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Medievalists.net@Medievalists · Dec 7

10 Free Medieval Articles from The English Historical Review medievalists.net/2024/12/free-m… - congratulations on 600 issues @enghistrev #history

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 21

A generous review of my book by the great Robert Travers

EEHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich @dr_jehrlich academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @cambUP_History

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Ryan Perry reviews 'The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales', by Manish Sharma academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @utpress

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Maximilian Lau reviews 'Historiography and Identity, V: The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000–1300', ed. Walter Pohl, Veronika Wieser and Francesco Borri academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @Brepols

enghistrev's tweet card. The analysis of a diverse number of sources and historiographies, while at the same time controlling this corpus with a question tight enough that such bro

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

John Maddicott reviews 'Saint Simon de Montfort: The Miracles, Laments, Prayers and Hymns', ed. and tr. David Cox academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

enghistrev's tweet card. The chief and very considerable value of David Cox’s book lies in its bringing together, editing and translating all the known texts relating to the Evesha

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Bob Harris reviews 'The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency', by John Eglin academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

enghistrev's tweet card. John Eglin’s welcome and elegantly written new book is oddly titled. This is true in two key respects. In the first place, it is not clear that Eglin think

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich @dr_jehrlich academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @cambUP_History

enghistrev's tweet card. This engaging and deeply researched study shows how the cultivation of knowledge was central to the political ideology of the East India Company state duri

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Emily West @emilywestfahey reviews 'Old Age and American Slavery', by David Stefan Doddington academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @cambUP_History

enghistrev's tweet card. In this innovative, wide-ranging and extremely thought-provoking book, David Doddington urges historians to think more explicitly about the process of agei

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Lewis Wade reviews Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England, by Anne L. Murphy academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @PrincetonUPress

enghistrev's tweet card. On 14 March 1783, three of the Bank of England’s directors began an inspection of the institution. Anne L. Murphy presents ‘a day in the life’ of the Bank

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Mattie Fitch @DrMattieFitch reviews 'The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904–1939', by Chris Millington @DrCMillington academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @stanfordpress

enghistrev's tweet card. In the 1930s, violent episodes frequently marked the front pages of French newspapers. In 1932, an assassin shot to death President Paul Doumer; two years

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Alexander Maxwell reviews 'Towards Modern Nationhood: Wales and Slovenia in Comparison, c.1750–1918', by Robin Okey academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @UniWalesPress

enghistrev's tweet card. Though the title of the late Robin Okey’s final book promises a comparison between Wales and Slovenia, the work actually offers a ‘framework in which to se

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Angeliki Lymberopoulou reviews 'Africa and Byzantium', ed. Andrea Myers Achi academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @YaleBooks

enghistrev's tweet card. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has been spoiling Byzantinists for decades now, both with exhibitions and with their accompanying catalogues. The

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Giovanni Ruffini reviews 'Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine', ed. Louise Blanke and Jennifer Cromwell @Papyrus_Stories academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @cambUP_History

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Elena Woodacre @monarchyconf reviews 'Eleanor of Aquitaine As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen', by Karen Sullivan academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… @UChicagoPress

enghistrev's tweet card. Surely more ink has been spilled about Eleanor of Aquitaine than any other medieval woman. This new monograph by Karen Sullivan joins an extensive corpus o

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

New article! Matthew Stibbe on 'MI5, the Security State and Communist Political Refugees from Nazism in Second World War-Era Britain: The Case of Gustav Beuer, 1938–1946' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

enghistrev's tweet card. Abstract. This article examines the British Security Service’s monitoring of Gustav Beuer, a Sudeten German communist and former member of the Czechoslovak

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 20

Lots of new material available on advance access: articles, reflections, book reviews academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 11

New article available on Advance Access: Krisztina Ilko on 1"Where the Wild Things Are": The Medieval Augustinian Order’s Perception of Nature between Tree Lore and Environmental History' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

enghistrev's tweet card. Abstract. This article examines how medieval woodlands around Augustinian convents could convey messages of power. In the thirteenth century, the papacy th

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EHR@enghistrev · Nov 7

New article: @ColinVeach on 'From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland'. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

enghistrev's tweet card. Abstract. This article offers a new way of framing the English conquest of Ireland by focusing on the development of a kingdom of Ireland both before and a

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