the last decade several important travel writings...

Unruhen und offentlichkeit. Stadtische und landliche Protestbewegungen im 18. Jahrhundert.
November 1, 1997... Two excellent monographs mark the launch of Fruhneuzeit-Forschungen (edited by four leading German historians: Peter Blickle, Richard van Dulmen, Heinz Schilling and Winfried Schulze) which promises to become an important series designed to...

Widerstand und Kooperation. Studien zur politischen Kultur rheinischer und maaslandischer Kleinterritorien: 1648-1794.
November 1, 1997... Two excellent monographs mark the launch of Fruhneuzeit-Forschungen (edited by four leading German historians: Peter Blickle, Richard van Dulmen, Heinz Schilling and Winfried Schulze) which promises to become an important series designed to...

Black England. Life Before Emancipation.
November 1, 1997... Black England. Life Before Emancipation, by Gretchen Gerzina (London: John Murray, 1995; pp. xii + 244. 19.99 [pounds sterling]), is an account of the life of black people in Britain before the declaration of slave emancipation in the British...

The Enlightenment.
November 1, 1997... Dorinda Outram's The Enlightenment (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xv + 141. 27.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]) makes few concessions to the `advanced school students and undergraduates' that this promising series -- New...