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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1, Beginnings and Consolidation 1640-1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2023

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1, Beginnings and Consolidation 1640-1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2023

Book notes: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3, Competition and Disruption, 1900–2017 by Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham (Editors)

Book notes: <i>The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3, Competition and Disruption, 1900–2017</i> by Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham (Editors)

Guy Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC. The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2020

Article Guy Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC. The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2020 was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 2).

A New Edinburgh History Volume on Early Rome (on G. Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginning of the City and the Rise of the Republic)

A New Edinburgh History Volume on Early Rome (on G. Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginning of the City and the Rise of the Republic)

Review of David Finkelstein, ed., &lt;i&gt;The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900&lt;/i&gt; (2020)

Review of David Finkelstein, ed., The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 (2020)

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900–2017, edited by Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900–2017, edited by Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham

The Edinburgh History of Reading: a review essay

<i>The Edinburgh History of Reading</i>: a review essay

Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds. The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xii + 364 pp. + color pls. £125.

Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds. The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xii + 364 pp. + color pls. £125. - Volume 74 Issue 2

David Finkelstein, ed, The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900

This hefty volume should be present in each university library, as a precious, and indispensable tool for students and scholars who investigate not only the British and Irish nineteenth-century press, but Victorian culture and technology, visual studies, advertisement and, generally, the complex and evolving relationship between Victorian readers and printed information. The volume is part of an impressive project that will also include The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vo...

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 ed. by David Finkelstein, and: The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Elizabeth Tilley

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 ed. by David Finkelstein, and: The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Elizabeth Tilley

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene, and: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 by Nükhet Varlik, and: Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England by Anders Ingram

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene, and: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 by Nükhet Varlik, and: Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England by Anders Ingram

Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson (eds), The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland

Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson (eds), <i>The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland</i>

The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland, ed. Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson

The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland, ed. Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson

In Memoriam: Angus Mackay, 1939–2016

In Memoriam:Angus Mackay, 1939–2016 Teófilo F. Ruiz Angus MacKay was a scholar of unique insights and generosity. He was also an engaging and selfless friend. His death on 29 October 2016 represents an immense loss to those who work on European medieval literature and history in general and that of the Iberian Middle Ages in particular. His absence is also one deeply felt by the many of us who knew him personally; who benefitted from his capacious intellect; and with whom he so gracefully shared his knowledge and bonhomie. Born in Lima in 1939, the child of missionary parents (originally from one of the rugged islands on the west coast of Scotland) who had followed their religious calling in rural areas of Peru, Angus' early love for Spanish history and literature may be traced to those early years in South America. A student of the fabled Denis Hays at the University of Edinburgh, he taught for four years at the University of Reading, before joining the University of Edinburgh and succeeding Hays to the prestigious chair in medieval history in 1986. Edinburgh's history Department was in the [End Page 5] 1980s and 90s (and remains) one of the leading centers for medieval studies, having then a veritable scholarly Pleiades – Angus Mackay, Robert Bartlett, Roger Collins, Anthony Goodman (who also died in 2016), and many others. Angus and his colleagues advanced new and bold ideas about the role of the frontier in medieval society, as evidenced in his co-edited volume with Robert Bartlett, Medieval Frontier Societies (Oxford University Press, 1989). This interest in frontiers, or liminal spaces between two distinct worlds, was evident early in his career. MacKay wrote one of the most insightful interpretative general histories of Spanish medieval history, Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000–1500 (St. Martin's Press, 1977). It remains one of the most original depictions of the longue durée of medieval Spanish history. Yet, while he could do the broad interpretative work, as few are able to do, Angus Mackay could also write the focused monograph that, anchored on a trove of hitherto unexplored archival sources, dealt with the always complex and difficult task of discussing monetary policy, religious persecution, and other topics. This was surely the case with his Money, Prices, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Castile (Royal Historical Society, 1981). I had the honor and pleasure to review this book many years ago and thought that it was exemplary in its deployment of archival material, its interpretative trust, and its capacious unraveling of the messy nature of medieval Castilian coinage and economy during the crises of the late medieval period. Moving between broad interpretations and case studies, Angus Mackay's work was also notable for three additional aspects. First, Angus was specially sensitivity to literary sources and to literary studies. He was a historian who mined literary texts and who deployed literary methodologies, as all historians should do, to illuminate historical issues. He was as much at home with medieval Castilian literary texts as he was with historical ones. His numerous articles on Castilian literature, published together with Geraldine McKendrick and Vikki Hatton, or as it was evident in his classic, "The Ballad and the Frontier in Late Medieval Spain" (published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies in 1976) reiterated the connection between frontier and literature. [End Page 6] Second, Angus authored, among many articles and presentations, several monographic essays that had become classic contributions to our understanding of Castilian medieval history. Following his influential articles on anti-Jewish and converso violence, "Popular Movements and Pogroms in Fifteenth-Century Castile" (Past & Present, 1972), in the next decade and within the short span of two years, MacKay published three seminal articles on Castilian social history that have remained the standard for excellence in the field. They were, in chronological order, his authoritative "Ciudad y campo en la Europa medieval" (Studia historica 1984), providing the historiographical and interpretative framework for our understanding of the relationship between city and country and the social and economic links between rural and urban. This was followed by his impressive "Ritual and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century Castile" (Past & Present 1985...

