New reviews: Britain and Hollywood, early modern women, early modern heresy, early modern authority
Just back from the other side – no, not a near death experience, but a quick visit to the almost finished new look IHR! There’s a smell of fresh paint, the books are in place, and the librarians have the thousand-yard stares that come with weeks of twelve-hour days...New reviews: Archbishop Pole, post-war children, scholastic thought and Charles Darwin
First up this week we have Archbishop Pole by John Edwards, as Francis Young and the author discuss a magnificent example of first-rate historical scholarship (no. 1642, with response here). Next we turn to Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British...New Historical Research article:
Episcopal emotions: tears in the life of the medieval bishop by Katherine Harvey This article explores the significance of weeping in the lives of late medieval English bishops (c.1100−c.1400). It considers the lachrymose devotions of saintly bishops alongside tears...