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Law, sovereignty, and political ideas in early modern Britain.(Book review): Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Alan Cromartie. The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. David Armitage,...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, English, History, James, John, Macmillan, Nicholas; Research articles 2009-01-29
Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530: Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), xii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921588-1. 53.00 [pounds sterling]. The title of Daniel Wakelin's study promises the smooth ride of a grand narrative. It is no discredit to his painstaking work to say that, like some...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press, Worcester; Research articles 2008-09-22
New book chronicle: Memory, from the 'dark abyss of time' to present day conflict zones, via biographies of some of the British players in twentieth-century archaeology, permeates this chronicle. Two points emerge: first, that good writing matters. Second, that the past is eternally composed. The past composite LAURENT OLIVIER. Le sombre...; Tags: A., American, Andrew, Athens, Classical, Cyprus, David, Davis, Early, English, Heritage, Ma, Mediterranean, Memory, Michael, Museum, Norman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philip, Press, Rome, Studies; Research articles 2008-09-01
The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report): John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...; Tags: Church, Culture, De, Early, English, Enlightenment, History, John, Magic, Martin, Medieval, Moore, Oxford University Press, Press, Protestant, Reformation, Religion, Richard, Roman, Science, Spanish, Thomas, Western; Research articles 2008-06-22
Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report): Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...; Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York; Research articles 2008-06-22

Dyslexia speed problems in a transparent orthography: Abstract This study was intended to help clarify the nature of dyslexia in Spanish. A sample of 30 children, 8 to 16 years old, participated in this study. Dyslexic children were compared to two control groups, a chronological age-matched control group and a reading level-matched control group. Measures included nonword...; Tags: A., C., E., Ed, English, F., G., H., International Dyslexia Association, J., Journal, K., L., M., P., R., Reading, S., Spanish, T., Ziegler Inc.; Research articles 2008-06-01
'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company: SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...; Tags: A., American, Charles, Culture, English, Frank, Green, House, Hudson's Bay Co., Indian, J., James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lake, Marie, Michel, Mission, Pierre, Raphael, Thomas, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops: William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. I: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thompson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xxxiii + 693 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820770-2. 110.00 [pounds sterling]. Vol. II: Commentary, by R. M. Thompson,...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
Reading Baron Pierre de Coubertin: issues of gender and race: Baron Pierre de Coubertin, like many other Frenchmen, wanted revenge for the defeat and the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war. As a descendant of an aristocratic family, Coubertin might have felt a special responsibility 'to seek revanche for the debacle at Sedan' (Guttmann, 1992, 8)....; Tags: African, Arnold, English, Hill, International Olympic Committee, J., Muller, N., P., Pierre, Social, West, Writings; Research articles 2008-03-22
A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969: Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...; Tags: Church, D., E., Easter, English, F., G., Gilbert, God, History, House, J., Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lincoln, Lord, M., Macmillan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Social, Society, T., Thomas, W., Wales, William, York; Research articles 2008-03-22
Books recently published: For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2007 issue (p. 93 of this volume). ENGLISH Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. Ragged but right: black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,...; Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., English, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-03-01
Liminal language: boundaries of magic and honor in early modern Essex.: In 1645, in the small village of Stisted, Essex, two serving maids told the Justice of the Peace that a group of twenty or more men and women had, on several occasions, visited various gentry households where they "conjured" the residents to sleep. This group included ...; Tags: Catholic, Early, English, Henry, John, Justice, Oxford University Press, Ralph, Religion, Robert, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, William, Wood; Research articles 2007-12-22
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music: The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 317 pp. $99.00 US cloth. Around 1650 Robert Bargrave, a junior secretary of the Levant Company, was ordered to compose a wedding masque for the daughter of the English ambassador to the...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2007-12-22
Orality and literacy 25 years later: 1. Introduction Walter Ong, S.J., published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 25 years ago, in 1982. The book appeared in Methuen Press's New Accents series, under the general editorship of Terence Hawkes, along with titles on literature, literary criticism, and popular culture. The series holds particular...; Tags: African, American, Asian, Communication, E., Ed, English, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., Journal, Oxford University Press, REFLECTIONS, Research, Science, T., Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-01
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology: The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Edited by Andrew Hass, David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay. Oxford University Press, 912 pp., $155.00. WITH THIS NEW volume (part of a recently launched series that also includes handbooks on theology and science, theology and global religions, and so on),...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2007-11-13
Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers: metaphor, ideology and practice: But the mind attempts to contrive a principle of order and regularity into certain parts of the mass of signs, and this is the role of relative motivation. (Ferdinand de Saussure 1974:133) Il y a trop...; Tags: A., American, C., Cambridge University Press, Communion, D., East, English, J., Jones, Journal, L, M., North, Press, S., T., West; Research articles 2007-11-01
Pentecostalism beyond belief: trust and democracy in a Malawian township: ABSTRACT The concept of belief, when applied in its strong sense, assumes an inner state that sets believers apart from non-believers. This article suggests that a concept of trust is more appropriate for the study of the religious orientation among Pentecostal Christians in Chinsapo, an impoverished township in Malawi's...; Tags: A., African, Belief, Christians, D., E., English, God, Green, H., J., Jesus, Jesus Christ, Journal, M., Oxford University Press, Power, T., Trust, W., West; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, El, English, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Leo, Les, Life, M., Nicholas, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Rhetoric, S., Simon, Susan, Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2007-09-22
Historians, history brokers, consumers, and English historical culture 1800-1970.(Book review): Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870-1970. By Michael Bentley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 245 pages. The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953. By Billie Melman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 363...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2007-09-22
Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780: Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...; Tags: African, American, Assembly, Black, Chapel, Christmas, Church, Council, Culture, Early, Easter, English, God, Hall, History, J., James, John, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, Kingston Technology Corp., Lord, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Testing, Thomas, W.; Research articles 2007-09-01