The English Historical Review articles from November 1998

The English Historical Review archives from November 1998

Image and Reality in Richard of Cornwall's German Career.
November 1, 1998... `In the thirteenth century, more than ever before,... [England] was a European land.'(1) This was true not only of institutions, such as the Church, and of trading or artistic contacts. English politics, too, assumed a wider, European...

From Democratic Advocate to Monarchist Critic of the Republic: The Penitent Jacobinism of Etienne Vacherot (1809-1897)(*).
November 1, 1998... Until recently the historiography of modern French republicanism tended to present the origins of the Third Republic (1875-1940) from essentially complementary angles. Historians generally concentrated on the events which followed the collapse...

Radical Conservatism and the Working Classes in Edwardian England: The Case of the Workers Defence Union.
November 1, 1998... Despite the fears voiced by Conservatives as diverse as Lord Salisbury and W. H. Smith at the potential impact of the enfranchisement of the working classes,(1) the Conservative party had no difficulty in retaining a considerable proportion of...

Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall's Account of the Last Years of King Richard and the First Years of King John(*).
November 1, 1998... In his celebrated Historical Association pamphlet King John, J. C. Holt placed the chronicle sources for the monarch's career into three groups: those which were completed before or soon after his accession; those which were completed by the...

`Patchy and Spasmodic'?: The Response of Justices of the Peace to Charles I's Book of Orders.
November 1, 1998... The proclamation of a Book of Orders on 31 January 1631 is unlikely to have surprised many Justices of the Peace in England and Wales. A series of harvest failures and slumps in the manufacturing trades necessitated crisis management, and Books...

The Aristocracy of Norman England.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Aristocracy of Norman England. By JUDITH A. GREEN (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xv+497, 45 [pounds sterling]). This book aims to provide a comprehensive account of the governing elite in Norman England to match comparable studies for...

The Italian City-State. From Commune to Signoria.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Italian City-State. From Commune to Signoria. By PHILIP JONES (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. x+702. 70 [pounds sterling]). Those seeking a formidably well supported explanation of the political, social and economic developments that...

Abelard: A Medieval Life.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Abelard. A Medieval Life. By M. T. CLANCHY (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997; pp. xiii+ 416. 45 [pounds sterling]). This is no ordinary biography. Michael Clanchy brings both authenticity and depth to his account of Peter Abelard's life by avoiding...

Philip II of Spain.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Philip II of Spain. By HENRY KAMEN (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1997; pp. xvi + 384. 25 [pounds sterling]). IT IS hard for anyone who has worked on Philip II not to balk at the preface of this book. Kamen claims that the image of Philip II...

The Myth of Rescue. Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Myth of Rescue. Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis. (London: Routledge, 1997; pp. xiii+256. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). ACCORDING to Bill Rubinstein, between 1933 and 1939 the democracies behaved impeccably...

The History of Bethlem.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The History of Bethlem. By JONATHAN ANDREWS, ASA BRIGGS, ROY PORTER, PENNY TUCKER and KEIR WADDINGTON (London: Routledge, 1997; pp. 14+ 752. 150 [pounds sterling]). BEDLAM is not the same as Bethlem, as Roy Porter rightly points out in the...

Autour de Fulrad de Saint-Denis (v. 710-784).(Review)
November 1, 1998... Alain Stoclet, wisely eschewing biographie evenementielle, has written a series of thematic studies Autour de Fulrad de Saint-Denis (v. 710-784) (Geneva: Droz, 1993; pp. x+ 695. Pb.n.p.). Starting with an impressive diplomatic analysis of the...

Ludwig der Fromme.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The reign of Louis the Pious is arguably the most richly-sourced period of European history between the end of antiquity and the era of Gregorian reform. That has not made it any easier for historians to interpret. Egon Boshof's Ludwig der...

The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon Fortifications.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Burghal Hidage, a list of thirty-three fortified places in southern England with assessments for manning and maintaining them, is an almost unique survivor from a lost world of ninth- and early tenth-century working documents. It has been...

Hagiographie im Kontext. Schreibanla[Beta] und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus dem II. und vom Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The central chapters of Stephanie Coue's Freiburg-im-Breisgau dissertation Hagiographie im Kontext. Schreibanlaj[Beta] und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus dem II. und vom Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997; pp....

The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Begun in the reign of Cnut, the Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey at Winchester retained its original purpose until the eve of the Dissolution: to record the names of the men and women whom the community remembered in its prayers....

