The English Historical Review articles from November 2000

The English Historical Review archives from November 2000

Venantius Fortunatus and the Image of Episcopal Authority in Late Antique and Early Merovingian Gaul(*).
November 1, 2000... In 467 Sidonius Apollinaris, a lay aristocrat from Clermont, arrived in Rome, having travelled across the Alps from Lyons in order to petition the new Emperor, Anthemius. Sidonius was anxious to obtain government office and arrived at an...

Jews and the Law in England, 1275-90(*).
November 1, 2000... FROM the beginnings of Jewish settlement in England during the years after the Norman Conquest, the members of the Jewish community must have enjoyed a special, indeed literally a privileged, legal position. As a vulnerable religious minority,...

`Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth(*).
November 1, 2000... SOME time before June 1682, Thomas Bassett, a Monmouth schoolmaster, asked his students to translate a brief theme into Latin. Entitled `a prince that seeks his brother's life to succeed him in his kingdom, ought to be banished', the theme...

Henry Brougham and Law Reform(*).
November 1, 2000... HENRY Brougham's career has attracted much attention among political historians.(1) Although he was the most charismatic Whig spokesman in the House of Commons of the 1820s, he has defied easy political characterization. A barrister educated in...

Defining the Fundamental Laws of France: The Proposed First Article of the Third Estate at the French Estates General of 1614(*).
November 1, 2000... BURIED amongst the diplomatic dispatches in the Public Record Office lies an unknown early draft of the first article proposed by the Third Estate at the meeting of the French Estates General in 1614. This significantly different draft is an...

Richard I.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Richard I. By JOHN GILLINGHAM (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1999; pp. xiv+378. N.p.). In writing this biography of Richard I, John Gillingham has returned to a topic that has interested him off and on since his first book on the subject...

The New Cambridge Medieval History.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. VII: c. 1415-c. 1500. Edited by CHRISTOPHER ALLMAND (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xxi + 1048. 65 [pounds sterling]). THE sigh of Aeneas Sylvius, `in our change-loving Italy, where nothing stands firm,...

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770-1861).(Review)
November 1, 2000... Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770-1861). By JERZY SKOWRONEK (Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1994; pp. 610. N.p.). IN his long and eventful life, Prince Adam George Czartoryski experienced numerous ups and downs. Twice in his life (once in Russia in...

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century.
November 1, 2000... The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by ANDREW PORTER (Oxford: U.P., 1999; pp. xxii + 774. 30 [pounds sterling]); THE three final volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire confirm...

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. IV: The Twentieth Century.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Vol. IV: The Twentieth Century. Edited by JUDITH M. BROWN and WM. ROGER LOUIS (Oxford: U.P., 1999; pp. xxvi + 773. 30 [pounds sterling]); THE three final volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire confirm that the project has been...

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. V: Historiography.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Vol. V: Historiography. Edited by ROBIN W. WINKS (Oxford: U.P., 1999; pp. xxiv + 731. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE three final volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire confirm that the project has been an enormous success. They do...

The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany. By JEFFREY VERHEY (Cambridge: U.P., 2000; pp. xiv + 268. 35 [pounds sterling]). SOME historical works are of fundamental importance to their field. Jeffrey Verhey has...

Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values. By PHILIP WILLIAMSON (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xvi + 378. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE mention of his name for many conjures up a clear image of Stanley Baldwin (of a Stanley...

Akten zur Auswartigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1967.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Akten zur Auswartigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1967. Vol. I: I Januar bis 31 Marz; Vol. II: I April bis 31 August;, Vol. III: I September bis 31 Dezember. Edited by RAINER BLASIUS, ILSE PAUTSCH, JURGEN KLOCKLER, et al. (Munchen:...

Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The two latest fascicules (CXI, CXII) of the Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, edited by M. Prevost and others (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ane, 1998 and 1999; pp. 513-768 and 769-1024. F 277 and F 282), open well into the twenty-seventh...

History in Practice.(Review)
November 1, 2000... There are many sensible statements in Ludmilla Jordanova's History in Practice (London: Arnold, 2000; pp. xvi + 224. 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 9.99 [pounds sterling]): history is a social necessity; its scope is so immense that no single theory...

Construction, reproduction et representation des Patriciats urbains de l'Antiquite au [XX.sup.e] siecle.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Construction, reproduction et representation des Patriciats urbains de l'Antiquite au [XX.sup.e] siecle, ed. Claude Petitfrere (Tours: Centre d'historie de la ville moderne et contemporaine, 1999; pp. 569. F 160), contains essays by forty-one...

