The English Historical Review articles from September 2002

The English Historical Review archives from September 2002

Richard Hooker's reputation *.(author of 'Ecclesiastical Polity')
September 1, 2002... FROM my undergraduate days in Cambridge, I remember a lecture by the late Sir Geoffrey Elton in which he pronounced not altogether kindly on the achievement of another giant of early modern historical writing, Professor Lawrence Stone. Elton...

Re-writing the English conquest of Jamaica in the late seventeenth century *.
September 1, 2002... IN 1688 a newly written History of Jamaica described Oliver Cromwell's `Western Design', the principal achievement of which was the English conquest of Jamaica in 1655. In this embroidered retelling, when the English fleet arrived the Spanish...

Shareholder democracies? English stock companies and the politics of corporate governance during the industrial revolution *.
September 1, 2002... THE current concern in the United Kingdom with the governance of large private enterprises and related issues finds historical echoes in the sporadic efforts of the nineteenth-century state, assisted by a burgeoning financial press, to monitor...

The reorientation of French diplomacy in the mid-1920s: the role of Jacques Seydoux *.
September 1, 2002... AFTER the 1939-45 war, the former head of the Quai d'Orsay, the poet-diplomat Alexis Leger, remarked about the ill-fated eastern system of alliances concluded by France in the 1920s: It was not the diplomats but the military in France...

The naming of Bishop Ithamar *. (Notes And Documents).(Bishop Ithamar of Rochester)
September 1, 2002... BISHOP Ithamar of Rochester is remembered thanks to two passages in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. In the year 644 Paulinus, `once bishop of York and then bishop of Rochester', died, and in his place Honorius, archbishop of...

The Church in Ancient Society: from Galilee to Gregory the Great.
September 1, 2002... By HENRY CHADWICK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. 730. 80 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a welcome and important book. Henry Chadwick's volume covering the first six centuries of the early Church fills a gap in the still uneven series of the...

The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, Vol. I: 940-1216.
September 1, 2002... The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, Vol. I: 940-1216. Edited by DAVID KNOWLES, C. N. L. BROOKE and VERA C. M. LONDON (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xlvii+360. 45 [pounds sterling]). The Heads of Religious Houses:...

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Vol. II: the Heroic Age.
September 1, 2002... By R. W. SOUTHERN, with notes and additions by LESLEY SMITH and BENEDICTA WARD, S. L. G. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. 228. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). VOLUME I of the Trilogy which the late and much loved Richard Southern hoped to complete...

Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours.
September 1, 2002... By FREDRIC L. CHEYETTE (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 2001; pp. xv+474. 23.50 [pounds sterling]). THIS is an impressive book whose author aims `to present Ermengard and her contemporaries in terms of their own age rather than as a later age...

The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North West Europe, 1270-1380.
September 1, 2002... By MALCOLM VALE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvii+422. 35 [pounds sterling]). MALCOLM Vale's The Princely Court is an important book. Its geographical focus is on the courts of north-western Europe, of Flanders, Brabant, Hainault and...

Venice Reconsidered: the History and Civilization of an Italian City State, 1297-1797.
September 1, 2002... Edited by JOHN MARTIN and DENNIS ROMANO (Baltimore/ London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 538. 35 [pounds sterling]). THIS new collection of essays about the Most Serene Republic is an open invitation to consider how writing about the...

Church and Society in County Kildare, c. 1470-1547.
September 1, 2002... By MARY ANN LYONS (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 208. N.p.). MARY Ann Lyons's monograph provides a welcome addition to an accumulating stock of local studies dealing with the period of momentous change in Irish history that saw the...

New Worlds, Lost Worlds.
September 1, 2002... By SUSAN BRIGDEN (London: Allen Lane/Penguin P., 2000; pp. xiv+434. 20 [pounds sterling]). ALTHOUGH this is a book by a scholar, it is not a scholar's book, and is not intended to be. It is in the nature of an impressionist portrait of...

Making Ireland British, 1580-1650.
September 1, 2002... By NICHOLAS CANNY (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 633. 55 [pounds sterling]). NICHOLAS Canny's account of Making Ireland British, 1580-1650, prompts the rueful reflection that with enemies like this the nationalist version of Irish history...

West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State.
September 1, 2002... By MARK STOYLE (Exeter: U. of Exeter P., 2002; pp. xxv+262. 40 [pounds sterling]). MARK Stoyle's book is a series of eight interconnected articles (five of them previously published) and some useful appendices. His argument is that a...

