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Book SynopsisDetailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the "real" Robin Hood. For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and where he lived. One view is that he was not a legend as such but a myth: an idea, rather than a person who could possibly be identified in historical records and placed in a real historical and geographical context. Other writers have gone even further, arguing that he is a literary concoction, with no traceable original, and that seeking to pin him down to a particular time and location is futile and unnecessary. This survey begins by tracing the development of the legend, and contemporary views about it, between the thirteenth and early twenty-first centuries, taking account both of new interpretative literature on the subject and fresh discoveries from the author's own research in the early records of the English royal administration and common law. It then gives a detailed account of the places that came to be associated with the legend, and of evidence illustrating the importance of the outlaw's name in the development of English surnames. The concluding chapters deal with the administration of criminal law in medieval England, and the evidence that points to the possible origins of the legend in the activities of a notorious Yorkshire criminal, tracked down and beheaded in the county in 1225.Trade Review[Essential] reading for anyone interested in the matter of greenwood. * THE RICARDIAN *[R]einjects a much-needed dose of reality into the academic study of the Robin Hood legend. . . Crook's monograph should be standard reading for any scholar who is interested in the origins of the historical Robin Hood. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[An] excellent reference and bibliography for the primary material that makes up the Robin Hood canon, Cook has presented an approach that takes joy in the process of investigation [...]. -- COMITATUSDavid Crook's new study is probably the fullest account of the development of the legend of Robin Hood, and of its sundry interpreters, ever attempted. [...] Crook, then, has achieved considerable success in his quest for the historical Robin Hood -- SPECULUMThis is more than just a detailed survey; it is an overview of the entire culture of Robin and who he might have been...This book is a delight. * INTERNATIONAL TIMES *[Crook] provides a significant contribution to the ongoing scholarship and scholarly debates regarding the "real" Robin Hood(s) and persons associated with him that are found within historical records. Crook places that archival material in dialogue with the extant literature and other late-medieval historical sources, especially those on crime and criminality in Yorkshire. In doing so, he reveals two strong contenders for the "original" Robin Hood and Sheriff of Nottingham. * CHOICE *The bibliography is impressive. Crook plumbs the depths of archival sources to uncover various place and personal names, criminal accounts, and outlaw activities that provide context for the evolution of Robin's story. A useful resource for those new to the field and for those well versed in the critical historical materials. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *This elegantly written and informative monograph is an essential read for anyone interested in the legend of Robin Hood. The author, a distinguished archivist [...] demonstrates both an unrivalled knowledge of the sources for Hood's historicity and a thorough understanding of the existing corpus of scholarship. Attractively produced and well-indexed, the volume also contains several useful maps and illustrations. -- Adrian Jobson * NORTHERN HISTORY *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Medieval Tales of Robin Hood Chroniclers, Revellers, Playwrights and Antiquarians, c1420-1765 Editors, The Folklorist and The Archivist, 1765-1889 Folklorists, Literary Scholars and Historians: Robin Hood in the Twentieth Century The Robin Hood Places The Robin Hood Names Robin Hood and Criminality Law and Disorder in Yorkshire, 1215-1225 The Sheriff, The Fugitive and The Civil Servant Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA valuable resource on the social and economic life of medieval England Inquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval English landed society and are indispensable to social, economic, and political historians of the later middle ages; they were compiled with the help of jurors from the area, as a county-by-county record of a deceased individual's land-holdings and associated rights, where the individual held land directly of the crown. It is this explicit connection with land and locality - in economic, social, political, and topographical terms - that makes these documents of such comprehensive interest. This volume calendars the inquisitions and related documents from the short reigns of Edward V and Richard III, from the protectorate to the battle of Bosworth (1483-1485). It looks at 101 individuals across 181 inquisitions and includes valuable information and detailed returns on the estates of the greater aristocracy, among them Henry Bourchier, earl of Essex and William Lord Hastings [d. 1483], alongside lesser landholders, jurors' names and full manorial extents. The volume incorporates not only inquisitions post mortem but also assignments of dower and a proof of age from across the counties of England and the Marches of Wales. It is especially rich in inquisitions relating to the lands of the royal justices and widowed dowagers and documents how many landholders had conveyed lands to trustees, thus escaping royal wardship and prompting remedial legislation by Richard's parliament. Standard information includes medieval descriptions of towns and villages and the charting of land and its descent at all social levels. The volume also provides comprehensive indexes of jurors, persons, places, and subjects.Trade ReviewA useful resource for those interested in both the reign of Richard III and the history of landholding and conveyancing. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY *

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Book SynopsisMulti-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures. Frisian is a name that came to be identified with one of the territorially expansive, Germanic-speaking peoples of the Early Middle Ages, occupying coastal lands south and south-east of the North Sea. Highly varied manifestations of Frisian-ness can be traced in and around the north-western corner of the European continent in cultural, linguistic, ethnic and political forms across two thousand years to the present day. The thematic studies in this volume foreground how diverse "Frisians" in different places and contexts could be. They draw on a range of multi-disciplinary sources and methodologies to explore a comprehensive range of social, economic and ideological aspects of early Frisian culture, from the Dutch province of Zeeland in the south-west to the North Frisian region in the north-east. Chronologically, there is an emphasis on the crucial developments of the seventh and eighth centuries AD, alongside demonstrations of how later evidence can retrospectively clarify long-term processes of group formation.The essays here thus add substantial new evidence to our understanding of a crucial stage in the evolution of an identity which had to develop and adapt to changing influences and pressures.Trade ReviewFrisians of the Early Middle Ages is certainly worth purchasing. A nice 'extra' are the transcripts of the discussions at the symposium, which sometimes are as insightful as the chapters themselves. In essence, it is an excellent volume to dip in and out of. * ANTIQUITY *This handsome tome does much to underscore the dynamic and adaptive nature of this extensive coastal territory and its resident peoples during the early medieval period. It should be considered one of the most-if not the most-significant collection of scholarship on the early medieval Frisians to emerge in many a year. Its meticulous but approachable nature has much to offer both seasoned scholars and newcomers alike. * SPECULUM *Interesting and well informed. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NETHERLANDIC STUDIES *[S]plendid book. -- MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGYTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Frisians of the Early Middle Ages: An Archaeoethnological Perspective Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm, John Hines and Ian Wood 2. For Daily Use and Special Moments: Material Culture in Frisia, AD 400-1000 Egge Knol 3. The Frisians and their Pottery: Social Relations before and after the Fourth Century AD Annet Nieuwhof 4. Landscape, Trade and Power in Early-medieval Frisia Gilles de Langen and J. A. Mol 5. Law and Political Organisation of the Early Medieval Frisians (c. AD 600-800) Han Nijdam 6. Recent Developments in Early-medieval Settlement Archaeology: The North Frisian Point of View Bente Sven Majchczack 7. Franks and Frisians Ian Wood 8. Mirror Histories: Frisians and Saxons from the First to the Ninth Century AD Robert Flierman 9. Structured by the Sea: Rethinking Maritime Connectivity of the Early-medieval Frisians Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm 10. Art, Symbolism and the Expression of Group Identities in Early-medieval Frisia J. A. W. Nicolay 11. Religion and Conversion amongst the Frisians John Hines 12. Traces of a North Sea Germanic Idiom in the Fifth-Seventh Centuries AD Arjen P. Versloot 13. Runic Literacy in North-West Europe, with a Focus on Frisia Tineke Looijenga Final Discussion List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisEssays on crucial aspects of late medieval history. The essays collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard and pay tribute to his scholarship and enduring influence in furthering our understanding of late medieval England and France. Drawing inspiration from his own research interests and writing, which illuminated military, political and social interactions of the period, they focus on three main themes. The contrasting styles of governance adopted by English monarchs from Richard II to Henry VII; the differing responses to civil conflict revealed in a variety of localities; and the lives of men recruited to fight overseas during the Hundred Years' War, and beyond the border with Scotland in later years, are all explored here. These topics take us across England from the far north to the Channel, to London, the south-west and the Welsh lordship of Gower, while on the way also examining how townsmen resisted taxation, the gentry administered their estates and the western marches were ruled.Trade ReviewThis festschrift is a most fitting tribute to one of our leading medieval historians and is very well deserved. * THE RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsPreface - Linda Clark Tyranny and Affinity: The Public and Private Authority of Richard II and Richard III - Gwilym Dodd The Commission to ensure Good Governance of 11 May 1402: A Case-Study of Lancastrian Counter-Propaganda - Douglas Biggs A Failure in Foresight: the Lancastrian Kings and the Lancastrian Dukes - Michael Hicks The Strothers: A Tale of Northern Gentle Folk, Social Mobility and Stagnation in Late Medieval Northumberland - Andy King 'No Good unto our said King at this Time' - Rosemary Horrox Contemporary and Near-Contemporary Chroniclers: The North of England and the Wars of the Roses, c.1450-1471 - Keith Dockray England, 1461: Predominantly Provincial Perspectives on the Early Months of the Reign of Edward IV - Hannes Kleineke Greater Landowners and the Management of their Estates in Late Medieval England - James Ross Lordship and the Social Elite in the Lordship of Gower during the Wars of the Roses - Ralph A Griffiths A Yorkist Legacy for the Tudor Prince of Wales on the Welsh Marches: Affinity-Building, Regional Government and National Politics, 1471-1502 - Sean Cunningham Southern England and Campaigns to France, 1415-1453 - Anne Curry Last Men Standing: Lancashire Soldiers in the Wars in France - Michael J Bennett Northern Pride goes Before a Fall: The 'Horrorable' History of Adelston Attysle - Carole Rawcliffe Professor Tony Pollard: An Appreciation - Anne Curry The Published Works of A.J. (Tony) Pollard, 1972-2019 - Sandra Pollard

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Book SynopsisFirst extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service. It was common for the kings of medieval England to retain a small number of knights in their personal service, as part of the royal household. These knights provided a core of loyal and talented men on whom each king could rely for military and political support. Household knights were a part of almost all aspects of the reign: they assisted in the raising and equipping of royal armies; they offered leadership for these armies once on campaign; they acted as trusted councillors and administrators at the centre of government; and they maintained the king's authority and landed interests throughout his kingdom. This book - the first full-length study of the household knight in late medieval England - takes as its focus those men serving during the successful reign of Edward III. It asks how and why household knights were retained, who was chosen to serve in such a capacity, what functions these men performed, and what rewards they received in return for their time in service. In doing so, it enables a more detailed picture of Edward III's kingship to be gained, and allows important questions to be answered about the ways in which wars were fought and kingdoms ruled in late medieval Europe.Trade ReviewMatthew Hefferan's book is a welcome and timely addition to the scholarship of both the history of the household knight and that of the reign of Edward III. * SPECULUM *This is an erudite, detailed, and impressive first monograph, which will be of interest to both political and military historians of later medieval England. -- ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL[A] thoroughly researched and engagingly written contribution by Matthew Hefferan to the study of both the reign of Edward III and the subject of the place of royal retaining in the practice of kingship in late medieval England more widely. -- PARLIAMENTARY HISTORYTable of ContentsIntroduction The Mechanics of Retaining Recruiting Household Knights Preparing for War In the Field of Combat Diplomacy and Defensive Warfare At the Centre: National Politics and Central Government In the Localities The Rewards of Service Conclusion Appendix 1 - Edward III's Household Knights, 1327-1377 Appendix 2 - Stewards and Chamberlains of the Royal Household, 1327-1377 Appendix 3 - Household Knights' Military Retinues Appendix 4 - Annuities Granted to Household Knights Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEssays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century. The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a European context, exploring connections between the insular world and continental Europe, and using England as a case study of broader patterns of change in the long thirteenth century. A number of authors consider the long-term response of the English crown and polity to the Angevin empire's demise, examining kingship, historical memory, dynastic relationships and the influx of ideas and people to England from overseas. They look not only at connections between England and western Europe but also at others extending to northern Europe too. Many engage with larger trends that are European in scale, whether in the institutional life of the Church or in patterns of religious practice and belief, whilst others examine more confined geographical spaces, reminding us of distinctive political structures and identities lodged at the regional level.Trade Review[..] an important and stimulating book that makes essential reading for those interested in England's relations with the Continent in the thirteenth century. Each essay is praiseworthy in its own right and reflects a wealth of detailed scholarship. The editors and contributors are to be congratulated on what is a fine and informative collection. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Andrew Spencer and Carl S. Watkins Remembering the Vikings in Thirteenth-Century England and Denmark - Lars Kjaer Henry III and the Native Saints - Antonia Shacklock 'A Vineyard Without a Wall': The Savoyards, John de Warenne and the Failure of Henry III's Kingship - Andrew Spencer 'Ad Partes Transmarinas': The Reconfiguration of Plantagenet Power in Gascony, 1242-1243 - Amicie Pélissié du Rausas Similarities and Differences: The Lord Edward's Lordship of Gascony, 1254-1272 - Rodolphe Billaud The Letters of Eleanor and Marguerite of Provence in Thirteenth-Century Anglo-French Relations - Anaïs Waag The Use of Friars as Envoys: Diplomatic Relations between King Henry III and Pope Alexander IV (1254-1261) - Philippa Mesiano The Italian Connection Reconsidered: Papal Provisions in Thirteenth-Century England - Thomas W. Smith Confession in England and the Fourth Lateran Council - Rebecca Springer Writing Civic History in London, Cologne and Genoa - Ian Stone