The Moral World of the Law.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Moral World of the Law, ed. Peter Coss (Cambridge: U.P., for Past and Present Publications, 2000; pp. xi + 262. 35 [pounds sterling]), is a diverse and interesting volume of essays. It is diverse in its chronological and geographical range,...

Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change.(Review)
November 1, 2000... David Brown's Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change (Oxford: U.P., 1999; pp. 402. 25 [pounds sterling]) is an erudite and magisterial volume, based on Hensley Henson lectures at Oxford for 1996, which addresses questions important...

Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Eugen Weber, the author of Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages (London: Pimlico P., 2000; pp. 294. Pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]), describes it as a `travel book' of exploration (p. 5). He discounts any claim to...

Moral Purity and Persecution in History.(Review)
November 1, 2000... In Moral Purity and Persecution in History (Princeton: U.P., 2000; pp. xvi + 158. 12.50 [pounds sterling]) Barrington Moore, Jr. presents a Voltairean view of Judeo-Christian history without Voltaire's wit, but suffused by his hatred of...

The Victoria County History of Shropshire.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Volume X of The Victoria County History of Shropshire, ed. G. C. Baugh (Oxford: U.P., for Institute of Historical Research, 1998; pp. xxiii + 518. 70 [pounds sterling]), with the evocative subtitle `Wenlock, Upper Corve Dale and the Stretton...

The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped the Roman World.(Review)
November 1, 2000... In his new book The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped the Roman World (Princeton: U.P., 1999; pp. 335. 18.95 [pounds sterling]), Peter Wells's intention is to escape the traditional narratives of the Roman empire which are...

A History of Inner Asia.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Svat Soucek's A History of Inner Asia (Cambridge: U.P., 2000; pp. xiii + 369. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]) helps to fill a substantial gap in the historical literature. There is no available adequate recent survey of...

The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West, c. 300-c. 1200.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Since medieval churches in an almost literal sense belonged to their patron saints, it is no surprise that the cults surrounding these figures played a central role in the design and development of many of the buildings under review in John...

Karl der Grosse.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The twelve-hundredth anniversary of the imperial coronation of Charlemagne has so far aroused little popular interest in Britain, but is being marked by a programme of exhibitions and conferences across much of Europe. These began with a major...

Le pelerinage a l'epoque carolingienne.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The thesis of Bat-Sheva Albert, Le pelerinage a l'epoque carolingienne (Brussels: Editions Naulewarts, Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique, 1999; pp. 462. N.p.), is that the Carolingian period was the `epoque de genese' of pilgrimage, more...

Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... More virtues than those of a helpful introduction are to be found in Richard Abels's Alfred the Great. War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (London: Longman, 1998; pp. xvii + 373, 44 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15 [pounds sterling])....

Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England, by Sally Crawford (Stroud: Sutton, 1999; pp. xvii + 256. 20 [pounds sterling]), based on the author's doctoral thesis, brings together for the first time the archaeological and documentary evidence relating to...

Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquite tardive a la fin du moyen age.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquite tardive a' la fin du moyen age. Actes du Colloque international (Erice, 23-30 septembre 1994), ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Louvain-La-Neuve: Brepols, 1996; pp. xiii+723. Pb. F 440), is very...

Le carte del decimo secolo nell'archivio arcivescovile di Ravenna, 900-957.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Le carte del decimo secolo nell'archivio arcivescovile di Ravenna, 900-957, ed. Ruggero Benericetti (Ravenna: Societa di Studi Ravennati, 1999; pp. xxxvi + 268. N.p.), will be of interest to medievalists, especially ecclesiastical,...

The Medieval State: Essays Presented to James Campbell.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Medieval State: Essays Presented to James Campbell, ed. J. R. Maddicott and D. M. Palliser (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xlii+262. 35 [pounds sterling]), contains fourteen essays by James Campbell's former pupils, preceded by a...

Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... There is much learning, originality and, indeed, entertainment in Pauline Stafford's Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997; pp. xi+371. 45 [pounds sterling]). This work is...

The Charters of David I. The Written Acts of David I, King of Scots, 1124-53, and of his son Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 1139-52.(Review)
November 1, 2000... It is almost a century since Sir Archibald Lawrie's Early Scottish Charters appeared and it was high time a fresh look was taken at some of the earliest surviving Scottish charters. The Charters of David I. The Written Acts of David I, King of...

