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{"title":"The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal: Editions and Translations of De Expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de Expugnatione Salaciae Carmen. Edited and Translated by Jonathan Wilson. Routledge, 2021. xv + 183 pp. £37.99 (Paperback)","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13405","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"139-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508867","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}

{"title":"Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East. By Anna Gutgarts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii + 277 pp. £85.00 (Hardback).","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"580-582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508868","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}

{"title":"Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome, 1118–1143. By C. G. Lau Maximilian. Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford University Press), 2023. xviii + 382 pp. £100.00 (Hardback)","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"137-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518367","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}

{"title":"Anxiety and Post-Authoritarian Societies: Insights from 1980s Greece","authors":"PANAGIOTIS ZESTANAKIS","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13392","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13392","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses anxiety as an analytical and methodological concept in the investigation of post-authoritarian societies, drawing on three well-being-focused anxieties that marked Greece in the 1980s: first, the degradation of the urban environment, especially in Athens; second, the technologisation of everyday life, most notably the popularisation of information technology; and third, the impact of novel, consumption-focused media, particularly lifestyle magazines. The analysis distinguishes anxiety from fear and argues that fear is commoner in authoritarian regimes than in new democracies, which often experience optimism and cultural pluralism. These conditions foster anxieties related to well-being. By exploring a juncture at which moderate economic progress coincided with democratisation and closer contact with Western Europe, the article argues that anxiety is a productive tool for examining the emotional impact of mild perceived threats to well-being in societies characterised by relatively calm life conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"395-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139955578","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}

{"title":"The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 373pp. Pb £22.99.","authors":"NIALL O'FLAHERTY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13396","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13396","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Max Skjönsberg's &lt;i&gt;The Persistence of Party&lt;/i&gt; is a hugely valuable contribution to both the history of political thought and British political history. The core thesis of the book is simply ‘that the idea of party dominated political discourse in eighteenth-century Britain’ (p. 2). The parties in question were defined not by tightly knit bureaucratic organisations but by a joint commitment to certain political principles. In this sense, the origin of modern political parties can be traced into the Enlightenment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study fills a conspicuous gap in the history of political thought of Britain in this period, which – when it has not been focused on the economic aspects of ‘the science of the legislator’ – has mainly been concerned with debates about the balance of the Constitution: whether it was leaning more toward monarchy or democracy, and what needed to be done to redress the perceived imbalances. We have plenty of studies of party ideology, of course, particularly the varieties of Whig and Country thought, but none exploring the question of the value of party itself at any length.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There has been some acknowledgment among political historians that modern party organisations were foreshadowed in the eighteenth century, by the well-oiled political machine constructed by the Whig Junto in the reigns of William and Anne, for example. Equally, O'Gorman's admirable study of the emergence of the two-party system focuses on the half century after the accession of George III. Like the historians of political thought, however, they have paid scant attention to the path-breaking endeavours throughout the eighteenth century both to make sense, historically and sociologically, of the Whig-Tory divide that framed political life and to create a new kind of political organisation based on ideological principles other than those of dynastic and religious loyalty. Skjönsberg's book provides an incisive contextual analysis of these two intertwined conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was the Huguenot historian Rapin who inaugurated the debate about the role of party in British politics, with his pioneering attempts (in his &lt;i&gt;Histoire d&lt;/i&gt;’&lt;i&gt;Angleterre&lt;/i&gt;,1724–7) to trace the development of the Whig-Tory divide from the reign of James I to his own times. There is an ambivalence to Rapin's account, as Skjönsberg presents it, since he insisted on the importance of the Tory-Whig dichotomy in British politics while viewing party ideology as largely a cloak for self-seeking designs, a psychology laid bare, he believed, by the readiness of political actors to ditch their principles when they impeded their political ambitions. By presenting his position from several angles, however, Skjönsberg shows that it was less inconsistent than it appears at first sight. There was, for example, a very real disagreement between the parties over foreign policy, with the Whigs favouring interventionism and land war, the Tories isolationism and naval conflict. Moreover, even i","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"179-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139961789","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}

{"title":"The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt","authors":"CHRISTOPHER JOBY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13387","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic. A recent study by Silke Muylaert (2020) on migrant churches in England engages with this trend. One church that Muylaert analyses is the Flemish church in Norwich. This article builds on work on Norwich by Muylaert and other authors such as Raingard Esser to analyse the transnational networks to which members of the Norwich community belonged and the positions and practices that they developed, which contributed to events before and at the start of the Dutch Revolt, and specifically to shaping the nascent Dutch Reformed Church.</p><p>It does so in four ways. First, it analyses the prosopographies of exiles who returned to the Low Countries to participate in sectarian activities in the prelude to the Dutch Revolt. Second, it analyses the role of preachers in disputes that arose amongst the exiles about whether to support armed resistance against the Spanish in the Low Countries. Third, it examines the impact of publications printed in Norwich by exiles in the years immediately before the start of the Dutch Revolt. One important work first printed in Norwich was <i>Den Ziekentroost</i> (Comfort for the Sick), which became a key text for pastoral care in the Dutch Reformed Church. Fourth, the article analyses how exiles in Norwich helped to build up the Dutch Reformed Church and shape the confessional landscape in the Dutch Republic. Amongst the activities they engaged in were preaching, printing, bookselling, and translation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"59-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769566","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}

{"title":"The École Royale Militaire: Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750–1788. By H.A. Guízar. Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. xvii + 301 pp.","authors":"SAMUEL CLARK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13394","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"177-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839486","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}

{"title":"Richard, bishop of Syracuse and archbishop of Messina (d. 1195), and the History of the Tyrants of Sicily","authors":"MARK HAGGER","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13390","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13390","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reconsiders the agenda and authorship of the Liber de regno Sicilie or History of the Tyrants of Sicily by way of a detailed study of its content<i>. The History</i> comprises one of the very few detailed sources for the kingdom of Sicily under Kings William I (1154–66) and William II (1166–89), and while it only covers part of the period in question (1154–69), it is of fundamental importance for what it tells us about the politics, characters, and society of the day, and particularly for its insights into the treacherous world of Sicilian court politics. It was clearly the work of an insider, or a well-connected observer. But none of the suggestions as to the author's identity so far advanced have achieved a scholarly consensus. This article highlights the unexpectedly prominent position given to Richard, bishop-elect of Syracuse, throughout the narrative, and uses the outline of Richard's career, the positive construction of his actions, and the explanation and apology that lies beneath the report of his deeds, to argue that either Richard himself or someone who was part of his retinue and shared his experiences was the author. That identification also permits some suggestions to be made as to the purpose of the History and the possible contemporary audiences to whom it made its case.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"3-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769701","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}

{"title":"The Future in the Past: Essays & Reflections. By Romila Thapar. Aleph Book Company, 2023. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-93-95853-14-9. ₹670.","authors":"JYOTASANA","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"192-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340270","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}

{"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}