Albion articles from September 2004

Albion archives from September 2004

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh Centenary Conferences.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Timothy Reuter ed. Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh Centenary Conferences. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xvi, 387. $89.95. ISBN 0-7546-0957-X. The millenary commemoration of King Alfred in 1901 marked the high point of the...

Royal Tombs of Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Duffy. Royal Tombs of Medieval England. Gloucestershire, U. K.: Tempus Publishing. 2003. Pp. 320. $24.99. ISBN 0-7524-2579-X. Mark Duffy's book is the first survey of the royal tombs of medieval England since J. Charles Wall's Tombs of...

The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c. 1220.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hugh M. Thomas. The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c. 1220. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 462. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-925123-1. The thoroughness of the Norman Conquest of England is...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons, eds. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xxix, 506. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-29582-0. According to its editors, the strength of this collection of essays on the life and...

Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 1225-1350.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Linda E. Mitchell. Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 1225-1350. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. vii, 185. $49.95. ISBN 0-312-29297-X. The considerable influence wielded by the rich widows of late medieval...

Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 269. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-8014-8830-3. This collection of essays...

Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Phillipp R. Schofield. Peasant and Community in Medieval England 1200-1500. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. vi, 279. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-64711-4. The study of the medieval English countryside has undergone major historiographical...

Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270-1540.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kim M. Phillips. Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270-1540. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xv, 246. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-5964-X. While studies of domestic service,...

King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Roy Martin Haines. King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 604. $65.00. ISBN 0-7735-2432-0. Edward II was an awful ruler. He had no...

The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Richard Gorski. The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 213. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-933-8. Scholars have long acknowledged the key role that the...

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Garthine Walker. Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 310. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-57356-4. Garthine Walker's book is...

Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, eds. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 363. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82434-6. For many years the British study of books and reading was...

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hazel Pierce. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership. Cardiff, Wales: The University of Wales Press; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago. 2003. Pp. x, 273. $79.95. ISBN 0-7083-1783-9. ...

Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. 2004. Pp. xiv, 440. $34.95 paper. ISBN 0-631-2393-7. This narrative survey is designed to introduce North American...

London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution in English Writing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mary-Rose McLaren. London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution in English Writing. Rochester, N. Y.: D.S. Brewer. 2002. Pp. xiv, 294. $110.00. ISBN 0-859-91646-4. The several London chronicles of the fifteenth century (this...

The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (1525-78).(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Juan E. Tazon. The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (1525-78). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. viii, 282. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-3285-7. Sixteenth-century England was an era full of talented and not-so-talented, self-made individualists...

Elizabeth I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... David Loades. Elizabeth I. New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xxii, 410. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-304-2. Biographies of Elizabeth I employee various approaches. Some are more personal biographies than the...

The Ruling Elite of Cambridgeshire, England, c. 1520-1603.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Eugene J. Bourgeois II. The Ruling Elite of Cambridgeshire, England, c. 1520-1603. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellon Press. 2003. Pp. vi, 377. $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6655-X. Bourgeois's study of the magistrates who ruled about two-thirds of...

Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paola Pugliatti. Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. vii, 233. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0344-X. Paola Pugliatti's argument involves assuming that literary historians and critics have not grasped the...

"High and Mighty Queens" of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves, eds. "High and Mighty Queens" of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xii, 271. $49.95. ISBN 1-4039-6088-7. "High and Mighty Queens"...

The Bible in English: Its History and Influence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... David Daniell. The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 899. $40.00. ISBN 0-300-09930-4. When I first set out to read David Daniell's new book, I was looking forward to seeing...

The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500-1730.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Daniel Woolf. The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500-1730. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 421. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-925778-7. Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf, eds. The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in...

Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... K. J. Kesselring. Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 238. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81948-2. One of the more welcome developments in...

Reformation in Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Felicity Heal. Reformation in Britain and Ireland. (Oxford History of the Christian Church.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 568. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-826924-2. Felicity Heal's magisterial account of...

The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan, and the Malthusian Trap.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Alan Macfarlane. The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xxxv, 427. $24.95 paper. ISBN 1-4039-0432-4. What are the origins of industrial civilization? Why was England the world's...

Gender, Society, and Print Culture in Late Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Helen Berry. Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xiii, 264. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-0496-9. Helen Berry's new work is a reasoned and cogent...

Nobody's Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Annabel Patterson. Nobody's Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 288. $27.50. ISBN 0-300-09288-1. Annabel Patterson's call, as her subtitle phrases it, for "A New Whig...

The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter de Bolla. The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 274. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-4800-4. One is perhaps a tad...

Barbarism and Religion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... J. G. A. Pocock. Barbarism and Religion. (Volume Three: The First Decline and Fall.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 527. $60.00 ISBN 0-521-82445-1. J. H. Hexter sagely observed of Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment,...

George III: King and Politicians, 1760-1770.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter D. G. Thomas. George III: King and Politicians, 1760-1770. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. ix, 262. $24.95. ISBN 0-7190-6429-5. G. M. Ditchfield. George III: An Essay in Monarchy....

John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Anthony Page. John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishers. 2003. Pp. xii, 309. $68.95. ISBN 0-275-97775-7. Overshadowed by John Wilkes, Major John Cartwright, Christopher Wyvill,...

Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp, eds. Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xii, 288. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0761-5. There has been growing interest in networks as a form...

Prostitution, Women and Misuse of the Law: The Fallen Daughters of Eve.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Helen J. Self. Prostitution, Women and Misuse of the Law: The Fallen Daughters of Eve. Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2003. Pp. ix, 318. $26.50 paper. ISBN 0-7146-8371-X. This carefully prepared book is a very...

Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lynn M. Alexander. Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2003. Pp. vii, 257. $44.95. ISBN 0-8214-1493-3. Lynn Alexander's monograph takes an interdisciplinary...

Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Crista Zorn. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 213. $49.95. ISBN 0-8214-1497-6. With a writing career spanning both the late nineteenth and early...

Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833-1840.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Glenn Melancon. Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833-1840. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. vii, 158. $59.95. ISBN 0-754-607-04-6. 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the...

Hannah More: The First Victorian.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Anne Stott. Hannah More: The First Victorian. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 384. $30.00. ISBN 0-19-924532-0. Anne Stott's new biography of Hannah More is a study in the complexities and contradictions in a woman...

Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Owen R. Ashton and Paul A. Pickering. Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists. London: The Merlin Press; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago. 2002. Pp. vi, 169. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-85036-519-8. This...

Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... James P. Flint. Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852. Washington: Catholic University of America Press; dist. by Hopkins, Fredericksburg, Pa. 2003. Pp. xvii, 302. $39.95. ISBN 0-8132-1327-4. Saho...

The House of Novello: Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829-1866.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Victoria L. Cooper. The House of Novello: Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829-1866. (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. viii, 210. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0088-2. William Tyldesley....

"The Common Purposes of Life": Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Frank A. J. L. James, ed. "The Common Purposes of Life": Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. 2002. Pp. xvi, 456. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0960-X. The Royal Institution of Great...

Bulwer-Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Leslie Mitchell. Bulwer-Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters. London: Hambledon and London; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xxi, 292. $34.95. ISBN 1-85285-423-5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton remains among the least studied...

Gladstone.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Michael Partridge. Gladstone. (Routledge Historical Biographies.) New York: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xx, 284. $15.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-21627-3. If Colin Matthew was correct in suggesting that it is unlikely that anyone person could write a...

The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... David Stack. The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914. Cheltenham, U.K.: New Clarion Press; dist. by Paul and Co., Chicago. 2003. Pp. viii, 149. $39.95. ISBN 1-873797-38-9. This short book is the successor volume to...

Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Freeman. Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870-1914. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 217. $70.00. ISBN 0-86193-257-9. As urbanization and its associated problems spread in England, rural areas became increasingly...

Britain and the Geneva Disarmament Conference: A Study in International History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Carolyn J. Kitching. Britain and the Geneva Disarmament Conference: A Study in International History. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. vii, 230. $65.00. ISBN 0-333 96850-6. Alexander Cadogan, principal adviser to the United Kingdom delegation...

The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Richard Schweitzer. The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers. (Contributions in Military Studies, Number 225.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2003. Pp. xxxiii, 313. $74.95. ISBN...

Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sonya O. Rose. Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 328. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-925572-5. Which People's War? contributes to our understanding of...

Churchill's Guests: Britain and the Belgian Exiles during World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Robert W. Allen. Churchill's Guests: Britain and the Belgian Exiles during World War II. Westport, Conn.: Praeger; dist. by Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn. 2003. Pp. xxviii, 212. $67.95. ISBN 1-313-32218-X. During World War II...

The Long Search for a Third Way: The British Labour Party and the Italian Left Since 1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ilaria Favretto. The Long Search for a Third Way: The British Labour Party and the Italian Left Since 1945. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xii, 233. $68.00. ISBN 0-333-97714-9. The European Left has been well served of late by Eley's...

"The Autobiography of a Nation": The 1951 Festival of Britain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Becky E. Conekin. "The Autobiography of a Nation": The 1951 Festival of Britain. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xii, 260. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-6060-5. Although warmly remembered...

The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Alun Howkins. The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900. London: Routledge; dist. by Taylor & Francis/Routledge, Independence, Ky. 2003. Pp. xi, 260. $31.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-13885-X. Alun Howkins' text...

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter Stansky. Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 295. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-09547-3. This latest book from the justly renowned Stanford historian Peter Stansky is direct in its...

The Friend.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Alan Bray. The Friend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 380. ISBN 0-226-07180-4. Alan Bray's magisterial book is an intricate reading of funerary monuments dedicated to friends, "sworn brothers" and sometimes sisters,...

Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... William D. Rubinstein. Twentieth Century Britain: A Political History. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. v, 356. $27.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-77224-5. Defining periods challenges historians, particularly when key events or trends do not fit neatly...

The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-1964: Old Labour, New Britain?(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lawrence Black. The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-1964: Old Labour, New Britain? New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. ix, 263. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-96836-0. That the British Left faced grave difficulties during the 1950s is...

Cold War Britain, 1945-1964: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Michael F. Hopkins, Michael D. Kandiah, and Gillian Staerck, eds. Cold War Britain, 1945-1964: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. ix, 244. $72.00. ISBN 1-4039-0121-X. Gathering papers given at a conference in 1997, this book...

Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Neil Davidson. Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746. Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press; dist. by Stylus Publishing, Dulles, Va. 2003. Pp. xix, 378. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7453-2053-8. Neil Davidson opens this book from an address in Leith,...

Daniel O'Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Leslie A. Williams. Daniel O'Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks. Burlington VT: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xvii, 380. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0553-1. Leslie Williams's study of British newspaper reporting of the Irish...

Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Patrick Brantlinger. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 248. $19.95. ISBN 0-8014-8876-1. In this vigorously argued book, Patrick Brantlinger, a...

Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Julie F. Codell, ed. Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2003. Pp. 328. $57.50. ISBN 0-8386-3973-9. The twelve essays in this volume address the role...