The English Historical Review articles from September 2000

The English Historical Review archives from September 2000

The Early History of the Court of Chancery: A Comparative Study.
September 1, 2000... SOME thirty years ago, Miss Margaret Avery remarked that `as yet, no attempt has been made to survey the activities [of the early court of Chancery] in all its aspects over a long period'.(1) Chancery was, of course, an administrative...

The Secretariat of Henri I, Duc de Montmorency, 1563-1614.
September 1, 2000... THE secretaries of great men emerge rarely from their masters' shadows. Light has been shed on those who served early modern English figures, including the Cecils and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, but, despite the burgeoning literature on...

The Barwis Affair: Political Allegiance and the Scots during the the British Civil Wars(*).
September 1, 2000... LESS than a year after the English and Scots had laboured to reach a joint settlement with Charles I at Uxbridge in February 1645, relations between the two kingdoms had deteriorated to such an extent that it was widely believed that a new...

Cattle-Tracking in the Fonthill Letter(*).
September 1, 2000... THE Fonthill letter, a document sent to King Edward the Elder (899-924) setting out the history of an estate formerly owned by a thief called Helmstan, has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent years. A new edition of the...

A Radical Preacher's Handbook, c. 1383(*).
September 1, 2000... PETERHOUSE, Cambridge, MS 223 has attracted the attention of scholars only in passing. It is a compilation of theological works, mainly controversial and including a text of John Wyclif's De veritate sacrae scripturae, in which a marginal...

The Making of English Law. King Alfred to the Twelfth Century. Vol. I: Legislation and its Limits.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Making of English Law. King Alfred to the Twelfth Century. Vol. 1: Legislation and its Limits. By PATRICK WORMALD (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999; pp. xviii+ 574. 75 [pounds sterling]). THE Making of English Law is the century's finest...

Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West: Law as Text, Image and Experience.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West: Law as Text, Image and Experience. By PATRICK WORMALD (London: Hambledon P., 1999; pp. xxii + 401. 45 [pounds sterling]). THE Making of English Law is the century's finest monograph in English on...

A Crisis in Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A Crisis in Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England. By Richard Firth GREEN (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. xvi + 496. 49 [pounds sterling]). RICHARD Green has given us a large book in all senses of the word. This...

Religious Toleration. `The Variety of Rites from Cyrus to Defoe'.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Religious Toleration. `The Variety of Rites from Cyrus to Defoe'. Edited by J. C. LAURSEN (New York: St Martin's Press, 1999; pp. xx+252. N.P.). THE history of religious toleration is hardly underpopulated territory, yet this book breaks...

The Flight of Icarus. Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Flight of Icarus. Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. By JAMES S. AMELANG (Cambridge/Stanford: U.P., 1999; pp. xi+497. 35 [pounds sterling]). BETWEEN 1626 and 1660 a tanner of Barcelona called Miquel Parets kept a personal...

Edmund Burke.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Edmund Burke. Vol. I: 1730-1784. By F. P. LOCK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xv+564. 75 [pounds sterling]). MORE than for any of his contemporaries, the urge of recent studies has often been to enlist Burke into some cause, or to blame...

John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty.(Review)
September 1, 2000... John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty. By Rose A. MELIKAN (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xvii+370. 45 [pounds sterling]). LORD Eldon played a central role in the political and the legal world for over forty years. As Pitt's...

Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age. By RUTH HARRIS (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin P., 1999; pp. xxi+474. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE broadsheet press properly paid considerable attention to this book when it appeared last year,...

To Constitute a Nation. A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution.(Review)
September 1, 2000... To Constitute a Nation. A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution. By HELEN IRVING (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xiii+257. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). THE impending centenary of the inauguration of the...

A History of the Australian Environment Movement.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A History of the Australian Environment Movement. By DREW HUTTON and LIBBY CONNORS (Cambridge: U.P., 1999: pp. xiii+324. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). THE impending centenary of the inauguration of the...

Approaches to Landscape.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Approaches to Landscape, by Richard Muir (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; pp. xix+310. $59), is a broad survey of the different ways in which historians, geographers and those in cognate disciplines have treated the study of...

Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Environmental historians, declares Alfred W. Crosby in his foreword to Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History, ed. Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku (Helsinki: U.P., 1999; pp. 174. FIM 175), are `devoted to informing...

The Means of Naming. A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In The Means of Naming. A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe (London: UCL P., 1998; pp. xiii+402. Pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]), Stephen Wilson sets himself the ambitious task of providing an anthropological...

A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Saint Augustine to Queen Victoria.(Review)
September 1, 2000... N. J. G. Pounds's A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Saint Augustine to Queen Victoria (Cambridge: U.P., 2000; pp. xxvi+593. 60 [pounds sterling]) is a massive compilation which, announces the dust-jacket, `looks at...

Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and Their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Hugh Migennis's Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and Their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1999; pp. 195. 40 [pounds sterling]) takes as its starting point a fact that I, as a student working on...

Charters of Selsey (Anglo-Saxon Charters VI).(Review)
September 1, 2000... Susan Kelly's Charters of Selsey (Anglo-Saxon Charters VI) (Oxford: U.P., or the British Academy, 1998; pp. xcvii+123. 35 [pounds sterling]) is the latest achievement of a project which, thanks above all to her, is now gathering speed. The...

The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Virtually the only cavil that can be entered against Mechthild Gretsch's The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xii+471. 50 [pounds sterling]) is with its tide, in two respects. The first is...

Scotland in Dark Age Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Committee for Dark Age Studies at the University of St Andrews has now published four short volumes of Proceedings of its day conferences on early Scottish History. Three of these volumes, all edited by Barbara Crawford, have the specific...

Scotland in Dark Age Britain.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Committee for Dark Age Studies at the University of St Andrews has now published four short volumes of Proceedings of its day conferences on early Scottish History. Three of these volumes, all edited by Barbara Crawford, have the specific...

Conversion and Christianity in the North Sea World.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Committee for Dark Age Studies at the University of St Andrews has now published four short volumes of Proceedings of its day conferences on early Scottish History. Three of these volumes, all edited by Barbara Crawford, have the specific...

The Uses of Place-Names.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Committee for Dark Age Studies at the University of St Andrews has now published four short volumes of Proceedings of its day conferences on early Scottish History. Three of these volumes, all edited by Barbara Crawford, have the specific...

Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages.(Review)
September 1, 2000... One of the great puzzles of medieval ethnogenesis in Europe and Asia has been in the prehistory of the Finno-Ugrian Hungarians who arrived in the Pannonian plain in 895. An adapted version of this ethnic group's name of Magyar gives the...

Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, ed. Brendan Smith (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xv+283. 35 [pounds sterling]), is the product of a conference held at the University of Bristol in 1996. Three...

Documents in Medieval Latin.(Review)
September 1, 2000... John Thorley's Documents in Medieval Latin (London: Duckworth P., 1998; pp. 199. Pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]) is a very useful book, containing a brief introduction which both surveys the use of Latin in English documents and historical...

The Twelfth-Century Renaissance.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In the preface to R. N. Swanson's, The Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Manchester: U.P., 1999; pp. x+240. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]), the author sets out clearly the scope and intention of the book: he is not a specialist...

St Cuthbert and the Normans: The Church of Durham, 1071-1153.(Review)
September 1, 2000... William M. Aird's St Cuthbert and the Normans: The Church of Durham, 1071-1153 (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1998; pp. xvi+311. 45 [pounds sterling]) begins by tracing the accumulation of that church's estates from the seventh century onwards,...

Knights of the Cloister. Templars and Hospitallers in Central-Southern Occitania, 1100-1300.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Dominic Selwood's Knights of the Cloister. Templars and Hospitallers in Central-Southern Occitania, 1100-1300 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1999; pp. xx+261. 30 [pounds sterling]) is misleadingly titled, in that most of the Templars and...

Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350: Fontevraud in England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350: Fontevraud in England, by Berenice Kerr (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999. 45 [pounds sterling]), is an interesting and scholarly book. Concentrating on the order of Fontevraud and the three houses (Amesbury,...

