The English Historical Review articles from October 1993

The English Historical Review archives from October 1993

The politics of law and order during the early years of Edward III.
October 1, 1993... WHEN Edward III was crowned on 1 February 1327 his councillors assumed the government of a very disorderly country. The troubles had many origins, but largely stemmed from the ineffectual rule of Edward II and the invasion by Queen Isabella...

The fracturing of the Cromwellian alliance: Leeds and Adam Baynes.
October 1, 1993... The interrelationship between centre and locality in the early Stuart and Civil War periods has been extensively studied. We have learned a great deal not only about the enforcement of policy and its impact on the localities, but also about how...

Horne and heterodoxy: the defence of Anglican beliefs in the late Enlightenment.
October 1, 1993... THE insistence of Roy Porter, J. G. A. Pocock and others that there was an English Enlightenment, and that it took place early, commands the interest of other historians even when it fails to elicit their wholehearted support.(1) The triumph of...

The Church of England and the obliteration bombing of Germany in the second world war.
October 1, 1993... If a church is known as a |State Church', its relationship with the political state is characterized by subordination. In the twentieth century the Church of England was an Established Church. Formally that meant that it was subject to the Act...

New light on the authorship of the Life of James II.
October 1, 1993... The historian of modern Europe is confronted by the infrequency of memoirs or autobiographies by reigning monarchs. Apart from such oddities as Queen Victoria's Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands,(1) monarchical memoirs have...

Les Hommes et la terre a Byzance du VI au XI siecle: Propriete et exploitation du sol.
October 1, 1993... By Michel Kaplan. (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1992; pp. xxxviii + 630. Pb. F290). Michel Kaplan's important and substantial agrarian history of Byzantium has firm limits, from the sixth to eleventh centuries. It has an equally...

The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe.
October 1, 1993... By M. O. H. Carver (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1992; pp. xviii + 406. 49.50 [pounds]); ONE of the many satisfying qualities of Dr Rupert Bruce-Mitford's monumental report on the Sutton Hoo treasures was the finality with which its editor...

Voyage to the Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Calvin B. Kendall and Peter S. Wells (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 1992; pp. xix + 222. $39-95; pb. $16.95); ONE of the many satisfying qualities of Dr Rupert Bruce-Mitford's monumental report on the Sutton Hoo treasures was...

Sutton Hoo: Fifty Years After.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Robert Farrell and Carol Neuman de Vegvar (Oxford, Oh.: American can Early Medieval Studies, Miami Univ., 1992; pp. 198. Pb. 19.50 [pounds]. Distributed by Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OXIIHN). ONE of the many satisfying...

The Commercialisation of English Society: 1000-1500.
October 1, 1993... By R. H. Britnell (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xiv + 273.30 [pounds]). ANYONE wishing to discover the purposes of this important but complex book should turn first to the conclusion. Dr Britnell seeks to move us away from the current...

The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453.
October 1, 1993... By MARK C. BARTUSIS (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1992; pp. xvii + 438. 39.95[pounds]). CONSIDERING that the Byzantine Empire was almost continually at war, frequently on two sides at once, sometimes against its own members, it's...

John of Gaunt: The Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe.
October 1, 1993... By ANTHONY GOODMAN (London: Longman, 1992; pp. xiii + 421. 34[pounds]; pb. 14.99[pounds]) JOHN of Gaunt was a prince of European stature. His career was played out not merely in England, but in Scotland, France, Castile and the Low...

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History.
October 1, 1993... By SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM (London. Longman, 1993; pp. xii + 320. 34[pounds]); SANJAY Subrahmanyam's book treats the whole Portuguese Asian Empire in the context of recent studies of Portugal and of the Asian states with which it traded and...

Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs: 1580-1640.
October 1, 1993... By JAMES C. BOYAJIAN (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1993; pp. xvii + 356. 36.50[pounds]). SANJAY Subrahmanyam's book treats the whole Portuguese Asian Empire in the context of recent studies of Portugal and of the Asian states with...