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Book SynopsisFirst modern study devoted to one of the twelfth-century's most enigmatic, influential and fascinating figures. Henry of Blois (d. 1171) was a towering figure in twelfth-century England. Grandson of William the Conqueror and brother to King Stephen, he played a central role in shaping the course of the civil war that characterized his brother's reign. Bishop of Winchester and abbot of Glastonbury for more than four decades, Henry was one of the richest men in the kingdom, and effectively governed the English Church for a time as Papal Legate. Raised and tonsured at Cluny, he was an intimate friend of Peter the Venerable and later saved the great abbey from financial ruin. Towards the end of his life he presided, albeit reluctantly, over the trial of Thomas Becket. Henry was a remarkable man: an administrator of exceptional talent, a formidable ecclesiastical statesman, a bold and eloquent diplomat, and twelfth-century England's most prolific patron of the arts. In the first major book-length study of Henry to be published since 1932, nine scholars explore new perspectives on the most crucial aspects of his life and legacy. By bringing ecclesiastical and documentary historians together with archaeologists and historians of art, architecture, literature and ideas, this interdisciplinary collection will serve as a catalyst for renewed study of this fascinating man and the world in which he operated.Trade ReviewThis volume represents a major step forward for the study of a pivotal figure in twelfth-century history. [...] Ultimately, this book is a vital resource for any scholar hoping to better understand Henry of Blois's place in twelfth-century English history, and a step toward a more comprehensive portrait of this elusive figure. -- COMITATUSA richly informed volume that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in this remarkable figure. * SEHEPUNKTE *The editors and contributors should be applauded for bringing together such a diverse and compelling series of articles on a figure surely deserving of further study. This volume stands as a strong testament to the figure at its heart and goes a long way towards filling the gaps in our understanding of Henry of Blois. -- Craig M. Nakashian * Nottingham Medieval Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Genealogical Table: The Family Connections of Henry of Blois Introduction: Approaches to Henry of Blois - John Munns and William Kynan-Wilson Causa Dei et ecclesie Cluniacensis: Henry of Blois and Cluny - Michael J. Franklin Henry of Blois and his Legation in England - Barbara Bombi The Episcopal Colleagues of Henry of Blois - John Munns The Architectural Heritage of Bishop Henry of Blois at Winchester Cathedral - John Crook Wolvesey: Henry of Blois' domus quasi palatium in Winchester - Martin Biddle Bishop Henry's Bible - Claire Donovan Henry of Blois and the Construction of Roman Identity - William Kynan-Wilson Henry of Blois: Between Patronage and Representation in the Long Twelfth Century - Matthew M. Mesley The Last Days of Henry of Blois - Edmund King Timeline Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArgues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for any discipline dealing with past societies and cultures. One of the most wide-ranging, sophisticated and imaginative books on medieval history that I have read in a very long time. The way in which the author defines, traces and analyses agency is stunningly original. It will make an immensely important contribution to our understanding of high and late medieval Europe." Professor Björn Weiler, University of Aberystwyth What did it mean to be an autonomous agent in European medieval society? This book aims to answer that fundamental question, via an examination of a mosaic of case studies drawn from the literate urban middle strata and the lower and middle-rank aristocracy. The social imaginary that informs individual conduct, the patterns of strategic action, and the individuals' sense of effectiveness in the world are reconstructed from "ego-documents", a broad category that includes first-person charters, autobiographical insertions in chronicles, private registers, and memoirs. These range from the better-known, such as the Ménagier de Paris and the histories of Galbert of Bruges and Salimbene of Parma, to the equally fascinating but more seldom explored French livres de raison and Italian ricordanze. The book's larger aim is to historicise the autonomous moral agent. Neither belief in divine intervention nor feudal relations inhibited individuals' social agency. The emphasis on hierarchy and order in medieval normative texts is shown in a different light, as part of the effort to restrain social subalterns, whose potential for agency caused anxiety. Whereas power is often structural, an effect of institutions which, however, were only just developing, the book argues that agency is a more apposite construct for capturing the salient medieval concerns with the possibilities and effects of individual and collective action.Trade Review[This book] points the way to further studies of social change that do not depend on class and institutions as explanatory devices. It will especially interest social and economic historians, as well as those medievalists studying gender and autobiographical writing. -- MEDIUM AEVUMThe evidence assembled in this book supports persuasive arguments about the varieties of individual agency and religious experiences [...] One of the features of modernity may well be the burgeoning of collective agency, alongside the self-agency so ably charted in this fine book. -- JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORYEpurescu-Pascovici has written an unusual book covering some fascinating case studies. I expect that this will be well appreciated in anthropological circles. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *This study consists of several studies of medieval ego-documents intended to recapture the subjective sense of agency experienced by their authors. Epurescu-Pascovici teases out in a number of different contexts how these authors conceived of their own choices and made their decisions to act. The result is a rich and rewarding exploration of medieval subjectivity in an unusually broad source-base. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Articulating Human and Divine Agency: Histories and Self-Narratives Lordship and Local Politics: The Cartulary of an Aristocratic Family To Render an Account of One's Deeds: The Livres de Raison The Social Uses of Life-Writing: The Tuscan Ricordanze A Gendered Social Imaginary: The Vernacular Literature on Social Conduct Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks. The Third Crusade (1189-1192) was an attempt by Latin Christendom to reconquer the Holy Land, following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187. Tens of thousands responded to a call for a crusade by Pope Gregory VIII and the efforts of his preachers at mass cross-taking ceremonies, rallying to the expedition's leaders - Frederick Barbarossa, Philip Augustus, and Richard the Lionheart. This book analyses the communal and cultural factors that influenced nobles from north-western Europe who embarked on the Third Crusade, bringing out the motives, dynamics, and extent of their participation, and placing that participation in the broader social and geographical context of crusading and medieval life. It shows that significant numbers of them were themselves descended from crusaders, and that the majority of them travelled to the Levant in the company of friends, family, and neighbours, as well as through membership of a military household. It also highlights the role of key individuals - both male and female - who influenced the decision to undertake the crusade, and identifies the significant role played by particular religious institutions in the diffusion of crusading ideology.Trade ReviewBennett has made a welcome and significant contribution to our understanding of the Third Crusade and its elite participants from north-western Europe. -- PARERGON[E]ssential to all students of the Third Crusade. . . . an impressive and useful book. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Stephen Bennett's book delivers a meaningful and nuanced study of the elites from northwestern Europe participating in the Third Crusade (1187-92). The network analytical approach and the balanced consideration of multifarious factors grants Bennett's book vigor and system. * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Faith and Finance:Religious Foundations, Ecclesiastical Leaders, and Fraternity Family and Heritage:Lineage, Kinship, and Tradition Locality and Fellowship:Territory, Trade, and Tournaments The Household of King Richard I at the Time of the Third Crusade Conclusion: Personal, Spiritual, and Communal Influences on Participation in the Third Crusade Appendix A: The Noble Network: Crusaders from North-Western Europe, 1187-92 Appendix B: King Richard I's Household, 1189-92 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together. This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and extensive transatlantic chain of supply and consumption. It considers changing fashion in England, the growing demand for fur, at a time when the Russian fur trade was in decline, examines native North Americans and their trading and other exchanges with colonists, and explores the nature of colonial society, including the commercial ambitions of a varied range of investors. As such, it outlines the intense rivalry which existed between different colonies and colonial interests. Although the book argues that fur never supplanted tobacco as the region's principal export, noting that the trade declined as new, more profitable sources of supply were opened up, nevertheless the case of the Chesapeake fur trade provides an excellent example of how different elements in a new transatlantic enterprise fitted together and had a profound impact on each other.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched, the primary sources featured within include personal, financial, and legal documents: letters and journals, sumptuary laws and other edicts, wills and inventories, and even portraits and plays come together to paint a comprehensive picture of the fur trade. This text would be a useful resource for anyone interested in colonial trade and seventeenth-century high fashion as it provides invaluable information on the material, economic, and political implications of fur as a commodity. * Maryland Historical Magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Fur and Fashion: The Infrastructure of a New Trade 2 Commerce and Colonization: The Emergence of the Fur Trade in Chesapeake Bay 3 Trade and Rivalry: The Promise of Expansion and Innovation during the 1630s 4 Trade, Rivalry and Conflict during a 'Time of Troubles' from 1640 to 1660 5 Commercial Change and Conflict: Contrasting Experiences after 1650 6 Trade, Consumption and Industry: Transatlantic Constraints on the Bay Trade Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA fascinating account of the life of one of the most famous women of the Victorian era. For more than a decade in the second half of the nineteenth century Georgina Weldon (1837-1914) was one of the most famous women in England. Weldon was an exceptional self-publicist, intelligent and utterly convinced that she was always in the right. A semi-professional singer, she came to prominence as a friend of the composer Charles Gounod. Her husband's unsuccessful attempt to have her carried off to a lunatic asylum caused a public scandal, and her subsequent efforts to drag her enemies through the law courts were widely reported. Weldon's resistance to being certified insane and her unceasing legal claims for defamation and/or loss of earnings contributed to changes in laws relating to private asylums and vexatious litigation. Weldon sang in drawing rooms and concert halls, and on the music hall stage. She lectured on women's rights and law reform. The most notorious female plaintiff, and probably the first married women to represent herself in court, she advised many of her fellow litigants at a time when women were not permitted to practise law professionally. Her campaigns brought her notoriety and two gaol sentences. Joanna Martin expertly retells the story of that notorious Victorian eccentric who suffered many bouts of delusion and was an ardent supporter of spiritualism. Martin's account manages to negotiate a biography situated between crazed behaviour and the pursuit of admirable causes. Weldon's story offers a wide canvas introducing phenomena such as celebrity culture and major and marginal characters of Dickensian quality. This biography of Weldon, based on primary sources including Weldon's own diaries and letters, therefore touches upon a wide variety of issues; Victorian society, nineteenth-century's women's history, the context of a social and cultural history of madness and marriage (law), and nineteenth-century British musical culture.Table of ContentsGeorgina Weldon's Archive and her Biographers Prologue 1: Georgina 2: Mayfield 3: Harry 4: Beaumaris 5: Friends and Relations 6: Discontent 7: Gwen 8: Gounod 9: Tavistock House 10: Maestro or Marionette 11: Loss 12: Separation 13: Orphans 14: Argueil 15: Mad-Doctors 16: Home Again 17: Rivière 18: Covent Garden 19: Disaster 20: Conjugal Rights 21: Revenge 22: The New Portia 23: Swings and Roundabouts 24: Holloway 25: Gower Street 26: Gisors 27: The Trehernes 28: A New Century 29: Sillwood House 30: Angel or Devil? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany. It is well known that at the key allied conferences during the latter part of World War II the future victorious allies were already progressing their post-war planning. Duly, an Allied Control Commission, with the task of providing administrative functions and eventually handing them over to an elected government, was formed in post-war Germany. In the Western zones, the cornerstone of coordinated administration was a policy of denazification, demilitarisation and democratization. Almost all sectors of German life would thereafter to be administered by the Allies. German Churches and religious affairs had, however, been promised to the defeated Germany. Of course, Nazism hadn't spared the Christian churches, and so questions of denazification and the future relationship between church and state in Germany remained significant. This book examines the British approach towards post-war German religious and ecclesiastical life by highlighting the role of the British Element of the Control Commission, more specifically the Religious Affairs Branch that was separated from the Education Branch at the end of 1945. Considering British attitudes to Catholics and Protestants, as well as the remaining Jewish and Muslim communities in Germany, this book uncovers allied differences with regards to organising future religious life in Germany.Trade ReviewA tour de force of research and analysis that has much to teach us today. * METHODIST RECORDER *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Creating a 'Religious Affairs' staff 2. The move to Germany 3. British experiences of religion in Germany in the summer of 1945 4. The formation of a separate Religious Affairs Branch 5. Relationships with the Catholic Church 6. Relationships with Protestant churches 7. Relationships with 'Minor Denominations' 8. Religious Visitors to the churches in the British Zone 9. The Allied Religious Affairs Committee 10. The Final Year: 1949-50 Conclusion Appendix 1: Text of the 'Stuttgart Declaration' Appendix 2: Senior members of staff of the Religious Affairs Branch

