Our fashion special continues this week, beginning with Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire by Eugenia Paulicelli. Cordelia Warr tackles a book which is part of an ongoing endeavour to bring together different disciplines to investigate...
The ‘blood of the martyrs’ and the growth of Catholicism in late Chosŏn Korea. Andrew Finch The article examines the significance of martyrdom in a context beyond that of the Roman world. The sources employed are the published works of French missionaries active...
Contents: Royal and non-royal forests and chases in England and Wales. John Langton The seditious murder of Thomas of Sibthorpe and the Great Statute of Treasons, 1351–2. David Crook Mercantile conflict resolution and the role of the language of trust: a Danzig case...
We continue this week with our fashion special, and first up this week is Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance, edited by Kathryn Norberg. David Pullins hopes the essays here will prompt more sustained engagement with this important...
Naturally the anniversary of the start of the war to end all wars has created a plethora of special issues on the subject. What I have found engaging about these is the coverage of the not so obvious material. A prime example is Comparative Legal History, and its...
This year’s Pollard Prize for the best paper given at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate student or researcher within one year of completing the PhD has been won by Cornelis Heere with ‘That racial chasm that yawns eternally in our midst’: the imperial...
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