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The Power of Place: Rulers and their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places (2016)
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Rollason, D. (2016). The Power of Place: Rulers and their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places. Princeton University Press

The Power of Place explores the nature of power—the power of kings, emperors, and popes—through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging acro... Read More about The Power of Place: Rulers and their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places.

Chivalry and the Medieval Past. (2016)
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Gribling, B., & Stevenson, K. (Eds.). (2016). Chivalry and the Medieval Past. Boydell & Brewer

An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenom... Read More about Chivalry and the Medieval Past..

Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney (2016)
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Brown, A., & Bowen, J. P. (Eds.). (2016). Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney. University of Hertfordshire Press

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanisation, commercialisation and industrialisation producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, o... Read More about Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney.

Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76 (2016)
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Heffernan, A., & Nieftagodien, N. (Eds.). (2016). Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76. Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22016069193

The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent g... Read More about Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76.

Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge (2016)
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Green, A. (2016). Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Cosin, a leading cleric in seventeenth-century England, rode the changing tides of preference under James I and Charles I, endured exile during the Interregnum, and finally became Bishop of Durham at the Restoration. Inspired by the architecture of D... Read More about Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge.

Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective (2015)
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Brown, A., Burn, A., & Doherty, R. (Eds.). (2015). Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective. Boydell Press

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agri... Read More about Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective.

Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640 (2015)
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Brown, A. (2015). Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640. Boydell & Brewer

In the middle of the fifteenth-century, the economy of north-east England was beset by crises: population was low, production was stagnant and many landowners faced penury. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, the precocious development of t... Read More about Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640.

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion (2015)
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Burroughs, R., & Huzzey, R. (Eds.). (2015). The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion. Manchester University Press

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled auth... Read More about The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion.

Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 (2015)
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Gasper, G. E., & Gullbekk, S. H. (Eds.). (2015). Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200. Ashgate Publishing

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume... Read More about Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200.

Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80. (2015)
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Miller, H. (2015). Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80. Manchester University Press

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of com... Read More about Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80..