Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance, by Nicholas Popper
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Archiv für Februar 2014
The Lion, the Witch, and the King: Thomas Stapleton’s Apologia pro Rege Catholico Philippo II (1592)
Historians have rarely acknowledged the restraint shown by Catholic exile writers in their portrayals of Queen Elizabeth. As a general rule, exiles took care to restrict their often stringent criticism to the queen’s government or advisers. This…
The Religious Marketplace: Public Disputations in Civil War and Interregnum England
The civil wars and interregnum (1640–60) ushered in a period of religious flux and debate, with controversies pursued in fierce pamphlet wars. Equally important, but far less familiar to us, were the public disputations, which spread across Engl…
The Rebel Barons of 1264 and the Commune of London: An Oath of Mutual Aid
In March 1264, the commune of London, led by its mayor Thomas fitz Thomas, allied with twenty other leading rebels to swear an oath of mutual support. This oath was mentioned by one contemporary chronicler. This article transcribes and translates this…
‚Affluence‘ and the Left in Britain, c.1958-1974
Accounts of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s have treated ‘affluence’ as a socio-economic condition to which political thinkers and actors responded, with greater or lesser success. This overlooks the contemporary significance of &l…
From ‚Borderland‘ via ‚Bloodlands‘ to Heartland? Recent Western Historiography of Ukraine
Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/536/139?rss=1
Continental European Soldiers in British Imperial Service, c.1756-1792
Continental Europeans were not just enemies and competitors of the eighteenth-century British Empire; they were also allies, auxiliaries, and coadjutors in British imperial activity. This paper examines the role of European and particularly German sol…
Wales and the Britons, 350-1064, by T.M. Charles-Edwards
Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/536/160?rss=1
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England, by Helena Hamerow
Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/536/162?rss=1
A Companion to World History, ed. Douglas Northrop
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