The Boxmaker's Revenge: `Orthodoxy', `Heterodoxy', and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London.
September 1, 2002... By PETER LAKE (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 422. 55 [pounds sterling]). THE starting point for this remarkable work is a sermon, soon printed as The White Wolf, preached at Paul's Cross in February 1627 by Stephen Denison, the...

The Scope of Local History, and the Potential of the Hearth Tax Returns (2000 Phillimore Lecture).
September 1, 2002... The Scope of Local History and the Potential of the Hearth Tax Returns (2000 Phillimore Lecture). By MARGARET SPUFFORD (Salisbury: British Association for Local History, 2001; pp. 20. Pb. 3.50 [pounds sterling]). Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax...

Roundhead Reputations: the English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity.
September 1, 2002... By BLAIR WORDEN (London: Allen Lane/The Penguin P., 2001, pp. 387. 20 [pounds sterling]). APPEARING at about the same time as J. C. Davis's Oliver Cromwell, the latest in a lengthening series of `Reputations in History', this is a...

Etat et societe en France aux [XVII.sup.e] et [XVIII.sup.e] siecles: Melanges offerts a Yves Durand.
September 1, 2002... Edited by JUN-PIERRE BARDET et al. (Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2000; pp. 552. F 240). THIRTY-SEVEN historians have contributed to this substantial Festschrift for Yves Durand. They include distinguished professors,...

Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: `from an Antique Land'.
September 1, 2002... By NIGEL LEASK (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 338. 45 [pounds sterling]). NIGEL Leask quotes Bishop Reginald Heber in 1813 as making a distinction between travel books fit to find `a place in the library' and those that `may lie without...

Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants.
September 1, 2002... By MARTYN LYONS (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 208. 45 [pounds sterling]). MARTYN Lyons moves easily between the French Revolution and Napoleon on the one hand, and the history of the book and sociology of reading on the other. He...

Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone.
September 1, 2002... By JOSEPH S. MEISEL (New York: Columbia U.P., 2001; pp. 382. 33.50 [pounds sterling]). IN this informative and well written study, Joseph S. Meisel is concerned only incidentally with the content of public speech and the strategies of...

Porfirio Diaz.
September 1, 2002... By PAUL GARNER (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. ix+269. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). FOLLOWING independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico underwent two generations of political instability, recurrent foreign invasion, and sluggish economic...

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression.
September 1, 2002... By HAROLD JAMES (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 2001; pp. 260. 27.50 [pounds sterling]). THE thesis which provides the theme for this study is contained in an introductory chapter and two brief concluding chapters. The bulk of the...

The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948.
September 1, 2002... Edited by EUGENE L. ROGAN and AVI SHLAIM (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 234. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). THE insistent theme of The War for Palestine lies in the subtitle: `Rewriting the History of 1948'....

Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City.
September 1, 2002... By BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (London: Profile Books, 2001; pp. 412. 20 [pounds sterling]). `No other town has caused such continuous waves of killing, rape and unholy misery over the centuries as this Holy City', wrote Arthur Koestler during an...

Offshore Island Politics: The Constitutional and Political Development of the Isle of Man in the Twentieth Century.
September 1, 2002... By DAVID G. KERMODE (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P., 2001; pp. 415. 49.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). THE recent history of the Isle of Man--a Crown dependency on the doorstep of the UK--is, in many respects, one of being...

Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain.
September 1, 2002... by Guy de la Bedoyere (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2001; pp. 256. 25 [pounds sterling]). This book is a largely successful attempt to convey some of the recent research on the Roman military in Britain to a wide audience. The author...

St Augustine of Hippo: Life and Controversies.
September 1, 2002... by Gerald Bonner (Norwich: Canterbury P., 2002; pp. 432. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Gerald Bonner's biography of Augustine was first published in 1963, and very quickly established itself as the best general account of its subject then...

The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand.
September 1, 2002... ed. Inge Lyse Hansen and Chris Wickham (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. 388. Eur 99). This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses complex questions of economic change in the post-Roman world everywhere from Scandinavia to Syria. A sequel to...

Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest and Authority in an Early Medieval Society.
September 1, 2002... by Warren Brown (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 2001; pp. 224. 25.95 [pounds sterling]). The subtitle of Warren Brown's monograph echoes the late Karl Leyser's pioneering study of Ottonian Germany. It is now over twenty years since Rule and...