Pope Urban II. The Collectio Britannica and the Council of Melfi, 1089.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Of all the myriad series of administrative and diplomatic texts produced in Western Europe during the earlier medieval centuries, few can have rivalled in size or in importance the papyrus letter books (or rolls), into which the papal...

Westminster Abbey and its People, c. 1050-c.1216.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Westminster Abbey and its People, c. 1050-c. 1216, by Emma Mason (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. xii+395. 55 [pounds sterling]) is a notable addition to a growing body of knowledge about medieval Westminster. It surveys the acts of the...

War and Chivalry. The Conduct and Perception of War in England and Normandy, 1066-1217.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Matthew Strickland's War and Chivalry. The Conduct and Perception of War in England and Normandy, 1066--1217 (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xxv+387. 45 [pounds sterling]) authoritatively addresses all the familiar elements of practical chivalry:...

The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography, ed. Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1996; pp. 299. 35[pounds sterling]), combines the skills of the historian, literary critic and linguist. The eleven...

The History of the English People.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Diana Greenaway's superb edition and translation of Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon. Historia Anglorum. The History of the English People (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. clxxii+899. 95[pounds sterling]), which also includes Huntingdon's...

The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second Anonymous Poet.(Review)
November 1, 1998... An intelligent and fruitful collaboration between a Classicist and an historian, The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second Anonymous Poet, edited and translated by C. W. Grocock and J. E. Siberry (Oxford: Clarendon E, 1997;...

Die franzosischen Konige des Mittelalters von Odo bis Karl VIII; 888-1498.(Review)
November 1, 1998... German medievalists have paid almost as much attention to French history as their English counterparts, though for quite different reasons: for the Germans it has been a common Frankish heritage, the need to master French archival and library...

The Reformation of the Twelfth Century.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In his The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xx+411, 45 [pounds sterling]), based on the 1985 Trevelyan lectures, Giles Constable returns to the subject of religious and monastic life. Constable is the author of...

Servitium Regis und Tafelguterverzeichnis. Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts- und Verfassungsgeschichte des deutschen Konigtums im 12. Jahrhundert.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In her thoroughly researched dissertation Servitium Regis und Tafelguterverzeichnis. Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts- und Verfassungsgeschichte des deutschen Konigtums im 12. Jahrhundert (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1997; pp. 254. DM78),...

Saint-Ruf und Spanien. Studien zur Verbreitung und zum Wirken der Regularkanoniker von Saint-Ruf in Avignon auf der iberischen Halbinsel, 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. Vol. I: Studien. Vol. II: Regesten und Anhang.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Terminal dates for the main impact upon Spanish ecclesiastical and political history of the regular canons of Saint-Ruf at Avignon can be set with some precision. The council which Pope Gregory VII's legate Bishop Hugh of Die held at Avignon in...

The Ladies of Zamora.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Little keys can open big doors. Peter Linehan's The Ladies of Zamora (Manchester: U.P., 1997; pp. xvi+157. 25 [pounds sterling]) is in this regard an exemplary piece of microhistory. Thirteenth-century Zamora was an unremarkable little...

Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330, ed. Richard Britnell (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. 264. 45 [pounds sterling]) is an ambitious contribution to a very important subject. Pragmatic literacy (`pragmatische Schriftlichkeit') is a...

The Earliest English Law Reports Vol. I: Common Bench Reports to 1284, and Vol. II Common Bench Reports, 1285-1289, and Undated Reports, 1279-1289.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Despite the fact that Year Books have been the subject of study and publication since the late fifteenth century, law reports still provide a rich vein to be mined by modern scholars. In The Earliest English Law Reports. Vol. I: Common Bench...

La Societat rural a Catalunya en temps feudals. Valles oriental, segles XIII-XVI.(Review)
November 1, 1998... As the Catalan countryside shrinks we have been able to learn a great deal more about it. A number of distinguished Barcelona historians with access to the family archives of the region have been able to show us the practicalities of farming...

Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury, c. 1066-1540.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Joan Greatrex's Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c. 1066-1540 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xxiv+954. 95 [pounds sterling]) will become an essential vade-mecum for anyone working on...

Menschen und Mentalitaten. Einfuhrung in Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In an ambitious presentation of recent historical work upon the mentalities of the European Middle Ages, Hans-Henning Kortum is forthright in his analyses and criticism of the various protagonists and schools, rather dominated by French...

Public Order and Law Enforcement. The Local Administration of Criminal Justice, 1294-1350.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Anthony Musson's Public Order and Law Enforcement. The Local Administration of Criminal Justice, 1294-1350 (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. xiv+313. 45 [pounds sterling]) is a very welcome book. It deals with a crucial yet under-studied...