A History of Edinburgh'S Medical Museums

Edinburgh has a wealth of medical collections, thanks not only to its role in the Enlightenment and the diaspora of graduates from the large medical school, but also to recent developments in medical heritage. Concentrating on the collections of the University of Edinburgh's Anatomy Department and Surgeons' Hall Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, this paper charts the complex and connected histories of the material culture of anatomy, pathology and surgery in the city. What roles did museums play, from their 18th century origins to their 21st century resurgence, and who used them?

The Edinburgh history of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: the Ottoman Empire

Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The period of Ottoman rule in Greek history has undergone a dramatic reassessment in recent years. Long reviled as four hundred years of unrelieved slavery and barbarity ('the Turkish yoke'), a new generation of scholars, based mainly but not exclusively in Greece, is rejecting this view in favor of a more nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman Empire. This volume considers this new scholarship, most of it in Greek, and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience. Molly Greene also discusses the changing views of the Ottoman Empire more generally and assesses what this changing historiography can tell us about this period in Greek history. The book begins with the conventional date of 1453, the fall of Constantinople, and includes debates over the extent to which 1453 represented a real break with the past. The volume ends with the Russo Ottoman War of 1768 - 1774, which brought to an end the relative peace and stability of the Ottoman eighteenth century and helped to usher in the nationalist movements in the region. It covers the period from the fall of Constantinople to the Russo Ottoman War; It assesses new scholarship on the period and synthesises this for the reader; the fate of the 1,000 year Byzantine heritage; the millet system and Ottoman society; the connections between the Greek population and other members of Ottoman society and the Greeks in a European context.

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene

Reviewed by: The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene Phokion Kotzageorgis (bio) Molly Greene, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2015. Pp. 239. 6 figures, 2 maps. Paper $49.95. Following the recent publication in Greek of Petros Pizanias’s history of Greece from 1400 to 1821 (Pizanias 2014), the present work comes to provide a fresh historical account of a period generally unexplored by contemporary historians. As part of The Edinburgh History of the Greeks series, Molly Greene’s book aims to provide a history of the Greek people and not of Greece in geographical terms. It also takes into account the latest findings on the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the period, employing the methodological tools of other disciplines apart from historiography. The result is intended to provide an innovative and exciting approach to the history of the period. In a study that extends beyond the chronological limits specified in the title, the author devotes two chapters to each of the four centuries involved, basing her analysis on basic themes for each century. The subtitle, “The Ottoman Empire,” prepares the reader for a history of the Greeks in Ottoman lands and not those of the diaspora or in Venetian-occupied territories. The narrative begins with “Thessaly” (the title of chapter 1), because, in Greene’s opinion, it was there that the Ottomans first established—at least as far as the Greek [End Page 410] lands are concerned—their new form of society. Thessaly also provides a useful insight into how the various Greek communities were formed. Through this attention paid to the Thessaly region, the author touches on issues relating to the early appearance and expansion of the Ottomans in the Balkans, such as the enlistment of Christians into the Ottoman armed groups, the special categories of taxes levied in the villages, the negotiating power of the monasteries, the formation of towns, and the protection of Christian urban and rural areas by patrons or benefactors (vakıfs, metropolitans, guilds). As she does throughout the book, Greene focuses on the Greeks through a narrative discourse that takes in both the Muslim perspective and the broader Christian reality in the Balkans. Chapter 2, “From Constantinople to Istanbul,” revolves around the Fall of Constantinople. After analyzing the relationships between the Byzantines, the Church, and the sultan, the author goes on to discuss the identifying terms Roman/Rum and Greek/Hellene. She contends that regionalism, which resulted from the political fragmentation of the Greek lands before and after the Fall, is the key point for interpreting the preeminence of the religious meaning of the term Roman/Rum over the political nuance it had during the Byzantine era. Rejecting the view that a sense of Greekness was already in existence by 1204, Greene claims that there was neither any national sentiment attached to the Greek language nor any support for the notion of a common descent from the ancient Greeks apart from in the Byzantine capital and amongst the Christian elites. Continuing along the same line of reasoning, the author notes her intention to study Hellenism “as a project rather than a reality” (53) and to ascertain where and why it succeeded or failed. In chapter 3, “Christians in an Islamic Empire,” posing an unusually phrased research question, the author asks how it was possible for a powerful Greek elite to continue to exist in Constantinople and for the Greeks to prosper in various fields of activity during the sixteenth century, when the Ottoman Empire was Islamicized and a different form of religious orthodoxy was imposed by the ruling power. The relative peace and stability that prevailed in the Ottoman world is put forward as a possible answer to this singular question. The author lays emphasis on the wave of conversions to Islam in the towns, a phenomenon she believes can be explained by the migrations to these places. Also, she challenges the view that the towns were dominated by Muslims, emphasizing their strong, if not dominant, Greek cultural character. Continuing with the sixteenth century in chapter 4, “The Larger Greek World,” the...

Nathan Rosenstein, Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC. The Imperial Republic. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2012

Nathan Rosenstein, Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC. The Imperial Republic. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2012

Gill Plain. Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar, and “Peace.” Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series, Vol. 5. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 300. $120.00 (cloth).

Gill Plain. Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar, and “Peace.” Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series, Vol. 5. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 300. $120.00 (cloth).

J. S. Richardson, Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14. The Restoration of the Republic and the Establishment of the Empire. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2012

J. S. Richardson, Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14. The Restoration of the Republic and the Establishment of the Empire. (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2012