The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution.
October 1, 1993... By CHRISTOPHER Hill (London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1993, pp. xiii + 466. 25[pounds]). LODOWICK Muggleton corresponded in the 1650s with somebody whom Edward Thompson justly called |the remarkably long-lived Christopher Hill'. Now, at the age...

The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland: 1645-1653.
October 1, 1993... By IAN GENTLES (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992; pp. xi + 564. 40[pounds]). THE publication of lan Gentles's account of the New Model Army, which brings to fruition many years of work, some parts of which have appeared in article form, is an event...

Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G.E. Aylmer.
October 1, 1993... Edited by JOHN MORRILL, PAUL SLACK and DANIEL WOOLF (Oxford: Clarendon P., pp. ix + 347. 35[pounds]). THERE are surely two demands to be made of any Festschrift: that it honours its recipient and benefits scholarship. To the first of these...

Rethinking the Russian Revolution.
October 1, 1993... By Edward Acton (London: Edward Arnold, 1990; pp. 229. 25[pounds]; pb. 9.95[pounds]); OVER the last two to three decades Western scholarship on 1917 has challenged the old Cold War orthodoxy which focused on high politics, political...

The Russian Revolution: 1899-1919.
October 1, 1993... By Richard Pipes (London: Collins Harvill, 1990; pp. xxiv + 944. 20[pounds]). OVER the last two to three decades Western scholarship on 1917 has challenged the old Cold War orthodoxy which focused on high politics, political parties, key...

Churchill on the Home Front: 1900-1955.
October 1, 1993... By Paul Addison (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992; pp. ix + 493. 20[pounds]); DESPITE, or perhaps because of, the length of the official biography by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, there is still scope for analysis and re-interpretation...

Churchill.
October 1, 1993... By Keith Robbins (London: Longman 1992; pp. 186. 19.99[pounds]). DESPITE, or perhaps because of, the length of the official biography by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, there is still scope for analysis and re-interpretation of...

The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counter-Revolution.
October 1, 1993... By Burnett Bolloten (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991; pp. xxxii + 1074. 60[pounds]). DURING the Spanish Civil War, Burnett Bolloten, a Welshman of pro-Communist sympathies, was a United Press correspondent. While in Spain, and...

The Romanization of Britain.
October 1, 1993... The subtitle of Martin Millett's The Romanization of Britain (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 245. 30[pounds]) -- An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation -- is absolutely vita to any understanding of the book or of where its great importance...

Croire et guerir: La foi en Gaule dans l'Antiquite' tardive.
October 1, 1993... The fertile soil of late antique religion is subjected to some more scholarly tilling in Aline Rousselle's Croire et guerir. La foi en Gaule dans l'Antiquite tardive (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. 382. Pb. F140). Dr Rousselle's book is concerned...

Bischof und Reich: Untersuchungen zum Integrationsprozess des ottonisch-fruhsalischen Reiches, 919-1056.
October 1, 1993... Both the Ottonian and Salian episcopate and the process by which the east Frankish kingdom became the kingdom of Germany have been much discussed. Albrecht Graf Finck von Finckenstein, in Biscbof und Reich. Untersucbungen zum Integrationsprozeb...

Petrusnachfolge und Kaiserimitation: Die Grablegen der Papste, ihre Genese und Traditionsbildung.
October 1, 1993... A great deal of light can be shed on the history of the papacy by the development of its ceremonial and the conventions which were bound up with it. The choice of papal name has often been taken as a policy declaration made at the beginning of...

A Lost English County: Winchcombeshire in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries.
October 1, 1993... Julian Whybra's A Lost English County: Winchcombeshire in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1990; pp. x + I36. 35[pounds]) is formally an attempt to establish the nature and origin of the county of Winchcombeshire which...

L'Amiata nel medioevo.
October 1, 1993... Half-way up the highest mountain in southern Tuscany, mid-way between Siena and Orvieto, stands the Benedictine abbey of S. Salvatore, founded in the eighth century and of comparable importance in its early centuries to Farfa and Montecassino....

