{"title":"Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann","authors":"Teresa Witcombe","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead158","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann Get access Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021; pp. 284. £40). Teresa Witcombe Teresa Witcombe University of Oxford, UK teresa.witcombe@history.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-3519 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead158, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead158 Published: 12 October 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland, by Elizabeth Walgenbach","authors":"Christian Etheridge","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead161","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland, by Elizabeth Walgenbach Get access Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland, by Elizabeth Walgenbach (Leiden: Brill, 2021; pp. xii + 178. €90). Christian Etheridge Christian Etheridge Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden wyvern_hoo2@hotmail.co.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead161, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead161 Published: 12 October 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136012704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We Are All Servants’: The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe (1000–1700), ed. Isabelle Cochelin and Diane Wolfthal","authors":"Corinna Peres","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead157","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article ‘We Are All Servants’: The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe (1000–1700), ed. Isabelle Cochelin and Diane Wolfthal Get access ‘We are All Servants’: The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe (1000–1700), ed. Isabelle Cochelin and Diane Wolfthal (Toronto, ON: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2022; pp. 632. €42.95). Corinna Peres Corinna Peres University of Vienna, Austria corinna.peres@univie.ac.at Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead157, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead157 Published: 11 October 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Kaiser und die Säulen ihrer Macht, von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich Barbarossa, ed. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz and Bernd Schneidmüller","authors":"Len Scales","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead160","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Die Kaiser und die Säulen ihrer Macht, von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich Barbarossa, ed. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz and Bernd Schneidmüller Get access Die Kaiser und die Säulen ihrer Macht, von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich Barbarossa, ed. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz and Bernd Schneidmüller (Darmstadt: wbg Theiss, 2020; pp. 560. €48). Len Scales Len Scales Durham University, UK l.e.scales@durham.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead160, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead160 Published: 11 October 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic Intellectuals and Transnational Anti-Communism: Pax Romana from the Spanish Civil War to the post-1945 World Order","authors":"Michael Richards","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholic students and graduates, as it navigated between fascism and resistance in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during the global conflict of 1939–45. The organisation was headed successively by two young activists from Spain, Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, a legal scholar from Madrid who fought for Franco, and Ramon Sugranyes de Franch, a Catalan literary specialist who went into exile in 1936. Comparison of their parallel careers forms the central narrative cord of the article, illuminating the complex relationship of national to global Catholic fractures between conservative nation-statists and political and social pluralists. The Pax Romana congress held in Spain in 1946 was pivotal in accounting for the transnational legacy of that country’s civil war. The wartime ‘humanist’ critique of Franco’s ‘crusade’ made by key Catholic public thinkers was both disseminated and challenged and its relevance to Europe’s future assessed. Ruiz-Giménez, as its president, used the organisation from Spain to legitimate the country’s regime, aided by sympathetic foreign nation-statists. Sugranyes, in contrast, gravitated in the early 1940s to Fribourg in Switzerland, Pax Romana’s headquarters—via Geneva, Paris and southern France—encountering and allying with progressive Catholic exiles from Italy and Spain and French anti-fascist resisters. Although taking different routes, both men ultimately transcended their nationally rooted religious and political assumptions through dialogue across boundaries.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson","authors":"Peter Nockles","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceac198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac198","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson Get access Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. 256. £75). Peter Nockles Peter Nockles Manchester, UK peternockles@hotmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceac198, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac198 Published: 15 September 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation, by Roberto Saba","authors":"José Juan Pérez Meléndez","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead122","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation, by Roberto Saba Get access American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation, by Roberto Saba (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021; pp. 392. £28). José Juan Pérez Meléndez José Juan Pérez Meléndez University of California, Davis, USA jjperdez@ucdavis.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-1856 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead122, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead122 Published: 15 September 2023","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Au Nom de la Patrie</i>: Southern Identities and Patriotic Mobilisation in First World War France","authors":"Pierre Purseigle","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, many French commentators doubted that France had the strength to withstand the trials of war. Yet the national mobilisation for war was an indisputable success that surprised military planners and political leaders alike. Despite inauspicious beginnings and the unprecedented material and human costs of war, France held out, and the Republican nation-state emerged victorious and to a large extent reinforced by the war. However, the subsequent failure to mobilise successfully in 1939–40 begs the question of the nature and transformation of French patriotism in the First World War. Interestingly, in a field characterised by its vibrant, sophisticated and highly contentious debates, French historians appear to have skirted around the problem of patriotic mobilisation. This article reconsiders this question by investigating social mobilisation in the country’s southern periphery, focusing on the town of Béziers. It underlines the need to locate patriotism by considering its valence in the particular social and geographic contexts that determined the war experience at the front or at home. It also suggests the necessity to re-politicise the idea of national sentiment while maintaining the necessary distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Finally, it argues that the analysis of wartime mobilisation in France must be part of a larger reflection on the mobilisation of space and place in the era of the Great War.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135733633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nkrumah Factor: The Strategic Alignment of Early Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria","authors":"Marco Wyss","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead106","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In stark contrast to the Nigerian Civil War, when the Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny supported the secessionist Biafran Republic against the Federal Military Government, early postcolonial relations between Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria were close. This ‘entente cordiale’ was underpinned by the friendship of Houphouët-Boigny and the Nigerian Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who were both anti-communist, pro-western, capitalist, and in favour of African co-operation instead of integration. Yet it was Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah who, through his criticism and alleged subversive machinations against Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria, gave the two countries their common purpose. Focusing, unlike previous scholarship, on the military and strategic responses of Abidjan and Lagos to Accra, and based on multi-archival research, this article argues that the Nkrumah factor brought about a strategic alignment between Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria. It also shows, however, that despite a common threat assessment, domestic politics had a decisive and diverging impact on the foreign and security policies of the two states, and that regional and colonial legacies turned out to have a more significant impact on early postcolonial Africa than did the Cold War. The article sheds light on African agency, while simultaneously going beyond and, more significantly, offering an alternative perspective to the Cold War-driven historiography of early postcolonial Africa, and its tendency to focus on external rather than African actors.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries","authors":"Suzanne Schwarz","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent historiography has placed particular emphasis on the social origins and influence of individuals who took opposing sides in debates on the abolition of the slave trade between 1787 and 1807. There is no doubt that family networks and connections influenced patterns of pro-slavery and abolitionist support. Despite this familial focus, comparatively little attention has been paid to the attitudes and interventions in the debate of King George III and his family. As early as 1808, Thomas Clarkson’s History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament recorded how Prince William Henry, duke of Clarence, and his younger cousin, Prince William Frederick, second duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, held diametrically opposed views on the issue. Evidence that has recently come to light in the Royal Archives makes it possible to assess whether the divide between George III’s son and nephew points to a royal family riven by disagreement on the rights and wrongs of slavery. By broadening the canvas of study to include other royal dukes, this article contributes to a much fuller understanding of the family’s reaction to one of the most pressing moral and economic questions of the day. Their views were not just a matter of their own personal opinions; their interventions in debate affected (and on balance, impeded) the progress of abolition and had direct repercussions on the lives of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}