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Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home (2021)
Journal Article
Bates, R., & Memel, J. G. (2021). Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79(2), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10012

The focus for this article is the approach taken by the famous British nurse and public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) to responsibility for care, with particular reference to healthcare as practised in the home. It begins by examin... Read More about Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home.

Afterword (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Afterword. In C. Heath, & R. Houghton (Eds.), Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154 (325-336). Amsterdam University Press

Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’ (2021)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2022). Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’. Political Studies Review, 20(3), 452-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211062031

This article responds to O’Hara’s ‘What Conservatives Value’. It establishes what is at stake in our debate about the adjectival nature of conservatism, and it explores the role that risk plays in conservative thinking.

Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church (2021)
Journal Article
Brooke, C. J., & Ryder, P. F. (2022). Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church. Antiquaries Journal, 102, 88-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581521000330

The church of St Michael and All Angels, Averham, is largely constructed of counter-pitched rubble and has long been interpreted as being of the early Norman period. Recent archaeological investigations by the authors have revealed conclusive evidenc... Read More about Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church.

The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources (2021)
Journal Article
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources. South East Asia Research, 29(4), 450-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2021.1989987

If there is a period in Cambodia’s history that has been overlooked and disparaged, it is certainly the republican one (1970–1975). The Khmer Republic is often viewed as a corrupt, incompetent regime–an interregnum doomed to failure. This article rev... Read More about The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources.

'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death? (2021)
Journal Article
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?. International Criminal Law Review, 22(1-2), 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10099

To this day, the trial of Pol Pot in July 1997 in Anlong Veng remains an underexplored topic, possibly because it is seen as a parody of justice organised by a rival Khmer Rouge faction. Images of the event show an old and fragile man who has to be s... Read More about 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?.

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911. In G. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine. London: Anthem Press

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
Book
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2021). Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.

Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared. In T. J. MacMaster, & N. S. Matheou (Eds.), Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204 (304-323). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region (2021)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region. Studi di storia medioevale e di diplomatica - Nuova Serie, 4, 201-230. https://doi.org/10.54103/2611-318x/15766

In this contribution I consider how Milan and its inhabitants were connected both north and south in the early medieval period. I focus on exchanges understood as giving and receiving, buying and selling, leasing and renting, but also encompassing th... Read More about Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region.

In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value (2021)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2022). In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value. Political Studies Review, 20(3), 433-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211014393

This article intervenes in the debate about the nature of conservatism. Some contributors to this debate have claimed that this ideology can be defined as an adjectival disposition. They claim, that is, that a conservative possesses an attitude towar... Read More about In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value.

The Earldom Endowments of 1337: Political Thought and the Practice of Kingship in Late Medieval England (2021)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2021). The Earldom Endowments of 1337: Political Thought and the Practice of Kingship in Late Medieval England. English Historical Review, 136(580), 498-529. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceab164

This article examines Edward III’s earldom creations of March 1337 and the endowments given to these earls by Edward III in order to support their newly acquired rank. It re-evaluates the form of these grants and the governmental processes they stimu... Read More about The Earldom Endowments of 1337: Political Thought and the Practice of Kingship in Late Medieval England.

Re-reading The Lands of Saint Ambrose (2021)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Re-reading The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Reti Medievali - Rivista, 22(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/8041

This paper reflects on the observations made by Giuseppe Albertoni, Gianmarco De Angelis, Anna Rapetti and Igor Santos Salazar in their discussion of the book The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019).

Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought (2021)
Journal Article
Gust, O., & Cleall, E. (2022). Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought. Historical Journal, 65(2), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000133

This article makes a case that disability, particularly visual, hearing, and speech impairments, played a significant role in Scottish Enlightenment thought. Focusing on the work of Dugald Stewart, and in particular on his essay 'Some account of a bo... Read More about Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought.

Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s (2021)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2021). Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s. Historical Research, 94(264), 235-266. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab005

This discussion provides the first in-depth investigation into the meaning and significance of a quite exceptional petition presented by the parliamentary Commons in the reign of Richard II. The petition survives as a unique copy in the chronicle of... Read More about Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s.