Regesta Norvegica, vol. 1.
October 1, 1993... The editors of Regesta Norvegica promise a |chronologically arranged catalogue of all the known written material relating to Norway's medieval history -- charters or other documents, whether preserved or lost, that have to do with Norway,...

Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire: 900-1200.
October 1, 1993... There is a polemical edge to the title of Alan Harvey's Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200 (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xix + 298. 30[pounds]), for demographic decline and economic stagnation have, until recently, been...

Formazione e strutture die ceti dominanti nel medioevo: Marchesi conti e visconti nel regno italico.
October 1, 1993... Many of the best Italian medievalists have recently spent much time looking at aristocratic family structures. One recent result of their debates is Formazione e strutture dei ceti dominanti nel medioevo: marchesi conti e visconti nel regno...

The Arpads and the Comneni: Political Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th Century.
October 1, 1993... The destruction of the first Bulgarian Empire in the early eleventh century freed the Byzantines from a constant threat and enabled them to re-establish their northern frontier along the Danube-Sava line. There they found themselves in...

Monarchy and Lordships in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: 1099-1291.
October 1, 1993... It is no longer believed that the twelfth-century kings of Jerusalem were the figureheads they appear to be in the law books of John of Ibelin and Philip of Novara. That we are nevertheless still in danger of overestimating the power of their...

Bildung und Wissenschaft in Regensburg: Neue Forschungen und Texte aus St Mang in Stadtamhof.
October 1, 1993... More knowledge of the culture and learning of medieval Regensburg is made available by Franz Fuchs's Bildung und Wissenschaft in Regensburg. Neue Forschungen und Texte aus St Mang in Stadtamhof (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1989; pp. 139. DM56)....

Die Bistumer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz: Das Bistum Wurzburg, vol. IV, Das Stift Neumunster in Wurzburg.
October 1, 1993... Wurzburg's novum monasterium was so called in order to distinguish it from the nearby Cathedral. No foundation charter of this house of secular canons has survived; all that can safely be said is that it was according to tradition founded by...

Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts.
October 1, 1993... Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts, by Tony Hunt (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990; pp. xi + 466. 39.50[pounds]), is a most useful edition, containing two medical texts (Lettre d'Hippocrate and Physique rimee),...

Medecine et justice en Provence medievale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348.
October 1, 1993... Medecine et justice en Provence medievale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348, by Joseph Shatzmiller (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1989; pp. 285. Pb. F170) is another result of collaboration between Canadian scholars...

'Pour le salut de mon ame': Les Lausannois face a la mort (XIV-siecle).
October 1, 1993... In |Pour le salut de mon ame': Les Lausannois face a la mort (XIV-siecle) (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, 1989; pp. 252. Pb. n.p.), Veronique Pasche offers a clear and thorough analysis of the religious and charitable dispositions recorded...

Reformbemuhungen und Observanzbestrebungen im spatmittelalterlichen Ordenswesen.
October 1, 1993... The contribution of the regular orders to medieval ecclesiastical life was very prominent until the thirteenth century, but in the later Middle Ages it declined, despite various attempts at reform. These, however, tended to be inward-looking,...

The Grammar Schools of Medieval England: A.F. Leach in Historiographical Perspective.
October 1, 1993... A. F. Leach (d. 1915), assistant charity commissioner and part-time historian, was the first major collector and expounder of the evidence for medieval and Renaissance English schools. A pioneer who printed much useful material, Leach was also...

Pere el Ceremonios i la seva Epoca.
October 1, 1993... The Barcelona branch of the Consell Superior continues to be very prolific. Besides its monographs and the Anuario de Estudios Medievales, it has been sponsoring a variety of other books. The volume Pere el Ceremonios i la seva Epoca...

Lordship and the Urban Community: Durham and its Overlords, 1250-1540.
October 1, 1993... Margaret Bonney's Lordship and the Urban Community. Durham and its Overlords, 1250-1540 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 307. 30[pounds]) is about the city rather than the ecclesiastical buildings and institutions on the peninsula. But her...

