We start this week with The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth Century City. Paris, London, New York by Nicholas Daly. Martin Hewitt and the author discuss a rich and rewarding new book (no. 1847, with response here). Then we turn to Marvin Benjamin Fried’s...
Contents Tenure and property in medieval England Susan Reynolds The Bari charter of privileges of 1132: articulating the culture of a new Norman monarchy Paul Oldfield Donald Balloch, the ‘Treaty of Ardtornish-Westminster’ and the MacDonald raids of 1461–3 James...
We start this week with Don H. Doyle’s Cause of all Nations: An International History of the American Civil War, as Martin Crawford and the author discuss a persuasive account of the American Civil War’s contemporary significance (no. 1843, with response here). Next...
Sometimes somnolent, sometimes seething: British imperial Africa and its home fronts by Bill Nasson This article considers the domestic impact of the First World War upon Africa, a continent pulled into the hostilities of 1914–18 because of its place in the world of...
Neither Byzantine nor Islamic? The duke of the Thebaid and the formation of the Umayyad state by Marie Legendre This article investigates how the early Islamic state developed out of pre-Islamic administrative structures. Taking the example of the Byzantine provincial...
Lame Jack his haultings: J. H. Hexter, the ‘middle group’ and William Prynne by Warwick K. George This article examines the historiography of J. H. Hexter’s ‘middle group’, arguing that current trends in historical scholarship have revived the need for a...
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