Calendar of the Register of Simon de Montacute, Bishop of Worcester, 1334-1337.(Review)
November 1, 1998... There is no doubting the general expertise with which Roy Martin Haines, adding to his editions of the registers of Bishops Orleton and Bransford, has calendared another Worcester episcopal register, Calendar of the Register of Simon de...

The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny. Text, Context, and Translation.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Geoffroi de Charny's contemporary fame in chivalric circles was ensured by his heroic death while bearing the Oriflamme at the battle of Poitiers. It has also been perpetuated in his Livre de chevalerie, possibly written to while away his time...

Recueil des actes de Charles de Blois et Jeanne de Penthievre, duc et duchesse de Bretagne, 1341-1364. Suivi des actes de Jeanne de Penthievre, 1364-1384.(Review)
November 1, 1998... An ever passionate devotion to the study of Brittany in the later Middle Ages is conveyed by Michael Jones's coolly meticulous collection of the letters (and other governmental documents) of the duke and duchess whose rule was marked by a long...

Notarial Instruments in Flanders between 1280 and 1452.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The institution of the notary public, acting on imperial or papal authority, which in connection with the revival of Roman law obtained a firm footing in Italy in the twelfth century and spread rapidly over those parts of western Europe where...

Old Age In Late Medieval England.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Old age currently receives a great deal of attention from historical demographers and social historians. Joel T. Rosenthal's Old Age In Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P, 1996; pp. xv+260. 37.95 [pounds sterling]) is an...

The Aztecs.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Apart from the obvious aim, to provide a college-level text book, Michael E. Smith declares three purposes for The Aztecs (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996; pp. xx+361. 22.50 [pounds sterling]): `to communicate the excitement of archaeological...

Citta medievali e demografia storica. Bologna, Romagna, Italia (Secc. XIII-XV).(Review)
November 1, 1998... In a further anthology of reprints, Citta medievali e demografia storica. Bologna, Romagna, Italia (Secc. XIII-XV) (Bologna: CLUEB, 1996; pp. 326. Pb. L40,000), Antonio Ivan Pini has once again done valuable service by bringing together in...

Provincial Families of the Renaissance. Private and Public Life in the Veneto.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Educated Florentines of the Renaissance have left historians a veritable treasure-trove of family memoirs (ricordanze), in which they directed information and advice at subsequent generations on such questions as their kith and kin, distinction...

Forbidden Friendships. Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The cultural norms of Renaissance Italy demanded that hierarchy was ever present and that equality was abhorred. According to Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships. Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (New York/Oxford: Oxford...

The Lost World of the `Sarmatians'. Custom as the Regulator of Polish Social Life in Early Modern Times.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In The Lost World of the `Sarmatians'. Custom as the Regulator of Polish Social Life in Early Modern Times (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1996; pp. 200. N.p.), Maria Bogucka upholds the view that the weakness of the state in the early...

The Individual in Political Theory and Practice.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Individual in Political Theory and Practice, ed. Janet Coleman (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. xxvi + 395. 50 [pounds sterling]), is one of a series of six volumes to be produced by the European Science Foundation's project on `The origins...

Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England. Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England. Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss, ed. Rowena E. Archer and Simon Walker (London/Rio Grande: Hambledon P., 1995; pp. xxvi+ 270. 35 [pounds sterling]), is a Festschrift of high quality. It forms a...

Housecraft and Statecraft. Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Dennis Romano's Housecraft and Statecraft. Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1996, pp. xxvi + 333. 37 [pounds sterling]) is consciously designed to complement his earlier study Patricians...

La giustizia ai confini. Il principato vescovile di Trento agli inizi dell' eta moderna.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The complexity of life in a late medieval border town is thoroughly brought to light in Marco Bellabarba's La giustizia ai confini. Il principato vescovile di Trento agli inizi dell' eta moderna (Bologna: il Mulino, 1996; pp. 449. Pb.n.p.). The...

Moscow, Livonia and the Hanseatic League, 1487-1550.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The origins of the Livonian War of 1558-83 are conventionally believed to lie in Muscovy's. desire for freer trade with Western Europe through the Baltic. Livonia is regarded as a barrier between Russia and the West, with the Livonian towns...

Francois [I.sup.er] et Henri VIII. Deux princes de la renaissance, 1515-1547.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Those who took part in the agreeable conference held at the Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni (Londres) in May 1991 will be delighted that the papers have been edited by the indefatigable organizer, Charles Giry-Deloison, Francois [I.sup.er] et...