The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia: A Treatise on the History of the Systems of Money of Account in the former Frisia, c. 600-c. 1500.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Dirk Jan Henstra (Groningen: U. of Groningen P./ Verloren, 2000; pp. xix+462. DFL 69). This interesting volume publishes Henstra's doctoral thesis, and it shows. As a result, much of the careful dotting of `i's and crossing of `t's,...

Byzantium: a History.
September 1, 2002... by John Haldon (Stroud: Tempus, 2000; pp. 192. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). It is an impressive feat to compress 1150 years of Byzantine history into some 130 pages of connected prose. Admittedly the copious flow of information from the East...

The Byzantine Wars: Battles and Campaigns of the Byzantine Era.(Book Review)
September 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 narrators...

Anna Komnene and Her Times.
September 1, 2002... ed. Thalia Gouma-Peterson (New York: Garland, 2000; pp. xiv+193. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). The figure of Anna Komnene should loom large whenever historians look back at their predecessors. The Alexiad, an account of the reign of her...

Charters of Abingdon Abbey, 2 vols.
September 1, 2002... ed. Susan Kelly (2 vols.) (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy; pp. ccxxx, xxxiv+650. 55 [pounds sterling] each vol.). The compilers of two chronicle-cartularies for Abingdon abbey, one in the late twelfth century, one in the...

Millennium in Central Europe: A History of Hungary.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Laszlo Kontler (Budapest: Atlantisz Publishing, 1999; pp. 537. Pb.n.p.). This is the last, but the most outstanding, work on the short yet rather distinguished list of twentieth-century single-author short histories of Hungary (apart...

The Normans.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Marjorie Chibnall (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 191. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). This study is a valuable contribution to a series of short accounts of European peoples that have already established themselves as coherent and stimulating...

The Normans and their Adversaries at War: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. Richard P. Abels and Bernard S. Bachrach (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 232. 50 [pounds sterling]). This is the latest welcome addition to Boydell's excellent Warfare in History list. It displays a clear cohesion around a...

Henry IV of Germany: 1056-1106.
September 1, 2002... by I. S. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 408. 45 [pounds sterling]). Though the Investiture Contest and the conflict between Gregory and Henry forms a staple diet of undergraduate teaching on medieval history, and the...

Das Brief-und Memorialbuch des Albert Behaim.
September 1, 2002... ed. Thomas Frenz and Peter Herde (Munich: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 2000; pp. 655. DM 180). The oldest surviving paper manuscript in Germany is in the Munich State Library as MS Clm 2574b. It has today 141 folios in ten fascicules,...

Les comtes de Toulouse et leur entourage, XIIe-XIIIe siecles.
September 1, 2002... by Laurent Mace (Toulouse: Editions Privat, 2000; pp. 445. Eur 22.11). Given the enormous interest shown over the past thirty years in the history of the Cathars, it is surely remarkable that Mace's should be the first full-scale study of...

Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc.
September 1, 2002... by John H. Arnold (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 328. 38.50 [pounds sterling]). The seventeen volumes of inquisitorial records from Languedoc in the Doat collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale have been known to students...

La Guerre Sainte: La formation de l'idee de croisade dans l'Occident chretien.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Jean Flori (Paris: Aubier, 2001; pp. 406. F159). In Jean Flori's latest interpretation of early medieval mentalities, a vigorous survey of ground first prospected by Carl Erdmann, the focus is Holy War, fighting in the service of God,...

Unknown Crusader Castles.
September 1, 2002... by Kristian Molin (New York/London: Hambledon, 2001; pp. xxii+421. 25 [pounds sterling]). This is an ambitious attempt to provide an overview of crusader castles in the eastern Mediterranean between the late twelfth and late fourteenth...

The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Nicholas Vincent (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 254. 30 [pounds sterling]). Matthew Paris's account of the presentation of the Holy Blood to Westminster Abbey by Henry III on 13 October 1247 is one of the chronicler's most...

Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleration, c. 1100-c. 1150.
September 1, 2002... by Cary J. Nederman (University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 157. $40; pb. $18.95). This book grew from a series of related papers given over a period of time. Nederman's thesis is that toleration became an interesting,...

Una storia della giustizia: Dal pluralismo dei fori al moderno dualismo tra coscienza e diritto.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Paolo Prodi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2000; pp. 499. N.p.). Prodi's book stands out as exceptional in the landscape of current historical writing. It is a work of research based on first-hand sources but it is also an interpretation of the...

