Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent, by PrendergastThomas A. and TriggStephanie (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018; pp. 154. £80).

Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes, ed. BoultonMeg and BintleyMichael D.J. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019; pp. 279. £60).

Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500, by PhippsTeresa (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 232. £80).

Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa. By LovejoyPaul E. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019; pp. 312. £36.99);

Papal Jurisprudence, c.400: Sources of the Canon Law Tradition, by d’AvrayD.L. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; pp. 302. £75).

Historians have recently recognised that, for the United Kingdom, the Second World War was an imperial and international conflict, not a national war.11 This conclusion is beginning to supersede the national reading previously dominant in twentieth- and early twenty-first century historical scholarship. This article explores the process by which the war first came to be seen as national. This did not

Urbanization in Viking Age and Medieval Denmark: From Landing Place to Town, by CorsiMaria R.D. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020; pp. 263. €98.99).

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625–1642, by KeenanSiobhan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 272. £60).

Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, by BeusterienJohn (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020; pp. 254. €99).

English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy Company, 1603–1649, by ArelMaria Salomon (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019; pp. 362. $121).

Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Clegg-HyerMaren and Owen-CrockerGale R. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020; pp. 336. £80).

Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066, ed. AsheLaura and WardEmily Joan (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 440. £70).

The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement, by MatzkoPaul (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. . £22.99).

The Birth of the Archive: A History of Knowledge, by FriedrichMarkus, tr. DillonJohn Noël (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 296. $75).

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in Medieval Ireland, by YoungFrancis (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020; pp. 190. €45).

1652: The Cardinal, the Prince and the Crisis of the Fronde, by ParrottDavid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 336. £65).

The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative, by SpaceyBeth C. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 214. £60).

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. DaviesMichael, Dunan-PageAnne and HalcombJoel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 240. £69).

Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier: Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century, by KurelićRobert (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019; pp. viii + 232. €75).

Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, ed. DownesStephanie, HollowaySally and RandlesSarah (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. 270. £73).

Petitions from Lincolnshire, c.1200–c.1500, ed. DoddGwilym and HardyAlison K., with LiddyLisa (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for Lincoln Record Society, 2020; pp. lxiv + 375. £40).

Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture, by BarkerJessica (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 354. £50).

The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Carolingian Milan, by BalzarettiRoss (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019; pp. xvii + 640. €130).

The Moral Economy of the Countryside: Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England, by FaithRosamond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. 235. £59.99).

Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century, by JonesPeter J.A. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 211. £60).

Britain’s Black Past, ed. GerzinaGretchen H. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020; pp. 400. £24.95).

Franco’s Internationalists: Social Experts and Spain’s Search for Legitimacy, by BrydanDavid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 204. £60).

The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968–1998, by ScullMargaret M. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 236. £65).

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, by BemporadElissa (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 238. £47.99).

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al’Dīn: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Anonymous Libellus de Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, ed. BrewerKeagan and KaneJames H. (London: Routledge, 2019; pp. xx + 278. £120).

The State versus the People: Revolutionary Justice in Russia’s Civil War, 1917–1922, by RendleMatthew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 336. £65).

The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem. With an Edition and Translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (BAV Reg. Lat. 712), by OftestadEivor Andersen (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019; pp. 276. ₤75).

Learning Languages in Early Modern England, by GallagherJohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 274. £60).

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945–1989, by MoodySimon J. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 256. £65).

This article transports the reader imaginatively into the early modern sickchamber, a space that has rarely attracted much historiographical attention. Focusing on England c.1600–1720, it reconstructs the patient’s sensory and emotional experiences of this environment. To do so, a material culture approach is adopted, which involves the analysis of six objects from the sickroom: a physic vessel, bedcurtains

AbstractThe importance of overseas trade to England’s national wealth and international reputation in the eighteenth century amplified the public discourse on the social value of merchants. Contemporary conduct books described a hierarchical occupational structure, where merchants enjoyed the highest prestige within the business community, with tradesmen and manufacturers performing distinct and progressively

AbstractThis article argues that the historical writings of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) can also be used by scholars examining the political history of the Eastern Roman Empire in the seventh and eighth centuries. Although Byzantinists have increasingly drawn upon texts written in Syriac, Arabic, and other eastern languages in their scholarship, sources composed in the post-Roman West have yet to be

Lutheran Theology and the Shaping of Society: The Danish Monarchy as Example, ed. HolmBo Kristian and KoefoedNina J. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018; pp. 365. €64.99).

Autumntide of the Middle Ages: A Study of Forms of Life and Thought of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in France and the Low Countries. By HuizingaJohan. Translated by WebbDiane. Edited by SmallGraeme and van der LemAnton (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020; pp. 616. €62.50);

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 stimulated within a context of ideological assumptions about the inalienability of the lands and rights thought to pertain to the Crown by contemporaries, as

Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society, ed. WinklerEmily A., FitzgeraldLiam and SmallAndrew (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 256. £60).

The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187, by MortonNicholas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 320. £60).

The Seigneurial Transformation: Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080–1130, by FioreAlessio, tr. KnipeSergio (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 320. £65).

Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State, by MirsepassiAli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; pp. 242. £74.99).

A History of Southern Africa, by MlamboAlois S. and ParsonsNeil (London: Macmillan International Higher Education and Red Globe Press, 2019; pp. 287. £66.99).

The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900, ed. RodgerTom, WilliamsonPhilip and GrimleyMatthew (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 340. £70).

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, by Cox RichardsonHeather (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 256. £18.99).

Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, by VaronElizabeth R. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. 520. £22.99).

Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica, by HarrisDawn P. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017, pb. 2020; pp. 274. Hb. $59.95, pb. $32.95).

Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania by Erica RhodesHayden (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019; pp. 256. $94.95).

The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire, ed. SirotaBrent S. and MacinnesAllan I. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019; pp. 235. £65).

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918, ed. BaumeisterMartin, LenhardPhilipp and NattermannRuth (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020; pp. 444. £110).

Electric News in Colonial Algeria, by AsserafArthur (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 256. £65).

Conceived in Crisis: The Revolutionary Creation of an American State, by PearlChristopher R. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020; pp. 320. $49.50).

Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680–1830, by LiveseyJames (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020; pp. 214. £35).

The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution, by ForrestAlan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 352. £35).

Swansea Copper: A Global History, by EvansChris and MiskellLouise (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020; pp. 242. £40.50).

George III: Majesty and Madness, by BlackJeremy (London: Allen Lane, 2020; pp. 129. £14.99).

The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979–97, by MasseyChristopher (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 296. £80).

Durch den eisernen Vorhang: Die Ära Brandt und das Ende des Kalten Kriegs, by NiedhartGottfried (Darmstadt: wbg Theiss, 2019, pp. 304. €28).