The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Vol. III: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Vol. III: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141, ed. Patrick McGurk, with a facing-page translation (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. liv+351. 55...

Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Although it ranges widely and entertainingly, from Plato to `Honi soit qui mal y pense' and then on to Balzac, C. Stephen Jaeger's Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. xi+311. 34...

The Antiochene Wars.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Ashgate's latest Crusade Text in Translation follows its predecessors in providing useful assistance to teachers and valuable material for students with a translation of Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene Wars by Thomas S. Asbridge and...

The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour. Analysis and Translation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The cult of the Virgin at Rocamadour was an unusual one, in that there was neither relic nor statue nor ancient legend to reinforce the link between the church and its divine patron. As a consequence it needed a book of miracles more...

Le monache di San Zaccaria a Venezia nei secoli XII e XIII.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Venetian convent of San Zaccaria was one of the city's oldest and most prestigious ecclesiastical institutions. It owned the land on which the church and square of St Mark's were later built, and housed the tombs of several doges. Irmgard...

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The title of Carolyn Dinshaw's Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Durham, NC: Duke U.P., 1999; pp. xii+345. 37 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]) alludes to a phrase from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp...

Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Karma Lochrie's Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1999; pp. 292. 34 [pounds sterling]) is a tantalizing work. In the introduction, Lochrie tells us that she wants to find out `how, where and...

Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the `Bible moralisee'.(Review)
September 1, 2000... As part of the great upsurge of interest in Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, some attention has been paid to the portrayal of Jews in Christian art, most notably as symbols of the social outcast. Sarah Lipton's new study, Images...

The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways. Festschrift in Honor of Janos M. Bak.(Review)
September 1, 2000... For a presentation volume dedicated to a distinguished scholar, the German word festschrift is nowadays established in Anglo-American academic usage. The first syllable refers to festivity and this volume edited by Balazs Nagy and Marcell...

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Writing in 1887, W. J. Ashley judged that the `age of chivalry' as a descriptive title is both `its praise and condemnation'. Richard W. Kaeuper, in Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: U.P., 1999; pp. xi+338. 30 [pounds...

Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross.(Review)
September 1, 2000... During the past few years Christoph Maier has established his reputation as a leading scholar of crusade preaching in the thirteenth century. In his book, Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross...

Medicine and Religion c. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The medieval Church was never straightforwardly opposed to either the practice or the `consumption' of Galenic medicine. Only in quite specific circumstances -- monastic asceticism, a lay person's imminent death, the promotion of a saint's...

Select Cases in Manorial Courts, 1250-1550: Property and Family Law.(Review)
September 1, 2000... For a country which was the birthplace of the common law, medieval England contained an astonishing number of private jurisdictions in the shape of its manorial courts. Select Cases in Manorial Courts, 1250-1550: Property and Family Law, ed....

The Register of Gilbert Welton, Bishop of Carlisle 1353-1362.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Register of Gilbert Welton, Bishop of Carlisle 1353-1362, ed. R. L. Storey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. xxv+195. 25 [pounds sterling]) and The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280: II, ed. O. F. Robinson...

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280: II.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Register of Gilbert Welton, Bishop of Carlisle 1353-1362, ed. R. L. Storey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. xxv+195. 25 [pounds sterling]) and The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280: II, ed. O. F. Robinson...

Il nepotismo nel medioevo: papi, cardinali e famiglie nobili.(Review)
September 1, 2000... `Nepotism is a slippery phenomenon'. So Sandro Carocci begins his book, Il nepotismo nel medioevo: papi, cardinali e famiglie nobili (Rome: Viella, 1999; pp. 233. Pb. L35,000). He is right in suggesting that the idea almost defies analysis....

History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin.(Review)
September 1, 2000... This handsomely-produced volume, History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin, ed. James Kelly and Daire Keogh (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. x+390. 30 [pounds sterling]), comprises an Introduction and sixteen chapters by various hands,...

Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Yet another weird book about the early history of Eastern Europe? It is a field rich in pseudo-scholarship and some readers may glance at passages in Endre Bojtar's Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People, tr. S. Redey...

