{"title":"Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe: The Humanist Kingmaker, by Tomislav Matić","authors":"Paul W Knoll","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"186 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861630","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 Laws of Rollo as a Primitive Constitution for Normandy: Writing and Rewriting Legal History in France during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries","authors":"Gilduin Davy","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead178","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The laws of Rollo are regularly evoked in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Norman historiography. As a result of a renaissance of interest in, and the study of, medieval Norman sources, notably the gestae of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and Guillaume of Jumièges, early modern jurists and historians located the legal particularism of Normandy in Rollo’s laws. They exploited these sources in order to preserve Norman rights and liberties and to use the history of their medieval origins to justify ongoing legal provincialism. But as the Revolution approached, the memory of Rollo’s laws also became an essential issue in emerging political and ideological debates, because they served as much to defend absolute monarchy as to challenge it.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"317 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139884353","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 Laws of Rollo as a Primitive Constitution for Normandy: Writing and Rewriting Legal History in France during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries","authors":"Gilduin Davy","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead178","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The laws of Rollo are regularly evoked in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Norman historiography. As a result of a renaissance of interest in, and the study of, medieval Norman sources, notably the gestae of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and Guillaume of Jumièges, early modern jurists and historians located the legal particularism of Normandy in Rollo’s laws. They exploited these sources in order to preserve Norman rights and liberties and to use the history of their medieval origins to justify ongoing legal provincialism. But as the Revolution approached, the memory of Rollo’s laws also became an essential issue in emerging political and ideological debates, because they served as much to defend absolute monarchy as to challenge it.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"646 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139824022","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":"‘A Wall of Defence unto this Realm’: William Cecil, Conformity and the Protestant State in Early Elizabethan England","authors":"Alexandra Gajda","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead215","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article reassesses conceptions of the religious conformity required of public magistrates in the 1560s through the prism of William Cecil’s schemes for reformation of the state. Scholars have argued that ‘the Crown’s’ aims in defining the conformity of subjects were ‘political’ rather than ‘evangelical’ and primarily focused on securing obedience. This article argues instead that leading Protestants, clerical and lay, viewed the creation of the Christian commonwealth as a joint enterprise of minister and magistrate. In private memoranda, Cecil insisted that the security of the polity was dependent on magistrates who possessed ‘inward’ Protestantism ‘of the hart’. Cecil’s earliest scheme for an ‘Instrument of Association’ binding the Protestant elite, was devised in this period, fuelled by his vision of the Protestant polity not as ‘monarchical republic’ of virtuous citizens, but a ‘confessional state’ governed by a network of officials bound by loyalty to Crown and church. The article concludes by analysing the Privy Council’s attempts to secure the closer conformity of the magistracy to the religious settlement by subscription. In November 1569, local officials across the realm were compelled to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity and to promise to take the eucharist on a regular basis, a sacramental requirement not required of officials by statute law until the Restoration. The aspiration of the Protestant regime to require stricter religious conformity of its public officials indicates that ‘conformity’ itself was a nebulous concept, which could be imposed on targeted groups at different times and places and through variant means.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"85 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140481780","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":"Western Europe’s Democratic Age, 1945–1968, by Martin Conway","authors":"Bernhard Rieger","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"21 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140487811","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 Select Council of Philip I: A Spanish Institution in Tudor England, 1555–1558","authors":"Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead216","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Traditional interpretations of the reign of Philip and Mary in England and Ireland (1554–58) have tended to investigate this short-lived episode from a strongly Anglocentric perspective. Such an approach has often hindered interpretations of crucial aspects of the reign that have wider implications for the study of Britain, Spain and Europe in an increasingly globalised world. Philip’s creation of a new consultative body in 1555, the select council (consejo escogido), is a case in point. Conventionally viewed as a superfluous body that only worsened the alleged ungovernability of Mary’s privy council—from which, it was claimed, it was never truly separate—it has been assumed that the select council was allowed to function nominally for a while to sustain Philip’s ego. In fact, the creation of the select council responded to the deeply rooted conciliar traditions of Spain and England (based on Aristotelian notions of ‘political friendship’) and its actual level of activity disproves previous assumptions about its role and viability. The diplomatic negotiations undertaken by the English select councillors and their Spanish and Flemish counterparts place England firmly within the conciliar framework of the Spanish Monarchy and provide an invaluable window from which to explore the role of England as a fully integrated member of a composite monarchy extending from Naples and Oran to Lima and Mexico City.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"20 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139592529","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":"Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919, by Erik Grimmer-Solem","authors":"Britta Schilling","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"75 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139606249","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 King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire, by Lisa Ford","authors":"Deana Heath","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"50 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139606786","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":"Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin, by Juliana Adelman","authors":"J. K. Cronin","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"64 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139606694","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":"Elite Women as Diplomatic Agents in Italy and Hungary, 1470–1510: Kinship and the Aragonese Dynastic Network, by Jessica O’Leary","authors":"A. Bárány","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139609331","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}