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The anti-dukes of Northumberland
When I was a small child, my formal education began with the
hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', which I was made to learn
by heart; and when I was taken for walks in the Park or the Pastures,
and passed the Barbican gate, the image of an immutable, divinely
ordered society, as presented by that hymn - the rich man in his
castle, the poor man at his gate (Narrowgate, I assumed) - was
vividly impressed on my mind. What a symbol of ancient continuity
was here! North Northumberland seemed a wonderfully stable
world, and here was the guarantee of its immemorial stability.
However, afterwards, when I came to study history, I had to
revise this view. History, I then found, is continuous only in flux;
one has to fight even to stand still. And this general rule applies
even in Northumberland, even here.peer-reviewe
Land, history or modernization? Explaining ethnic fractionalization
Ethnic fractionalization (EF) is frequently used as an explanatory tool in models of economic development, civil war and public goods provision. However, if EF is endogenous to political and economic change, its utility for further research diminishes. This turns out not to be the case. This paper provides the first comprehensive model of EF as a dependent variable. It contributes new data on the founding date of the largest ethnic group in each state. It builds political and international variables into the analysis alongside historical and geoclimatic parameters. It extends previous work by testing models of politically relevant EF. In addition, this research interprets model results in light of competing theories of nationalism and political change. Results show that cross-national variation in EF is largely exogenous to modern politico-economic change. However, the data are inconclusive with respect to competing geoclimatic, historical institutional and modernist theories of ethnogenesis
Self-love and sociability: the ârudiments of commerceâ in the state of nature
Istvan Hontâs classic work on the theoretical links between the seventeenth-century natural jurists Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf and the eighteenth-century Scottish political economists remains a popular trope among intellectual and economic historians of various stamps. Despite this, a common criticism levelled at Hont remains his relative lack of engagement with the relationship between religion and economics in the early modern period. This paper challenges this aspect of Hontâs narrative by drawing attention to an alternative, albeit complementary, assessment of the natural jurisprudential heritage of eighteenth-century British political economy. Specifically, the article attempts to map on to Hontâs thesis the Christian Stoic interpretation of Grotius and Pufendorf which has gained greater currency in recent years. In doing so, the paper argues that Grotius and Pufendorfâs contributions to the âunsocial sociabilityâ debate do not necessarily lead directly to the Scottish school of political economists, as is commonly assumed. Instead, it contends that a reconsideration of Grotius and Pufendorf as neo-Stoic theorists, particularly via scrutiny of their respective adaptations of the traditional Stoic theory of oikeiosis, steers us towards the heart of the early English âclericalâ Enlightenment
The Early Royal Society and Visual Culture
Recent studies have fruitfully examined the intersection between early modern science and visual culture by elucidating the functions of images in shaping and disseminating scientific knowledge. Given its rich archival sources, it is possible to extend this line of research in the case of the Royal Society to an examination of attitudes towards images as artefacts âmanufactured objects worth commissioning, collecting and studying. Drawing on existing scholarship and material from the Royal Society Archives, I discuss Fellowsâ interests in prints, drawings, varnishes, colorants, images made out of unusual materials, and methods of identifying the painter from a painting. Knowledge of production processes of images was important to members of the Royal Society, not only as connoisseurs and collectors, but also as those interested in a Baconian mastery of material processes, including a âhistory of tradesâ. Their antiquarian interests led to discussion of paintersâ styles, and they gradually developed a visual memorial to an institution through portraits and other visual records.AH/M001938/1 (AHRC
Christopher Hill, The English Revolution
Trevor-Roper Hugh. Christopher Hill, The English Revolution. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 14ᔠannée, N. 4, 1959. p. 804
La révolution anglaise de Cromwell
Trevor-Roper Hugh. La révolution anglaise de Cromwell. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 10ᔠannée, N. 3, 1955. pp. 331-340
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