Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of History:

The uses of resipiscere in the Latin of Erasmus: in the Gospels and beyond.(Erasmus of Rotterdam )

Dec 22, 2007; Cook, Brendan ... It is an established truth, but one which bears repeating, that the definition of a word is rarely a simple matter. Few people, whatever their theory of language, would dare to define too precisely the range of meanings associated with a given term. Anyone who has ever attempted to ...

Women's politics, poetry, and the feminist historiography of the Great War.

Dec 22, 2007; Bell, Amy ... <Pre>Let me go far away so I shall not hearThe deep insistent throbbing of the guns; they beatForever day and night--my tired heart and brainCan find no rest, but beat and throb in unison. (1) </Pre> In her poem "The Sound of Flanders' Guns," Mary Beasley describes ...

Liberal nationalism and the decline of the British Liberal Party: three case studies.

Dec 22, 2007; Dutton, David ... By the beginning of the 1930s, the British Liberal Party was in a state of long-term decline. After years of internal dispute and division the party had apparently come together again under the leadership of David Lloyd George to fight the general election of 1929, offering the electorate ...

Feedback loop: a review essay on the public sphere, pop culture, and the early-modern sciences.(A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America; Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Stewart, Larry ... James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2006. 367 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in ...

A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Podlecki, Anthony J. ... A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE, by Jonathan M. Hall. Blackwell History of the Ancient World series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xx, 321 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). I approached this book with very high hopes: here, ...

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Beck, Hans ... War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History, by Angelos Chaniotis. Ancient World at War series. Oxford, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xxiv, 308 pp. $73.95 US (cloth). This is the second volume in Blackwell's "Ancient World at War" series. Angelos ...

Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Stephens, Justin ... Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by Malcolm R. Errington. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. xii, 336 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Malcolm Errington's book offers a systematic treatment of Roman imperial policy in ...

The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A. ... The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women, by Joan Mueller. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x, 182 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). Joan Mueller's The Privilege of Poverty is ...

A Social History of England, 1200-1500.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Shaw, David Gary ... A Social History of England, 1200-1500, edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 514 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $39.99 US (paper). This volume is a welcome addition to general works on later medieval England, for some time among ...

The World of Marsilius of Padua.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Modestin, Georg ... The World of Marsilius of Padua, edited by Gerson Moreno-Riano. Disputatio, volume 5. Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols Publishers, 2006. xii, 279 pp. 60.00 [euro] (cloth). La vie de Marsile de Padoue fut haute en couleurs. Ses rebondissements sont inextricablement lies a l'histoire de ...

At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Brunelle, Gayle K. ... At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800, edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003. vii, 412 pp. $32.00 Cdn (paper). Despite this collection's title, the essays in At the ...

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Lazure, Guy ... The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe, par Brian W. Ogilvie. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 200e. xvi, 385 pp. e0,80 $ EU (couverture rigide), 27,00 $ EU (poche). Le livre que nous propose Brian Ogilvie se presente comme une archeologie de ...

Blood and Violence in Early Modern France.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Corley, Christopher R. ... Blood and Violence in Early Modern France, by Stuart Carroll. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 200e. xii, 3e9 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). In offering a new chronological framework for aristocratic violence, Stuart Carroll's latest examination of royal letters of remission ...

Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Flather, Amanda ... Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, edited by Will Coster and Andrew Spicer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. v, 350 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). This fine collection of fourteen essays investigates the construction, negotiation, and meaning of sacred space in a variety ...

The Cromwellian Protectorate.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Gentles, Ian ... The Cromwellian Protectorate, edited by Patrick Little. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2007. xii, 218 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). This book is the product of a symposium held in London at that powerhouse of political scholarship, the History of Parliament Trust, in 2004. Despite ...

John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Blosser, Jacob M. ... John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England, by John Coffey. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2006. viii, 337 pp. $105.00 US (cloth). John Coffey's engaging intellectual ...

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Landweber, Julia ... The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 317 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Around 1650 Robert Bargrave, a junior secretary of the Levant Company, was ordered to compose a wedding masque for the daughter of ...

The Social Life of Money in the English Past.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Breuninger, Scott ... The Social Life of Money in the English Past, by Deborah Valenze. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 308 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper). Recent literature concerning the English financial revolution of the 1690s has elucidated how changing conceptions of ...

Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Hunt, Margaret R. ... Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857, by Elizabeth Foyster. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 282 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). Charting the history of the family before around 1880 may be among the most difficult and inconclusive ...

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Singer, Bayla ... The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830, by Jeff Horn. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2006. 383 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). This is a meticulously researched and finely ...