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Book SynopsisFirst full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society. The question of illegitimacy was as important and complex in Scotland as elsewhere in the Middle Ages. This book examines its legal, political, and social implications there between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. It explores illegitimacy in relation to royal succession and to the inheritance of ordinary estates; investigates the role it played in major political events; and considers how being, or having, a bastard affected the lives of elite women,and the careers of people in ecclesiastical life. Scotland's earliest surviving legal treatise, Regiam Majestatem, denied inheritance rights to offspring legitimated by the intermarriage of their parents, while the law of the Church regarded such children as legitimate and, by implication, capable of inheritance. The volume scrutinises the tension between these two positions, alongside contemporary evidence which provides new insights into legal theory and practice concerning inheritance and birth status. By contextualising illegitimacy within its socio-political as well as legal settings, it challenges existing assumptions about the meaning and significance of bastardy in the Scottish middle ages.Trade Review[A] polished production. Copious footnote references amply contextualize the main text; the standard of editing and proofreading is excellent; the writing itself is a pleasure to read. [...] a potentially valuable resource for several subdisciplines. -- PARERGONTable of ContentsIntroduction Church law and Scottish families Illegitimacy and royal succession I: before the Great Cause Illegitimacy and royal succession II: from the Great Cause to James Wives, daughters, and sisters Church careers and sacrilegious bastards Illegitimacy in political life Conclusion Timeline of key events Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The articles here focus on activities in north-western Europe, with a reconsideration of the location of the battle of Stamford Bridge (1066), an examination of the role of open battles in the civil wars of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin kings, a re-assessment of the strategy of Edward I's war against Philip IV in 1297-98, and an analysis of the role of cavalry "coureurs" in late-medieval France. But regions further to the south and east are by no means neglected, with a dissection of the military rhetoric of Pere III of Aragon and his queen, Elionor of Sicily, and a discussion of the earliest European gunpowder recipes, from Friuli (1336) and Augsburg (1338- c. 1350). The volume also offers studies of the campaigns culminating in the battles of Firad in 634 and Qinnasrīn in 1134.Table of Contents1. Battle of Firāḍ: The Day on Which Khālid b. al-Walīd Did [Not] Defeat Both Byzantines and Persians - Konstantinos Takirtakoglou 2. A Mislocated Battlefield? Battle Flats: The Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066 - Michael C. Blundell 3. The Frankish Campaign of 1133-1134 in Northern Syria and the Battle of Qinnasrīn - Evgeniy A. Gurinov 4. Bella plus quam civilia? The Place of Battle in the Context of Civil War under the Anglo-Norman and Angevin Kings, c. 1100- c.1217 - Matthew Strickland 5. Edward I's War on the Continent, 1297-1298: A New Appraisal - David Pilling 6. The Earliest European Recipes for "Powder for Guns" (1336 and 1338-c. 1350) - Clifford J. Rogers and Fabrizio Ansani 7. Bellicose Rhetoric: The Memorable War Speeches of One Aragonese Royal Couple - Donald J. Kagay 8. Coureurs and Their Role in Late Medieval Warfare - Michael J. Harbinson

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests. This book examines the lives of aristocratic Anglo-Irish women in late medieval and early modern Ireland as illustrated by an in-depth cross generational analysis of women born or married into the important Ormond family between the 1450s and 1660. It outlines and assesses their individual and collective significance in negotiating the preservation and advancement of the family's political, landed, economic, social and confessional interests, from the chronic instability of the Wars of the Roses, through the vicissitudes of the Tudor, Stuart, Commonwealth and Restoration eras. In gauging the relative significance of the Ormond women's experiences and contributions, the book explores their roles in both private dynastic and wider public circles within the broader context of aristocratic families elsewhere in Ireland, England and continental Europe. The cross-generational approach provides a chronologicaland comparative appraisal of all aspects of each of these women's lives, roles and contributions - private, public, social, economic, confessional and political - all of which were intimately intertwined with the Ormond family's changing political fortunes, succession challenges, shifting dynastic alliances, and financial difficulties over the course of two centuries of profound change and upheaval in Ireland.Trade ReviewA fascinating and engaging work....Duffy has produced a wonderful and highly engaging investigation into the power and influence wielded by aristocratic women in early modern Ireland. * HISTORY IRELAND *The book is illuminating, revelatory, and, I have to add, thrilling. It not only fills a yawning gap in Irish history by exploring the lives and roles of these Ormond women, but it portrays them as three-dimensional people who actively shaped the wider political, societal, economic, and cultural changes of the day. * IRISH EXAMINER *Table of ContentsIntroduction Aristocratic women's lives in late medieval and early modern Western Europe The Ormond women through the Wars of The Roses and immediate aftermath: marriage, absenteeism and illegitimacy New beginnings: The heiresses, the usurper, and royal intervention; the succession of Margaret and Anne Butler Dynastic consolidation and female political entity: Margaret Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond and Ossory (1472-1542) Family, marriage, and politics: The six daughters of Margaret Fitzgerald and Piers Butler and the ongoing revival of the earldom in the sixteenth century 'You have too piteous a face to be a warrior', Joan Fitzgerald Countess of Ormond, Ossory and Desmond - agent, peace broker, advocate Black Tom's women: unions, succession and decline Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants. This is the first book to examine thoroughly the ways in which Catholics adapted to political and social change during the turbulent years of the English Revolution. The book examines several important aspects of the Catholic experience in this period. It explores the penal laws by which the estates of Catholics were sequestrated, discussing the extent to which politicians designed the new laws to target Catholics specifically, rather than Royalists more generally, and outlining how the sequestration legislation operated in practice. It considers how Catholic gentry utilised their networks with influential Protestants with wider political connections when applying to have their sequestrations discharged. More broadly the book reveals how Catholics demonstrated their loyalty and assimilated into society despite being viewed as the natural enemies of the English Republic and Protectorate. The book also compares Catholic experiences to those of other religious minorities and sets the situation in England in the wider European international context of Catholic-Protestant rivalry and warfare, which made Catholics a particularly vulnerable religious minority in Puritan England.Trade Review[T]he leading work for understanding how Catholics interacted with the sequestration and compounding processes in the mid-seventeenth century. [...] Among its many other fine qualities, then, the book is characterized by a spirit of intellectual generosity and collegiality that suggests that it might well serve as a jumping-off point for further research. -- H-NET REVIEWSGregory's important book begins a long-overdue analysis of how English Catholics experienced nearly two decades of revolution and republican rule. The book should be required reading for advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students and will be very useful to specialists in the field. We can hope that other scholars will continue Gregory's analysis into the experience of Catholics during this significant period in British history. -- BRITISH CATHOLIC HISTORYEilish Gregory successfully tackles the complex and constantly evolving topic of sequestration during one of the most fractious periods of early modern England. -- JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE[A] meticulously researched book -- JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY[An] excellent book that will become important reading for scholars of early modern Catholicism, the English Revolution and religious toleration. Gregory unpicks a complex topic and guides the reader through the sequestration and compounding processes with ease. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE & CULTURE *The book's greatest strength is its connection of several streams of interrelated material...that elucidate the complicated history of an engaged group rejected by the nation to whom they hoped to prove loyal. * THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY *[A] detailed and lively study. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *[T]his detailed and lively study is essentially one of continuity in Catholic negotiation with the state before and after these years, notwithstanding the upheavals of the Revolution. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *Overall, Gregory succeeds in explaining the intricacies of a complex financial system that was constantly shifting, convincing with her argument that as sequestration evolved, so did Catholic efforts to protect their estates. Importantly, on a wider scale, Gregory plugs the Catholic experience back into the general narrative and opens the door to future research in the area. -- James E. Kelly, Durham University * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Reformation of the Sequestration Process during the Civil Wars, 1642-1648 The Sequestration Process in the English Republic, 1649-1660 Print and Publicity in the Sequestration and Compounding Process Strategies and Persuasion: Catholic Experiences of the Sequestration and Compounding Process Catholic and Protestant Networks in the English Revolution, 1642-1660 Catholics and the Government of the English Republic, 1649-1660 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite. WINNER of the Women's History Network 2020 Book Prize Church court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. Vivid testimony in cases of marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights, show how men and women thought about the past and presented their own histories. While previous studies of memory in this period have tended to explore formal memory techniques in the schools and monasteries, this book turns to lay contexts instead, considering for the first time how gender influenced the ways that "ordinary" men and women remembered past events in the centuries leading up to the Reformations. Drawing on legal depositions, supplemented by pastoralia, literature and lyrics, the author argues that despite the many constraints upon their actions, lower-status men and women could use the law to communicate complex and varied pasts. She addresses the legal and religious developments that generated these memories, charting how gender shaped depictions of courtship, sexuality and childbirth, marriage and widowhood,as well as custom and the landscape. The book analyses these themes through the lens of gender and subjectivity, challenging conventional narratives that have aligned female remembrance with domesticity while embedding male memory in the public sphere. This approach offers precious evidence of the gendered, moral, and emotional worlds of lower-status people in medieval England.Trade ReviewThe book's rich contents outline a multilayered vision of the period, in which memory became increasingly important for the sacrament of confession, with penitents urged to remember their sins and the circumstances surrounding them. Recommended. * CHOICE *A rewarding piece of work with lots of intelligent insights hidden within its larger argument.... This book is a must read for historians of any period interested in these themes, or just for those looking for a pleasurable escape into the lives of lower-order medieval families. * PARERGON *

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Book SynopsisEdition of the records of a medieval Suffolk eyre reveal rich details of life at the time. The eyre was an organised judicial visitation to the counties of England by the king's justices to hear all types of plea, civil and crown, as well as to investigate any matters for the king that pertain to the county; it was thus a hugely important part of the legal process. This volume, edited by Eric Gallagher with an introduction by Henry Summerson, follows on from Dr Gallagher's edition and translation of the civil pleas of the same eyre, published by the Suffolk Records Society in 2009. But whereas the civil pleas deal primarily with litigation between landowners, the crown pleas are mostly concerned with the actions of townsmen and peasants, recorded both as killers and thieves, and as the victims of crime. Like the civil pleas, the crown pleas illuminate the workings of the common law, but in addition they illustrate the functions and purposes of local and central government, shedding light in sometimes vivid detail upon the lives of the humbler members of society, upon their occupations, relationships, misfortunes and quarrels - and the sometimes bizarre ways in which they met their deaths. The eyre was led by William of York, the King's justiciar and later bishop of Salisbury, and his colleagues who met at Ipswich, Cattishall (outside Bury St Edmunds) and Dunwich. The eyre roll, now in the National Archives, is the first from Suffolk surviving in full to have been edited and published; it has the particular interest of coming from a county that was then one of the most populous and prosperous of English shires.Trade ReviewSummerson's intimate knowledge of the contents of the roll is impressive: his comprehensive introduction provides numerous examples from the entries to illustrate his points. [...] Excellent publication. -- LOCAL HISTORIANTable of ContentsIntroduction The Crown Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 Glossary and abbreviations Bibliography Index of people and places Analysis of contents

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Book SynopsisOne opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM The articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader diplomacy. Other chapters consider the ceremony of knighting and the coronation ritual of Matilda of Flanders. There are also investigations of hunting landscapes in Cheshire, and Lancashire before Lancashire in the context of the Irish Sea World, while lordship is examined in two contexts, in post-Conquest England and early thirteenth-century Le Mans and Chartres. The sources for our knowledge of the period, as always, receive attention, whether drawn from documentary evidence or material culture, with essays on universal chronicle-writing and the construction of the Galfridian past in the Continuatio Ursicampina; the coinage of Harold II; and the patronage of the Bayeux Tapestry by Odo of Bayeux.Table of ContentsJoan of England and Al-ʿâdil's Harem: The Impossible Marriage between Christians and Muslims (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)- Martin Aurell The Forests and Elite Residences of the Earls of Chester in Cheshire, c. 1070-1237 (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture) - Rachel E. Swallow The Coinage of Harold II in the Light of the Chew Valley Hoard (The Christine Mahoney Memorial Lecture) - Gareth Williams Change and Continuity: Multiple Lordship in post-Conquest England (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize) - Hannah Boston 'Fitting the missing tile': Universal Chronicle-writing and the Construction of the Galfridian Past in the Continuatio Ursicampina (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize Proxima Accessit) - Gabriele Passabì 'Audi Israel': Apostolic Authority in the Coronation of Mathilda of Flanders - Laura L. Gathagan Between the Ribble and the Mersey: Lancashire before Lancashire and the Irish Sea Zone - Charles Insley The Helmet and the Crown: The Bayeux Tapestry, Bishop Odo and William the Conqueror - Christopher Norton Knighting in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Max Lieberman Enquête, Exaction and Excommunication: Experiencing Power in Western France, c.1190-1245 - Richard Barton

