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Article: Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones, eds. Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630.(Book Review)
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- Albion
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- June 22, 2003
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New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 286. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-65060-7.
Over four decades Barrie Dobson has done much to develop and delineate the subject of later medieval and early modern English communities, both real and imagined. This festschrift of fifteen essays not only pays due tribute to his influence in this field, it also is a notable contribution in its own right. Its overarching theme, as the editors point out in the brief preface (and, alas, there is no attempt here at a synthetic treatment of the volume's contents), is "what constitutes the best sort of attainable community and how it is to be achieved" (p. viii). Several other ...