Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Sixth Series

by Corporate Author Royal Historical Society

• ISBN13: 9780521772860
• ISBN10: 0521772869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume nine of the sixth series takes the theme 'oral history, memory and written tradition' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by P. J. Marshall, 'Thatcherism: an historical perspective' by E. H. H. Green and 'Making the most of memories: the empirical and subjective value of oral history' by Alistair Thompson.

Table of Contents

Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: II, Britons and Americans	1	(16)
P. J. Marshall
Thatcherism: An Historical Perspective	17	(26)
E. H. H. Green
General de Gaulle and His Enemies: Anti-Gaullism in France since 1940	43	(24)
Julian Jackson
The Politics of English Bible Translation in Georgian Britain (The Alexander Prize)	67	(26)
Neil W. Hitchin
Narratives of Triumph and Rituals of Submission: Charlemagne's Mastering of Bavaria	93	(28)
Stuart Airlie
The Middle Ages Through Modern Eyes. A Historical Problem (The Prothero Lecture)	121	(22)
Otto Gerhard Oexle
Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century	143	(18)
Nuala Zahedieh
ORAL HISTORY, MEMORY AND WRITTEN TRADITION
Oral History, Memory and Written Tradition: An Introduction	161	(8)
Patricia M. Thane
Land, Language and Memory in Europe 700--1100	169	(16)
Patrick J. Geary
Remembering, Forgetting and Inventing: Attitudes to the Past in England at the End of the First Viking Age	185	(16)
Sarah Foot
Gender and Authority of Oral Witnesses in Europe (800--1300)	201	(20)
Elisabeth van Houts
Memory and Tradition in Sienese Political Life in the Fifteenth Century	221	(12)
Christine Shaw
Remembering the Past in Early Modern England: Oral and Written Tradition	233	(24)
Adam Fox
Custom and the Social Organization of Writing in Early Modern England	257	(14)
Andy Wood
Resiting French Resistance	271	(12)
H. R. Kedward
Anthropology, History and Personal Narratives; Reflections on Writing `African Voices, African Lives'	283	(8)
Pat Caplan
Making the Most of Memories: The Empirical and Subjective Value of Oral History	291	(14)
Alistair Thomson
MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES
The `Crusader' Community at Antioch: The Impact of Interaction with Byzantium and Islam	305	(22)
T. S. Asbridge
At the Margin of Community: Germans in Pre-Hussite Bohemia	327	(26)
Leonard E. Scales
Report of Council for 1998--1999	353	(7)
Officers and Council 1999	360	(7)
Publications of the Royal Historical Society	367