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Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham (2024)
Journal Article
Brown, A. T. (2024). Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham. History, 109(384-385), 34-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.13384

Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professi... Read More about Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham.

Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. (2024). Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities. Technology and Culture, 65(1), 89-116. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920517

This article provides a new exploration of disabled innovation that transforms our understanding of collective contributions to the history of science and technology. It does so by showing how a user network galvanized individual inventions into disa... Read More about Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities.

Pierre de L'Estoile et la sorcellerie (2024)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, T. (in press). Pierre de L'Estoile et la sorcellerie. In N. Oddo, & G. Schrenck (Eds.), Pierre de L’Estoile, homme de cabinet, homme de réseaux. Geneva: Droz

Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791) (2024)
Journal Article
Freund, A., & Stammers, T. (2024). Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791). French History, 38(1), 58-82. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad060

One of the largest and most striking submissions to the 1791 Salon, The Harp Lesson by Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust was an ambitious but spectacularly ill-timed intervention in revolutionary politics. It emerged from Félicité de Genlis’ remarkable e... Read More about Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791).

A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France (2024)
Book
Hamilton, T. (2024). A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192870179.001.0001

Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived aro... Read More about A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France.