HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13384
A.T. Brown
{"title":"Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham","authors":"A.T. Brown","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13384","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13384","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third. Such multiple loyalties can be difficult to recover, especially as many oaths would have been given verbally and left little documentary evidence. The nature of such social relations has been seen as vital to our understanding of the emergence of ‘bastard feudalism’ and attempts to understand the texture of late medieval politics. This article explores these issues through the unusual situation that arose in medieval Durham whereby the incoming officials of the bishops of Durham swore oaths of fidelity to the monks of Durham priory, an entirely separate landowner. Who were these individuals, what were they promising and why were the incoming officers of one lord swearing fidelity to another? This local arrangement likely arose to avoid conflict between the two major landowners in the region and demonstrates the ways that oaths and the resultant ties they created could aid in the social stability of late medieval England.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"34-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13393
CRAIG GERRARD
{"title":"The Foreign Office's War, 1939–1941: British Strategic Foreign Policy and the Major Powers. By Keith Neilson. Edited by T.G. Otte. The Boydell Press, 2022. xii + 336. £95.","authors":"CRAIG GERRARD","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13393","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"185-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139786543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13395
AIDAN BEATTY
{"title":"The Twilight of World Trotskyism. By John Kelly. Routledge, 2022. 144 pp. £45","authors":"AIDAN BEATTY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13395","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"183-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139787084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13385
Alex Beeton
{"title":"The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War, Experiences of Exile in Early Modern Europe, 1632–1648. By Thomas Pert. Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. £83.00.","authors":"Alex Beeton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"175-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139846437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13386
Matthew Woodcock
{"title":"The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger. Edited by Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith. Bloomsbury, 2023. x + 206 pp. £30.00.","authors":"Matthew Woodcock","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"187-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139793838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13388
Marc Sinan Winrow
{"title":"Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea. Edited by Giovanni Borgognone and Chiantera - Stutte. Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 216pp. £77.00.","authors":"Marc Sinan Winrow","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13388","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"196-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139795851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13381
SEAN MCGLYNN
{"title":"Journal of Medieval Military History XXI. Edited by John France, Kelly DeVries and Clifford J. Rogers. Boydell. 2023. x + 265 pp. £80.00.","authors":"SEAN MCGLYNN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13381","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"173-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139396077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13382
N.C. Fleming
{"title":"Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History. By Ronald H. Fritze. Reaktion Books. 2022. 271 pp. ISBN 9781789145397. £20.","authors":"N.C. Fleming","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13382","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"190-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139450776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13380
SHIWEI ZHANG, ZHAODONG WANG
{"title":"From ‘United Stabilisation Fund’ to ‘International Monetary Organisation’: the Forgotten Chinese Plan and Its Contributions to the Creation of the International Monetary Fund","authors":"SHIWEI ZHANG, ZHAODONG WANG","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13380","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China's function in the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) has been underrated for a long time. It is argued either that China contributed little to the establishment or that its main effort could be accredited to Arthur N. Young, an American financial advisor to the Chinese government. A close examination of bilingual archival documents challenges these arguments. In fact, the Chinese government formulated proposals of several versions and managed to have most of its claims accepted at the Bretton Woods conference. More importantly, Chinese claims surpassed their own concerns and had a broader meaning taking into account the general quests of war-torn and undeveloped countries. Revisiting this part of history can deliver a balance to the traditional Anglo-American-focused narrative regarding the IMF and WB and enrich the historical context to assist our understanding of China's current pursuits and conduct in the realm of multilateral economic cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"92-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136351601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13379
Andrew Jacobs
{"title":"The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union","authors":"Andrew Jacobs","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13379","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13379","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses Angela Davis' 1972 visit to the Soviet Union to explore the continued connections between the Soviet Union and African Americans. Davis was made famous in the Soviet Union because of her victimhood and her pro-Soviet outlook. Soviet support for her cause combined with her eyewitness testimony that the Soviet Union had abolished racism provided Soviet propaganda with ample opportunities to undercut American criticism of the Soviet Union, while inspiring domestic Soviet youth to be more faithful and proud of their home country. Yet, while Davis was used by the Soviet Union and its propaganda machine, she also made use of her Soviet connections and experience. The USSR, as it had for the Scottsboro Boys in the past, advocated for Davis and rallied leftists around the world to her cause. The Soviet Union, by turning her into a state-sponsored heroine, provided her with a major platform that eventually extended far beyond the Soviet Union. Moreover, in the Soviet Union, she found inspiration. There, as she witnessed personally during her 1972 visit, she believed she encountered a society free of racism, prejudice and strife that she knew so well at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"119-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}