First published in January 1886, The English Historical Review (EHR) is the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. It deals not only with British history, but also with almost all aspects of European and world history since the classical era: it covers the history of the Americas, including the foreign policy of the USA and her role in the wider world, but excludes the internal history of the USA since Independence, for which other scholarly outlets are plentiful. The EHR includes major Articles, ‘Notes and Documents’, and Debates on medieval and modern themes, as well as an unusually extensive range of Reviews and Shorter Notices of books published throughout the world. A summary of international periodical literature published in the previous twelve months is also provided.
Contents
Articles
The Earliest Viking Activity in England? Clare Downham
Elizabethan Absolutism and Tamburlaine’s Tents: Sir Humphrey Gilbert Reads De Republica Anglorum Rory Rapple
Ornamentalism in a European Context? Napoleon’s Italian Coronation, 26 May 1805 border Ambrogio A. Caiani
Soldiers and Social Change: The Forces Vote in the Second World War and New Zealand’s Great Experiment in Social Citizenship Jonathan Fennell
Book Reviews
Dudo of Saint-Quentin’s Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory, by Benjamin Pohl Judith A. Green
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Norwegian Collections, Parts I (Vol. 65) and II (Vol. 66), by Elina Screen N. Myrberg Burström
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Christopher Tyerman Helen J. Nicholson
Medieval Letters: Between Fiction and Document, ed. Christian Høgel and Elisabetta Bartoli J.P. Haseldine
The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris, by Meredith Cohen David Rollason
The Growth of Royal Government under Henry III, ed. David Crook and Louise J. Wilkinson J.R. Maddicott
The Text and the World: The Henryków Book, Its Authors, and Their Region, 1160–1310, by Piotr Górecki Michael Clanchy
A History of Balance, 1250–1375: The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought, by Joel Kaye H. Skoda
A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257–1301: Simon of Luton and John of Northwold, by Antonia Gransden James G. Clark
The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia, by Rebecca Pinner Julian Luxford
Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages, ed. Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler Peregrine Horden
Medieval York: 600–1540, by D.M. Palliser David X. Carpenter
Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London, by Arthur Bahr Rachel E. Moss
The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento, by Guido Ruggiero Oren J. Margolis
The Hundred Years War. Volume IV: Cursed Kings, by Jonathan Sumption David Green
John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’: London, British Library MS Egerton 1995, ed. Joanna Bellis L. Crombie
Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Urban Culture, 1460–1492, by Thomas Devaney John Edwards
Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549, by Sebastian Sobecki Paul Cavill
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance, by Ada Palmer David Wootton
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life, by Gerard Kilroy Andrew Hadfield
Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation, by Jan Machielsen Brian P. Levack
The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England, by Russell M. Lawson Catherine Armstrong
An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes, by J. Sears McGee Lloyd Bowen
The Disputatious Caribbean: The West Indies in the Seventeenth Century, by Sarah Barber Peter Thompson
The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, ed. Paul Stock Susan Guinn-Chipman
The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, by Helmer J. Helmers Esther van Raamsdonk
Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627–91), by Michael Hunter Stephen Pumfrey
D’Alep à Paris: Les pérégrinations d’un jeune Syrien au temps de Louis XIV, by Hanna Diyab, ed. and tr. Paule Fahmé-Thiéry, Bernard Heyberger and Jérôme Lentin John-Paul Ghobrial
The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790, by Mary Lindemann James R. Farr
Common Wealth, Common Good: The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania, by Benedict Wagner-Rundell Gershon David Hundert
Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Ingrid H. Tague Helen Cowie
Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille, by Julia Osman Stephen Conway
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast c.1550–c.1885, by Silke Strickrodt Akinwumi Ogundiran
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution, by Rebecca L. Spang Michael Kwass
Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792–1802, by Atle L. Wold Bob Harris
London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720–c.1930: A Social and Cultural History, by Heather Shore Paul Lawrence
Women in the Peninsular War, by Charles Esdaile Kevin Linch
Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity: 1821–1844, by Lucien J. Frary J. Mannherz
I Hope I Don’t Intrude: Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by David Vincent Ian Cawood
Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War, by Brian Jenkins David Brown
Disraeli: The Novel Politician, by David Cesarani J.P. Parry
Population, Providence and Empire: The Churches and Emigration from Nineteenth-Century Ireland, by Sarah Roddy Virginia Crossman
Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War, by John Deak John Paul Newman
The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia by Paul W. Werth Irina Paert
Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1940s, ed. Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel James Koranyi
The Development of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo 1878–1918: An Urban History, by Mary Sparks Ian D. Armour
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories, by Peter Ghosh Dina Gusejnova
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim, ed. Kate Darian-Smith and Penelope Edmonds Zoë Laidlaw
The New Nationalism and the First World War, ed. Lawrence Rosenthal and Vesna Rodic George Gilbert
Social Opulence and Private Restraint: The Consumer in British Socialist Thought since 1800, by Noel Thompson Lawrence Black
Mosley and British Politics 1918–32: Oswald’s Odyssey, by David Howell Gary Love
The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars, by Peter Scott Deborah Sugg Ryan
Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War, by Pierpaolo Barbieri J. Ruiz
Enemy in the East. Hitler’s Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union, by Rolf-Dieter Müller, tr. Alexander Starritt D. Stahel
Culture, Northern Ireland and the Second World War, by Guy Woodward Tomás Finn
The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany, by Jeremy Varon A. Kauders
‘Nie wieder Auschwitz!’ Die Entstehung eines Symbols und der Alltag einer Gedenkstätte 1945–1955, by Imke Hansen Tim Corbett
Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past, ed. Paul Jaskot and Gavriel Rosenfeld Jeremy DeWaal
Anti-Liberal Europe: A Neglected Story of Europeanization, ed. Dieter Gosewinkel Matthew D’Auria
Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War, by Sergey Radchenko Timothy Nunan
Fernsehen, Revolution und das Ende der DDR, by Thomas Grossmann Paul Betts
Institutions, Innovation and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development ed. Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling and John V.C. Nye David Meredith
Sovereignty, Property, and Empire, 1500–2000, by Andrew Fitzmaurice Craig Yirush
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture, ed. David Brown Robin Darwall-Smith
Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London, by Jill A. Franklin, Bernard Nurse and Pamela Tudor-Craig D.M. Palliser