Scolari italiani nello studio di Parigi: Il 'College des Lombards' dal XIV al XVI secolo ed i suoi ospiti pistoiesi.
October 1, 1993... The |domus pauperum scolarium Italicorum de charitate beatae Maria', or |College des Lombards' of Paris was founded in 1334 by four Italians resident in France. To date little was known about this institution. it appears to have languished...

Agrarkonjunktur und technisch-organisatorische Innovationen auf dem Agrarsektor im Spiegel niederrheinischer Pachtvertrage: 1200-1600.
October 1, 1993... The leasing-out of lordly estates is a familiar development to English historians of the late medieval period. In Agrarkonjunktur und technisch-organisatorische Innovationen auf dem Agrarsektor im Spiegel niederrheinischer Pachtvertrage,...

Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England.
October 1, 1993... Ever since C. L. Kingsford coined the doublet |prejudice and promise', alliteration the letter |P' has provided a conveniently all-embracing approach to the history of fifteenth-century England. People, politics, property, patronage, pedigree,...

Rassurer et proteger: Le sentiment de securite dans l'Occident d'autrefois, 1980.
October 1, 1993... Over the past decade and more, building on his earlier fine contributions to our understanding of the same historical period, and pursuing an historiographic tactic indebted to Lucien Febvre's histoire de mentalite, Jean Delumeau has attempted...

L'Aveu et le pardon: Les difficultes de la confession, XIII-XVIII siecle.
October 1, 1993... Over the past decade and more, building on his earlier fine contributions to our understanding of the same historical period, and pursuing an historiographic tactic indebted to Lucien Febvre's histoire de mentalite, Jean Delumeau has attempted...

Banchieri e famiglie mercantili nel Mediterraneo aragonese: L'emigrazione dei pisani in Sicilia nel Quattrocento.
October 1, 1993... Giuseppe Petralia's Banchieri e famiglie mercantili nel Mediterraneo aragonese. L'emigrazione dei pisani in Sicilia nel Quattrocento (Pisa: Pacini Editore, 1989; pp. 432. N.p.) is a major contribution to the recent revival of studies of the...

The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe.
October 1, 1993... In preparing their contributions to The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe, ed. Anthony Goodman and Angus Mackay (London: Longman, 1990; pp. xv + 292. 22[pounds]; pb. 10.95[pounds]), eleven distinguished Renaissance scholars were required to...

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters, vol. 18, Pius III and Julius II, Vatican Registers, 1503-1513, Lateran Registers, 1503-1508.
October 1, 1993... The Irish Manuscripts Commission again earns praise for having published the Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Vol. XVIII: Pius III and Julius II. Vatican Registers, 1503-1513....

James IV.
October 1, 1993... The publisher of Norman Macdougall's pioneering life of James III has boldly seen a market for a series on the Stewart dynasty in Scotland, for which Dr Macdougall has written James IV (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1989; pp. xii + 340. 25[pounds])...

Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 29, Literary and Educational Writings, vol. 7.
October 1, 1993... The massive enterprise of providing Erasmus's works in English translation was bound eventually to produce some curious items. These we certainly find in Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. XXIX: Literary and Educational Writings, Vol. VII, ed....

The Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 9, The Correspondence of Erasmus, Letters 1252 to 1355, 1522-1523.
October 1, 1993... The massive enterprise of providing Erasmus's works in English translation was bound eventually to produce some curious items. These we certainly find in Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. XXIX: Literary and Educational Writings, Vol. VII, ed....

Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk.
October 1, 1993... |Continuity and change' is an apt slogan for studies of the Protestant Reformation Scotland. Gordon Donaldson's The Scottish Reformation (1960: rev. ante, lxxvi. 715) remains the seminal work: a major study which challenged a previously...

The Faith of the Scots.
October 1, 1993... |Continuity and change' is an apt slogan for studies of the Protestant Reformation Scotland. Gordon Donaldson's The Scottish Reformation (1960: rev. ante, lxxvi. 715) remains the seminal work: a major study which challenged a previously...