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Book SynopsisWhat were the lives of Africans in provincial England like during the early modern period? How, where, and when did they arrive in rural counties? How were they perceived by their contemporaries? This book examines the population of Africans in Norfolk and Suffolk from 1467, the date of the first documented reference to an African in the region, to 1833, when Parliament voted to abolish slavery in the British Empire. It uncovers the complexity of these Africans' historical experience, considering the interaction of local custom, class structure, tradition, memory, and the gradual impact of the Atlantic slaving economy. Richard C. Maguire proposes that the initial regional response to arriving Africans during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was not defined exclusively by ideas relating to skin colour, but rather by local understandings of religious status, class position, ideas about freedom and bondage, and immediate local circumstances. Arriving Africans were able to join the region's working population through baptism, marriage, parenthood, and work. This manner of response to Africans was challenged as local merchants and gentry begin doing business with the slaving economy from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Although the racialised ideas underpinning Atlantic slavery changed the social circumstances of Africans in the region, the book suggests that they did not completely displace older, more inclusive, ideas in working communities.Trade ReviewThis work will become a standard reading for anyone researching slavery, labor and African populations in East Anglia, as well as providing methods for understanding a more local background of African populations in Britain during the early modern era. -- Andrew Kettler * Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Renaissance Quarterly *An important and valuable book... unequivocally challenges an idea that diversity is only a matter of a few metropolitan port cities such as Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and London. * NORFOLK ARCHAEOLOGY *Although scholarly literature on people of color living in Britain has grown over the last 30 years, this book is unusual in its focus on a region outside a major metropolis. By delving into county records, Maguire shows that people of African descent were a small but significant presence in these counties. * CHOICE *This is a meticulously researched study and readers are very well served by a 30-page bibliography, which provides much information about the primary source material which scholars with interests in this field might benefit from examining. The index is also commendably thorough, enabling easy navigation throughout the text. -- Local Historian[...] a text greatly to be admired for its bold assertiveness and direction [...] -- David Killingray * Family & Community History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations A note on dating, transcription, currency, weights and measures, and references Introduction. A Social History of Africans in early modern Norfolk and Suffolk One. Identifying the African Population in Early Modern Norfolk and Suffolk Two. Beginnings: The Establishment of the African Population, 1467 to 1599 Three. 'Strangers', 'Foreigners', and 'Slavery' Four. The Seventeenth Century. The Early Shadow of Transatlantic Slavery Five. The African Population, 1600-1699 Six. Eighteenth-Century Links to the Atlantic Economy Seven. Eighteenth-Century African Lives Eight. The 'Three African Youths', a Gentleman, and Some Rioters Epilogue: Reconsidering the Social History of Africans in Norfolk and Suffolk Appendix A: The African and Asian Population identified in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1467-1833 Appendix B: The Surname 'Blackamore', 1500-1800 Appendix C: Plantation Ownership in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1650-1833 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church. Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. But what set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority to provide pastoral care and their ability to use the written word. Early medieval bishops saw books as indispensable to a priest's duties and episcopal legislation frequently provided lists of books that priests were to have: tools of the trade for the secular clergy. These books are not only an exceedingly valuable window into pastoral care, but also a barometer for the changes taking place in the English church of the tenth and eleventh centuries. This first full-length study of Anglo-Saxon priests' books examines a wide array of evidence, including booklists, music, liturgy, narrative, and, crucially, the surviving manuscripts. The volume opens with a consideration of the context of a priest's life and work, moving on to investigate the issues of clerical literacy and the availability of books to priests, uncovering avenues for priestly education and elucidating the role that the secular clergy played in channels of manuscript production and distribution. The second part analyses the documentary and manuscript evidence for certain classes of priests' books, challenging existing thought and arguing that two poorly understood manuscripts are in fact books for priests. GERALD P. DYSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Christian University.Trade ReviewA compelling and original book....This outstanding first book...has launched a medieval historian of tremendous promise. * ANGLIA *A book not just for historians but for all medievalists who work on the texts, both Latin and vernacular, of Anglo-Saxon England. * LIBRARY & INFORMATION HISTORY *Dyson's study of Anglo-Saxon priests' books, the first full-length study of its kind, advances our understanding of the secular priests who formed the largest literate group in tenth- and eleventh-century England and whose ministries touched the lives of most Christians. Deeply researched, judiciously argued, and clearly written, it offers an accessible overview of priestly expectations and duties, and will prove a reliable guide to further exploration and discovery of the texts and contexts of late Anglo-Saxon pastoral care. -- Robert K. Upchurch * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *[A] carefully argued and learned account of how the clergy in pre-Conquest England were able to obtain liturgical books and put them to use in pastoral care. -- Julia Barrow * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Priests, Books, and Pastoral Care "Ne cunnon þæt leden understandan": Issues of Clerical Literacy Demand and Supply: Production and Provision of Books for Priests Preaching and Homiletic Books for Priests Performing the Liturgy: Priests' Books for the Mass and Office Locating Penitentials, Manuals, and Computi Conclusions Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.Trade ReviewIt is a seminal work, and hopefully, it will stimulate many years of fruitful research. -- Agricultural History ReviewThroughout her book, Catherine Rice's own love of and understanding of gardening help the reader to comprehend the topographical, economic and practical difficulties involved in maintaining productive cottage gardens. She writes extremely well and with a deep understanding of the motivations of all those concerned in the development of cottage gardens. I cannot recommend this book enough to those interested in the history of gardening and equally to anyone wishing to understand the social and economic history of the Scottish countryside. Catherine Rice's thorough academic research, accompanied by well-chosen illustrations, detailed notes, a glossary, bibliography and index, is a triumph. -- Scottish Labour History JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Counties of the Eastern Lowlands before 1975 A Note on Old Scottish Weights and Measures Introduction Chapter 1 - The Changing Landscape Chapter 2 - Kailyards and Farm Servants Chapter 3 - Cottagers' Gardens Chapter 4 - Potato Grounds Chapter 5 - The Midden Chapter 6 - The Rural Diet Chapter 7 - Competitions and Shows Chapter 8 - The Cottage Gardener's Education Chapter 9 - The Idea of the Cottage Garden Epilogue Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and worked While famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet, as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft. This book, by one of the leading historians of Tudor and Stuart England, sheds light on the daily concerns, practices, and activities of many of these painters. Drawing on a biographical database comprising nearly 3000 painters and craftsmen - strangers and native English, Londoners and provincial townsmen, men and sometimes women, celebrity artists and 'mere painters' - this book offers an account of what it meant to paint for a living in early modern England. It considers the origins of these painters as well as their geographical location, the varieties of their expertise, and the personnel and spatial arrangements of their workshops. Engagingly written, the book captures a sense of mobility and exchange between England and the continent through the considerable influence of stranger-painters, undermining traditional notions about the insular character of this phase in the history of English art. By showing how painters responded to the greater political, religious, and economic upheavals of the time, the study refracts the history of England itself through the lens of this particular occupation.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction Introduction 1. Painters before the Reformation Part II. Kinds of People 2. The Stranger-Painters 3. The Painter-Stainers' Company of London 4. Provincial Painters Part III. Particular Specialities 5. Arms Painters 6. Glass Painters Part IV. Ways and Means 7. The Workshop Personnel 8. The Workshop Space 9. The Business of Painting Part V. Conclusion 10. An Occupation in Transition Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art. Patrons have long appeared as colorful, exceptional figures in music history, but this book recasts patrons and patronage as creative forces that shaped the sounds and meanings of new French music between the world wars. Far from mere sources of funding, early twentieth-century patrons collaborated closely with composers, treating commissions for new music as opportunities to express their own artistry. Patrons developed new pathways to participate in music-making, going beyond commissions to establish ballet companies, manage performance venues, and establish state programs. The impressive variety of patronage activities led to an explosion of new music as well as new styles and -isms, indelibly marking the repertoire that this book examines, including a number of pieces frequently heard in concert halls today. In addition to offering new perspectives on well-known French repertoire, this book challenges conceptions of patronage as a bygone phenomenon. Complementing a dwindling cast of aristocratic patrons were new ranks of music publishers, impresarios, state bureaucrats, opera directors, and others capitalizing on their savings, social connections, and artistic vision to bring new music into the world. In chapters on French discourse around patronage, aristocratic commissions, the stimulus provided by the interwar dance craze, music publishing, the Paris Opéra, state intervention in French musical life, and transatlantic musical exchanges, the book blends cultural history with primary source study and music analysis. It not only improves our understanding of French musical life and culture during the early twentieth century but also supplies us with essential insights into the ways modern music emerged at the intersection of music composition, aesthetic and national politics, and the creative labor of patrons.Trade Review[A] treasure trove for those interested in the period. Highly recommended. -- CHOICEThis book offers a thought-provoking new perspective on French music of the interwar years through the lens of musical patronage. It contributes to a rebalancing of scholarly discourse, from a strong emphasis upon musical product to one concerned also with the various hands involved in its process [...]. * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Redefining Patronage 1. The Patronage Problem 2. Aristocratic Commissions 3. Entrepreneurial Patronage and Concert Dance 4. The Publisher as Patron 5. Jacques Rouché: The State's Patron 6. Nationalizing Music Composition 7. Transatlantic Legacies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProvocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation. Gildas is an essential witness to the Christian culture of the British Isles in the opaque period after the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. His criticisms in De excidio Britanniae of the Britons in the context of spiritual and secular corruption and partition with pagan powers are a crucial source for understanding the transition to the medieval nations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. But the ways in which this enigmatic ecclesiastical figure has been received over the centuries have shaped an ambivalent reputation. On the one hand, he is seen as a significant contributor to ecclesiastical reform; on the other, as a dour and unreliable chronicler lamenting an inevitable spiritual and political decline. This book seeks to refine and recuperate the image of Gildas. It does so by examining his self-image as presented in select surviving works, and subsequent representations as developed by the reception of these works - the legacy of Gildas - by church luminaries such as Columbanus, Gregory the Great, and Bede; in exploring how Gildas influenced perceptions of authority in the British Isles and on the continent, it puts this legacy into a wider context. Overall, the volume argues that as one of the earliest authorities to define and defend Christian kingship Gildas deserves to be seen as a significant contributor to the political and ecclesiastical development of the early medieval West.Trade Review[...] Joyce's study is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Gildas. This volume is well researched, ambitious, and impressively wide in scope. It demonstrates just how much remains to be said of a writer of whose work so little survives. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Narratives for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland 2. Images of Gildas 3. Gildas's De excidio - Authority and the Monastic Ideal 4. Columbanus and Gregory the Great 5. Gildas and the Hibernensis 6. Bede and Gildas Conclusion: The Legacy of Gildas Appendix: De communicatione Gildas Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMonks Eleigh was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control. The manor was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control. For the lord of a manor it was a source of supplies and income for the maintenance of his status and power. For the tenants the manor formed the everyday focus of their working lives, because they typically owed work services on his land and were subject to the manorial court for wrong doings, the settlement of disputes, the holding of their lands and payment of various feudal dues. Manors were the standard unit of land tenure for centuries, but they changed and developed over time and differed in their administration according to the particular custom of each manor. The records of the manor of Monks Eleigh are typical of those which still exist for hundreds of manors across England. They allow us to glimpse some of the details of the people who lived and worked there over a period of some four centuries. In the earliest extents and accounts we see a concentration on the work services which the unfree tenants were obliged to do on the lord's lands in lieu of rent, including ploughing, sowing, harrowing, harvesting, carting, ditching, hurdle-making and working in the manor vineyard. Accounts list the lord's stock of animals including oxen, horses, cattle, sheep, geese, ducks, peacocks and doves. They detail repairs to manorial buildings such as the hall, barns, mill, dovecote, sheep-cotes and gates. Court rolls record admissions of tenants to land-holdings as well as fines for misdemeanours such as trespass on growing crops, assaults and thefts. By the sixteenth century the rentals show that an increasing number of tenants were using their manorial land-holdings as investments by living elsewhere and sub-letting them. In more general terms, these records can throw light on the development of manorial administration over time, the changing forms of land tenure, place name and surname studies, the decline in serfdom, popular unrest and social mobility.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent publication, professionally produced, with a very helpful glossary and indexes of people, places and subjects. Aldous' use of footnotes throughout is particularly worthy of mention providing a meticulous interpretation of all aspects of the translations. -- Local HistorianTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Editorial conventions THE DOCUMENTS I. Charters, mid-twelfth century to 1360 II. Extents, early thirteenth century to early fourteenth century IV. Building accounts, 1343 to 1466 III. Accounts, 1285 to 1482 V. Court rolls, 1305/6 to 1422 and 1545 VI. Rentals, 1379-80 to 1683 VII. Petition and Legal Documents relating to a riot in 1481 Glossary, including saints' days used for dating Bibliography Index of people and places Index of subjects

