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RT @Medievalists: 10 Free Medieval Articles from The English Historical Review - congratulations on 600 issues @en….
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Discover ten free medieval articles from The English Historical Review as the journal celebrates the milestone of its 600th issue.
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Ryan Perry reviews 'The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales', by Manish Sharma. @utpress.
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Manish Sharma’s book is one of those rare works that aims to convince the reader of an essential thesis. Beginning with the notion of insolubilia, paradoxe
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Maximilian Lau reviews 'Historiography and Identity, V: The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000–1300', ed. Walter Pohl, Veronika Wieser and Francesco Borri. @Brepols.
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The analysis of a diverse number of sources and historiographies, while at the same time controlling this corpus with a question tight enough that such bro
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John Maddicott reviews 'Saint Simon de Montfort: The Miracles, Laments, Prayers and Hymns', ed. and tr. David Cox.
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The chief and very considerable value of David Cox’s book lies in its bringing together, editing and translating all the known texts relating to the Evesha
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Bob Harris reviews 'The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency', by John Eglin.
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John Eglin’s welcome and elegantly written new book is oddly titled. This is true in two key respects. In the first place, it is not clear that Eglin think
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Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich @dr_jehrlich . @cambUP_History.
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This engaging and deeply researched study shows how the cultivation of knowledge was central to the political ideology of the East India Company state duri
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Emily West @emilywestfahey reviews 'Old Age and American Slavery', by David Stefan Doddington . @cambUP_History.
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In this innovative, wide-ranging and extremely thought-provoking book, David Doddington urges historians to think more explicitly about the process of agei
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Lewis Wade reviews Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England, by Anne L. Murphy. @PrincetonUPress.
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On 14 March 1783, three of the Bank of England’s directors began an inspection of the institution. Anne L. Murphy presents ‘a day in the life’ of the Bank
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Mattie Fitch @DrMattieFitch reviews 'The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904–1939', by Chris Millington @DrCMillington . .@stanfordpress.
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In the 1930s, violent episodes frequently marked the front pages of French newspapers. In 1932, an assassin shot to death President Paul Doumer; two years
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Alexander Maxwell reviews 'Towards Modern Nationhood: Wales and Slovenia in Comparison, c.1750–1918', by Robin Okey. @UniWalesPress.
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Though the title of the late Robin Okey’s final book promises a comparison between Wales and Slovenia, the work actually offers a ‘framework in which to se
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Angeliki Lymberopoulou reviews 'Africa and Byzantium', ed. Andrea Myers Achi. @YaleBooks.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has been spoiling Byzantinists for decades now, both with exhibitions and with their accompanying catalogues. The
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Giovanni Ruffini reviews 'Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine', ed. Louise Blanke and Jennifer Cromwell @Papyrus_Stories . @cambUP_History.
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The gap between the literary ideal of monastic isolation and the reality of monastic economic engagement has been apparent for some time. This volume puts
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Elena Woodacre @monarchyconf reviews 'Eleanor of Aquitaine As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen', by Karen Sullivan. @UChicagoPress.
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Surely more ink has been spilled about Eleanor of Aquitaine than any other medieval woman. This new monograph by Karen Sullivan joins an extensive corpus o
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Barry Bienstock, @agordonreed and Peter Onuf, eds, Family, Slavery and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis @UNC_Press;.and.Isabela Morales, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom @OUPHistory.
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New in Reflections! Rebecca J Fraser on 'Histories of the American Family and Defining Freedoms in the Public and Private Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Americans '.
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Conceptions of rights and freedoms in the United States have always been central to the histories of the nation. Historians’ understandings of such ideals
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New article! Matthew Stibbe on 'MI5, the Security State and Communist Political Refugees from Nazism in Second World War-Era Britain: The Case of Gustav Beuer, 1938–1946'.
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Abstract. This article examines the British Security Service’s monitoring of Gustav Beuer, a Sudeten German communist and former member of the Czechoslovak
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Lots of new material available on advance access: articles, reflections, book reviews.
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New article available on Advance Access: Krisztina Ilko on 1"Where the Wild Things Are": The Medieval Augustinian Order’s Perception of Nature between Tree Lore and Environmental History'.
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Abstract. This article examines how medieval woodlands around Augustinian convents could convey messages of power. In the thirteenth century, the papacy th
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New article: @ColinVeach on 'From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland'.
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Abstract. This article offers a new way of framing the English conquest of Ireland by focusing on the development of a kingdom of Ireland both before and a
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