Le Roi cache: Sauveurs et imposteurs, mythes politiques populaires dans l'Europe moderne.
October 1, 1993... When Malory in the late fifteenth century presented to the world his version of the history of Arthur, |the once and future king' he touched a chord which was used by the printing press to present to avid readers all the romantic mythology of...

Migration in Colonial Spanish America.
October 1, 1993... Colonial Spanish America, often presented as a caricature of routine and immobility, was in fact a society if not in flux at least subject to movement. Some of the movement, especially that from Europe, is reasonably well known in its...

Frederikstad: Lagtingsprotokoll nr, 8 vols., 1607-1615.
October 1, 1993... After the Reformation, the Norwegian regional lagret (lagting) evolved as a middle-level law court above the local district courts. By the late sixteenth century, the lagting met regularly in a fixed location, usually a town, and was presided...

Kilkenny: An Urban History, 1391-1843.
October 1, 1993... W. G. Neely's Kilkenny: An Urban History, 1391-1843 (Belfast: Queen's University, for Institute of Irish Studies, 1989; pp. xii + 306. 16.50[pounds]) seeks ambitiously to present |an urban community in its totality' over some five hundred years...

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk: 1620-1624.
October 1, 1993... The Suffolk Records Society continues its project of publishing in calendared form all surviving Suffolk will-records from earliest times to the seventeenth century, linking with the beginnings made by the New England Historic and Genealogical...

Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory, 1513-1830.
October 1, 1993... In the great early modern European expansion overseas only the Spanish empire provoked systematic discussion, both of the rights of the Spanish crown and the colonists to dominion over native populations and of the metahistorical meaning and...

Religion et ideologie dans la revolution anglaise: 1647-1649, Salut du peuple et pouvoir des saints.
October 1, 1993... Religion et ideologie dans la revolution anglaise, 1647-1649. Salut du peuple et pouvoir des saints, by Elizabeth Tuttle (Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1989; pp. 300. Pb. n.p.), is a largely narrative account of the rise and fall of the Leveller...

Le Negoce international: XIII-XX siecle.
October 1, 1993... It has often been noted that the external commerce of early modern France does not appear as dynamic or |developed' as that of the contemporary Netherlands or Britain. To some, it is her greater population and more varied natural products that...

Covenant, Charter and Party: Traditions of Revolt and Protest in Modern Scottish History.
October 1, 1993... The Centre for Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University held, in 1988, a series of seminars to commemorate anniversaries of the National Covenant and of the first major Chartist demonstration in Scotland. The result is a collection of essays on...

Menasseh ben Israel and His World.
October 1, 1993... The Centre for Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University held, in 1988, a series of seminars to commemorate anniversaries of the National Covenant and of the first major Chartist demonstration in Scotland. The result is a collection of essays on...

Nutzen, Renten, Ertrage: Struktur und Entwicklung fruhneuzeitlicher Feudaleinkommen in Niederosterreich.
October 1, 1993... The long struggle to give a reliable account of the rural economy of Habsburg Lower Austria continues, and Herbert Knittler's Nutzen Renten Ertrage. Struktur und Entwicklung fruhneuzeitlicher Feudaleinkommen in Niederosterreich (Vienna/Munich:...

Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory.
October 1, 1993... The quartercentenary of Hobbes's birth was the occasion of several commemorations. Mary G. Dietz has edited the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Minnesota: Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory (Lawrence, Kansas: U.P., 1990;...

Mr Secretary Thurloe, Cromwell's Secretary of State: 1652-1660.
October 1, 1993... To say that Philip Aubrey's Mr Secretary Thurloe, Cromwell's Secretary of State, 1652-1660 (London/Rutherford, NJ: Athlone P./Farleigh Dickinson U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 252. 32[pounds]) is the best modern biography of Thurloe is indeed to damn...

George Lawson's Politica and the English Revolution.
October 1, 1993... George Lawson was rediscovered in 1949 by A. H. Maclean, whose article |The Origins of the Political Opinions of George Lawson' seemed to tell us all that we needed to know about him. Large claims have since been made for Lawson's originality...

