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Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes. This book offers important new insights into the relationship …
Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy
A fresh and sympathetic interpretation of Robert Southey's changing social and political ideas, shedding new light on contemporary thought. Like William Wordsworth and Samuel …
Harold Wilson's Cold War
A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time. The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West détente and to improve Anglo-Soviet …
The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns. The royal touch was the religious healing ceremony at which the monarch stroked the sores …
Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788-1850
First full-length exploration of the role of the Anglican church in the development of colonial Australia. Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest …
Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584
An important new perspective on this critical intellectual and religious community, and on the conflicted nature of religious change at the time. The University of Cambridge has …
The Practice of Penance, 900-1050
Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources. This study examines all forms of …
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality. After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly …
Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914
Legislation to protect women is explored in the context of contemporary ideas on women's work, popular journalism and the advance of scientific knowledge. Between 1880 and 1914, …
Religion, Time and Memorial Culture in Late Medieval Ripon
An examination of changes in religious practice over the course of the long fourteenth century. Ripon Minster was St Wilfrid's church, and its vast parish at the edge of the …
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010
Skilful use of original sources teases out the networks of power and association in what was to become Catalonia. A frontier both between Christianity and Islam and between Francia …
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
An examination of how trade and commerce were viewed from the "outside", in a period of vast change. Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the …