Outputs (406)

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria. Rural History, 29(2), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade. French History, 32(3), 327-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry065

This paper contributes new evidence and a new perspective to the study of the religious heresy known as Waldensianism in the high-medieval Languedoc, and its relationship to both orthodox authority and the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Although they were outlawed... Read More about ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade.

'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Allwork, L. 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War

This working paper chronicles the development of the construction of a methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the AHRC’s First World War Engagement Centres. It will show how through evalu... Read More about 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War.

Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921 (2018)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Topiwala, H. (2018). Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky060

The 1915 Simpson Report made public health recommendations for Nairobi that were heralded as ground-breaking. Of particular interest to the colonial authorities was Professor Simpson’s suggestion to racially segregate Nairobi to prevent diseases said... Read More about Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921.

Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham (2018)
Book
R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow, & P. Skinner (Eds.), (2018). Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham

This volume represents a comprehensive survey of recent work in medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies of other regions and major historical transitions in Europ... Read More about Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham.

Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialised production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan (2018)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2018). Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialised production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan. In Italy and Early Medieval Europe : Papers for Chris Wickham (356-371). Oxford: Oxford University Press

German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research (2018)
Book
J. Hürter, & E. Harvey (Eds.), (2018). German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research

This volume presents the latest in German research on Hitler ased on selected articles translated from the leading contemporary history journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Additionally, it includes new commentaries by renowned experts from... Read More about German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research.

Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii (2018)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2018). Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (77-100). Abingdon: Routledge

The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of Parliamentary authority 1642-1651 (2018)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2018). The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of Parliamentary authority 1642-1651. In D. Appleby, & A. Hopper (Eds.), Battle-Scarred: Mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British Civil Wars. Manchester University Press

The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls (2018)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2018). The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls. Medieval Worlds, 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s137

This article examines the style and rhetoric of a fourteenth-century treatise written against the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. The treatise addresses thirty-five extracts from the Mirror which are refuted as errors. Rather than... Read More about The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls.