The English Historical Review articles from November 2002

The English Historical Review archives from November 2002

Sir John Gage, Tudor courtier and soldier (1479-1556).
November 1, 2002... JOHN GAGE of Firle Place in Sussex is an example of one of the numerous Tudor political figures of the second rank whose lives and activities spanned the severe upheavals which marked the changes of religious establishment and political...

Conditional Britons: the Scots covenanting tradition and the eighteenth-century British state *.
November 1, 2002... IN eighteenth-century Scotland opposition to the Revolution settlement, the Union and the Hanoverian regime came not only from expected quarters, from Jacobites anxious to restore an independent, episcopalian Scottish state under the...

Imperial policies and nationalism in the decolonization of Somaliland, 1954-1960.
November 1, 2002... IN 1949, the British Cabinet discussed constitutional development in twenty-four small territories, and decided that, unlike large territories with the potential to build viable economies and achieve independence, or small territories likely...

Space, patronage, procedure: the Court at Oxford, 1642-46 *. (Notes And Documents).
November 1, 2002... I do congratulate the happiness of Oxford that in their age he doth now againe enioy those wits which in their infancie He did nourish. (1) In her Memoirs, composed around 1676, Ann Fanshawe wrote of the traumatic effect of the...

Patronage, politics and the modernization of leisure in northern England: the case of Alnwick's Shrove Tuesday football match. (Notes And Documents).
November 1, 2002... THE last traditional Shrove Tuesday football match played in the town of Alnwick before the outbreak of the Great War was reported in the terms that had been used for almost a half century before: the `ancient and manly' game, contested `from...

Victoria County History: East Riding of Yorkshire.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Vol. VII: Holderness Wapentake; Middle and North Divisions. Edited by G. H. R. KENT (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for Institute of Historical Research, 2002; pp. xx + 455. 85 [pounds sterling]). EIGHTEEN years ago the editorial staff of the...

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By CONRAD LEYSER (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 221. 35 [pounds sterling]). THIS work returns in its theme to territory familiar to Anglophone readers from Philip Rousseau's Ascetics, Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome and...

The Norsemen in the Viking Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By ERIC CHRISTIANSEN (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. 378. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). THIS account of Scandinavians at home and abroad from the eighth to the eleventh century is based as far as possible on contemporary sources. Runic...

The Medieval World.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by PETER LINEHAN and JANET L. NELSON (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. xx + 745. 120 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a highly stimulating and also a well-produced book. It consists of thirty-nine essays, grouped into four sections:...

Henry I.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By C. WARREN HOLLISTER, edited and completed by AMANDA CLARK FROST (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 554. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE product of a lifetime's research, a monument to its author's scholarship and teaching alike, this...

Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by MICHAEL HICKS (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 198. 45 [pounds sterling]). TO the first Fifteenth Century Colloquium in Cardiff in 1970, T. B. Pugh delivered a paper on `The Magnates, Knights and Gentry' which became the...

The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Vol. I: Federico da Montefeltro's Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo, by OLGA RAGGIO; Vol. II: Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio Studiolo, by ANTOINE M. WILMERING (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999,...

The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By JOHN NORTH (London: Hambledon, 2002; pp. xix + 346. 25 [pounds sterling]). GENERATIONS of art historians and codebreakers have sought to fathom the meaning of Hans Holbein the Younger's enigmatic double-portrait of Jean de Dinteville,...

Surviving the Tudors: the `Wizard' Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By VINCENT CAREY (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2002; pp. 240. 39.38 [pounds sterling]). THE subject of this study is one of those awkward, interesting individuals who resist retrospective analysis largely because they seemed to defy the...

The Counter-Reformation in Central Europe: Styria, 1580-1630.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By REGINA PORTNER (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 309. 45 [pounds sterling]). REGINA Portner's examination of the Counter-Reformation in Styria is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on central Europe's Catholic...

Les Etats provinciaux dans la construction de l'etat moderne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By MARIE-LAURE LEGAY (Geneve: Droz, 2001; pp. 565. N.p.). ABSOLUTE monarchy, that most enduring of historical categories, has almost dissolved over the past couple of generations. Nothing we thought it was seems entirely acceptable any...

