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Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700 (2024)
Journal Article
Finn, F. (2024). Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700. Historical Journal, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x2400013x

The involvement of melancholy had the potential to undermine the authority of early modern individuals’ religious experiences, reframing their spiritual afflictions as the mere product of a distempered body. This article refines our understanding of... Read More about Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700.

Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich (2024)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2024). Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich. European History Quarterly, 54(2), 258-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241236618

Focused on transnational exchanges, this article examines a series of trips to Fascist Italy that were undertaken by pupils of Nazi elite schools in their role as youth ambassadors of the Third Reich. As a form of cultural diplomacy that continued du... Read More about Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich.

Norfolk Hearth Tax 1672 and Norwich Hearth Tax 1671 (2024)
Data
Green, A., Seaman, P., & Wareham, A. (2024). Norfolk Hearth Tax 1672 and Norwich Hearth Tax 1671. [Dataset]

Edition of hearth tax records for Norfolk and Norwich with an Introduction to the tax and its relationship to households and housing in late 17th Century England.

The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe (2024)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. (2024). The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad030

The relationship between towns and lords was fundamental both to the making of towns and to the making of polities in the late Middle Ages. The European literature on state growth has led historians to focus on the role of towns in historicizing narr... Read More about The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe.

Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England (2024)
Journal Article
Harkes, R. (2024). Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England. Journal of British Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.109

As in many areas of pre-Reformation devotion, the dead were a conspicuous presence in English religious guilds of all sizes. Members joined in the expectation that the guild would say prayers and perform masses for their souls after death, and previo... Read More about Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England.

The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England (2024)
Book Chapter
Crosbie, B. (in press). The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England. In M. Cannon, & L. Tisdall (Eds.), Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z. London: London University Press

Adulthood is surprisingly hard to locate in histories of eighteenth-century England. The historiography might be dominated by those between childhood and old age, but this reflects an unconscious bias in which the middle stage of life is an implicit... Read More about The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England.

Word and Image in Popular Science (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2024). Word and Image in Popular Science. In F. Grant, & L. Jordanova (Eds.), Where Words and Images Meet. London: Bloomsbury

A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres (2024)
Book Chapter
Saha, J. (2024). A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres. In M. J. Glover, & L. Mitchell (Eds.), Animals as Experiencing Entities: Theories and Historical Narratives (163-177). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46456-0_7

One of the most lasting influences of Robert Darnton’s famous essay ‘The Great Cat Massacre’ is perhaps its title. Numerous journal articles, book chapters, and monographs have knowingly alluded to it in their own titles. Michael Vann’s ‘The Great Ha... Read More about A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres.

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.

Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg monarchy (2024)
Book Chapter
Scales, L. (in press). Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg monarchy. In K. Kügle, I. Ciulisová, & V. Žůrek (Eds.), Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, and Václav Žůrek (eds.), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship (404-428). Woodbridge: Boydell

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.