The Evolution of English Justice. Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Several generations of scholarship on medieval English law in its political and social context have taken the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as a focus, recognizing in this period a crucial era of change. Anthony Musson and W. M....

Les `donnes' au Moyen Age: Une forme de vie religieuse laique, v.1180-v.150.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The wish of numerous lay men and women to participate in some way in organized religious life has led to the emergence of numerous types of `semi-religious': lay brethren, members of fraternities, tertiaries, beguines, prebendaries and some...

Pimlico Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The declared aim of the Pimlico Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages, ed. Norman F. Cantor (London: Pimlico, 1999; pp. 464. Pb. 16 [pounds sterling]) is to illustrate `in word and image, the sometimes startling similarities between life today and...

The English in Rome, 1362-1420: Portrait of an Expatriate Community.(Review)
September 1, 2000... From Gregory the Great to Sir d'Arcy Osborne, there has always been an English colony in Rome, trading in goods or services appropriate to the city's many-sided identity as the site of the Apostles' shrines and the seat of the papal curia....

La Medecine medievale dans le cadre parisien, XIVe-XVe siecle.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Of no medieval university medical faculty is anything like an institutional history really possible -- a history embracing teachers, textbooks, pupils, as well as fabric and resources, and conveying something of the tone of the place. From...

Servir le Prince: les officiers des ducs de Bourbon a la fin du Moyen Age (1356-1523).(Review)
September 1, 2000... Following an established tradition of scholarship in late medieval French history, Olivier Matteoni's Servir le Prince: les officers des ducs de Bourbon a la fin du Moyen Age (1356-1523) (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998; pp. 507....

Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease, ed. Roger French, Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham and Luis Garcia-Ballester (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. 330. 49.50 [pounds sterling]), is a most valuable addition, under encouraging...

Das Konzil von Konstanz, 1414-1418. Band I: Bis zur Abreise Sigismunds nach Narbonne.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Walter Brandmuller's Das Konzil von Konstanz, 1414-1418. Band I: Bis zur Abreise Sigismunds nach Narbonne (Paderborn: Schoningh, 1999; pp. xxix+432. DM 168), is a revised edition of Band I, which first appeared in 1991. The publication of the...

Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, ed. L. M. Matheson (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. x+157. 40 [pounds sterling]), provides new editions of The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis, translated by John Shirley, and of the...

Commynes l'europeen. L'invention du politique.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In Joel Blanchard's Commynes l'europeen. L'invention du politique (Geneva: Droz, 1996; pp. 508. Pb. n.p.), Italian diplomacy replaces personal psychology as the key to understanding Commynes's memoirs. Where Dufournet famously interpreted the...

Renaissance Women Patrons.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The title of Catherine King's book, Renaissance Women Patrons (Manchester: U.P., 1998; pp. xii+272. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]) suggests a straightforward and timely topic. The subtitle Wives and Widows in Italy...

La Lucha de Bandos en el Pais Vasco: de los parientes mayores a la hidalguia universal.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Devolution has clearly not solved all Euskadi's problems, but it has unquestionably made it much easier to look at the Basque past. The formidable programme of publication of texts described by Lema and Munita in the second essay in this...

The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... As access to almost everything beyond the self becomes mediated by electronic communication, so sociability is being consigned to the realm of antiquarian eccentricity at an alarming rate. The steady fall in church attendance may be taken as...

The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy: Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The parish clergy of early Tudor England have been sympathetically depicted in a number of recent studies as by and large diligent pastors, conscientiously ministering the sacraments to their parishioners, among whom they lived on terms of...

The Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The title of The Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions, ed. Kimberly van Kampen and Paul Saenger (London: The British Library, 1999; pp. xii+164. 40 [pounds sterling]), leads the reader to expect a comprehensive survey of the earliest...

The Defeat of the Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Postpardon Revolts of December 1536 to March 1537 and their Effect.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In 1996 Michael Bush published, in The Pilgrimage of Grace, the most thoroughgoing analysis yet attempted of the rebel hosts of October-December 1536. Now, in The Defeat of the Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Postpardon Revolts of...

An Irish Prisoner of Conscience of the Tudor Era: Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523-86.(Review)
September 1, 2000... To write the biography of anyone who lived in sixteenth-century Ireland is a brave undertaking. Few are well documented. Such materials as do survive are most likely to be found either among the suspect testimonies of the state papers or in...

The Spanish Inquisition.(Review)
September 1, 2000... John Edwards's The Spanish Inquisition (Stroud: Tempus, 1999; pp. 160. 18.99 [pounds sterling]) is a fair and balanced book. Henry Kamen broke new ground in the 1960s by using reliable sources to explain how the black legend of the...

The Recovery of the past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Recovery of the past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker, ed. Timothy Graham and Andrew G. Watson (Cambridge: C.U. Library, for the Cambridge Bibliographical Soc., 1998;...

The Theatre of Death. The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England, 1570-1625.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Jennifer Wooward has had the interesting idea of investigating the changing nature of English funerals, especially royal ones, in the context of the English Reformation. In fact, The Theatre of Death. The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals...

Press Censorship in Elizabethan England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Following upon the work of such standard authorities as F. S. Siebert (Freedom of the Press in England 1476-1776, 1965), Elizabethan censorship has traditionally been viewed as an unremittingly repressive, far-reaching and above all a...

The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, and Earl of Essex, 1585-1597.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Paul Hammer's The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, and Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xviii+44.6. 45 [pounds sterling]) tackles a big subject in a big way. He wants `to...

Providence in Early Modern England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... As Alexandra Walsham admits, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. xvii+387. 50 [pounds sterling]) grapples with `a large and slippery subject'. A Sussex preacher warned in 1598 that `everie plague, everie...

An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France: Crime and Justice in the Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664.(Review)
September 1, 2000... According to the abbe Flechier's disdainful comments in his memoirs on the Grands Jours d'Auvergne of 1665, Auvergnats were rough, primitive, violent people and, the women in particular, ugly. Auvergnats who left their pays were notorious as...

Identita territoriali e cultura politica nella prima eta moderna. Territoriale Indentitat und politische Kultur in der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
September 1, 2000... There could scarcely have been a more appropriate setting for a conference on the invention of tradition in the alpine region than the North Italian city of Trent, which links so many of Europe's more marginal areas. Marco Bellabarba and...

The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Anyone who has ever written on, or taught, English seventeenth-century history will know the difficulties of how to handle parliament. David L. Smith's The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 (London: Arnold, 1999; pp. xii+260. 45 [pounds...

English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Traditionally, the seventeenth century has been seen as an age of `decline' for the Mediterranean, while the same period saw the `rise' of the Atlantic economies of the English and of the Dutch. After reading Gigliola Pagano de Divitiis,...

The Catholic Reformation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In The Catholic Reformation (London: Routledge, 1999; pp. xi+258. 45 [pounds sterling]), Michael A. Mullett surveys the transformation of Catholicism in the early modern period, drawing examples from an impressively broad range of...

The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638-61.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Martyn Bennett has had the ingenious, if not completely original, idea of writing the history of the seventeenth-century civil wars from. the bottom up, through their consequences for those at the receiving end. In The Civil Wars Experienced:...

The Royal Image. Representations of Charles I.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Charles I promoted and participated in a court culture that created an indelible image of splendour, thanks largely to the talents of an unparalleled group of artists including Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, Daniel Mytens, Van Dyck and, not least,...

Zwischen Alltag und Katastrophe: der Dreissigjahrige Krieg aus der Nahe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In November 1997 a conference was held in Gottingen in anticipation of the 350th anniversary of the end of the Thirty Years War. The purpose was to focus on eye-witness accounts in order to illuminate the experience of ordinary participants...

Cromwell in Ireland.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Oliver Cromwell's entanglement with Ireland perennially fascinates. James Scott Wheeler, in Cromwell in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1999; pp. x+305. 19.99 [pounds sterling]), follows the general and his army as they reconquered the...

The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant, 1647-1656.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The diaries of the English merchant Robert Bargrave of Canterbury, which Michael G. Brennan has edited as The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant, 1647-1656 (London: British Library, for the Hakluyt Soc., 1999; pp. xix+288. 45...