Time in the Medieval World.
September 1, 2002... ed. Chris Humphrey and W. M. Ormrod (Woodbridge: York Medieval P., 2001; pp. 176. 40 [pounds sterling]). In his editorial introduction to this collection of eight essays, Chris Humphrey tries to draw out some common threads from the...

Medieval Naval Warfare: 1000-1500.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Susan Rose (London: Routledge, 2002; pp. 155. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Medieval Naval Warfare forms part of the extensive Routledge series Warfare and History. It is intended primarily as an introductory text for undergraduates and it...

The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk: c. 1250-c. 1320.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. S. D. Church (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Suffolk Records Society, 2001; pp. xv+117. 25 [pounds sterling]). A substantial archive of local records has survived from medieval England, although the overwhelming majority of extant...

Lower Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Late Medieval England: The Courts of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336-1349, and the Deanery of Wisbech, 1458-1484.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. L. R. Poos (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. lxv+687. 50 [pounds sterling]). This immense volume contains the full record of two different courts in two different centuries. First, that of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln for its peculiar...

Monastic Archaeology: Papers on the Study of Medieval Monasteries.
September 1, 2002... ed. Graham Keevill, Mick Aston and Teresa Hall (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001; pp. 202. 35 [pounds sterling]). This book originates from a conference held in 1994, but almost half of it is taken up by two chapters from the same author, James...

Cloister, Abbot, and Precinct in Medieval Monasteries.
September 1, 2002... by Michael Thompson (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2001; pp. 160. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Having examined the houses of the great landowners and bishops, Michael Thompson has turned his attention to the other great builders of medieval...

The Politics of Pearl: Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by John M. Bowers (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001; pp. xviii + 236. 45 [pounds sterling]). The long alliterative poem Pearl is conventionally regarded, along with the shorter biblical narrative Patience, as the least political and...

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. Diana Webb (London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001; pp. 290. Pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). This is an outstandingly successful anthology of a wide range of sources in translation or summary form, covering the period 1100-1500 but with...

St. George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. C. Richmond and E. Scarff (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2001; pp. 214. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). This magnificently produced volume, with contributions from twelve different authors, will be a splendid feast for...

Later Medieval Europe: 1250-1520.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Daniel Waley and Peter Denley (Harlow: Longman (for Pearson Education), 2001; pp. xxvii+341. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). It is a difficult task to write a successful textbook; to revise one poses a greater set of difficulties. The...

Monarchy, Aristocracy, and the State in Europe: 1300-1800.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Hillay Zmora (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. 156. Pb. 11.99 [pounds sterling]). Zmora's short text tells a complex story with incisiveness and lucidity. In the later middle ages--and more specifically around the end of the fourteenth...

Macht und Herrschaft im Johanniterorden des 15. Jahrhunderts: Verfassung und Verwaltung der Johanniter auf Rhodos, 1421-1522.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Jurgen Sarnowsky (Munster: LIT Verlag, 2001; pp. 750. DM99.80). The history of the Hospital of St John in the later middle ages has been attracting increasing attention. In recent decades much has been written about the Hospitallers in...

Dress in the Middle Ages.
September 1, 2002... by Francoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 168. 22.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]). The authors of Dress in the Middle Ages claim that `in recent years more research has been devoted...

Die Reformation im Reich. 3: Auflage.
September 1, 2002... by Peter Blickle (Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer, 2000; pp. 264. DM34.80). Among the student textbooks in German on the Reformation, those by Bernd Moeller and Peter Blickle have over the last two decades claimed pride of place. With the third...

The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by J. N. Hillgarth (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan P., 2000; pp. xxii+584. 45.50 [pounds sterling]). The meteoric rise of Spain to great power status during the course of the sixteenth century was as unwelcome to Spain's neighbours as it was...

Spanish Society: 1400-1600.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Teofilo F. Ruiz (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2001; pp. xvi+286. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The recent publication, in 1999, of a social history of early modern Spain by James Casey, inevitably prompts comparison with the book under review...

Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society.
September 1, 2002... by Stanley Chojnacki (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U. P., 2000; pp. 370. 31 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]). To historians of Venice, the name of Stanley Chojnacki has been synonymous for a generation with the study of...

