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By-Employments in Early Modern England and Their Significance for Estimating Historical Male Occupational Structures
(Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, 2017-03-31)Based on the evidence from probate inventories, by-employments have generally been presumed ubiquitous amongst early modern Englishmen. This would appear to present a significant problem for estimates of the contemporary ... -
William of Malmesbury and fortuna
The great Benedictine historian William of Malmesbury has divided scholarly interpretation over recent decades. For some, William was a precocious scholarly talent who steered around or subverted the constraining absurdities ... -
Relics, writing, and memory in the English Counter Reformation: Thomas Maxfield and his afterlives
(2018-05-01)This article explores the multiple and competing afterlives of the Jacobean martyr, Thomas Maxfield, who was executed at Tyburn in July 1616. It traces the evolution of his cult between the seventeenth and twenty-first ... -
Toleration, Pluralism, and Coexistence: The Ambivalent Legacies of the Reformation
(2017-10-26)One of the enduring myths of the origins of modern Western liberalism to which we still cling, albeit unconsciously, is the tradition of linking the Reformation with the rise of toleration. The notion that Protestantism ...
