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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
An examination of the links between radicalism in Victorian England, and the Risorgimento movement in Italy. This book provides powerful new insights into the history of Italy's …
A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history. WINNER of the NUI Publications Prize in Irish History 2013. Mid-seventeenth century Ireland experienced a …
Examination of major changes in political behaviour in 19c Cornwall, withwider implications for the country as a whole. This detailed case-study offers a penetrating analysis of …
England's first Protestant foreign policy initiative, an alliance with German Protestants, is shown to have been a significant influence on the Henrician Reformation. England's …