The Jews of Early Modern Venice.
September 1, 2002... ed. Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. 314. 36 [pounds sterling]). The introduction to this volume by Robert Davis and the opening survey of Venetian Jewish history by Benjamin Ravid are...

Lincoln Wills, 1532-4 .(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. David Hickman (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Lincoln Record Soc., 2001; pp. xxviii+474. 50 [pounds sterling]). This is a magnificent volume (as its price suggests), and follows in a great tradition. The Lincoln Record Society has...

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village.
September 1, 2002... by Eamon Duff (London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 232. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). This is a highly valuable contribution, from one of the most thought-provoking historians currently working in the field, to our understanding of that complex...

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman.
September 1, 2002... by Barbara Howard Traister (Chicago: Chicago U.P., 2001; pp. 250. 19 [pounds sterling]). Simon Forman (1552-1611) was a controversial figure in his lifetime, an astrological physician pursued unstintingly for illicit practice by the London...

Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages under James VI and I.
September 1, 2002... by Tristan Marshall (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 211. 45 [pounds sterling]) It has been claimed by John Morrill that `the one group who most resolutely and consistently refused to regard themselves as Britons were the English in...

Press Censorship in Jacobean England.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Cyndia Susan Clegg (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 286. 40 [pounds sterling]). As in her Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (rev. ante, cxv (2000), 963), to which this book is a sequel, Cyndia Clegg sets the practice of...

The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. Brendan Dooley and Sabrina Baron (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. 310. 65 [pounds sterling]). Never judge a book by its cover, they say--and this has a particularly ugly laminated one. Never judge a book by its title, they should add. By...

Aspects of English Protestantism: c. 1530-1700.
September 1, 2002... by Nicholas Tyacke (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 354. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Although published in the `Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain' series, this is not a new monograph, but a reprint of twelve essays...

Cromwell's Major-Generals: Godly Government During the English Revolution.
September 1, 2002... by Christopher Durston (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 260. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Oliver Cromwell's contradictions nicely mirror those of the English Revolution itself. Cromwell was a puritan reformer, coercing his...

Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism .(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by David Loewenstein (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 413. 40 [pounds sterling]). David Loewenstein's `cross-disciplinary' book is a learned and tenacious account of `radical' and `revolutionary' literature during the Puritan...

The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Elizabeth Lane Furdell (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. 305. 40 [pounds sterling]). Furdell's book raises some interesting issues. Unusually for a prosopographical study, she finds few patterns of type, status, career-structure,...

Exchequer Equity Records and Proceedings; 1649-1841.(two books on equity records)
September 1, 2002... Exchequer Equity Records and Proceedings, 1649-1841, by Henry Horwitz (Richmond: Public Record Office, 2001; pp. 115. 15 [pounds sterling]). London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5: A Calendar, ed. Henry Horwitz...

Gunpowder Mills: Documents of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
September 1, 2002... by A. G. Crocker, G. M. Crocker, et al. (Bristol: Surrey Record Soc., 2000; pp. xxvi+181. 15 [pounds sterling]). There are comparatively few books devoted entirely to the subject of gunpowder: in this publication the Surrey Record Society...

Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by David Allan (Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education, 2002; pp. 220. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). David Allan's book offers a readable account of eighteenth-century Scotland aimed at undergraduates but also likely to appeal to the general...

Pious Traders in Medicine: a German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America.
September 1, 2002... by Renate Wilson (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 258. $37.50). The late Whitfield J. Bell made specialists in the history of the middle colonies familiar with the names and deeds of those who dispensed medicine, tried to...

The Abbe Gregoire and His World.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... ed. Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard H. Popkin (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000; pp. XV+191. NLG 190). Once it was Mirabeau. Episodically, it has been Danton. But today, the acceptable face of the French Revolution is Henri Gregoire. A priest who wore...

Time and Work in England: 1750-1830.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by Hans-Joachim Voth (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 304. 45 [pounds sterling]). Hans-Joachim Voth's Time and Work contains important and impressive quantitative research into a crucial dimension of social change in eighteenth-century...

Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England: 1780-1840.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... by John E. Archer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 110. 19.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 7.95 [pounds sterling]). John Archer has written a lucid and judicious guide to the historiographical territory of popular protest in England in the...

Essex Pauper Letters: 1731-1837.
September 1, 2002... ed. Thomas Sokoll (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xli+727. 50 [pounds sterling]). Reviewers of books on poor relief, charity, and other aspects of social policy frequently complain of the lack in them of the `voices of the poor'. This...