Die Prufeninger Vita Bischof Ottos I. von Bamberg nach der Fassung des Grossen Osterreichischen Legendars.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Otto I, bishop of Bamberg (1102-39), is best known for his missionary work in Pomerania in the 1120s. His earliest life -- here edited afresh by Jurgen Petersohn, Die Prufeninger Vita Bischof Ottos I. von Bamberg nach der Fassung des Grossen...

The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291.(Review)
November 1, 2000... According to the blurb of his latest book, The Crusades, c. 1071-c.1291, translated by Jean Birrell (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xiv+516. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]), Jean Richard is the `doyen of crusader historians';...

Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The popularity of the history of the Crusades and of Europe in the central Middle Ages, especially in our universities, continues to attract both historians and publishers. In his Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300 (London:...

A Concise History of the Crusades.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Thomas F. Madden's A Concise History of the Crusades (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999: pp. xi+247. $22.95; pb. $12.95) is, as its title may suggest, a textbook aimed at undergraduates. It is pitched at about the right level and has good...

Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Christopher Brooke has merited a reputation as one of our most distinguished ecclesiastical historians of the medieval period. In Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. xviii+ 329. 40 [pounds sterling])...

The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The contribution made by Constance Berman, in The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2000; pp. xxiv+382. 33.50 [pounds sterling]), falls into two distinct,...

Urzustand und Sundenfall in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschafts- und Staatstheorie.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Bernard Topfer, in his Urzustand und Sundenfall in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschafts- und Staatstheorie (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1999; pp. 642. DM 388), has made an important contribution to studying the role which notions of primeval...

Proteggere e dominare: fortificazioni e popolamento nell'Italia medievale.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Reflections on the role of castles in society, and the ambivalent nature of their purpose, go back at least to Machiavelli and Leon Battista Alberti; Aldo Settia's Proteggere e dominare: fortificazioni e popolamento nell'Italia medievale (Rome:...

Burial in Medieval Ireland, 900-1500: A Review of the Written Evidence.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Prospective readers of Burial in Medieval Ireland, 900-1500: A Review of the Written Evidence, by Susan Leigh Fry (Dublin; Four Courts E, 1999; pp. 224. 35 [pounds sterling]), should note the sub-title. The book, which has its origins in a...

Umbilicus Mundi: Beitrage zur Geschichte Jerusalems, der Kreuzzuge, des Kapitels vom Hlg. Grab in Jerusalem und der Ritterorden.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Kasper Elm's Umbilicus Mundi: Beitrage zur Geschichte Jerusalems, der Kreuzzuge, des Kapitels vom Hlg. Grab in Jerusalem und der Ritterorden (Brugge: Sint-Kruis, 1998; pp. 566. N.p.) is a collection of articles in German, Dutch, French, Italian...

L'Empire et l'histoire universelle de Sigebert de Gembloux a Jean de Saint-Victor ([XII.sup.e] - [XIV.sup..e] siecle).(Review)
November 1, 2000... No one interested in medieval historiography or medieval, political thought can afford to ignore Mireille Chazan's study of the universal chronicles composed in north-east France between the late eleventh and early fourteenth centuries:...

Die Reprasentation der Gruppen: Texte-Bilder-Objekte.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Die Reprasentation der Gruppen: Texte-Bilder-Objekte, ed. Otto Gerhard Oexle and Andrea von Hulsen-Esch (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1998; pp. 480. DM 98), collects the papers of the 1995 Gottingen colloquium on the representation of...

Aux Origines du lexique philosophique europeen: l'influence de la Latinitas.(Review)
November 1, 2000... This collection of papers, Aux Origines du lexique philosophique europeen: l'influence de la Latinitas, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; pp. xiv+297. F 220), sets out to clarify the role of the Latin language in the formation...

New Approaches to Medieval Communication.(Review)
November 1, 2000... New Approaches to Medieval Communication, ed. Marco Mostert (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 318. Eur 35), extends the study of literacy and orality in the Middle Ages into wider areas of the history of communication -- language, speech, gestures,...

The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Henry III, Michaelmas 1222.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Henry III, Michaelmas 1222, ed. G. A. Knight with an introduction by David Crook (Loughborough: Quorn Litho, for the Pipe Roll Soc., 1999; pp. xvi + 335. N.p.), is in many ways...

