"Según parecía por las Crónicas antiguas": Representing ruling queens in medieval Castilian historiography by Norris, J

“…The diversity of these accounts underscores the flexible treatment of ruling queenship by medieval historians. The second chapter, closely tied to the first, considers representations of Berenguela in the Latin chronicles produced around the court of Fernando III and the vernacular chronicles of the Alfonsine tradition. …”

Singing from manuscripts? Fifteenth-Century, English, secular songs with music and their reading practices by Glover, T

“…In doing so, I attempt to exonerate scribes from the blame laid on them by some music historians, who see these absences as failures rather than as occurring within the context of a more flexible relationship between page and performance than has been previously thought. …”

The many social democracies of interwar Europe: social democratic thought in the interwar period by Burston-Chorowicz, A

“…In the interwar period however, historians argue that its intellectual contours stunted. …”

Epicurus in the Enlightenment

“…This unique collaboration, bringing together historians, philosophers, political scientists and literary scholars, provides rich and varied insights into the different strategic uses of Epicureanism in the eighteenth century. …”

The sea officers: gentility and professionalism in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 by Wilson, E

“…<p>This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and cultural historians. While previous scholarship has largely ignored naval officers or treated them as equivalent, socially and professionally, to army officers or the traditional professions, the present study argues that the nature of service at sea presented challenges to officers' social status. …”

‘Extracting the essence’: Bcud len in the Tibetan literary tradition by Oliphant of Rossie, C

“…</p> <p>The teachings offer extensive material for those interested in the evolution and contemporary practice of Tibetan medicine, especially its botanical aspects, and for historians of ritual. In particular, the texts provide ample evidence of the lineage tradition in Tibetan religious culture, citing examples of transmissions through <em>gter ma</em>, whereby teachings are preserved in secret to be recovered at a future date by a <em>gter ton</em> or treasure revealer.…”

A study of the problem of work effort in British industry, 1850 to 1920 by St. John, I

“…Labour effort contributes significantly to productivity differentials, between factories and across nations, and its study thus sheds light on that slackening of Britain's economic performance which historians have detected in the late Victorian period. …”

A serendipity of mavericks: the Ratio Club and the British experience of cybernetics from 1949 to 1959 by Williams, C

“…And, although Britain was one of the first, and most important, venues for the staging of the early experience of cybernetics outside America, this also has previously been neglected by historians.</p> <br> <p>Here, I examine the initial manifestations of the cybernetics movement in post-war Britain in the period from the end of the Second World War to the staging of the Mechanisation of Thought Processes Symposium at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington in 1958. …”

Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and its effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom by McConnell, JR, Sigl, M, Plunkett, G, Burke, A, Kim, WM, Raible, C, Wilson, AI, Manning, JG, Ludlow, FM, Chellman, NJ, Innes, HM, Yang, Z, Larsen, JF, Schaefer, JR, Kipfstuhl, S, Mojtabavi, S, Wilhelms, F, Opel, T, Meyer, H, Steffensen, JP

“…Climate proxies and written documents indicate that this struggle occurred during a period of unusually inclement weather, famine, and disease in the Mediterranean region; historians have previously speculated that a large volcanic eruption of unknown origin was the most likely cause. …”

Ancestry, blood, and heredity. Attitudes towards biological descent in late medieval Tuscany, c.1250-1400 by Andrés Porras

“…In recent decades, historians have paid increasing attention to the body as a locus of experience, individuality, and identity. …”

Protestant enlightenment(s)? The origins and dissemination of enlightenment theology in Anglicanism, German Lutheranism, and Swedish Lutheranism by Laitenberger, H

“…<p>Since the early 2000s, intellectual historians have increasingly emphasised that Enlightenment and revealed religion could be reconciled, contradicting traditional depictions. …”

Moral dilemmas in English confessors’ manuals by Corran, E

“…Writings on cases of conscience – casuistry - were a feature of Catholic moral philosophy through the early modern period and into the nineteenth century, with a phase of particular notoriety in the mid-seventeenth century. To historians of the Counter-Reformation, casuistry is a familiar concept because of the abundance of writings on practical ethics produced and because the subject of casuistry played a prominent role in religious polemic. …”

The American Civil War and black colonization by Page, S, Sebastian Nicholas Page

“…<p>This is a study of the pursuit of African American colonization as a state and latterly a federal policy during the period c. 1850-65. Historians generally come to the topic via an interest in the Civil War and especially in Lincoln, but in so doing, they saddle it with moral judgment and the burden of rather self-referential debates.…”

Working-class women's diet and pregnancy in the long nineteenth century by Mauriello, T, Tani Mauriello

“…Food historians have revealed that what constituted a working-class British woman's diet in the nineteenth century was quite different in calorific and nutritional content from what her family consumed. …”

Renewing left-wing ideas in late twentieth-century Britain: Marxism Today, c. 1977-1994 by Shock, G

“…In examining the interventions made within the journal, in addition to a wide range of contemporary publications and archival material, I place the more famous essays and debates in their historical context where other historians and commentators have failed to pay due regard to the status of the journal’s articles as primary sources. …”

Aspects of social and economic change in a small market town: Moreton in Marsh 1850-1914 by Murphy, I

“…The consequent growth of large urban areas has attracted the attention of historians, at the expense of the smaller settlements, which remained important service centres for rural inhabitants. …”

The conceptual and material transformation of the villa in Aquitanica Prima from the third to seventh centuries A.D by O'Hea, M, O'Hea, Margaret

“…Whilst none of these theories are mutually exclusive, a strongly critical re-examination of the 'villa- to-village' model forms the core of this study because of the ramifications of its widespread acceptance by modern historians.</p><p>After a brief survey of the changing definitions of Aquitanica I itself, the conceptual evolution of the 'villa' will be examined; and since a reliance upon toponymy to locate late Roman and early Merovingian estates is central to the debate surrounding their nature and composition, a detailed analysis of its limitations will follow. …”

The Jesuit churches of J.J. Scoles, and the Gothic revival by Withnell, S

“…Similarly, Scoles was a major figure within the architectural profession and within Catholic architectural practice in his day, yet his contribution has been largely neglected by modern historians. More broadly, the ‘visual turn’ in global Jesuit studies has yet to focus on Jesuit church-building in England.…”

Inscribed within the image: the visual character of early Christian mosaic inscriptions by Leatherbury, S

“…These late antique Christian mosaics have been studied for their iconography, their Graeco-Roman components, and as evidence for the religious beliefs of newly-Christian patrons. However, art historians largely have ignored the ways that texts, inscribed within the visual field and composed of the same mosaic material, functioned as images in Christian spaces. …”

Proud humility: paradoxes of self-representation in Huguenot memoir by Baker, N

“…In the past, some Huguenot historians have taken such ‘ego-documents’ as entirely veridical and factual accounts, whereas I engage with the metaphors and intertextual references employed by the writers. …”