Hofgesellschaft und Hoflinge an europaischen Furstenhofen in der Fruhen Neuzeit (15.-18. Jahrhundert).(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by KLAUS MALETTKE and CHANTAL GRELL, with the assistance of PETRA HOLZ (Munster: Lit Verlag, 2001; pp. 546. Eur 25.90). IN 1400, the opening date of this 546-page collection of thirty-three essays on the European court, the...

The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, 1660-1789.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By T. C. W. BLANNING (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 479. 25 [pounds sterling]). Is there more joy in the kingdom of Habermas over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons? Great then shall be the rejoicings in...

The Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by PAUL LANFORD (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xiv + 287. Pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). BOOKS of essays intended to provide concise, readable and authoritative accounts of periods of history are incredibly difficult to get right....

Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By BOB HARRIS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 392. 45 [pounds sterling]). IN several seminal articles over a very productive decade, Bob Harris has identified a number of themes as characteristic of the British mid-eighteenth century....

Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on `The Spirit of Laws'.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by DAVID W. CARRITHERS, MICHAEL A. MOSHER, and PAUL A. RAHE (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000; pp. 458. $70; pb. $26.95). DAVID Carrithers introduces this collection of essays from a distinguished group of scholars with `An...

Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland, 1500-1920.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By LESLIE CLARKSON and MARGARET CRAWFORD (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 325. 25 [pounds sterling]). WHAT was and was not eaten in Ireland has long attracted attention. Interest has focused traditionally on the heavy dependence on the...

Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By ISSER WOLOCH (New York/London: Norton Books, 2001; pp. xv+281. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). SINCE Peter Geyl, the underlying trend of Napoleonic historiography has been to take the spotlight away from the Great Man at the centre of the...

The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy: the War against God, 1801-1814.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By M. BROERS (London: Routledge, 2002; pp. xvi+ 238. $80). THIS slim book must be recommended both to the specialist and also to the non-specialist whom the title's precision may put off. Dr Broers's main topic is the nature and...

A Concise History of Poland.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By JERZY LUKOWSKI and HUBERT ZAWADZKI (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xviii +317. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). WHEN should a history of Poland begin and what should it be about? The Poland which sits more...

The Problem of Revolution in Germany: 1789-1989.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by REINHARD RURUP (Oxford: Berg, 2000; pp. 204. 45 [pounds sterling]). AMONG the absences, failures, and flaws that have often punctuated German history's grand narrative, revolution has a special place. Conservatives once...

The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By BRUCE CURTIS (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 2001; pp. 385. 40 [pounds sterling]). THIS rich and suggestive book by one of Canada's leading historical sociologists should be of interest to scholars of state formation anywhere and ought to...

The Modern British State: an Historical Introduction.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By PHILIP HARLING (Cambridge: Polity P., 2001; pp. 283. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). PHILIP Harling's The Waning of `Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846 was reviewed in the EHR...

Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By JOHN WOLFFE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2000; pp. 331. 29.99 [pounds sterling]). ALL Victorians wanted a good death. A very few achieved a great one. As the title of his book makes plain, it is the latter, more...

National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By MARJORIE MORGAN (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 271. 40 [pounds sterling]). MARJORIE Morgan's book is itself the product of a modest identity crisis. She relates that until the age of 30 she had spent time in various cities in the...

Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain, 1780-1980.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By F. M. L. THOMPSON (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 200. 25 [pounds sterling]). FOR decades now, the purported failure of the British entrepreneur has been a staple of the syllabus in economic history. Martin Wiener argued that landed...

Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: the Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By IAN PACKER (London: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Society, 2001; pp. 222. 35 [pounds sterling]). LAND as an issue in English politics dates back to the Levellers and earlier. Except during the enclosure era, when it was clearly...

The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By DEBORAH COHEN (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2001; pp. 285. $50). THE exploration of the Great War of 1914-1918 continues apace. One area receiving increasing attention is how, following the conflict, the nations responded to the...

Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By ARIEH J. KOCHAVI (Chapel Hill/London: U.P. of North Carolina, 2001; pp. xviii + 377. $45). ON 29 January 1949, in a debate in the House of Commons, Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary, told Churchill: `over half a million...

