Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of History:
Favour and patronage: dancers in the court ballets of early seventeenth-century France.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... I. Introduction There has been surprisingly little published on the ballets de cour, the court ballets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, since Margaret McGowan's path-breaking study in 1963. (1) The reason is mystifying, because her book is excellent and the topic ...
"The bells, too, are fighting": the fate of European church bells in the second world war.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In the aftermath of the Second World War, Allied governments sent experts to Germany in search of resources, intelligence, scientific data, and personnel. (2) Project Paperclip was the codename for the well-known Ameriean programme that brought foreign scientists to the United States ....
The conservative capture of anti-relativist discourse in postwar America.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The years during and immediately following World War II were not only a time of ideological reconfiguration in American politics, but also a time of reflection on the relation between philosophical assumptions and political ideals. The war and its attendant horrors caused both sides of the ...
Roman slavery: retrospect and prospect.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre>For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. Auden, Night Mail ... for we possess nothing certainly except the past E. Waugh, Brideshead Revisited </Pre> The session this afternoon concerns, as I understand it, the modern historiography of ancient ...
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, edited by William Monter; general editor Robert Muchembled. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Four volumes, 1750 pp. $615.00 US (cloth). Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, volume I: Religion and Cultural Exchange in ...
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein. Hellenistic Culture and Society series, number 48. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 372 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Many modern works on the causes of Roman imperialism and reasons ...
Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates, by James Warren. Ancient Philosophies series. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. 224 pp. $19.95 US (paper). James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge, offers in this volume--the second to appear in the ...
Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii, 234 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). This book purports to expand our understanding of the ...
The Roman Triumph.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Roman Triumph, by Mary Beard. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. viii, 434 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). The Latin word triumphus is not a synonym for "great achievement," but rather the name of a specific ritual: a grand procession in ...
To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 519 pp. $88.00 US (cloth). It is hard to fathom a more taxing teaching experience than ...
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200, by Scott G. Bruce. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 209 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Deep silence, broken only by the ...
Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474, par Teofilo F. Ruiz. A History of Spain series. Oxford, Blackwell, 2007. xii, 236 pp. $89.95 US (couverture rigide). Le volume que nous propose Teofilo Ruiz s'insere dans la prestigieuse et reputee histoire de l'Espagne que publie ...
The Daily Life during the Black Death.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Daily Life during the Black Death, by Joseph P. Byrne. Daily Life Through History series. London, Greenwood Press, 2006. xii, 326 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Joseph Byrne, a trained European historian who also extends his vast intellectual interests from Roman history to American ...
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents, by James Simpson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. 346 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). James Simpson, an expert on late medieval and early Reformation poetics, has taken up ...
Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England, by Amanda Bailey. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007. 190 pp. $65.00 Cdn (cloth). Amanda Bailey's book focuses on the male body as a potentially subversive tool in English society at the end of the ...
Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion, by Kristen Post Walton. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). From her return to Scotland in 1561, following the death of her husband Francis II, ...
Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, by Michael S. Reidy. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 389 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). When the rising tide refused Canute's command to stay its advance, the king scampered up the beach proclaiming that only God ...
Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity, by Karol Berger. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. x, 420 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is the title of a 1987 book by Stephen Jay Gould, the famous ...
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, edited by Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge History of Philosophy series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 1407 pp., two volumes. $250.00 US (cloth). The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy is the ...
Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins, by Peter King. Past and Present Publications series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 348 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This volume of the Past and Present Publications series includes both new and ...