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The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship changed. This book suggests that the need to support those newly dependent on Church funds caused the Church to regulate …
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom
The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe …
Biology, Medicine and Society 1840–1940
During the period 1840–1940 biology and medicine were transformed, and took on major implications for social amelioration and population growth. New biological disciplines such as …
Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland
Essays on Irish nationalism, some on particular protest movement, others on more general themes.
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical …
Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England
Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of …
Geography, Technology, and War
When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at …
The Wild and the Sown
This 1997 book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past: the …
Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London
During the late Middle Ages the London ruling elite was increasingly influenced by the idea that a secret counter-society was operating in the city. Its members were suspected to …
Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society
Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society is a history of the large Church estate of Worcester from its foundation until the Reformation, and is a full-length study of an estate …
The Culture of Clothing
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general …
The Inquisition
The Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in the early modern world, responsible for 300,000 trials and over 1.5 million denunciations. How did it root itself …