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Book SynopsisNew study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of controversy. As wife to the weak King Henry VI, she was on the losing side in the first phase of the Wars of the Roses. Yorkist propaganda vilifying Margaret was consolidated by Shakespeare: his portrait of a warlike and vengeful queen - "a tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" - became the widely-accepted view, which up until recently had been little questioned. However, Margaret's letters, collected here in full for the first time, have their own story to tell - and present a rather different picture. In her words and the words of her contemporaries, both friend and foe, they reveal a woman who lived according to the noble standards of her time. She enjoyed the hunt, she practised her faith, and she tried to help or protect those who called upon her for assistance, as was expected of a queen and "good lady". Henry's mental breakdown, the birth of their son and growing tensions among the lords of the land forced her to step outside the life she would have expected to live. This study of Margaret's letters establishes the scope of a late medieval queen's concerns, while providing a unique account of this extraordinary woman. HELEN MAURER and B.M. CRON are both independent scholars; their work has focussed on Margaret of Anjou for many years.Trade ReviewThe very commendable volume demonstrates highly skilled and meticulous in-depthresearch...[it]proves a rich and invaluable source, complex in its substantial details, at times highly entertaining, to thoseworking with fifteenth century Anglo-Frenchnetworks, politics, and power. * H-SOZ-KULT *This meticulous compilation of the 15th-century English queen's letters is much more than just a collection of texts. . . . The extensive research makes this a valuable resource for understanding the people and institutions of medieval England at a time of civil disturbance. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Helen Maurer and Boni Cron are to be congratulated on such a scholarly and complete edition of this hitherto scattered material which will provide a useful resource for all future studies of Margaret of Anjou. * THE RICARDIAN *It is difficult to think of two more qualified historians to provide a much-needed new edition of letters to, from, and about Margaret. . . . [T] letters in this critical edition are not new, but the new editors' detailed and knowledgeable commentary on each are alone a strong recommendation for this edition. -- Peter Russell * Journal of British Studies *Will be useful primarily to scholars focused on research related to Margaret of Anjou, queenship, and epistolary writing. -- Michele Seah * Parergon *[This book] will become the standard reference work for Margaret's letters. . . . The editors have succeeded in their aim of providing a counterpoint in the normalcy of Margaret's activities as queen, certainly before Henry VI's collapse in 1453, to her more-studied role as a leading player in the struggle for the English throne between 1455 and 1471. -- James Ross, University of Winchester * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Matchmaker Holy Orders Position Wanted Business Interests Protector and Peacemaker Money Matters Belief and Benevolence The Queen's Disport En Famille Queen Consort Lancastrian Queen Queen Beyond the Sea Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInterrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere. Early medieval England as seen through the lens of comparative and interconnected histories is the subject of this volume. Drawn from a range of disciplines, its chapters examine artistic, archaeological, literary, and historical artifacts, converging around the idea that the period may not only define itself, but is often defined from other perspectives, specifically here by modern scholarship. The first part considers the transmission of material culture across borders, while querying the possibilities and limits of comparative and transnational approaches, taking in the spread of bread wheat, the collapse of the art-historical "decorative" and "functional", and the unknowns about daily life in an early medieval English hall. The volume then moves on to reimagine the permeable boundaries of early medieval England, with perspectives from the Baltic, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, including an examination of Vercelli Homily VII (from John Chrysostom's Greek Homily XXIX), Hārūn ibn Yaḥyā's Arabic descriptions of Barṭīniyah ("Britain"), and an consideration of the Old English Orosius. The final chapters address the construction of and responses to "Anglo-Saxon" narratives, past and present: they look at early medieval England within a Eurasian perspective, the historical origins of racialized Anglo-Saxonism(s), and views from Oceania, comparing Hiberno-Saxon and Anglican Melanesian missions, as well as contemporary reactions to exhibitions of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Pacific Island cultures. Contributors: Debby Banham, Britton Elliott Brooks, Caitlin Green, Jane Hawkes, John Hines, Karen Louise Jolly, Kazutomo Karasawa, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, John D. Niles, Michael W. Scott, Jonathan WilcoxTrade ReviewGlobal Perspectives on Early Medieval England lives up to its ambitious name. Collectively, the volume's essays remind readers repeatedly of the importance of perspective toward the formation of meaning, with each underscoring this fact by dislocating early medieval England from the Isles and posing it against international counterpoints, past and present. I praise the authors for their ability to tackle head-on several emergent challenges rooted in the premodern world, namely the contentions of identity, the ethics of propagation, and the rights and wrongs of conquest. These authors demonstrate how scholars of medieval letters, sciences, and cultures can collaborate to serve the general public, utilizing their expertise to elucidate the past, untangling its intricate presence. -- Sherif Abdelkarim, Grinnell College * The Medieval Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England -- Karen Louise Jolly and Britton Elliott Brooks Part I Material Culture 1 The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England -- Debby Banham 2 Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art -- Jane Hawkes 3 Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge -- Carol Neuman de Vegvar Part II Crossing Borders 4 Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience -- Jonathan Wilcox 5 Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain -- Caitlin R. Green 6 Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World History -- John Hines Part III Origins and Comparisons 7 Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective -- John D. Niles 8 Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered -- Kazutomo Karasawa 9 Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission -- Michael W. Scott 10 Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred -- Karen Louise Jolly

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Book SynopsisA close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts. What modern scholars call "forgeries" (be they texts, seals, coins, or relics) flourished in the central Middle Ages. Although lying was considered wrong throughout the period, such condemnation apparently did not extend to forgeries. Rewriting documents was especially common among monks, who exploited their mastery of writing to reshape their records. Monastic scribes frequently rewrote their archives, using charters, letters, and narratives, to create new usable pasts for claiming lands and privileges in their present or future. Such imagined histories could also be deployed to "reform" their community or reshape its relationship with lay and ecclesiastical authorities. Although these creative rewritings were forgeries, they still can be valuable evidence of medieval mentalities. While forgeries cannot easily be used to reconstruct what did happen, forgeries embedded in historical narratives show what their composers believed should have happened and thus they offer valuable access to why medieval people rewrote their pasts. This book offers close analysis of three monastic archives over the long eleventh century: Saint Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury. These foci provide the basis for contextualizing key shifts in documentary culture in the twelfth century across Europe. Overall, the book argues that connections between monastic forgeries and historical writing in the tenth through twelfth centuries reveal attempts to reshape reality. Both sought to rewrite the past and thereby promote monks' interests in their present or future.Trade ReviewMore powerfully than any previous commentator, Berkhofer has demonstrated the narrative qualities of charters and cartularies. [...] Let us hope that where he has trod, others will soon follow! * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (TMR) *An essential read for those interested in questions of authenticity in the European Middle Ages. * SPECULUM *

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Book SynopsisThe most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. The essays collected here demonstrate the rich vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular focus on the interrelations between the various parts of north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there are detailed studies of the relationship between Ponthieu and its Norman neighbours, and between the Norman and Angevin duke-kings and the other French nobility, followed by an investigation of the world of demons and possession in Norman Italy, with additional observations on the subject in twelfth-century England. Meanwhile, the York massacre of the Jews in 1190 is set in a wider context, showing the extent to which crusader enthusiasm led to the pogroms that so marred Anglo-Jewish relations, not just in York but elsewhere in England; and there is an exploration of poverty in London, also during the 1190s, viewed through the prism of the life and execution of William fitz Osbert. Another chapter demonstrates the power of comparative history to illuminate the norms of proprietary queenship, so often overlooked by historians of both kingship and queenship. And two essays focusing on landscape bring the physical into close association with the historical: on the equine landscape of eleventh and twelfth-century England, adding substantially to our understanding of the place of the horse in late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman societies, and on the Brut narratives of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Laȝamon, arguing that they use realistic landscapes in their depiction of the action embedded in their tales, so demonstrating the authors' grasp of the practical realities of contemporary warfare and the role played by landscapes in it.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Editor's Preface List of Abbreviations 'Avalterre' and 'Affinitas Lotharingorum': Mapping Cultural Production, Cultural Connections and Political Fragmentation in the 'Grand Est' (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture) Lindy Grant The Perspective from Ponthieu: Count Guy and his Norman Neighbour (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture) Kathleen Thompson Wild, Wild Horses: Equine Landscapes of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (The Christine Mahaney Memorial Lecture) Robert Liddiard Demons and Incidents of Possession in the Miracles of Norman Italy (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize) Amy Devenney Rulership, Authority, and Power in the Middle Ages: The Proprietary Queen as Head of Dynasty Anaïs Waag Crusaders and Jews: The York Massacre of 1190 Revisited Christoph T. Maier Poverty in London in the 1190s: Some Possibilities Alan Cooper Landscapes of Concealment and Revelation in the Brut Narratives: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Laȝamon Leonie V. Hicks and Michael D. J. Bintley The Twelfth-Century Norman and Angevin Duke-Kings of England and the Northern French Nobility Heather J. Tanner

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Book SynopsisEssays offer a lively snapshot of important topics. The essays presented here draw on a number of different approaches and perspectives to address and illuminate key aspects and issues of the period. Longitudinal studies of king's confessors and corrodies of the crown provide insights into the intersection of political, religious and demographic currents over the longue durée, and are complemented by studies of documentary sources of various kinds - newsletters, chronicles, and municipal archives - to challenge current understandings of important events and processes such as the deposition of Edward II, the evolving identity of the parliamentary peers, and Richard II's vision for the house of Lancaster. Prosopographical and biographical studies of post-plague clerics, and of knights within comital affinities and within their own individual affinity groups, shed light on county communities and gentry society; they also demonstrate the impact of the Black Death on society at large, especially on the question of religious continuity and discontinuity at the parish level. Contributors: Paul Dryburgh, Pierre Gaite, Chris Given-Wilson, Michael Jones, Taylor Kniphfer, Samuel Lane, Jonathan Mackman, Alison McHardy, Matt Raven, David Robinson.Table of ContentsThe King's Confessors and the Royal Conscience in Late Medieval England - Chris Given-Wilson 'Such maintenance as...': Corrodies of the Crown - Alison K. McHardy 'Vos maisons sount pris al eops le counte': Walter Bedwyn, Treasurer of York, and the Return of Piers Gaveston - Jonathan Mackman and Paul Dryburgh The Deposition of Edward II: The Kenilworth Embassies - Sam Lane The English Parliament and the Trial of the 'Peers of the Land' in Henry of Lancaster's Revolt (1328-29): The Origins of a Privilege - Matthew Raven A Brotherhood Uncovered: Investigating the Knightly Following of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, 1329-1369 - Pierre Gaite The Black Death and Clerical Prospects in England - David Robinson

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Book SynopsisFirst comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto been relatively neglected, a gap which this volume, covering Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France and Spain from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, aims to fill, making creative use of a diverse range of unexplored sources. Instead of concentrating on the well-documented cases of landholding peasants, it explores the many different experiences of the numerous rural landless. It explains how their households were formed (often in the face of economic difficulties and official hostility), how all the members of a family contributed to its survival, how the landless related to other social groups and negotiated access to vital resources, and how they adapted as rural society was changed by war, politics, agrarian and industrial development, government policy and welfare systems. Contributors: Arnau Barquer i Cerdà, John Broad, ⴕ Dieter Bruneel, Christine Fertig, Henry French, Margareth Lanzinger, Jonas Lindström, Riikka Miettinen, Richard Paping, Wouter Ronsijn, Merja Uotila, Nadine VivierTable of ContentsIntroduction - Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French 1. The treballadors of Girona: evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries) - Arnau Barquer i Cerdà 2. The squatter economy of the English countryside - building new landless communities in England c. 1600-1900 - John Broad 3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600-1900 - Richard Paping 4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s: access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi-landless households, c. 1850-1900 - Wouter Ronsijn 5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders: the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500-1900) - † Dieter Bruneel 6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760-1835: A comparison of two southern English rural communities - Henry French 7. Landless rural households in France 1852-1910 - Nadine Vivier 8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime: non-landed households in seventeenth-century Sweden and Finland - Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström 9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio-economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland - Merja Uotila 10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions: Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - Margareth Lanzinger 11. Cottages, barns and bake houses: Landless rural households in North-western Germany in the eighteenth century - Christine Fertig

