Posted in historiography, review on 5 July 2008 | No Comments »
Early modern:
Fernando Cervantes in the TLS reviews a range of books on early modern Spain.
Phil Withington, ‘Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England’, English Historical Review (2008).
John Morrill reviews Patrick Little (ed.), The Cromwellian Protectorate (2007), a great deal of which can be read on limited preview on Google Books.
Imago Urbis: Giusepe Vasi’s Grand [...]
Posted in books, britain, eighteenth century, england, holland, review, tagged early modern, history, seventeenth century, book, review, dutch, going dutch, holland, lisa jardine on 7 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was a devastating review by Peter Conrad of Lisa Jardine’s new book on the influence of Holland on early modern English culture in the Observer this weekend . Noel Malcolm in the Telegraph had a slightly softer critique.
However, others seem to have liked Going Dutch better. Peter Ackroyd in the Times and Keith Thomas [...]
Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, historiography, review, scotland, seventeenth century, wales, tagged 1640s, book, books, britain, charles i, civil wars, early modern, england, god's fury england's fire, historiography, history, ireland, john pym, michael braddick, oliver cromwell, religion, review, scotland, wales on 28 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
God’s Fury, England’s Fire. A New History of the English Civil Wars.
by Michael Braddick.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
In the summer of 1642, the bookseller Nathaniel Butter [DNB] put on sale a quarto pamphlet about a strange fish caught at Woolwich. A relation of a terrible monster [EEBO] told the story of a fish shaped like a [...]
Posted in books, review on 27 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Various reviews of books on the early modern period have recently appeared on H-Net:
Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, eds. English Radicalism,
1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Emily Cockayne. Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600-1770.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Michael Questier. Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England:
Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, [...]
Posted in books, britain, england, france, london, review, seventeenth century, tagged early modern, seventeenth century, books, england, review, theodore de mayerne, doctor, medicine, james i, charles i, switzerland, huguenot, reformation, protestant, france, trevor-roper, hugh trevor-roper on 24 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
Europe’s Physician: the various life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006
Here is a long overdue review of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s biography of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. I originally read this book over Christmas in a vain attempt to delay the process of essay writing, but it’s taken me [...]
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