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A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IVof Scotland. Although we know a great deal about these two formidable sixteenth-century kings, we understand very little about how their two queens contributed to their reigns. How did these young, foreign women become effective and trusted consorts, and powerful political figures in their own right? This book argues that Catherine and Margaret's performance of queenship combined medieval queenly virtues with the new opportunities for influence and power offered by Renaissance court culture. Royal rituals such as childbirth and the Royal Maundy, courtly spectacles such as tournaments, banquets and diplomatic summits, or practices such as arranged marriages and gift-giving, were all moments when Catherine and Margaret could assert their honour, status and identity as queens. Their husbands' support for their activities at court helped bring them the influence and patronage necessary to pursue their ownpolitical goals and obtain favour and rewards for their servants and followers. Situating Catherine and Margaret's careers within the history of the royal courts of England and Scotland and amongst their queenly peers, this book reveals these two queens as intimately connected agents of political influence and dynastic power. MICHELLE BEER is an independent researcher working in Oakland, California.

Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources.

The Anglo-Scottish union crisis is used to demonstrate the growing influence of popular opinion in this period.

A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland.

Relations between town and crown in late medieval England examined through two of its most important towns, Bristol and York.

A study of the debate over the control of civic charities during the era of municipal reform.

Shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients.

A vivid account of the nature and significance of intense female spirituality in one of England's greatest medieval cities.

A radical new approach to the political speeches delivered during this period.

First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.

London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life

An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain.

A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.

A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time.

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.

A study of the differing views of the conscript based on evidence along the eastern border of France. The popular idea of the swaggering military folk-hero, a potent image for the peasant-conscript, contrasts with the elitist view of conscription as "the nation in arms".

A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the elderly.

A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality.

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Reformation.

An examination of how trade and commerce were viewed from the "outside", in a period of vast change.

An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time.

The first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement.

The Reform Act of 1832 is shown to have politicised the electorate at all levels, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians.

The influence of the Moravian Church on the missionary awakening in England and its contribution to the movement's nature and vitality.

Examines the relationship between the British left and national identity in socialism's formative years.