France, the United States, and the Algerian War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By IRWIN M. WALL (Berkeley/London: U. of California P., 2001; pp. 335. 27.95 [pounds sterling]). THE current debate in France on the legacy of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has led to the declassification of many important...

Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By JEFFREY HILL (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002; pp. 241. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). A SUBSTANTIAL literature now exists on sport and leisure in Britain and Jeff Hill produces a useful (and up to date) synopsis of that relating to the...

Facing the Ocean: the Atlantic and Its Peoples.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Barry Cunliffe (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 600. 25 [pounds sterling]). Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology in the University of Oxford, has produced a study of immense scope and considerable erudition. It covers the...

Saint Vincent: Diacre et martyr.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Victor Saxer (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes, 2002; pp. 372. Eur 65). This volume is a collection of twelve articles (ten already published between 1989 and 1998) concerning the cult and dossier of Vincent of Saragossa (believed...

Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Julia M. H. Smith (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. xxxii+446. N.p.). This book collects the papers of a conference held to celebrate the work of the medievalist Donald Bullough. After an appreciation of Professor Bullough and a full...

Vikings and the Danelaw: Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress, Nottingham and York, 1997.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch and David N. Parsons (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001; pp. 368. 40 [pounds sterling]). The 21 chapters, many of them well illustrated, include welcome surveys of recent work on the effects...

The Byzantine Wars: Battles and Campaigns of the Byzantine Era.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by John Haldon (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 208. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The East Roman empire's military record has tended to be underestimated, thanks not only to such prominent detractors as Liudprand of Cremona and the Latin...

Aristocratie et pouvoir: le role du chateau dans la France medievale.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Andre Debord (Paris: Picard, 2000; pp. 238. F 300). Andre Debord died shortly after his retirement from the University of Caen, leaving a number of projects uncompleted, including this overview of the emergence and role of castles in...

Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order and the Written Word, 1000-1200.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Adam J. Kosto, (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xx+366. 45 [pounds sterling]). While several distinguished exceptions could be named, American historians of medieval Spain have tended to concentrate their attention on the Kingdom...

The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. and tr. by Dom David Knowles and Christopher N. L. Brooke (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. lviii + 259. 50 [pounds sterling]). David Knowles's edition of Lanfranc's Monastic Constitutions (together with an extract from an associated...

The Normans in their Histories: Propaganda, Myth and Subversion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Emily Albu (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 260. 50 [pounds sterling]). Historians may still debate whether or not there was a `Norman achievement', or whether this was simply the invention of a small number of contemporary...

Slakt, Vanner och Makt: En studie av elitens politiska kultur i 1100-talets Danmark.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Lars Hermanson (Gothenburg: Gothenburg U.P., 2000; pp. 280. N.p.). The history of twelfth-century Denmark resembles that of England superficially. Three decades of relatively stable kingship was followed by intermittent civil war and...

Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Friedrich I. 1152 (1122)-1190. 3. Lieferung 1168-1180.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... J. F. Boehmer, Regesta Imperii, vol. 4, part 2, ed. Ferdinand Opll (Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, 2001; pp. 269. N.p.). The purpose of the medieval category of edited registers is to provide chronological calendars of royal, imperial, or...

The Synodicum Nicosiense and Other Documents of the Latin Church of Cyprus, 1196-1373.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... tr. and ed. Christopher Schabel (Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2001, pp. 393. N.p.). In about 1340 Archbishop Elias of Nicosia compiled a collection of synodal decrees (or a synodicum) relating to the ecclesiastical province of Cyprus...

`Volo vincere cum meis vel occumbere cum eisdem': Studien zu Simon von Montfort und seinen nordfranzosischen Gefolgsleuten wahrend des Albigenser-Kreuzzugs (1209 bis 1218).(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Christine Woehl (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001; pp. 332. 33 [pounds sterling]). This University of Frankfurt doctoral thesis examines the history of the Albigensian Crusade and the Cathar movement, the reactions of Philip...

