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Klappentext An annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research. Zusammenfassung The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume seven of the sixth series will include the Presidential Address by Professor Rees Davies and the Prothero Lecture by Kenneth Morgan. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Presidential address: the Peoples of Britain and Ireland! 1100-1400: IV language and historical mythology R. R. Davies; 2. The limits of totalitarianism: God! state and society in the GDR Mary Fulbrook; 3. British politeness and the progress of western manners: an eighteenth-century enigma Paul Langford; 4. History as destiny: Gobineau! H. S. Chamberlain and Spengler Michael Biddiss; 5. Constructing the past in the early Middle Ages: the case of the Royal Frankish Annals Rosamond McKitterick; 6. England! Britain and the audit of War (The Prothero Lecture) Kenneth O. Morgan; 7. Against 'Englishness': English culture and the limits to Rural Nostalgia! 1850-1940 Peter Mandler; The Eltonian Legacy: 8. The Cromwellian decade: authority and consent C. S. L. Davies; 9. Place and the public finance R. W. Hoyle; 10. The parliament of England Pauline Croft; 11. Thomas Cromwell's doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty Conrad Russell; 12. Politics Simon Adams; 13. G. R. Elton as a legal historian Clive Holmes; 14. Religion Christopher Haigh; 15. Sir Geoffrey Elton and the practice of history Quentin Skinner; 16. Elton on the English: a discussion Patrick Wormald! John Gillingham! Colin Richmond; Report of the Council for 1996-1997; Officers of the Council 1997; Publications of the Royal Historical Society.
