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Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables (2023)
Book Chapter
Gameson, R. (2023). Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables. In G. Small (Ed.), Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - c. 1550). Brepols Publishers

The present chapter offers an analytical account of the material fabric of Glasgow University Library, Hunter 252 (U.4.2), the only extant manuscript copy of Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. We shall examine in turn the parchment and preparation of the... Read More about Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables.

Prosecuting theft in Old Regime France, c.1540–c.1700 (2023)
Journal Article
Hamilton, T. (2023). Prosecuting theft in Old Regime France, c.1540–c.1700. Continuity and Change, 38(3), 283-312. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416023000334

This article analyses a significant sample of theft cases tried in the appellate courts of the parlements of Paris and Toulouse from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. Despite some historians’ claims that theft was typic... Read More about Prosecuting theft in Old Regime France, c.1540–c.1700.

Dynasties and Dynastic Rule between Elite Reproduction and State Building in Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Buylaert, F., Brero, T., & Graham-Goering, E. (2023). Dynasties and Dynastic Rule between Elite Reproduction and State Building in Europe. In Unions and Divisions: New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (40-52). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199007-4

Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia (2023)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2023). Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. In A. Mullen, & G. Woudhuysen (Eds.), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (85-125). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198888956.003.0004

This chapter sketches the general features of Latin in the Iberian Peninsula in its late antique and early medieval context: from 400 to 700, in contact with Greek, Hebrew, and trace Germanic and British Celtic elements, and from 700 to 1000, in dial... Read More about Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia.

Social Security in Late Medieval England: Corrodies in the Hospitals and Almshouses of Durham Priory (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, A. T. (2024). Social Security in Late Medieval England: Corrodies in the Hospitals and Almshouses of Durham Priory. Historical Research, 97(276), 199-217. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad033

Historians have debated the extent of poor relief and social security provision in late medieval England, yet our knowledge about the inmates of hospitals and almshouses remains limited. Corrodies – grants of food, clothes and shelter – have been see... Read More about Social Security in Late Medieval England: Corrodies in the Hospitals and Almshouses of Durham Priory.

Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2024). Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe. In D. Goetze, & L. Oetzel (Eds.), Early Modern European Diplomacy (579-592). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-030

The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1 (2023)
Journal Article
Fincham, K., & Taylor, S. (2023). The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1. The Seventeenth Century, 38(6), 969-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2276601

This article aims to explain the failure of the English presbyterian programme to reform the church at the Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the period between March 1660, when the Long Parliament reaffirmed the Solemn League and Covenant, and M... Read More about The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1.

Finlay, Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence (2023)
Journal Article
Lloyd-Jones, N. (2023). Finlay, Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence. The Scottish Historical Review, 102(3), 476-478. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2023.0639

French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity during Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833–40 (2023)
Journal Article
Ilacqua, T. (in press). French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity during Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833–40. European History Quarterly,

When the First Carlist War (1833–40) broke out in Spain between the queen regent María Cristina, supported by the liberals, and the absolutist pretender Don Carlos, French legitimists portrayed it as a clash of civilisations between absolutism and li... Read More about French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity during Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833–40.

The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000 (2023)
Book Chapter
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present (194-215). British Academy. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267721.003.0013

Petitioning was a ubiquitous practice in 20th-century North America and Europe, but has often appeared invisible to historians and social scientists, or is only cited incidentally in classic studies. This neglect stems from the trend, evident across... Read More about The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000.