A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.

Looking in detail at 14th-century Gloucestershire, the author examines the role of the gentry in their communities, government, military service, and the economy.

The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century

The Cotton Masters 1830-1860

From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850

This is the first detailed analysis of English barristers and the inns of court in the period 1680-1730. The four inns of court have constituted the principal institutional home of common lawyers since medieval times, and by the ealy modern period were regarded as a "third university." Barristers were the preeminent professional men of Augustan England, and as such, they played a disproportionate role in the business of the Commons. Lemmings shows how the inns declined from their former splendor during the late seventeenth century until, by the reign of George II, they were principally...

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons fills an important gap in Anglo-Irish parliamentary history in the generation before 1914, and is the first to examine the role of parliamentary action within the political strategies of Edwardian loyalism. In reconstructing a forgotten parliamentary party, Jackson sheds new light on the development of organized Unionism in Ireland, and on the bond between loyalism and British Conservatism.

This is the first full-length study of the relationship between political change and the law in Bismarckian and Wilhelmine Germany. John focuses on the preparation of the civil code of 1896 to show how changes in politics affected the ways in which the legal system was considered, and sheds new light on the strengths and weaknesses of German liberalism and the German state, merging ideological and structural explanations for the nature of modern German development.

The Reformation of Heretics The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480-1580