Medieval Marriage Sermons: Mass Communication in a Culture without Print.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by David d'Avray (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001, pp. xv+331. 55 [pounds sterling]). In the first of what is to be a two-volume work, Professor d'Avray edits six sermons on the theme of marriage, which were produced by thirteenth-century...

La Commanderie: Institution des ordres militaires dans l'Occident medieval.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Anthony Luttrell and Leon Pressouyre (Paris: Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002; pp. 361. Eur 46). This is a collection of twenty-two articles derived from a conference held at Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon (Aveyron) in...

The Councils of the Church: a Short History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Norman P. Tanner (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 2001; pp. 132. Pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). John XXIII's unexpected convocation of the Second Vatican Council in 1958 stimulated the publication of a whole series of brief...

Los recursos militares en la Edad Media Hispanica.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. by Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada (Madrid: Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar, 2001; pp. 420. N.p.). Seven of the eight articles in this volume are concerned with the Spanish Christian states in the Middle Ages; six out of the seven...

El mas Catala durant l'edat mitjana i la moderna (segle IX-XVIII).(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, Josefina Mutge i Vives and Manuel Riu i Riu (Barcelona: C.S.I.C., 2001; pp. 659. N.p.). The mas in Catalonia has accumulated a formidable body of emotion and myth. It is high time to review not only what...

Fiscalitat i deute public en dues viles del camp de Tarragona: Reus i Valls, segles.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... XIV-XV, byJordi Morello Baget (Barcelona: C.S.I.C., 2001; pp. 1007. N.p.). The richness of the financial records preserved in Catalan municipal archives and the related texts in the Real Patrimoni sections of the royal archives in...

Modelling the Middle Ages: the History and Theory of England's Economic Development.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 254. 30 [pounds sterling]). In this lucid, learned, and at times passionate, book, the authors discuss the role of models in the study of the economic history of the Middle...

Art and Propaganda: Charles IV of Bohemia, 1346-1378.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Ira Rosario (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. xvii + 155. 45 [pounds sterling]). The Emperor Charles IV was one of the most remarkable of all medieval rulers; we also happen to be better informed about him than about many of the...

Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Robert Black (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 489. 55 [pounds sterling]). Dr Black's position on Italian education is to some extent known from his dispute with Paul F. Grendler in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 1991. He...

Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Lesley A. Coote (Woodbridge: Boydell, for York Medieval P., 2000; pp. 301. 50 [pounds sterling]). This comprehensive survey will prove immediately useful to those working on politics and textuality in later medieval England. Although...

L'Eglise et la vie religieuse a Arles et en Provence au Moyen Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... L'Eglise et la vie religieuse a Arles et en Provence au Moyen Age, by Louis Stouff (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2001; pp. 223. Eur 21,34). Hierarchies et Services au Moyen Age: Seminaire societies,...

St George: Hero, Martyr and Myth.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Samantha Riches (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. xviii + 236. 20 [pounds sterling]). Samantha Riches has expanded her original doctoral work on the cycle of St George represented in the La Selle retable (alabaster, English, c. 1485) into a...

Vom Mittelmeer zum Atlantik: Die mittelalterlichen Anfange der europaischen Expansion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Peter Feldbauer, Gottfried Liedl and John Morrissey (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001; pp. 295. DM 48). Since the pioneering studies of the late Charles Verlinden, the medieval roots of Europe's early oceanic expansion have attracted much...

Un governo immaginato: l'universo politico di Franceso Guicciardini.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Giorgio Cadoni (Rome: Jouvence, 1999; pp. 141. L 32,000). Giorgio Cadoni is the editor of two valuable volumes of political legislation in Florence from 1494-1512 and the author of studies based on his close reading of the debates,...

The World of Savonarola: Italian Elites and Perceptions of Crisis.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Stella Fletcher and Christine Shaw (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. xvi + 260. 45 [pounds sterling]). This volume publishes most of the papers given at a conference in May 1998 at Warwick University; the intention was `to use the...

Tudor Church Reform: the Henrician Canons of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Gerald Bray (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Church of England Record Soc., 2000; pp. clx + 892. 70 [pounds sterling]). This mammoth edition brings together two law codes that never came into force. The 360 canons of 1535, drafted...

Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550-1750.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Marc R. Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 268. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). One of the central puzzles about early modern Catholicism involves the question of how Catholics forged a vigorous and new religious identity in the...

Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 257. 40 [pounds sterling]). In 1996 an international conference was held in Rome on the theme of the Roman Court as a theatre of European...

L'Inquisizione in Friuli: Mostra storica.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Andrea Del Col (Trieste: Edizioni Universita di Trieste, 2000; pp. 142. Eur 10,32). This small booklet inaugurates a sub-series in the recently launched Inquisizione e Societa, a series which has begun to make available to a...

The Bible in the Renaissance: Essays on Biblical Commentary and Translation in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Richard Griffiths (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 204. 47.50 [pounds sterling]). The Bible in the Renaissance is a big topic, too big for a slim volume of conference proceedings displaying the characteristic unevenness of the genus....

Education in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Helen M. Jewell (Basingstoke: Macmillan/Palgrave, 1998; pp. 231. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Helen Jewell sets out to synthesize more specialized work on the history of English education broadly defined and ranging from the...

Early Modern Kent 1540-1640.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Michael Zell (Woodbridge: Boydell P. for Kent County Council, 2000; pp. 340. 50 [pounds sterling]). This is the fifth to appear in a projected ten-volume Kent History Project, and it will be warmly welcomed as an important...

King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by W. B. Patterson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pp. 409. Pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). This important volume is the culmination of many years' work on King James and his ecumenical commitments. It is also...

Dealing in Death: the Arms Trade and the British Civil Wars, 1638-52.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Peter Edwards (Stroud: Sutton, 2001; pp. 292. 25 [pounds sterling]). The question of arms procurement has always been of importance to those concerned with a nation's defence, but its operation in the past has not attracted the...

Contemporary Histories of the English Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Brian Manning (London: Caliban Books, 2000; pp. 218. 35 [pounds sterling]). This volume, designed for the non-specialist, consists of a series of extracts from historians and commentators who reflected upon their experience of the...

Oliver Cromwell.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by J. C. Davis (London: Arnold, 2001; pp. ix+243. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). This thoughtful reassessment of Cromwell, grounded in his changing historical reputation and drawing upon some primary source material,...

Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Geoffrey Parker (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. xx+326. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Geoffrey Parker's classic textbook was published nearly a quarter of a century ago. Has it been adequately updated to reflect...

The Seventeenth Century: Europe, 1598-1715.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... ed. Joseph Bergin (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 265. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 11.99 [pounds sterling]). This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields is part of a new multi-volume history of Europe from...

Fractured Europe, 1600-1721.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by David J. Sturdy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xxviii+465. 60 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). For some time now it has been the vogue to write general histories of an era thematically. This series, however, deliberately...

Huguenot Heritage: the History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Robin Gwynn (Brighton: Sussex Academic P., 2001; pp. xvii+261. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). Dr Gwynn published the first edition of this book in 1985, with the avowed purpose of using the tercentenary of Louis XIV's revocation of the...

Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Eamonn O Ciardha (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2002; pp. 468. Eur 45). Irish support for the exiled Stuarts after 1691 is an important and neglected topic, although not as neglected as Dr O Ciardha repeatedly asserts. His ambitious...

The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Patrick Griffin (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2001; pp. 244. Pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling). There has been a large literature on early Irish migration to America, mostly dealing with the Ulster Scots or Irish Presbyterians. This book has...

A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea (1760).(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Ludewig Ferdinand Romer, tr. and ed. by Selena Axelrod Winsnes (Oxford: Oxford U.P. for The British Academy, 2000; pp. xxx+290. 35 [pounds sterling]). Ludewig Ferdinand Romer (1714-1776) was an employee of the Danish West India and...

Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire: the Memorandum Books of John Brearley, Cloth Frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-1762.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Cloth Frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-1762, ed. John Smail (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., 2001; pp. xxi+143. 50 [pounds sterling]). The Memorandum Books of John Brearley will become an important source for...

Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by Ian Hunter (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xix+398. 45 [pounds sterling]). In this provocative book Ian Hunter argues that the German Enlightenment, far from being a unified movement, actually encompassed two rival intellectual...