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On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared
before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious
jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown,
he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to
become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle
of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality of Burgundy
into chaos. This book, innovative and essential, not only explores
Burgundian history and historiography but offers a complete
synthesis about the nature of politics in this region, considered
both from the north and the south. Focusing on political
ideologies, a number of important issues are raised relating to the
medieval state, the signification of the nation under the ‘Ancien
Regime’, the role of warfare in the creation of political power
and the impact of political loyalties in the exercise of
government. In doing so, the book challenges a number of existing
ideas about the Burgundian state. -- .
This handbook aims to challenge 'gender blindness' in the
historical study of high politics, power, authority and government,
by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of
current historical research into the relationship between
masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical
terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and
ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a
recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the
interactions between masculinity and political culture is still
very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna
by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of
power over two millennia of European history. It examines how
masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome
and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century
Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies
from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at
the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the
Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of
political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth
century and the present day.
On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared
before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious
jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown,
he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to
become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle
of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality of Burgundy
into chaos. This book, innovative and essential, not only explores
Burgundian history and historiography but offers a complete
synthesis about the nature of politics in this region, considered
both from the north and the south. Focusing on political
ideologies, a number of important issues are raised relating to the
medieval state, the signification of the nation under the 'Ancien
Regime', the role of warfare in the creation of political power and
the impact of political loyalties in the exercise of government. In
doing so, the book challenges a number of existing ideas about the
Burgundian state. -- .
The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship
between health and place. Historical and anthropological
perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long
tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue
should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.
The chapters offer examples from France, the Congo, Burkina Faso,
Romania, and Britain, offering students and scholars a diverse
range of examples to learn from. The book shows how everyday
objects played a certain kind of role in politics which is
particular to material things which will enable students to expand
their view of political institutions and the social history of
politics. Each chapter shows, how historians change their approach
to politics by incorporating objects into their methodology and
offers a means to develop different approaches to understanding
political history allowing students to see how to use material
sources and how they can inform our understanding of the past.
The chapters offer examples from France, the Congo, Burkina Faso,
Romania, and Britain, offering students and scholars a diverse
range of examples to learn from. The book shows how everyday
objects played a certain kind of role in politics which is
particular to material things which will enable students to expand
their view of political institutions and the social history of
politics. Each chapter shows, how historians change their approach
to politics by incorporating objects into their methodology and
offers a means to develop different approaches to understanding
political history allowing students to see how to use material
sources and how they can inform our understanding of the past.
The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship
between health and place. Historical and anthropological
perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long
tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue
should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage
from an international perspective. Leading international scholars
explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of
social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and
cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation
and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of
Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This
volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings
together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore
the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in
the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters,
mostly co-written by experts on each kingdom, cover topics ranging
from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice
and the men of the church; to political representation,
petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the
role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The
result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature
of government and political life, seen from the point of view of
how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of
social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying
armature of royal power.
How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This
volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings
together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore
the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in
the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters,
mostly co-written by experts on each kingdom, cover topics ranging
from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice
and the men of the church; to political representation,
petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the
role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The
result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature
of government and political life, seen from the point of view of
how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of
social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying
armature of royal power.
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John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to
the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life
and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new
insights. The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black
Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition
of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical
doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political
and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by
preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by
poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in
the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement
with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have
examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the
broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense
of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate
what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and
his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants
and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the
clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender
(masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and
the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book
also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on
newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus
Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University
of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of
British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett,
Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David
Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson,
Stephen Rigby, Jens Roehrkasten.
Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly
reputation. Over the centuries, he has been habitually associated
with lavish courtly expenditure, absolutist ideas, Francophile
tendencies, and a love of peace, all of which have been linked to
the king's physical effeminacy. Even sympathetic accounts have
essentially retained this picture, merely dismissing particular
facets of it, or representing Richard's reputation as evidence of
praiseworthy dissent from accepted norms of masculinity.
Christopher Fletcher takes a radically different approach, setting
the politics of Richard II's reign firmly in the context of late
medieval assumptions about the nature of manhood and youth. This
makes it possible not only to understand the agenda of the king's
critics, but also to suggest a new account of his actions. Far from
being the effeminate tyrant of historical imagination, Richard was
a typical young nobleman, trying to establish his manhood, and
hence his authority to rule, by thoroughly conventional means;
first through a military campaign, and then, fatally, through
violent revenge against those who attempted to restrain him. The
failure of Richard's subjects to support this aspiration produced a
sequence of conflicts with the king, in which his opponents found
it convenient to ascribe to him the conventional faults of youth.
These critiques derived their force not from the king's real
personality, but from the fit between certain contemporary
assumptions about youth, effeminacy, and masculinity on the one
hand, and the actions of Richard's government, constrained by
difficult and complex circumstances, on the other.
Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly
reputation. Over the centuries, he has been habitually associated
with lavish courtly expenditure, absolutist ideas, Francophile
tendencies, and a love of peace, all of which have been linked to
the king's physical effeminacy. Even sympathetic accounts have
essentially retained this picture, merely dismissing particular
facets of it, or representing Richard's reputation as evidence of
praiseworthy dissent from accepted norms of masculinity.
Christopher Fletcher takes a radically different approach, setting
the politics of Richard II's reign firmly in the context of late
medieval assumptions about the nature of manhood and youth. This
makes it possible not only to understand the agenda of the king's
critics, but also to suggest a new account of his actions. Far from
being the effeminate tyrant of historical imagination, Richard was
a typical young nobleman, trying to establish his manhood-and hence
his authority to rule-by thoroughly conventional means; first
through a military campaign, and then, fatally, through violent
revenge against those who attempted to restrain him.
The failure of Richard's subjects to support this aspiration
produced a sequence of conflicts with the king, in which his
opponents found it convenient to ascribe to him the conventional
faults of youth. These critiques derived their force not from the
king's real personality, but from the fit between certain
contemporary assumptions about youth, effeminacy, and masculinity
on the one hand, and the actions of Richard's
government-constrained by difficult and complex circumstances-on
the other.
M-Brane SF, the magazine of astounding science fiction, has
gathered together seventeen pieces of amazing GLBTQ speculative
fiction. Authors include Brandon Bell, Eden Robins, Alex Wilson,
Abby Rustad, Alex Jeffers, Derek J. Goodman and more. Edited by
Christopher Fletcher.
"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still
here. That is how you stay alive." -Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged
demonstrates how traditional knowledge, Indigenous approaches to
healing, and the insights of Western bio-medicine can complement
each other when all voices are heard in a collaborative effort to
address changes to Indigenous communities' well-being. In this
collection, voices of Elders, healers, physicians, and scholars are
gathered in an attempt to find viable ways to move forward while
facing new challenges. Bringing these varied voices together
provides a critical conversation about the nature of medicine; a
demonstration of ethical commitment; and an example of building
successful community relationships. Contributors: Alestine Andre,
Janelle Marie Baker, Robert Beaulieu, Della M. Cheney, Stakawas,
Katsawa, Mida Donnessey, Mabel English, Christopher Fletcher, Fort
McKay Berry Group, Annie B. Gordon, Celina Harpe-Cooper, Inuvialuit
Regional Corporation, Leslie Main Johnson, Thea Luig, Art Mathews,
Sim'oogit T'enim Gyet, Linda G. McDonald, Ruby E. Morgan, Bernice
Neyelle, Morris Neyelle, Keiichi Omura, Mary Teya, Nancy J. Turner,
Walter Vanast, Darlene Vegh.
"Another World Was Possible" modifies the slogan of the World
Social Forum--an annual meeting formed as an alternative to the
more elite World Economic Forum--"Another world is possible!" The
change from present to past tense in the phrase acknowledges the
importance of social movements from the past century that have
worked for alternative visions of justice and freedom leading up to
and continuing to influence current movements. This special issue
of "Radical History Review" highlights the global and transnational
dimensions of radical history that are less visible in other
historical accounts whose horizons are national or local or that
are oriented toward either "centers" or "peripheries." By
emphasizing social movements and political contention, this issue
offers a globalized radical history that enriches the wider field
of world history.
The collection argues that radical movements offer an intriguing
counternarrative to the more familiar history of imperialism and
globalization in the twentieth century. One essay illuminates the
radical anticolonial and diasporic South Asian Ghadar movement,
which worked to free India from British rule. Another delves into
the global politics of South African radicalism between antifascism
and apartheid in the 1940s and 1950s. A third essay explores the
encounter between U.S. black activists and Cuban revolutionaries in
the 1960s. In an interview, a Latina activist illustrates the
transnational scope of contemporary social movements by describing
her organizing work among immigrants in Atlanta, Georgia.
"Contributors." Adina Black, Mansour Bonakdarian, Duane J. Corpis,
Ian Christopher Fletcher, Yael Simpson Fletcher, Robert Gregg,
BobHannigan, Chia Yin Hsu, Madhavi Kale, R. J. Lambrose,
Christopher Joon-Hai Lee, Teresa Meade, Adelina Nicholls, Enrique
C. Ochoa, Susan D. Pennybacker, Maia Ramnath, Besenia Rodriguez
"Another World Was Possible" is the companion issue to "Two, Three,
Many Worlds" ("Radical History Review," #91).
This volume brings together classic and contemporary scholarly
essays on imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The text
opens with an introductory essay followed by a presentation of
authoritative but conflicting views, encouraging students to
interpret and evaluate the issue for themselves.
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