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of musical education and culture in twentieth-century Oxford. Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and instrumentalists, and the professional musicians regularly drawn to perform there. Oxford, with its collegiate system and centuries-long tradition of musical activity, presents a distinctive and multi-layered picture of the role of music in urban culture and university life. The chapters in this book shed light on music's unique ability to link 'town and gown', as shown by the Oxford Bach Choir, the city's many churches, and the major choral foundations. The twentieth century saw the emergence of new musical initiatives and the book traces the development of these, including the University's Faculty of Music and the University Opera Club. Further, it explores music in the newly-founded women's colleges, contrasted with the musical society formed in 1930 at University College, an ancient men's college. The work of Oxford composers, including George Butterworth, Nicola Lefanu, Edmund Rubbra, and William Walton, as well as the composer for several 'Carry on' films, Bruce Montgomery, is surveyed. Two remarkable figures, Sir Hugh Allen and Sir Jack Westrup, recur throughout the book in a variety of contexts. The volume is indispensable reading for scholars and students of musical life in twentieth-century Britain, as well as those interested generally in the history of Oxford's thriving cultural life.Table of ContentsForeword - Eric Clarke 1. Setting the Scene - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg Part I - Town and Gown 2. Music in the Town - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg 3. The Oxford Bach Choir, 1896-1997 - Robin Darwall-Smith 4. Music in the City Churches - Peter Ward Jones Part II - Collegiate Music-Making 5. The Choral Foundations - Timothy Day 6. Music in the Oxford Women's Colleges, 1879-1939 -Susan Wollenberg and Melanie von Goldbeck 7.The Balliol Concerts - Susan Wollenberg 8. The University College Musical Society, 1930-2000 - Robin Darwall-Smith Part III - University Institutions 9. The Oxford University Opera Club - Susan Wollenberg with an afterword by Michael Burden 10. The Development of the Faculty of Music - Susan Wollenberg 11. Oxford Composers - John Caldwell 12. 'For the purpose of encouraging the practice and knowledge of chamber music': The Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, 1899-1940 - Ian Maxwell Index

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Book SynopsisThe lives and experiences of Irish women religious highlight how an expanding nexus of female houses perpetuated European Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland. JOINT WINNER: 2023 National University of Ireland's Publication Prize in Irish History HONORABLE MENTION: 2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (USA) Book Awards SHORT-LISTED: Royal Historical Society 2023 Whitfield Book Prize LONG-LISTED: 2023 Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) Book Award This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways. McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation, covering both those accommodated in English and European continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents and the Irish foundations abroad. Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.Trade ReviewHONORABLE MENTION: A fascinating account of the experiences and journeys religious Irish women underwent, both in Ireland and continental Europe. * SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN & GENDER *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns 2. Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland 3. 'What difficultie a place is heare gotten for won to enter': Irish women religious in France, and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century 4. Irish nuns in Iberia: The Dominican convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, Lisbon 5. Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-49 6. Cromwell and the cloister: female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-60 7. Restoration, revival and survival, 1660-1700 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil. WINNER: 2022 Guittard Book Award The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used these descriptors and more to talk about dancers, particularly women. Yet, dance was not always considered entirely sinful or connected primarily to women: in some early medieval texts, dancers were exhorted to dance to God, arm-in-arm with their neighbors, and parishes were filled with danced expressions of faith. What led to the transformation of dancers from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil? Drawing on the evidence from medieval and early modern sermons, and in particular the narratives of the cursed carolers and the dance of Salome, this book explores these changing understandings of dance as they relate to religion, gender, sin, and community within the English parish. In parishes both before and during the English Reformations, dance played an integral role in creating, maintaining, uniting, or fracturing community. But as theological understandings of sacrilege, sin, and proper worship changed, the meanings of dance and gender shifted as well. Redefining dance had tangible ramifications for the men and women of the parish, as new definitions of what it meant to perform one's gender collided with discourses about holiness and transgression, leading to closer scrutiny and monitoring of the bodies of the faithful.Trade ReviewA fascinating study of ecclesiastical attitudes to dance in pre-modern England * Church Times *Women, Dance and Parish Religion represents a new and welcome contribution within dance historical research, bringing to light a textual archive never before mined for what it tells us about premodern and early modern attitudes toward dance, gender, and religion. * CHURCH HISTORY *References and Appendices are extremely comprehensive and I must commend the use of Old English characters (Thorn and Yogh for instance) in printed excerpts of sermons. This isn't a book for the general reader, but as an academic publication, I would highly recommend it. * FACHRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Reforming and Redefining True Religion Chapter 2: Dance and Protecting Sacred Space Chapter 3: Dance and Disrupting Sacred Time Chapter 4: "Satan Danced in the Person of the Damsel" Chapter 5: "In Her Dance She Had No Regard Unto God" Chapter 6: Performing Dance, Sin, and Gender Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The Golden Disc, and Oliver! Acting as a sequel to Adrian Wright's Cheer Up! British Musical Films, 1929-1945 (Boydell, 2020), Melody in the Dark offers the first major reassessment of the British musical film from the end of Second World War up to the beginning of the 1970s. In the immediate post-war world, British studios sought to reflect fast-changing social attitudes as they struggled to create inventive diversions in an effort to rival American competition. Hollywood stars Errol Flynn, Vera-Ellen, Jayne Mansfield and Judy Garland were among those brought in to provide Hollywood glamour. Embedded in the British consciousness, the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan were represented in three productions. Studios occasionally attempted adaptations of British stage musicals, among them King's Rhapsody and Expresso Bongo, and sexploitation movies turned musical via Secrets of a Windmill Girl and Beat Girl. It was left to minor studios to acknowledge the impact of rock'n'roll on social change in three early films, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners and the iconic The Golden Disc. Through the sixties, British cinema seemed intent on flooding the market with entertainments promoting pop singers and rock groups such as Cliff Richard, Billy Fury and The Beatles. Towards the end of the period, it aspired to more grandiose projects such as Oliver! and Oh! What a Lovely War.Trade ReviewAdrian Wright's meticulous research has unearthed some gems, and his analyses are suffused with wit, humour and affection. Melody in the Dark shines a light on some fascinating stories, and one is left with a strong desire to watch many of the films. -- John Altman, Emmy and Anthony Asquith Award winner, composer of over 50 movie scores.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements 1945 (from May 1945) Old Mother Riley at Home * Sweethearts for Ever * Here Comes the Sun * What Do We Do Now? 1946 Under New Management * Lisbon Story * George in Civvy Street * Gaiety George * I'll Turn to You * Meet the Navy * Amateur Night * Piccadilly Incident * London Town * Spring Song * The Laughing Lady * Walking on Air 1947 When You Come Home * Life Is Nothing Without Music * The Courtneys of Curzon Street * Holiday Camp * The Hills of Donegal * Comin' thro' the Rye 1948 Nightbeat * One Night with You * Spring in Park Lane * A Song for Tomorrow * Cup-Tie Honeymoon * Holidays with Pay * The Red Shoes * Date with a Dream * Here Come the Huggetts * The Brass Monkey 1949 Vote for Huggett * Somewhere in Politics * Bless 'em All * Melody in the Dark * The Huggetts Abroad * It's a Wonderful Day * Murder at the Windmill * Maytime in Mayfair * Old Mother Riley's New Venture * Trottie True * What a Carry On! * Skimpy in the Navy * High Jinks in Society 1950 The Dancing Years * Old Mother Riley Headmistress * The Lady Craved Excitement * A Ray of Sunshine * Soho Conspiracy * Lilli Marlene 1951 Happy Go Lovely * The Tales of Hoffmann * Lady Godiva Rides Again * London Entertains 1952 Song of Paris * Sing Along with Me * Judgment Deferred * Where's Charley? * Mother Riley Meets the Vampire * Meet Me Tonight * Down Among the Z Men * Tread Softly 1953 Valley of Song * The Wedding of Lilli Marlene * The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan * The Beggar's Opera * Always a Bride * Melba * Laughing Anne * Forces' Sweetheart * The Limping Man * It's a Grand Life * Trouble in Store 1954 The Gay Dog * Harmony Lane * Lilacs in the Spring * One Good Turn 1955 As Long As They're Happy * You Lucky People! * Value for Money * Man of the Moment * Oh ... Rosalinda!! * King's Rhapsody * Gentlemen Marry Brunettes * An Alligator Named Daisy * All for Mary 1956 Fun at St Fanny's * Charley Moon * It's Great to be Young * Ramsbottom Rides Again * Invitation to the Dance * It's a Wonderful World * A Touch of the Sun * On the Twelfth Day * Stars in Your Eyes * Up in the World * Five Guineas a Week 1957 The Good Companions * Let's be Happy * The Tommy Steele Story * Rock You Sinners * After the Ball * These Dangerous Years * Davy 1958 The Golden Disc * 6.5 Special * The Duke Wore Jeans * Wonderful Things * A Cry from the Streets * The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw * tom thumb * Hello London * Life Is a Circus 1959 The Lady Is a Square * Make Mine a Million * Idol on Parade * Serious Charge * The Heart of a Man * Sweet Beat * Tommy the Toreador * Desert Mice * Follow a Star * Expresso Bongo 1960 Jazz Boat * Let's Get Married * Girls of the Latin Quarter * Climb Up the Wall * In the Nick * The Entertainer * Too Hot to Handle * Beat Girl 1961 Rag Doll * The Young Ones * The Johnny Leyton Touch 1962 Play It Cool * The Painted Smile * It's Trad, Dad! * The Road to Hong Kong * Some People * Band of Thieves * I Could Go On Singing 1963 The Cool Mikado * Summer Holiday * Just for Fun * It's All Happening * Take Me Over * A Place to Go * What a Crazy World * Live It Up * Farewell Performance * It's All Over Town 1964 A Hard Day's Night * Wonderful Life * Just for You * Swinging UK * UK Swings Again * Rhythm 'n' Greens * Mods and Rockers * Every Day's a Holiday * Ballad in Blue * Ferry Cross the Mersey * The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown 1965 Pop Gear * Gonks Go Beat * I've Gotta Horse * Three Hats for Lisa * Be My Guest * Catch Us if You Can * Help! * Up Jumped a Swagman * Cuckoo Patrol * Dateline Diamonds 1966 Stop the World - I Want to Get Off * Secrets of a Windmill Girl * Just Like a Woman * Finders Keepers * 1967 The Mikado * Half a Sixpence * Smashing Time * Red and Blue * Two a Penny 1968 Oliver! * A Little of What You Fancy * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter * Les Bicyclettes de Belsize * Popdown 1969 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? * What's Good for the Goose * Oh! What a Lovely War * Goodbye Mr Chips 1970 Toomorrow * Scrooge 1972 The Boy Friend Notes to the Text Select Bibliography

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Book Synopsis"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King This year's volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference in Bonn, held under the auspices of the University. In this volume, Alheydis Plassmann, the Allen Brown Memorial lecturer, analyses how two contemporary commentators reported the events of their day, the contest between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror as they struggled for supremacy in England and Normandy during the 1140s. The Marjorie Chibnall Essay prize winner, Laura Bailey, examines the geographical spaces occupied by the exile in The Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Andrea Stieldorf compares the seals and the coins of Germany/Lotharingia in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries with those made in England, exploring the ideas embedded in the iconography of the two connected visual sources. Domesday Book forms the focus of two important new studies, one by Rory Naismith looking at the moneyers to be found in Domesday, adding substantially to the information gained on this important group of artisans, and one by Chelsea Shields-Más on the sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, giving us new insights into the key officials in the royal administration. Elisabeth van Houts examines the life of Empress Matilda before she returned to her father's court in 1125 throwing new light on Matilda's "German" years, while Laura Wangerin looks at how tenth-century Ottonian women used communication to further their political goals. Steven Vanderputten takes the challenge of thinking about religious change at the turn of the Millennium through the lens of the Life of John, Abbot of Gorze Abbey, by John of Saint-Arnoul. Benjamin Pohl looks at the role of the abbot in prompting monk-historians to embark on their historiographical tasks through the work of one individual chronicler, Andreas of Marchiennes, responsible for writing, at his abbot's behest, the Chronicon Marchianense. And Megan Welton explores the implications of honorific titles through an examination of the title dux as it was attached to two tenth-century women rulers. The volume offers a wide range of insightful essays which add considerably to our understanding of the central middle ages.Table of ContentsWilliam of Malmesbury, the Gesta Stephani, and the Idea of Successful and Good Rule in the Twelfth Century (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture) Alheydis Plassmann The Spaces of Exile in the Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le fitz Waryn (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, 2022) Laura Bailey Empty Honorifics: Elites, Titles, and the Economy of Esteem in the Tenth Century (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture) Megan Welton The Sheriffs of Edward the Confessor Chelsea Shields-Más Seals, Coins, and the Exchange of Imagination and Images Andrea Stieldorf Matilda in the Empire, 1110-1125 Elisabeth van Houts Communications and Power: Ottonian Women Laura Wangerin A Reluctant Historian and his Craft: The Scribal Work of Andreas of Marchiennes Reconsidered Benjamin Pohl Community Building as a Vector of Social and Religious Change in the Life of John of Gorze (973/74-984) Steven Vanderputten The Moneyers and Domesday Book (The Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture) Rory Naismith