Robert Hooke: New Studies.
October 1, 1993... Appended to Robert Hooke. New Studies, ed. Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1989; pp. x + 310. 39.50[pounds]) is a bibliography of over two hundred secondary source items which relate to the life and thought of Hooke...

Du bon usage des pauvres.
October 1, 1993... Philippe Sassier's Du bon usage des pauvres (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. 450. Pb. F150) is not a straightforward history of poverty or of social policy, but as the subtitle explains, the |histoire d'un theme politique'. His subject matter is the...

Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730.
October 1, 1993... David Lemmings's Gentlemen and Barristers. The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xiv + 323. 35[pounds]) is an interesting and important book. Its subject is the size, composition, training, career...

Constantin Brancoveanu.
October 1, 1993... Constantin Brancoveanu's rule of Wallachia stands out as one of the more remarkable reigns in an era of Rumanian history which was marked by paralysis and humiliation. Its very length, spanning the years 1688 to 1714, merits attention and...

Dublin's Trade in Books: 1550-1800.
October 1, 1993... Printing in Dublin started late and developed slowly. By the eighteenth century, Dublin printers were accused by their London competitors of churning out cheap reprints, often pirated, which then undercut the original English editions. Thus,...

The Rise of the European Powers: 1679-1793.
October 1, 1993... Winston Churchill is said to have returned a disappointing dish to the kitchen with the command: |Take away this pudding; it has no theme.' Readers of Jeremy Black's The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793 (London: Edward Arnold, 1990; pp....

Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe.
October 1, 1993... Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by H. M. Scott (London: Macmillan, 1990; pp. 385. 35[pounds]), a useful collection of essays by ten scholars, consists of two general discussions (on the...

Europa im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grossen: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kriege.
October 1, 1993... Collections of essays by a number of different hands are always difficult to summarize briefly. The twelve assembled in Europa im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Gro[beta]en. Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kriege, ed. Bernhard R. Kroener (Munich: R....

The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution.
October 1, 1993... The precise pattern and significance of the events which marked the incorporation of Quebec into the British Empire have long provided topics for debate: the protracted and extensive concern of contemporary politicians and administrators has...

Women of Mr. Wesley's Methodism.
October 1, 1993... Earl Kent Brown's Women of Mr. Wesley's Methodism (Lewiston, NY/Queenston, Ont.: Edwin Mellen P., 1989; pp. xviii + 267. $39.95) attempts to contribute to women's studies by writing a group biography of early Methodist women who were not a...

Der Waldeckisch-Englische Subsidienvertrag von 1776: Zustandekommen, Ausgestaltung und Erfullung.
October 1, 1993... Perhaps the tiny principality of Waldeck's greatest claim to fame derives from its dispatch of auxiliaries to fight for George III in the War of American Independence. Its ruler's motives may have been typical: to avoid the ruinous consequences...

Journal de voyage en Grande Bretagne et en Irlande: 1784.
October 1, 1993... The journals of the Marquis de Bombelles have been among the most exciting recent finds on the last days of ancien regime France. From them Jacques Gury has transcribed and annotated Marc de Rombelles's Journal de voyage en Grande Bretagne et...

The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, vol. 8, The French Revolution, 1790-1794.
October 1, 1993... The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. VIII: The French Revolution, 1790-1794, ed. L. G. Mitchell and William B. Todd (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1989; Pp. XV + 552. 65[pounds]), contains the writings which Burke penned on the subject of...

Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England: 1760-1832.
October 1, 1993... Robert Hole's Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England, 1760-1832. (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xiv + 326. 32.50[pounds]) is an ambitious book. Although in unguarded moments Dr Hole writes as if his theme were the secularization of all...

Ireland and the French Revolution.
October 1, 1993... Ireland and the French Revolution, ed. Hugh Goug and David Dickson (Dublin: Irish Academic P., 1990; pp. x + 22.5. 25[pounds]), is the outcome of a conference on this theme held in Dublin in March 1989 under the patronage of distinguished...