Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 28

Presents a collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Andrew Spicer (Edited by)

9781108484664, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 December 2018

292 pages
22.2 x 14.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers, and by winners of the Society's prizes. Volume 28 commemorates 150 years of Royal Historical Society publishing, and includes the following articles: 'Alive - And Still Kicking: The RHS at 150'; 'Formalising Aristocratic Power in Royal acta in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century France and Scotland'; 'Castles and the Militarisation of Urban Society in Imperial Japan'; 'Buildings, Landscapes and Regimes of Materiality'; 'The Rise and Fall (?) of America's Neoliberal Order'; 'Sacred Landscape, Spiritual Travel: Embodied Holiness and Long-Distance Pilgrimage in the Catholic Reformation'; 'The Woman to the Plow and the Man to the Hen-Roost': Wives, Husbands and Best-selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England'; and 'Anti-Socialism, Liberalism and Individualism: Rethinking the Realignment of Scottish Politics, 1945–1970'.

Alive – and still kicking: the RHS at 150 Margot Finn
Presidential address: material turns in British history: I. Loot Margot Finn
1. Formalising aristocratic power in royal acta in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century France and Scotland Alice Taylor
2. 'The Woman to the Plow and the Man to the Hen-Roost': wives, husbands and best-selling ballads in seventeenth-century England Christopher Marsh
3. Sacred landscape, spiritual travel: embodied holiness and long-distance pilgrimage in the Catholic Reformation Elizabeth Tingle
4. Castles and the militarisation of urban society in Imperial Japan Oleg Benesch
5. Buildings, landscapes and regimes of materiality William Whyte
6. Orthodoxy and revolution: the restoration of the Russian Patriarchate in 1917 Simon Dixon
7. 'Who the hell are ordinary people?' Ordinariness as a category of historical analysis Claire Langhamer
8. Anti-socialism, liberalism and individualism: rethinking the realignment of Scottish politics, 1945–1970 Malcolm Petrie
9. The troubles with a lower case T: undergraduates and Belfast's difficult history Sean O'Connell
10. The rise and fall (?) of America's neoliberal order Gary Gerstle
150 years of Royal Historical Society publishing Ian Archer.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK], Asian history [HBJF], British & Irish history [HBJD1], European history [HBJD], Regional & national history [HBJ], General & world history [HBG], History [HB]