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Book SynopsisValuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society. Pre-Conquest English law was among the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of early English identity and exercised a formative influence on the development of the Common Law. However, recent scholarship has also revealed the significant influence of these legal documents and ideas on other cultural domains, both modern and pre-modern. This collection explores the richness of pre-Conquest legal writing by looking beyond its traditional codified form. Drawing on methodologies ranging from traditional philology to legal and literary theory, and from a diverse selection of contributors offering a broad spectrum of disciplines, specialities and perspectives, the essays examine the intersection between traditional juridical texts - from law codes and charters to treatises and religious regulation - and a wide range of literary genres, including hagiography and heroic poetry. In doing so, they demonstrate that the boundary that has traditionally separated "law" from other modes of thought and writing is far more porous than hitherto realized. Overall, the volume yields valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Law as Literature/Literature as Law Andrew Rabin and Anya Adair Part I. Law and Literature: Normative Alliances 1. The Alfredian Prose Psalms and a Legal English Identity Jay Paul Gates 2. Cynescipe, Bishop Æthelwold, and the Spread of Legal Language Arendse Lund 3. Traces and Supplements: Literary Prose in Sawyer 404 Scott T. Smith 4. The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Night-Time: Circumstantial Evidence in Law and Poetry Anya Adair 5. Uncertain Judgment: The Ordeal in Hagiography and Law Andrew Rabin Part II. Literature and Law: Normative Renewals 6. The Historical and Literary Context of the Legatine Capitulary of 786 in England and Abroad Kristen Carella 7. Liturgy as Law: Coronation Ordines in Tenth-Century England Nicole Marafioti 8. The Passive Ealdorman? Juxtaposing the later Old English Law Codes and the 'Dispute Narratives' Mary Elizabeth Blanchard 9. Royal Reeves, Royal Authority, and the 'Holy Society' in Archbishop Wulfstan's Writings Chelsea Shields-Más 10. Laying Down the Law? Bishop Headda's Visit to Saint Guthlac Stefan Jurasinski 11. The Terms of Hypocrisy in Early English Law and Literature: Ælfric and Wulfstan Sherif Abdelkarim

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Book SynopsisExplores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was 'free' after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned and labour laws have been identified as creating significant restrictions on workers' freedom. This collection is the first book to look at labour laws across Western Europe from a longer-term perspective. It is interdisciplinary in nature bringing together studies in social, political, economic and legal history. Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms. Contributors: Davide Cristoferi, Theresa Johnsson, Thijs Lambrecht, Charmian Mansell, Francine Michaud, Hanne Østhus, Raffaella Sarti, Carolina Uppenberg and Jane Whittle.Trade ReviewMakes clear that a better understanding of the developing ideas and practices in Europe before the sixteenth century will also lead to a better understanding of the slave trade. It invites new questions about self-representations of the organization of labor within Europe over a longer period. This makes it an important book. Original Dutch: Het maakt duidelijk dat een beter begrip van de zich ontwikkelende ideeën en praktijken in Europa vóór de zestiende eeuw ook tot meer inzicht zal leiden in de door slavenhandel. Het nodigt ook uit tot het stellen van nieuwe vragen over zelfrepresentaties van de organisatie van arbeid binnen Europa over een langere periode. Daarmee is het een belangrijk boek. * TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Comparative History of Europe's Labour Laws c.1350-1850 Thijs Lambrecht and Jane Whittle Part I: Regulating Agricultural Workers c.1350-1600 1. Attitudes to Wage Labour in English Labour Legislation, 1349-1601 Jane Whittle 2. Agricultural Workers and their Contractual Terms of Employment in Marseille, 1349-1400 Francine Michaud 3. The Ties that Bind: Mezzadria and Labour Regulations after the Black Death in Florence and Siena, 1348-c.1500 Davide Cristoferi Part II: The Regulation and Classification of Labour in Early Modern Europe 4. Slaves, Servants and Other Dependent People: Early Modern Classifications and Western Europe's Self-Representation Raffaella Sarti 5. The Servant, the Law and the State: Servant Law in Denmark-Norway, c.1600-1800 Hanne Østhus 6. Labour Legislation in the Southern Low Countries, c.1600 - c.1820 Thijs Lambrecht 7. Dimensions of Free and Unfree Labour in the Swedish Servant Acts, 1664-1858 Carolina Uppenberg Part III: The Experience of Regulation 8. Objecting to Youth: Popular Attitudes to Service as a Form of Social and Economic Control in England, 1564-1641 Charmian Mansell 9. Exposed Lives: Compulsory Service and 'Vagrancy' Practices in Sweden in the 1830s Theresa Johnsson 10. The Moral Economy of Compulsory Service: Labour Regulations in Law and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iceland Vilhelm Vilhelmsson Index

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Book SynopsisCarolina of Orange-Nassau (1743 – 1787) was born the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, and Anne, Princess Royal and was thus the granddaughter of King George II. It was upon the King's orders that she was named after his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. She was the first of Anne and William's children to survive to adulthood. When her father was at last made stadtholder of all seven united provinces, Carolina was included in the line of succession, in the event she had no brothers. A brother was eventually born, but due to his weak health, she remained an important figure. Carolina married Charles Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and suffered the loss of half her children, either in childbirth or infancy. Despite this, she acted as regent for her minor brother while heavily pregnant and remained devoted to him and the Dutch republic. Her children married well and her descendants sit upon the royal thrones of Europe, truly making her a grandmother of Europe.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Nicholas Mesarites is difficult to place, because the record he left behind was not that of a historian, more that of a social commentator. He preferred to highlight individual incidents and to emphasise personal experience and family relationships. He does not try to make sense of events; only to record their immediate impact. His is a fragmented autobiographical approach, which brings the reader closer to events, but leaves him to construct the bigger picture for himself; whether it is an eyewitness account of a palace coup that failed; a description of the relics of the passion; the memories of a brother, who became a defender of Orthodoxy; the detailed evocation of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople; the portrayal of his own nervous collapse following the loss of Constantinople; a character study of an ecclesiastical rival; or not least the mishaps -often for comical effect - suffered in the course of his travels. Because he was writing, as he tells us, largely to please himself, Nicholas Mesarites provides an idiosyncratic view of the society in which he moved, and, as he was less bound by literary convention than his contemporaries, he writes with a refreshing directness.Trade Review'Angold provides the first comprehensive study of Mesarites and his literary production, a contribution that helps us better situate the writer’s output in the broader picture of the Greek-Orthodox world and its dynamics in the time of fragmentation for the medieval Roman polity.’ Stefanos Dimitriadis, The Byzantine ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsI INTRODUCTIONII NARRATIVE OF THE COUP OF JOHN THE FAT1. Introduction2. TranslationIII DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES1. Introduction2. TranslationIV EPITAPHIOS FOR HIS BROTHER JOHN1. Introduction2. TranslationV DOSSIER ON THE PATRIARCHATE1. Introduction/TranslationVI FOURTH LENTEN SERMON 12151. Introduction2. TranslationVII ETHOPOIIA OF A MATHEMATICIAN1. Introduction2. TranslationVIII LETTERS1. Letters2. Synodal DocumentsBIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisSimilar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who lived near fishing waters in early medieval England: how fishing affected that person’s diet, livelihood, and religious obligations, as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and cultural structures. Similar lines of enquiry in the volume’s chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the early medieval landscape, and on human interactions (poetic and otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs, landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills, and river settlements, as well as a variety of other waterscapes. The volume’s examination of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an understanding, in the end, not only of the archaeological and material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the imaginative waterscapes found in the textual records of the peoples of early medieval England.Trade Review'There are comprehensive references throughout, as notes and selected texts to spur further investigation.'Sue Harrington, Archaeological Journal '[The] chapters are very accessible, wide in scope, and will be useful to students and specialists alike... [It] is... a clear and well co-ordinated book.' Caroline Goodson, English Historical Review‘This volume brings a central, but sometimes technical and obscure, aspect of Anglo-Saxon life to a wider pubic, and should be the first point of reference for many years to come. It sets high standards for continuing the series.’ John BlairTable of ContentsList of illustrations Introduction – Della Hooke and Maren Clegg Hyer 1. From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry – Jill Frederick 2. Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place-Names – Della Hooke 3. Fens and Frontiers – Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley 4. Marshlands and Other Wetlands – Stephen Rippon 5. Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts – Della Hooke 6. Food from the Water: Fishing – Rebecca Reynolds 7. Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges – Mark Gardiner 8. Watermills and Waterwheels – Martin Watts 9. Water, wics and burhs – Hal Dalwood† Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe manuscript translated here contains one of the most important texts for understanding the development of early Ottoman historiography in the fifteenth century. The so-called Oxford Anonymous chronicle is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to tell the story of the dynasty from its rise to the year 1484 (AH 889). Like several other histories produced around the same time, some of which it influenced, it presents the Ottomans in the context of wider Islamic history and contains a coherent argument for their superiority over other dynasties. The manuscript had previously belonged to the Dutch orientalist Jacob Golius (d. 1667). Although its history is largely unknown, it was probably a presentation copy made for Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512). The work itself is a product of Bayezid’s patronage, and shows a strong preoccupation with the perennial Ottoman problem of dynastic succession. Fully one third of the manuscript contains an older text recounting in epic terms the struggles of Mehmed I against his brothers (1402–13). The obvious explanation is that when Oxford Anonymous was compiled, Bayezid II was also facing a rival claimant to the throne, his brother Cem Sultan (d. 1495).Trade Review'The utility of Kastritsis’s crisp and eminently readable translation of OA (on the finer points of which both space and time inhibit me from commenting), together with his illuminating and thoughtful introduction, will be of great value not only to specialists in the field but to other late medieval historians who may not be so well acquainted with fifteenth-century Ottoman Turkish. Its appearance, in the series, be it noted, Translated Texts for Byzantinists, is to be greatly welcomed.' Colin Heywood, SpeculumTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ixNote on style and transliteration xiAbbreviations xiii1 Introduction 1Oxford Anonymous (Marsh 313) in the context of early Ottoman historical writing 1Description and history of the manuscript 8The author and circumstances of composition 10Overview of the contents 11The introductory chapters and their significance 16The sections on Ottoman history 282 Translation 43Preface 45Chapter 1 52Chapter 2 55[Lacuna]Inquiry 2 (Orhan) 69Inquiry 3 (Murad I) 74Inquiry 4 (Bayezid I) 85Inquiry 5 (Mehmed I) 97Inquiry 6 (Murad II) 155Inquiry 7 (Mehmed II) 175Inquiry 8 (Bayezid II) 213Glossary 219Bibliography 223Index 243