Power in Tudor England.(Review)
November 1, 1998... David Loades sets out in his Power in Tudor England (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997; pp. 183. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 11.99 [pounds sterling]) to `analyse... the interaction between the central machinery of government... and the local and...

Il concilio di Trento e il moderno.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Il concilio di Trento e il moderno, ed. Paolo Prodi and Wolfgang Reinhard (Bologna: il Mulino, 1996; pp. 575. Pb. L58,000) contains the proceedings of a conference held in September 1995 to mark the 450th anniversary of the opening of the...

The Scientific Revolution. An Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The Scientific Revolution was the prime rallying point for the history of science as an academic discipline and remains a vital category for teaching and wider public presentation. S. A. Jayawardene's The Scientific Revolution. An Annotated...

The Register of Thetford Priory.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Monastic history is undergoing something of a revival at the moment, so David Dymond's edition of the register of a middle-ranking Cluniac priory, The Register of Thetford Priory. Part 1: 1482-1517. Part 2: 1518-1540 (Oxford: U.P., for the...

The World Upside Down. Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru.(Review)
November 1, 1998... How and when did the Spanish conquest influence the transformation of native culture in the New World? Although the answers to these and related questions remain elusive, they have dominated the study of colonial Latin American history ever...

Reformations Old and New. Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c. 1470-1630.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Reformations Old and New. Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c. 1470-1650, ed. Beat A. Kumin (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1996; pp. xiv+272. 45 [pounds sterling]) and Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England, by Ole Peter...

Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Reformations Old and New. Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c. 1470-1650, ed. Beat A. Kumin (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1996; pp. xiv+272. 45 [pounds sterling]) and Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England, by Ole Peter...

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1541-1588. `Our Way of Proceeding?'.(Review)
November 1, 1998... When writing his informative and convincing The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1541-1588. `Our Way of Proceeding?' (Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1996; pp. xiii+316. NLG 173), Thomas M. McCoog had two goals in mind. The...

Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Conversion, in a different sense, and conformity are the focus of Michael C. Questier's Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xiv+240. 35 [pounds sterling]). Questier argues that, whatever...

Civic Agendas and Religious Passion. Chalons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1594.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Some of the most fruitful recent research on the French wars of religion of the sixteenth century has focused on the experience of the conflict in urban communities. Yet, while deepening our understanding of the wars, such studies have also...

La Ligue.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Jean-Marie Constant's La Ligue (Paris: Fayard, 1996; pp. 520. Pb. F160) is a book that was waiting to be written. Given the importance of the subject to the national political history and evolution of ancien regime France, it is surprising that...

The Uses of Reform. `Godly Discipline' and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Of the three great branches of church history-doctrine, worship and discipline - Michael F. Graham has selected post-Reformation discipline for his Virginia PhD thesis, whose fruits are presented in the beguilingly entitled The Uses of Reform....

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Mack P. Holt's The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xiv + 39 [pounds sterling], 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 10.95 [pounds sterling]) is a sober-minded survey of the complex political history of France in the later...

Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-1800.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Thanks above all to the inspirational teaching of Bob Scribner at Cambridge, studies of Volksreligion during the Reformation era have blossomed of late in the English-language world and yielded some pioneering work. Popular Religion in Germany...

Sotto l'occhio del padre. Societa confessionale e istruzione primaria nello Stato di Milano.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The expansion of even a somewhat unambitious level of literacy in northern Italy from the later Quattrocento to the early Seicento had significant implications for both religious and social developments. This view is defended by Angelo Turchini...

Valdstejn: ani cisar ani kral.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Josef Polisensky is the doyen of Czech historians. His vast and extended oeuvre concerns itself above all with the period of the Thirty Years War and with the role of Bohemia as the initial focus for that conflict. Given the new climate of...

Komensky: muz labyrintu a nadeje.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Josef Polisensky is the doyen of Czech historians. His vast and extended oeuvre concerns itself above all with the period of the Thirty Years War and with the role of Bohemia as the initial focus for that conflict. Given the new climate of...

Die bayerische Kriegsorganisation in der zweiten Halfte des DreiBigjahrigen Krieges, 1635-1648/49.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The second half of the Thirty Years War, prima facie less dramatic than the first, has for a long time been neglected by historians. However, during the last few years this has begun to change, and warfare and politics after the Peace of Prague...

Devon Household Accounts, 1627-59. Part II: Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath, of Tawstock and London, 1637-1655.(Review)
November 1, 1998... With the publication of Devon Household Accounts, 1627-59. Part II: Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath, of Tawstock and London, 1637-1655 ed. Todd Gray (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1996; pp. liv + 341. Pb. 15...

