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Volume 61 - Issue 2 - April 2022

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PRE-1800

Book Reviews

Spencer Jackson. We Are Kings: Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual. Eighteenth Century Studies. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Pp. 230. $65.00 (cloth).
Ben LaBreche
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04 May 2022, pp. 471-472
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Leonie James, ed. The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635–1642. Church of England Record Society 24. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. 325. $120.00 (cloth).
Calvin Lane
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04 May 2022, pp. 472-474
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Laura Kalas. Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 268. $99.00 (cloth).
Katherine J. Lewis
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04 May 2022, pp. 474-475
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Ryan Lavelle. Places of Contested Power: Conflict and Rebellion in England and France, 830–1150. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. Pp. 402. $99.00 (cloth).
David S. Bachrach
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04 May 2022, pp. 475-477
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E. Amanda McVitty. Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture. Gender in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $99.00 (cloth).
Shannon McSheffrey
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04 May 2022, pp. 477-478
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Kathleen B. Neal. The Letters of Edward I: Political Communication in the Thirteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $99.00 (cloth).
Andrew M. Spencer
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04 May 2022, pp. 479-480
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Jennifer M. Rampling. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700. Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 408. $35.00 (cloth).
Zoe Screti
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04 May 2022, pp. 480-482
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Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia, eds. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550. Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 330. $136.00 (cloth).
Daphna Oren-Magidor
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04 May 2022, pp. 482-483
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Priya Satia. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 544. $35.00 (cloth).
Warren C. Whatley
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04 May 2022, pp. 483-484
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Matthew Sergi. Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. $30.00 (paper).
Mariah Min
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04 May 2022, pp. 485-486
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Per Sivefors. Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603: “A Kingdom for a Man.” Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 170. $160.00 (cloth).
Mario DiGangi
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04 May 2022, pp. 486-488
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Max Skjönsberg. The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 373. $99.99 (cloth).
Chris Dudley
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04 May 2022, pp. 488-489
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Victor I. Stoichita. Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art. Translated by Samuel Trainor. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 288. $40.00 (cloth).
Grace Harpster
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04 May 2022, pp. 489-491
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Ann-Maria Walsh. The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics and Place. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. Pp. 194. €50.00 (cloth).
David Heffernan
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04 May 2022, pp. 491-492
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Matthew Ward and Matthew Heffernan , eds. Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400–1688. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 302. $109.99 (cloth).
Ted Vallance
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04 May 2022, pp. 493-494
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Karen A. Winstead. Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. 220. $100.00 (cloth).
Heidi Olson Campbell
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04 May 2022, pp. 494-496
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Yuriko Akiyama. Feeding the Nation: Nutrition and Health in Britain before World War One. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (paper).
John Martin
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04 May 2022, pp. 497-498
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Agnes Arnold-Forster. The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $80.00 (cloth).
Pamela K. Gilbert
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04 May 2022, pp. 498-500
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Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk, eds. Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. Studies in Labour History 15. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $130.00 (cloth).
Christian Høgsbjerg
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04 May 2022, pp. 500-502
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Nicola Bishop. Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 256. $115.00 (cloth).
Geoffrey Crossick
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04 May 2022, pp. 502-503
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PRE-1800

Book Reviews

Spencer Jackson. We Are Kings: Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual. Eighteenth Century Studies. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Pp. 230. $65.00 (cloth).

Leonie James, ed. The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635–1642. Church of England Record Society 24. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. 325. $120.00 (cloth).

Laura Kalas. Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 268. $99.00 (cloth).

Ryan Lavelle. Places of Contested Power: Conflict and Rebellion in England and France, 830–1150. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. Pp. 402. $99.00 (cloth).

E. Amanda McVitty. Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture. Gender in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $99.00 (cloth).

Kathleen B. Neal. The Letters of Edward I: Political Communication in the Thirteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $99.00 (cloth).

Jennifer M. Rampling. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700. Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 408. $35.00 (cloth).

Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia, eds. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550. Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 330. $136.00 (cloth).

Priya Satia. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 544. $35.00 (cloth).

Matthew Sergi. Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. $30.00 (paper).

Per Sivefors. Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603: “A Kingdom for a Man.” Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 170. $160.00 (cloth).

Max Skjönsberg. The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 373. $99.99 (cloth).

Victor I. Stoichita. Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art. Translated by Samuel Trainor. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 288. $40.00 (cloth).

Ann-Maria Walsh. The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics and Place. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. Pp. 194. €50.00 (cloth).

Matthew Ward and Matthew Heffernan , eds. Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400–1688. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 302. $109.99 (cloth).

Karen A. Winstead. Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. 220. $100.00 (cloth).

POST-1800

Book Reviews

Yuriko Akiyama. Feeding the Nation: Nutrition and Health in Britain before World War One. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (paper).

Agnes Arnold-Forster. The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $80.00 (cloth).

Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk, eds. Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. Studies in Labour History 15. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $130.00 (cloth).

Nicola Bishop. Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 256. $115.00 (cloth).

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