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Book SynopsisThe two decades since the last authoritative general history of Dutch Jews was published have seen such substantial developments in historical understanding that new assessment has become an imperative. This volume offers an indispensable survey from a contemporary viewpoint that reflects the new preoccupations of European historiography and allows the history of Dutch Jewry to be more integrated with that of other European Jewish histories. Historians from both older and newer generations shed significant light on all eras, providing fresh detail that reflects changed emphases and perspectives. In addition to such traditional subjects as the Jewish community’s relationship with the wider society and its internal structure, its leaders, and its international affiliations, new topics explored include the socio-economic aspects of Dutch Jewish life seen in the context of the integration of minorities more widely; a reassessment of the Holocaust years and consideration of the place of Holocaust memorialization in community life; and the impact of multiculturalist currents on Jews and Jewish politics. Memory studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and digital humanities all play their part in providing the fullest possible picture. This wide-ranging scholarship is complemented by a generous plate section with eighty fully captioned colour illustrations.Trade ReviewReviews‘This volume features new research and, more importantly, new historiographic perspectives about how to write the history of the Jews in Europe. Because it is very sensitive to issues with which historians of other Jewish communities grapple - for example, the place of Holocaust memorialization in community life, the impact of multicultural politics, Israel and Zionism - it has the potential to move the history of Dutch Jewry into closer conversation with other European Jewish histories.’ Todd Endelman, Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan 'Two decades have passed since the last history of the Jews of the Netherlands was published, and the editors of the present volume have taken great care to ensure that the main points of the substantial amount of new research on the history and culture of Dutch Jewry have been incorporated.'Jonathan I. Israel, Emeritus Professor of European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton'This welcome new volume positions the history of the Jews of the Netherlands squarely in the contemporary historiographical landscape. It is persuasive as to how and why it has something to say to the broader field, and why it should be seen as an integral part of that field.'David Rechter, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford‘This new overview of Dutch Jewish history reflects changes and turns in historical approaches as well as the growth of research on multiple aspects of Dutch Jewish history… This rich book will undoubtedly remain the most authoritative textbook on the history of Dutch Jewry for many years to come. It is wholeheartedly recommended.’ Dan Michman, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies‘Reappraising the History of the Jews in the Netherlands is a substantially balanced and nuanced book. It carefully places the history of Dutch Jewry in a general Dutch and international Jewish context, demonstrating that Jewish identity, and belonging, are never fixed, but fluid, constantly evolving. Everyone interested in or studying Dutch Jewish history should consider this book a starting point.’ Sietske van der Veen, Journal of Modern Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrationsEditorial noteList of abbreviationsIntroduction IVO SCHÖFFER1. The Middle Ages B. M. J. SPEETFirst Signs of a Jewish PresenceThe Northern Netherlands Violent Persecution Gelderland in the Fifteenth Century Discrimination and Expulsion The Christian Origins of Antisemitism Fresh Accusations In Search of an Explanation2. Between the Middle Ages and the Golden Age, 1516–1621 DANIEL M. SWETSCHINSKIJews in the Holy Roman Empire The Iberian Background Portuguese New Christians in Antwerp The Attitude of Humanists and Reformers to Jews and Judaism The Toleration Debate and the Jews Portuguese New Christians in Holland Four Christian Views of Jews The Growth of the Sephardi Colony in Amsterdam The Future Still Uncertain3. The Republic of the United Netherlands until about 1750: Demography and Economic Activity JONATHAN I. ISRAELThe Early Decades, 1595–1648 Expansion and Colonization The Burgeoning of Commerce and of the Credit System, 1648–1713 Growing Population Figures During the Period of Economic Decline, 1713–17504. The Jews in the Republic until about 1750: Religious, Cultural, and Social Life YOSEF KAPLANThe Organization of the Community Three Congregations The Influx of Paupers The Power of the Mahamad New Synagogues Sephardim and Ashkenazim outside Amsterdam Religious Life: Tradition and Change A Good Education Ashkenazi Life Jewish Printers in Amsterdam The Shabbatean Movement in Amsterdam Influential Rabbis Culture and Secular Creativity Literature and the Stage Everyday Life Ideological Conflicts Relations between Jews and Christians Jewish Stereotypes5. Enlightenment and Emancipation, c.1750–1814 RENATE G. FUKS-MANSFELDGood Citizens Demographic Changes and Emigration Economic Changes The Administration of the Jewish Communities Administrative Changes after 1796 Religious and Cultural Life6. Arduous Adaptation, 1814–1870 RENATE G. FUKS-MANSFELDThe Government and the Jews Education The Reorganization of the Jewish Communities after 1848 The Government and Jews under Threat Abroad Dutch Jews as Citizens Economic and Social Changes The Attitude of Protestants and Catholics towards Jews Cultural and Religious Trends Reactions to the New Jewish Fellow-Citizens7. Jewish Netherlanders, Netherlands Jews, and Jews in the Netherlands, 1870–1940 J. C. H. BLOM and JOEL J. CAHENDemography Occupations, Economic Role, and Poverty Religious Life, (Sub)culture, and Pillarization Assimilation, Integration, and Antisemitism Solidarity with International Jewry and Zionism Refugees from Germany Jews in the Dutch Colonies Jew and Netherlander8. The War, 1940-1945 PETER ROMIJNThe German Invasion • Registration Segregation New Regulations Outlaws Deportations and the Yellow Star Forced Removal and Labour Camps Organization and Selection Flight, Going into Hiding, and Resistance The Transit Camps Deportation and Murder Conclusion9. After the Second World War: From Religious Community to Cultural Minority F. CHAYA BRASZThe First Few Months The Jewish Co-ordination Committee Antisemitism Religious Congregations Migration The Struggle for the Jewish War Orphans The Purges Jews in Modern Dutch Society after 1950 Numbers and Distribution A Cultural Minority Religious Developments The Colonies Jews and Christians Zionism Middle East Policy The Holocaust EpilogueBibliographical essaysBibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex of namesGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Nicholas Mesarites is difficult to place, because the record he left behind was not that of a historian, more that of a social commentator. He preferred to highlight individual incidents and to emphasise personal experience and family relationships. He does not try to make sense of events; only to record their immediate impact. His is a fragmented autobiographical approach, which brings the reader closer to events, but leaves him to construct the bigger picture for himself; whether it is an eyewitness account of a palace coup that failed; a description of the relics of the passion; the memories of a brother, who became a defender of Orthodoxy; the detailed evocation of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople; the portrayal of his own nervous collapse following the loss of Constantinople; a character study of an ecclesiastical rival; or not least the mishaps -often for comical effect - suffered in the course of his travels. Because he was writing, as he tells us, largely to please himself, Nicholas Mesarites provides an idiosyncratic view of the society in which he moved, and, as he was less bound by literary convention than his contemporaries, he writes with a refreshing directness.Trade Review'Angold provides the first comprehensive study of Mesarites and his literary production, a contribution that helps us better situate the writer’s output in the broader picture of the Greek-Orthodox world and its dynamics in the time of fragmentation for the medieval Roman polity.’ Stefanos Dimitriadis, The Byzantine ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsI INTRODUCTIONII NARRATIVE OF THE COUP OF JOHN THE FAT1. Introduction2. TranslationIII DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES1. Introduction2. TranslationIV EPITAPHIOS FOR HIS BROTHER JOHN1. Introduction2. TranslationV DOSSIER ON THE PATRIARCHATE1. Introduction/TranslationVI FOURTH LENTEN SERMON 12151. Introduction2. TranslationVII ETHOPOIIA OF A MATHEMATICIAN1. Introduction2. TranslationVIII LETTERS1. Letters2. Synodal DocumentsBIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisIntellectual traditions are commonly regarded as cultural variations, historical legacies, or path dependencies. By analyzing road junctions between different traditions of Public Administration this book contests the dominant perspective of path-dependent national silos, and highlights the ways in which they are hybrid and open to exogenous ideas. Analyzing the hybridity of administrative traditions from an historical perspective, this book provides a new approach to the history of Public Administration as a scientific discipline. Original and interdisciplinary chapters address the question of how scholars from the U.S., Germany and France mutually influenced each other, from the closing years of the 19th Century, up until the neo-liberal turn of the 1970s. Offering a thorough analysis of the transatlantic history of Public Administration, the conclusion argues that it is vital to learn from the past, in order to make Public Administration more realistic in theory, as well as more successful in practice. Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate political science scholars will find this to be a valuable tool in understanding the foundations of transatlantic Public Administration. This book will also greatly benefit researchers on comparative and transnational history with a keen interest in Public Administration.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: why study the transatlantic history of administrative ideas? 2. Setting the scene: the administrative traditions of Germany, France and the USA 3. Examining the scene: the transfer-of-ideas approach applied to the history of administrative traditions 4. The transfer of knowledge from Germany and France to the USA 5. The import of US ideas by German Public Administration 6. The transfer of knowledge from the USA to France 7. Public Administration in Germany, France and the USA: Traditional flavors or hybrid traditions? 8. Lessons learned: making administrative theory more realistic and administrative practice more successful References Index

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Book SynopsisSir Francis Bryan was Henry VIII's most notorious ambassador and one of his closest companions. Bryan was a man of many talents; jouster, poet, rake and hell-raiser, gambler, soldier, sailor and diplomat. He served his king throughout his life and unlike many of the other men who served Henry VIII, Bryan kept his head and outlived his sovereign. This book tells the story of his life from coming to court at a young age through all his diplomatic duties to his final years in Ireland. The latest book from the best-selling author of Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII

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Book SynopsisEach of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-ranging overview down to the mid-eighteenth century, including social, economic, and religious history. The period from 1764 to 1881 is covered in more detail, with attention focused on developments in each country in turn, especially with regard to the politics of emancipation, acculturation, assimilation, and forced integration. Volume II: 1881 to 1914 explores the factors that had a negative impact on Jewish life as well as the political and cultural movements that developed in consequence: Zionism, socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish urbanization, and the rise of popular Jewish culture. Galicia, Prussian Poland, the Kingdom of Poland, and the tsarist empire are all treated individually, as are the main cities. Volume III: 1914 to 2008 covers the interwar period, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, including Polish–Jewish relations and the Soviet record on the Holocaust. A survey of developments since 1945 concludes with an epilogue on the situation of the Jews since the collapse of communismTrade Review‘An invaluable research resource with maps, tables, endnotes, statistics, glossary, and bibliography. It also delivers a compelling picture and credible picture of how Jews responded to dramatic change . . . does well to focus on women, whom previous histories often ignore.’- Lawrence Joffe, Jewish Chronicle‘Remarkable for its scale and ambition . . . Polonsky manages to combine great themes with fascinating detail . . . [he] has read widely in numerous languages. The erudition is impressive . . . extremely judicious in negotiating a number of notorious historiographical minefields . . . makes important distinctions between different countries in eastern Europe and consequently the different experience of the Jews . . . a magnificent, scholarly work, clearly written, with a magisterial overview of its subject.’- David Herman, Jewish Renaissance'Polonsky's sweeping study offers an illuminating, accessible view of Jewish life in eastern Euope since the end of World War II. In elegant prose, the author engages major historiographical issues while analyzing important cultural, religious, social, and political trends among eastern European Jewry. He carefully frames each section with a chapter-long overview of the relevant historical context for the following chapters . . . Throughout, Polonsky masterfully navigates the different realms of a turbulent eastern European Jewish world, conveying both the richness of its history and the tragedy of its destruction. Highly recommended.'J. Haus, Choice 'Exemplary and formidable . . . Polonsky, as much as anyone else, has created the field of modern Jewish history as a subject to be considered and understood rather than simply a tragic past to be mourned. He is too good a historian to confuse the history of Jewish life with the German policies that brought Jewish death . . . The barely visible commitment in these three wonderful volumes is to rescue a world from polemic, for the sake of history.'Timothy Snyder, Wall Street Journal 'Succeeds admirably. Simply put, these volumes are required reading for anyone with a serious interest in East European history or for anyone looking for a scholarly assessment of a particular feature of Polish or Russian Jewish history. Handsomely produced, with extensive maps and tables, and a glossary . . . will remain a standard work in the field for some time.'Sean Martin, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction I The Polish-Lithuanian Background Introduction 1 Jews and Christians in early modern Poland-Lithuania 2 Jewish Autonomous Institutions 3 Jewish Places: Royal Towns and Noble Towns 4 Jews in Economic Life 5 Religious and Spiritual Life II Governmental Attempts to Transform and Integrate the Jews and the Jewish Response, 1750-1880 Introduction 1 The Last Years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 2 The Jews in the Prussian Partition of Poland 3 The Jews in Austrian Poland (Galicia) down to the mid-1870s 4 The Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1881 5 The Jews in the Tsarist Empire, 1772-1825 6 Nicholas I and the Jews of Russia, 1825-1855 7 The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-1881 III The Deterioration of the Position of the Jews and the New Jewish Politics, 1881-1914 Introduction 1 The Deterioration of the Position of the Jews in the Tsarist Empire after 1881 2 The Revolution of 1905-7 in the Tsarist Empire and its Consequences 3 The Kingdom of Poland, 1881-1914 4 Galicia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 5 Prussian Poland from 1869 to 1914 6 The Emergence of Modern Jewish Literature in the Tsarist Empire and Galicia 7 Jewish Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century 8 Jewish Spaces: Shetlakh and Towns in the Nineteenth Century 9 Women in Jewish Eastern Europe 10 The Rise of Jewish Mass Culture: Literature, Press, Theatre IV War, Revolution, and Totalitarianism, 1914-1939 Introduction 1 The Impact of the First World War on Jewish Life in Eastern Europe 2 The Jews in Polish Political and Social Life 3 Jewish Life in the Towns and Shtetlakh of Interwar Poland 4 Jewish Cultural and Intellectual Life in Independent Poland 5 Religious Life in Interwar Poland 6 Jews in Interwar Lithuania 7 Jews in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 8 Jews in Towns and Shtetlakh in the USSR 9 Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union down to 1941 V The Twilight of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1939 to the present day Introduction 1 Jews under Nazi and Soviet Occupation, September 1939 - June 1941 2 The Nazi Holocaust in Eastern Europe 3 Jews in Poland, 1944-1989 4 Jews in the Soviet Union, 1944-1991 5 Jews in Poland since the end of communism 6 Jews in Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus since 1991

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