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Recent articles from Albion

The ecclesia Anglicana goes to war: prayers, propaganda, and conquest during the reign of Edward I of England, 1272-1307.
September 22, 2004... It is widely accepted by scholars that the Hundred Years' War, in general, and the reign of King Edward III of England (1327-1377), in particular, witnessed a crucial stage in the development of state sponsored propaganda efforts to mobilize the nation for war. (1) Edward III's government...

Heretic hunting beyond the seas: John Brett and his encounter with the Marian exiles.
September 22, 2004... The story of beleaguered Protestants who fled to the continent during the reign of Mary Tudor in the 1550s is well-known, but less familiar is the attempt by the queen and her representatives to order some of those exiles apprehended and brought back home for confrontation or punishment. One...

A prospectus for a "New" constitutional history of early modern England (1).
September 22, 2004... The study of English constitutional history has fallen on hard times. Once an intellectually thriving field, constitutional history now conjures up visions of bad tweed and bow ties coupled with dryly-legalistic discussions of statutes, charters, parliamentary debates, Year Books, and legal...

Women preachers in the Bible Christian Connexion*.
September 22, 2004... In 1862 Mary O'Bryan Thorne, daughter of the founder of the Bible Christian Connexion and a Bible Christian local preacher, wrote in her diary: "At our East Street anniversary I spoke at 11, and Serena [her daughter] at 2:30 and 6; one was converted in the evening." (1) She regarded this as a...

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Owen Davies. Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History. New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xv, 246. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-297-6. Owen Davies' Cunning-Folk is a much-needed study of the popular magicians of England from around 1500 to the twentieth...