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29 results in Royal Historical Society Studies in History New

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Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union
  • Rapallo and after, 1922-1934
  • Stephanie C. Salzmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2023
    Print publication:
    10 December 2002
  • Germany and the Soviet Union concluded the treaty of Rapallo together within five years of their defeat in the First World War. The resulting fear of Soviet-German co-operation cast a long shadow over British foreign policy; this book traces its influence.

The Great War, Memory and Ritual
  • Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939
  • Mark Connelly
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 November 2001
  • This detailed case study of a part of London seeks to show how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480–1560

The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood
  • Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943
  • Paul Mulvey
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    16 September 2010
  • A new study of the radical politician Josiah Wedgwood, setting him in context and illuminating many of the political issues of the time.

Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England
  • Sam Worby
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    01 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 May 2010
  • First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.

The Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625
  • Power, Kinship, Allegiance
  • Anna Groundwater
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    01 March 2023
    Print publication:
    16 September 2010
  • A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled border region between England and Scotland.

John Wyclif on War and Peace
  • Rory Cox
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • New investigation of John Wyclif's writings on the theory of the 'just war' shows him to be the first genuine pacifist of medieval Europe.

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary Europe
  • Mark Curran
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    21 June 2012
  • An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d'Holbach.

Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010
  • Pathways of Power
  • Jonathan Jarrett
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 December 2010
  • Skillful use of original sources teases out the networks of power and association in what was to become Catalonia.

Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen
  • Elma Brenner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015
  • Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Rouen was one of the greatest cities in western Europe. The effective capital of the 'Angevin Empire' between 1154 and 1204 and thereafter a leading cityin the realm of the Capetian and Valois kings of France, it experienced substantial growth, the emergence of communal government and the ravages of plague and the Hundred Years' War.
    This book examines the impact of leprosy upon Rouen during this period, and the key role played by charity in the society and religious culture of the city and its hinterland. Based upon extensive archival research, and focusing in particular on Rouen's leper houses, it offers a new understanding of responses to disease and disability in medieval Europe. It charts how attitudes towards lepers, and perceptions of their disease, changed over time, explores the relationship between leprosy, charity and practices of piety, and considers how leprosy featured in growing concerns about public health. It also sheds important new light on the roles and experiences of women, as both charitable patrons and leprosy sufferers, and on medical practice and practitioners in medieval France.

    Elma Brenner is Specialist in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine at the Wellcome Library, London.

The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
  • Politics, Medicine and Sin
  • Stephen Brogan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    16 July 2015
  • The royal touch was the religious healing ceremony at which the monarch stroked the sores on the face and necks of people who had scrofula in order to heal them in imitation of Christ. The rite was practised by all the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns apart from William III, reaching its zenith during the Restoration when some 100,000 people were touched by Charles II and James II.
    This ground-breaking book, the first devoted to the royal touch for almost a century, integrates political, religious, medical and intellectual history. The custom is analysed from above and below: the royal touch projected monarchical authority, but at the same time the great demand for it created numerous problems for those organising the ceremony. The healing rite is situated in the context of a number ofearly modern debates, including the cessation of miracles and the nature of the body politic. The book also assesses contemporary attitudes towards the royal touch, from belief through ambivalence toscepticism. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including images, coins, medals, and playing cards, as well as manuscripts and printed texts, it provides an important new perspective on the evolving relationship between politics, medicine and sin in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

The War of Words
  • The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914
  • Luke Blaxill
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 April 2020
    Print publication:
    21 February 2020
  • A radical new approach to the political speeches delivered during this period.

The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England
  • "The Wonders of the Lord"
  • Volume 103
  • George Southcombe
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 March 2020
    Print publication:
    18 October 2019
  • The voices of non-conformity are brought to the fore in this new exploration of late seventeenth-century politics, religion and literature.

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
  • Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503–1533
  • Volume 101
  • Michelle L. Beer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2019
    Print publication:
    19 October 2018
  • A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.

After the Shock City
  • Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship
  • Volume 102
  • Tom Hulme
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    03 September 2019
    Print publication:
    17 May 2019
  • A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century

Women as Public Moralists in Britain
  • From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf
  • Benjamin Dabby
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 October 2017
    Print publication:
    21 April 2017
  • In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna Jameson, Hannah Lawrance, Margaret Oliphant, Marian Evans ('George Eliot'), Eliza Lynn Linton, Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf, providing a detailed and compelling account of how their writing on history, literature and visual art changed contemporaries' understanding of the lessons to be drawnfrom each field at the same time as they contested and redefined contemporary understandings of masculinity and femininity. It recovers these moralists' understanding of themselves as part of a tradition of women of letters stretching from eighteenth-century bluestockings to their own time, and the growing consensus across the political range of periodicals that women's intellectual potential wasequal to men's, and not determined by their sex.