The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638-1651.(Review)
November 1, 1998... On 1 January 1644, when the civil war in England was already eighteen months old, Mrs Jane Kitchen of Upton in Nottinghamshire was appointed village constable. Her late husband, who had died three months before, had held this important and...

The Stuart Court and Europe. Essays in Politics and Political Culture.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In editing The Stuart Court and Europe. Essays in Politics and Political Culture (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xiv+289. 35 [pounds sterling]), R. Malcolm Smuts has brought together thirteen essays of great interest if limited coherence. It is a...

Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France.(Review)
November 1, 1998... As befits a distinguished historian of theatre, Henry Phillips has seized upon the concept of `space' to inform his study of Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. ix+334, 40 [pounds sterling]). He sees the...

Histoire des choses banales. Naissance de la consommation dans les societes traditionnelles, XVIIe-XIXe siecle.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Once, the history of everyday things was the province of enthusiastic antiquarians with a passion for the ways of olden times. Serious scholars did not stoop to such matters. No longer. The history of everyday goods is now seen as the key to...

Complots et conjurations dans l'Europe moderne.(Review)
November 1, 1998... In Book III of the Discourses, Machiavelli analysed the phenomenon of conspiracy as an element in recent and current political practice. Historians today can `read' conspiracy as a way into past political cultures, beyond the fixity of texts or...

Standefreiheit und Staatsgestaltung in Ostmitteleuropa. Ubernationale Gemeinsamkeiten in der politischen Kultur vom 16.-18. Jahrhundert.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) is an opaque title for a new institute established at Berlin in 1992 and moved to Leipzig in 1996. Its function becomes much clearer to the reader of Standefreiheit...

Fortuna e sfortune di una famiglia veneziana del Seicento. Gli Ottoboni al tempo dell' aggregazione al patriziato.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Antonio Menniti Ippolito supplies ammunition to those who argue that the aristocratic families of early modern Europe were frigid, calculating organizations for the accumulation and defence of property, united by ties of blood and marriage but...

The English Civil War. A Contemporary Account. Vol. I: 1625-1639. Vol. II: 1640-1642. Vol. III: 1643-1647. Vol. IV: 1648-1656. Vol. V: 1657-1675.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The English Civil War. A Contemporary Account. Vol. I: 1625-1639. Vol. II: 1640-1642. Vol. III: 2645-2647. Vol. IV: 1648-1656. Vol. V: 1657-1675, ed. Edward and Peter Razzell (London: Caliban Books, 1996, 1996, 1996, 1996; pp. xxvii + 284, 389,...

The Making of Brazil. Portuguese Roots, 1500-1822.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The history of Portuguese Brazil (i.e., from its `discovery' by Cabral in 1500 to the declaration of Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822) is by no means terra incognita, Charles Boxer having included it in his admirable survey of...

Peter the Great. His Law on the Imperial Succession in Russia, 1722. The Official Commentary.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The title of Peter the Great. His Law on the Imperial Succession in Russia, 1722. The Official Commentary, ed. A. Lentin (Oxford: Headstart History, 1996; PP. 344. N.p.) is misleading. Apart from this blemish, Headstart History is to be...

Vico's Cultural History. The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples, 1685-1750.(Review)
November 1, 1998... The increasing recognition of Vico's stature as a thinker, and the difficulty of establishing the scholarly relationships and influences that affected him, have stimulated an enormous amount of research in the last thirty years into the...

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Historians of Paris and those interested in the history of work will be delighted at the appearance of Steven Laurence Kaplan's long-awaited The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 (Durham, NC/London: Duke. U.P., 1996; pp. xviii +...

Fashioning Masculinity. National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Michele Cohen's Fashioning Masculinity. National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1996; pp. xii + 177. 40 [pounds sterling]) begins with a restatement of two popular myths: in Britain French is often...

John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce.(Review)
November 1, 1998... John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce, by D. Bruce Hindmarsh (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. xvii+366. 45 [pounds sterling]) is part of a growing body of recent work on some of the...

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Hogarth's 1733 The Laughing Audience is an appropriate cover illustration for Roy Porter's and Marie Mulvey Roberts's edition of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. xv+273. 38 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds...

Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion. Bombay, Surat and the West Coast.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Lakshmi Subramanian's Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion. Bombay, Surat and the West Coast (Delhi: Oxford U.P., 1996; pp. 368. 15 [pounds sterling]) which emerged out of a Ph.D thesis submitted to Viswa Bharati, is a scholarly and...