Latest Reviews – Tasmania, kitchens, US Civil War and sex regulation

We begin this week with Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor. Tom Lawson and the author discuss a book which is much more than a straightforward history (no. 2181, with response here). Next up is Sara Pennell’s The Birth of the...

November issue of Historical Research

Historical Research, vol. xc, no. 250 Articles:  Miscellanies, Christian reform and early medieval encyclopaedism: a reconsideration of the pre-bestiary Latin Physiologus manuscripts. Anna Dorofeeva Wales in late medieval and early modern English histories: neglect,...

Latest Reviews – Burgundy, Holocaust, election agents and paupers

We begin this week with Robert Stein’s Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States: the Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands 1380-1480. Katherine Wilson and the author discuss a huge contribution to the scholarship of the Burgundian Dominions (no. 2177, with...
New Historical Research articles

New Historical Research articles

Wales in late medieval and early modern English histories: neglect, rediscovery, and their implications. Tim Thornton Those who read English history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries encountered significant coverage of Wales. English readers of late...
New Historical Research articles

New Historical Research articles

Miscellanies, Christian reform and early medieval encyclopaedism: a reconsideration of the pre-bestiary Latin Physiologus manuscripts. Anna Dorofeeva This article examines the evidence of the early medieval Latin Physiologus manuscripts for compilatory practices...