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Essays on the connections between politics and society in the
middle ages, showing their interdependence. Christine Carpenter's
influential work on late-medieval English society aspires to
encompass a wide spectrum of human experience. Her vision of
"total" history embeds the study of politics in a multi-dimensional
social frameworkwhich ranges from mentalities and ideology to
economy and geography. This collection of essays celebrates
Professor Carpenter's achievement by drawing attention to the
social underpinning of political culture; the articles reflectthe
range of her interests, chronologically from the thirteenth century
to the sixteenth, and thematically from ideology and culture,
through government and its officials, the nobility, gentry and
yeomanry, the law and the church, to local society. The connection
between centre and locality pervades the volume, as does the
interplay of the ideological and cultural with the practical and
material. The essays highlight both how ideas were moulded in
political debate and action, and how their roots sprang from social
pressures and interests. It also emphasises the wider cultural
aspects of topics too-easily conceived as local and material.
BENJAMIN THOMPSON is Fellow and Tutor in History at Somerville
College, Oxford; JOHN WATTS is Professor of Later Medieval History
at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi
College, Oxford. Contributors: Jackson Armstrong, Caroline Burt,
Tony Moore, Richard Partington, Ted Powell, Andrea Ruddick, Andrew
Spencer, Benjamin Thompson, John Watts, Theron Westervelt, Jenny
Wormald.
Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the
artistic motivations and messaging of three artists-Tommaso
Minardi, Francesco Hayez, and Gioacchino Toma-from three distinct
regions in Italy prior to, during, and directly following political
unification in 1861. Each artist, working in Rome, Milan, and
Naples, respectively, adopted the visual narratives particular to
his region, using style to communicate aspects of his political,
religious, or social context. By focusing on these three figures,
this study will introduce readers outside of Italy to their
diversity of practice, and provide a means for understanding their
place within the larger field of international nineteenth-century
art, albeit a place largely distinct from the better-known French
tradition. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art
history, nationalism, Italian history, or Italian studies.
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety
of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration,
ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and
authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has
long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for
particular media, there has been little attempt to study social
display as a subject in its own right. And yet,display takes us
directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of
past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts
address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display
and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical
language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social
distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the
expression of power and authority. The media include monumental
effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts,
jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID
CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FREDERIQUE
LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN
PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
Eight studies of aspects of C15 England, united by a common focus
on the role of ideas in political developments of the time. The
concept of "political culture" has become very fashionable in the
last thirty years, but only recently has it been consciously taken
up by practitioners of late-medieval English history, who have
argued for the need to acknowledge the role of ideas in politics.
While this work has focused on elite political culture, interest in
the subject has been growing among historians of towns and
villages, especially as they have begun to recognise the importance
of both internal politics and national government in the affairs of
townsmen and peasants. This volume, the product of a conference on
political culture in the late middle ages, explores the subject
from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of spheres. It is
hoped that it will put the subject firmly on the map for the study
of late-medieval England and lead to further exploration of
political culture in this period. Contributors CAROLINE BARRON,
ALAN CROMARTIE, CHRISTOPHER DYER, MAURICE KEEN, MIRI RUBIN,
BENJAMIN THOMPSON, JOHN WATTS, JENNY WORMALD. LINDA CLARK is
editor, History of Parliament; CHRISTINE CARPENTER is Reader in
History, University ofCambridge.
Based on American, German and Soviet sources, this book provides an
in-depth study of the Romanian administration in Odessa and
Transnistria. It draws a sharp contrast between the relatively more
successful occupation policies of the Romanian administration in
Odessa and Transnistria and those of the Germans in occupied areas
of the Soviet Union. Alexander Dallin, formerly president of the
American Assn. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, presents an
essential text for anyone interested in the occupation of Soviet
Territory during World War II and its consequences.
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