...This chapter examines the emergence of expulsion as a political practice in England. It considers the shifting logics that inspired and justified the forced removal of Jews and foreigners from the accession of Henry II in the mid-twelfth century through the long reign of his grandson Henry III...

... events and social movements in America. It also explores the religion of the period through the New England Puritans and Pennsylvania Quakers, as well as the psychology of crowds. To conclude, the chapter discusses the body of writings and speeches by Edmund Burke on colonial policy and on general...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the English economy from 1300 to about 1820. It acknowledges England as one of the major pioneers of economic development. The 1820–1914 period, which saw accelerated growth and a massive further expansion of trade, covers an era when...

... of wealth was in land so the evolution of landed property rights is central to an understanding of the process of economic development in England. The chapter discusses the key concepts of land surrounding the Black Death, the development of land tenure, Reformation, Civil Wars, and mortgage laws...

...This chapter examines Sir Thomas Smith's account of political development in the form of a description of the Elizabethan state in his De Republica Anglorum. More specifically, it considers Smith's suggestion that England was a society of orders of the sort that Carlo Sigonio had...

... Thomas Crofton Emmet Robert Fenianism Molly Maguires Religious Society of Friends Rockites Russell Lord John Whiteboys Young Ireland Clarendon Lord Encumbered Estates Act 1849 Punch Curtis Perry L Perry Curtis Jr Mahon Major Denis Victoria queen of England Ford Patrick Irish Americans...

...' worth of political dispute and interreligious negotiation, as the legal privileges associated with established religion have been diluted. Yet it has taken on a particular salience in recent years, one which can be dated to a seismic shift in England's regulation of religion: English law's transition...

...Over the past two decades, a growing number of Christians in England have gone to court to enforce their right to religious liberty. Funded by conservative lobby groups and influenced by the legal strategies of their American peers, these claimants — registrars who conscientiously object...

...This chapter examines how reformation unfolded in England. A tiny number of people acted on the imperative to quit the state church. Why did others who wanted reform or reformation not follow their example? As often happened in early modern Europe, outbursts of radicalism prompted a reaction...

..., had it imposed on them by crown authorities, or were, either by choice or assignment, encouraged to accept the port. abjurations clergy England jurisdiction language abjurers property abjurers and exiles individual coroners crimes minors travel Cox J Charles Dover gangs pilgrims...

...This chapter focuses on the village of Wissant in France, which was, until the mid-fourteenth century, a critical link in maintaining regular contact between England and the continent. It was an emporium, with ties to cloth towns such as Ypres. It was also a staging point for troops needing naval...

...Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic...

... Magnalia Christi Americana, which describes an increasing sense toward the end of the seventeenth century of the importance of geography, of the position of New England in relation to the rest of the world. It also analyzes the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, Timothy Dwight, and Richard Alsop...

... Christianity in contemporary England, and to the difficulties faced by those who insist that their faith must go public: the challenge of rendering Christianity legible not only to law and politics, but to the individual men and women who are subject to these worldly institutions. Bible college communicative...

... in which Christianity is valued as an aspect of heritage, but rejected as a living faith. Those looking to protect England's Christian heritage are, in part, responding to social and demographic changes beyond their control: increasing ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity; decreasing adherence...

..., introduced and explained in lectures and in the question-and-answer sessions Catlin held. How did these Indians interpret England? The evidence is somewhat limited, since it must come largely from Catlin's words, in the book he published about his years in England and Europe. In conveying Indian voices...

... the construction of a literary genealogy that connects ancient Greece to Augustan Rome to early modern England. Ovid's tale of Orpheus passes through Sappho so as to transmit what Longinus terms the “nervous force” of the sublime to readers of the Metamorphoses. It then considers how...

...This chapter investigates how patterns of “Machiavellian” thought became operative in England, and at a later period in colonial and revolutionary America. Moreover, the chapter tackles the problem of England, in which there occurred in that culture nothing like the relatively simple options...

... monarchy of Restoration England. The moment at which this began to happen can be conveniently located at—and in fact has not yet been traced much earlier than—the year 1675, in which also Hale died and the controversy over the feudal origins of parliament began again to get under way. The first known...

...This book examines the development of the Marian cult in Anglo-Norman England, a period covering the years 1066–1154, focusing on the underlying desire and considerable effort toward increasing devotion to the Virgin Mary. It shows how Mary's saintly identity was shaped as two sides of one coin...