Una corporazione per il potere. Il notariato a Bologna in eta comunale.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Giorgio Tamba's Una corporazione per il potere. Il notariato a Bologna in eta comunale (Bologna: Clueb, 1998; pp. 394. L 38.000) is a useful collection of articles, most of which were previously published in journals. An archivist based in...

Medieval Southwark.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The early history of Southwark has for many years remained something of an enigma for urban historians. Legally part of Surrey, its growth and fortunes were nevertheless closely tied to those of the city of London, whose rulers periodically...

Francesco e francescanesimo nella societa dei secoli XIII-XIV.(Review)
November 1, 2000... While the relation between St Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Minor is a question that interests many, few devote their lives to it. Stanislao da Campagnola's Francesco e francescanesimo nella societa dei secoli XIII-XIV (Assisi:...

Lucca under Many Masters. A Fourteenth-Century Italian Commune in Crisis (1328-1342).(Review)
November 1, 2000... Louis Green's Lucca under Many Masters. A Fourteenth-Century Italian Commune in Crisis (1328-1342) (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1995; pp. x + 361. L 75,000) is an impressive sequel to his Castruccio Castracani (Oxford, 1986). Based like his...

The Order of the Garter 1348-1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The laudable aim of Hugh E. L. Collins's The Order of the Garter 1348-1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. xi + 327. 45 [pounds sterling]) was to give social and political context to existing...

The Hundred Years War. Volume II: Trial by Fire.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The next volume of Jonathan Sumption's majestic panoramic narrative The Hundred Years War. Volume II: Trial by Fire (London: Faber and Faber, 1999; pp. xii + 680. 25 [pounds sterling), which carries the story forward from 1347 to 1369, displays...

Canon Law and Cloistered Women: Periculoso and its Commentators, 1298-1545.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Elizabeth Makowski's Canon Law and Cloistered Women: Periculoso and its Commentators, 1298-1545 (Washington, DC: Catholic U. of America P., 1999; pp. 149. Pb. 11.95 [pounds sterling]) is a slim but dense volume based on her dissertation on this...

Women in Scotland c. 1100-c.1750.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750, ed. Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 1999; pp. xxx + 272. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]), is an opportune collection of twenty short essays. Interest in the history of Scottish...

The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300-1600.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The question of how the cultural changes identified with the Renaissance may have affected the relationships between parents and their children is a fascinating one. The argument of Louis Haas, The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth...

The Great Household in Late Medieval England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... C. M. Woolgar's The Great Household in Late Medieval England (London/New Haven: Yale U.P., 1999; pp. x + 254. 25 [pounds sterling]) draws heavily but by no means exclusively on the two volumes of household accounts which he has already edited...

Rhodes et l'Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem.(Review)
November 1, 2000... A booklet with boxed gobbets and many illustrations suggests a purely popular presentation, but the author, Nicolas Vatin, of Rhodes et l'Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem (Paris: CNRS, 2000; pp. 119. Pb. n.p.), is an excellent Ottoman scholar...

Legal Consulting in the Civil Law Tradition.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Legal Consulting in the Civil Law Tradition, ed. Mario Ascheri, Ingrid Baumgartner, and Julius Kirshner (Berkeley: Robbins Collection Publications, 1999; pp. 401. $40), is a series of essays exploring the significance of consilia in continental...

Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance.(Review)
November 1, 2000... A question for our times: Is it possible that a major civic university could be extinguished, vanishing so completely that subsequent generations would deny that it had ever existed? Yes, it is possible; for such has been the fate of the...

From Poliziano to Machiavelli. Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The vitality and the perceived relevance of classical learning in the context of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Florence is vividly conveyed by Peter Godman in From Poliziano to Machiavelli. Florentine Humanism in the High...

Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione. Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism.(Review)
November 1, 2000... While the dominant quality of Peter Godman's book is its density of cultural texture, Christine Raffini, in Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione. Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism (New...

The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Christine Shaw's The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: U.P., 2000; pp. x + 257. 40 [pounds sterling]) relates to the experience of exiles in fifteenth-century Italy -- why they went, their behaviour and life in exile, the risks...

Fisher of Men: A Life of John Fisher, 1469-1535.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Maria Dowling's Fisher of Men: A Life of John Fisher, 1469-1535 (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. xii + 218. 45 [pounds sterling]) is an attempt to give his historical due to a man whose sanctity has been recognized by formal canonization, but who...

Edward VI.(Review)
November 1, 2000... When a scholar dies in full career, friends and colleagues face a dilemma. Should potentially valuable but unfinished work be published, and if so how? In 1995 Jennifer Loach died tragically before time, leaving in draft substantial sections of...

