Writings on British History, 1935. A Bibliography of Books and Articles on the History of Great Britain from about 450 A.D. to 1914, published during the year 1935, with an appendix containing a select list of publications in 1935 on British history since 1914. Alexander Taylor MilneWritings on British history, 1936. A Bibliography of Books and Articles on the History of Great Britain from about 450 A.D. to 1914, published during the year 1936, with an appendix containing a select list of publications in 1936 on British history since 1914. Alexander Taylor Milne

1940 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-421
Author(s):  
F. G. Marcham
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
British History ◽  
History Of

Anglo-Irish constitutional relations in the later eighteenth century

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (53) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
J.C. Beckett
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
British History ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Basic Theme ◽  
History Of ◽  
George Iii

Few periods of Irish history have been more extensively written about than the later eighteenth century: a mere list of books and papers dealing with the Volunteer movement, ‘Grattan's parliament’, the insurrection of 1798 and the legislative union of 1800 would make up a moderate-sized volume. Most of these writings are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Indeed, it might be said that this relationship is the basic theme in the Irish history of the period, even for social and economic historians; and the pattern is so well-established that it may well seem rash to assume that it can be substantially modified, or even made significantly clearer, except, perhaps, by the production of new and hitherto unsuspected evidence. Yet there is something to be said for looking again at the whole subject on the basis of our existing knowledge, not simply, as Irish historians are inclined to do, from the standpoint of Ireland, nor yet as if events in Ireland were a mere appendage to British history, but rather, as Professor Butterfield has done for one brief period in his George III, Lord North and the people, to consider Anglo-Irish constitutional relations during the late eighteenth century as part of the general political history of the British Isles.

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1938 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
British History ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
British Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Select Bibliography ◽  
Courtauld Institute

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘Royal Historical Society. Writings on British History, 1934. A Bibliography of books and articles on the history of Great Britain from about 450 A.D. to 1914, with an Appendix containing a select list of publications in 1934 on British history since 1914’. Compiled by Alexander Taylor Milne. ‘Courtauld Institute of Art. Annual Bibliography of the History of British Art’ ‘Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments respecting North America’. Ed. Leo Francis Stock ‘The Colonial Office. A history’. By Henry L. Hall ‘A Select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland. A manual for students’. By H. G. Harrison. Phillimore ‘Dublin Historical Record’. Published quarterly by the Old Dublin Society

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte- Maure: A Translation. Translated by Glyn S. Burgess, Douglas Kelly. Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2017. Gallica, 41. 486 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
Raymond J. Cormier
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
British History ◽  
Geoffrey Of Monmouth ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
Roman De Troie ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extensive Introduction ◽  
Roman De Brut ◽  
Roman De Thebes

In his Roman de Brut (1155), the Norman Robert Wace of Caen recounts the founding of Britain by Brutus of Troy to the end of legendary British history, while adapting freely the History of the Kings of Britain (1136) by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Wace’s Brut inaugurated a new genre, at least in part, commonly known as the “romances of antiquity” (romans d'antiquité). The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Énéas, one of the three such romances dealing with themes from antiquity. These creations initiated the subjects, plots and structures of the genre, which subsequently flowered under authors such as Chrétien de Troyes. As an account of the Trojan War, Benoît’s version of necessity deals with war and its causes, how it was fought and what its ultimate consequences were for the combatants. How to explain its success? The author chose the standard and successful poetic form of the era—octosyllabic rhyming couplets; he was fond of extended descriptions; he could easily recount the intensity of personal struggles; and, above all he was fascinated by the trials and tribulations of love, a passion that affects several prominent warriors (among them Paris and his love for Helen, and Troilus and his affection for Briseida). All these elements combined to contour this romance in which events from the High Middle Ages were presented as a likeness of the poet’s own feudal and courtly spheres. This long-awaited new translation, the first into English, is accompanied by an extensive introduction and six-page outline of the work; two appendices (on common words, and a list of known Troie manuscripts); nearly twenty pages of bibliography; plus exhaustive indices of personal and geographical names and notes. As the two senior scholars assert (p. 3), By translating Benoît’s entire poem we seek to contribute to a greater appreciation of its composition and subject-matter, and thus to make available to a modern audience what medieval readers and audiences knew and appreciated.

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