    Benjamin Dabby is an independent historian.

English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-Century Paris
  • Katy Gibbons
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2017
    Print publication:
    18 August 2011
  • Religious exile was both a familiar and a deeply discomforting phenomenon in Reformation Europe. In the turbulent context of the later sixteenth century, a group of English Catholic exiles in Paris became a source of serious concern to the Protestant government at home and a destabilising presence in their host environment; their residence in Paris coincided with and contributed to a crisis in authority for the French Crown, and the buildup to the Spanish enterprise of England.
    This book uses a range of evidence from both sides of the Channel to investigate the polemical and practical impact of religious exile. It reconstructs the experience and priorities of the English Catholic laity and clergy in Paris, moving beyond contemporary stereotypes of the exiles, and the traditional historiographical view of English Catholicism as isolated and introverted. It emphasises the importance of placing English Catholic experience into a broader European context, shedding light on the significant place of France in their activity, thus offering a new angle entirely on the relationship between England and the continent in the early modern period.

    Katy Gibbons is Senior Lecturerin History at the University of Portsmouth.

Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union
  • Rapallo and after, 1922-1934
  • Stephanie C. Salzmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 April 2017
    Print publication:
    10 December 2002
  • The treaty of Rapallo, concluded in 1922 between Germany and the Soviet Union, the two vanquished powers of the Great War, ranks high among the diplomatic coups de surprise of the twentieth century. Its real importance, however, lies in the repercussions of the alliance on the subsequent policies of the two victorious powers, Britain and France. This study examines the impact of Rapallo onBritish foreign policy between 1922 and 1934, when the German-Soviet relationship had virtually ended. The "ghost of Rapallo" is the central theme of this story, as ever since the treaty's conclusionRapallo has been a byword for Soviet-German secret and potentially dangerous collaboration. This book describes how the British viewed the Rapallo co-operation, how they dealt with this special relationship, and how the lingering memory of Rapallo affected British policy for decades to come. While examining a particular aspect of international relations it throws additional light on broader topicsof European relations in the 1920s and early 1930s.

    Dr STEPHANIE SALZMANN completed her PhD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Parties, Agents and Electoral Culture in England, 1880-1910
  • Kathryn Rix
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    13 April 2017
    Print publication:
    15 December 2016
  • The electoral reforms of 1883-5 created a mass electorate and transformed English political culture. A new breed of professional organisers emerged in the constituencies in the form of full-time partyagents, who handled registration, electioneering and the day-to-day political, social and educational work of local parties; they performed a vital role as intermediaries between politics at Westminster and at grass-roots level, bridging the gap between "high" and "low" politics.
    This book examines the agents not only as political figures, but also as men (and occasionally women) determinedto establish their status as professionals. It addresses key questions about the nationalisation of electoral politics in this period, demonstrating the importance of understanding the interactions between the centre and the constituencies, and showing that while the agents' professional networks contributed to a growing uniformity in certain aspects of party organisation, local forces continued to play a vital role in British political life. It also provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of the modern British political system, shedding new light on debates about how effectively the Liberal and Conservative parties adapted to the challenges of mass politics after 1885.

    Dr Kathryn Rix is Assistant Editor of the House of Commons, 1832-1945 project at the History of Parliament.

Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788–1850
  • Building a British World
  • Michael Gladwin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking any relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only had to minister to a convict population unique in the empire, but had also to engage with indigenous peoples and a free-settler population struggling with an often inhospitable environment. Previous accounts have caricatured such clerics - several of whom doubled as magistrates - as the imperial authorities' lackeys: "moral policemen", "flogging parsons". While the clergy did indeed make important contributions to colonial and imperial projects, this book shows that they explicitly rejected the subordination of Church to state, vigorously asserting their independence in relation to both religious duties and humanitarian concern. The author also demonstrates the clergy's vital contribution to the evolution of the new colonies in their economic development, and in the emergence of civil society and distinctive intellectual and cultural institutions and traditions. The clerical contribution was shaped by their social origins, intellectual formation and professional networks in an expanding settler empire, explored systematically here for the first time. What emerges is a much more nuanced understanding of the place of the Anglican Church in thehistory of colonial Australia than has previously been presented, shedding important new light on the religious, social and political history of both Australia and the British World of which it formed a part. Dr MichaelGladwin is Lecturer in History, St Mark's National Theological Centre, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

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