Charles Quint.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Pierre Chaunu and Michile Escamilla's Charles Quint (Paris: Fayard, 2000; (pp. 854. F 180) coincides with the five-hundredth anniversary of the emperor's birth. The sources for a biography of Charles V are abundant, as the authors point out,...

`Mesieurs des finances.' Les grands officiers de finance dans la France de la Renaissance.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Six years have elapsed since Philippe Hamon punished his monumental study of Francis I's financial administration. In L'Argent du roi (rev. ante, cx. 1213) he examined the king's income and expenditure in considerable detail. He also...

Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Christopher Marsh has been justifiably praised for his meticulous scholarly study of the Family of Love (rev. ante, cxi. 202). In his dazzling new book, 1 Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace (New York: St Martins...

1543 And All That: Image and Word. Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution.(Review)
November 1, 2000... 1543 And All That: Image and Word. Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, ed. Guy Freeland and Anthony Corones (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999; pp. xv + 404. NLG 340), takes its name from the year in which Copernicus's De...

Fonti ecclesiastiche per la storia sociale e religiosa d'Europa: XV-XVIII secolo. Atti del convegno internazionale `Le visite pastorali frastoria sociale e storia religiosa: un antico istituto e nuove prospettive'.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Fonti ecclesiastiche per la storia sociale e religiosa d'Europa: XV-XVIII secolo. Atti del convegno internazionale `Le visite pastorali fra storia sociale e storia religiosa: un antico istituto e nuove prospettive', ed. Cecilia Nubola and...

Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The most recent addition to Routledge's Historical Connections series of short texts for students, Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe, by Christopher R. Friedrichs (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. xiv+97. Pb. 11.99 [pounds sterling]), is a...

Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic. The Reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641).(Review)
November 1, 2000... Judith Pollmann's skilful and perceptive study of the diaries and other personal writings of Aernout van Buchell, Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic. The Reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641) (Manchester: U.P., 1999; pp. 288. 45...

Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641.(Review)
November 1, 2000... One of the most important recent developments in the writing of the literature and history of early modern Ireland has been a developing analysis of the complex relationship between natives and newcomers in the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Burghley. William Cecil, Lord Burghley.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Michael A. R. Graves's Burghley. William Cecil, Lord Burghley (London/New York: Longman, 1998; pp. 239. N.p.) is an addition to the Profiles in Power series designed primarily for undergraduate and sixth-form readers. Any historian who tries to...

Early Devon Maps: Map of Lands and Estates in Devon before 1700.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Early Devon Maps: Map of Lands and Estates in Devon before 1700, by Mary R. Ravenhill and Margery M. Rowe (Exeter: Friends of Devon's Archives, 2000; pp. 58. Pb. 12 [pounds sterling]), is a herald in two senses: it is the first volume in the...

Women in Towns: The Social Position of Urban Women in a Historical Context.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Women in Towns: The Social Position of Urban Women in a Historical Context, ed. Marjatta Hietala and Lars Nilsson (Stockholm: SHS, 1999; pp 196. Pb. n.p.), is a wide-ranging collection of ten essays of interest to women's and urban historians....

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, by Alison Games (Cambridge, Mass/London: Harvard U.P., 1999: pp. xiii + 322. 27.95 [pounds sterling]), offers a wealth of information on early migration to the Atlantic colonies....

From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England.(Review)
November 1, 2000... In her innovative and excellent From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. 311. 40 [pounds sterling]), Anna Bryson explores how the early modern period saw a shift from an elite...

The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649.(Review)
November 1, 2000... A spirited defence of the biographer's and chronicler's approach to history prefaces this dual biography by Derek Wilson, The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649 (London: Pimlico, 2000; pp. 473. Pb. 12.50...

Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The apparent inconsistencies in the career of the royalist Viscount Scudamore have puzzled many. Ian Atherton has tackled them triumphantly in Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore (Manchester:...

The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647, ed. Keith Lindley and David Scott (Cambridge: U.P., for the Royal Historical Society, 1999; pp. x+214. 40 [pounds sterling]), brings into print a manuscript in Dr Williams's Library to which Mark...

Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers.(Review)
November 1, 2000... In 1961 H. N. Brailsford commented that `historians are as shy in confronting the fact of class as were novelists of the last century in facing the fact of sex'. The social history of the last forty years, and in particular the work of E. P....