...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Laurie Ellinghausen The “sailor ballads” of the early British Empire employ popular song not only to investigate sailors’ hardships and victories, but to explore the character attributes of seafaring men. This article argues that the range of attitudes and concerns...

... of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 61–99. 8 For comparative studies between the British and Spanish empires, see J. E. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006); and Jorge Canizares...

... On his general map of the “British Isles,” Speed’s Theatre opens with a banner designating the title of James’s consolidated kingdom “of Great Britain and Ireland.” This founding act of imperial naming offers an appropriate beginning to the empire’s first...

... of the ideologies of empire dominant in that period, though it is uncommon for agnostic critics to say so explicitly. 5 Though it is certainly true that the philologists of the British Empire's peak were incorrect to posit that their methodologies might bring them closer to a “true” original text...

....] Sarson, Steven, ed. The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607  –   1783, Part One. With Jack P. Greene. 4 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Vol. 1 (1607  –  75): xxxx, 252 pp. Vol. 2 (1676  –  1714): 286 pp. Vol. 3 (1715  –  52): 229 pp. Vol. 4 (1753  –  63): 240 pp. $650.00...

.... Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. 329 pp. eur 36.00. O’Connor, Laura. Haunted English: The Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and De-Anglicization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xviii, 240 pp. $49.95. O’Neill, Stephen. Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renais...

..., Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii, 254 pp.; 10 figs., 6 maps. $45.00. Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. Ideas in Context, vol. 59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi, 239 pp. $54.95, paper $19.95. 674...

..., comprehensive form of direct rule that would serve as a model for the later British Empire. Several historians and literary critics have already brought to light the outpouring of Irish, Anglo-­ Irish, and New English documents that accompanied this reconquest of Ire- land, but while the policies...

.... Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Volume 1 of The Oxford History of the British Empire. William Roger Louis, gen. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xix, 533 pp. $45.00...

... information about the growth of English foreign trade in the early mod- ern period, consult Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder, and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480 – 1630 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); and Ralph Davis, English...

... beginning in the drive toward domination”19 seems to me a backward projection of the later British Empire, her indication of the fluidity of rep- resentations undergirds the present argument. I wish to extend Bartels’ argu- ment about multiple representations while...

... an equally fluid mapping of time. Empires are marked by chronologies as much as geographies. Bede, the ear- liest historian of the English church and its territorialization of the British Isles—its place-by-place marking of space by (Roman) church and mon- astery—is also the first historian to adopt...

... Davies, R. R. The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2000) 2002. x, 213 pp.; 6 maps. Paper $18.95. Dimnik, Martin. The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146–1246. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxxviii, 437 pp.; 6 maps, 17...

... on the island and built an empire there. This empire prospered for many centuries, and the Britons established a strong nation. The Angles and Saxons who came from the Continent posed the biggest resistance to British hegemony. They settled on the island, gained more and more territory, and supplemented...

... is a bibliographic resource that facili- tates a cross- disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books...

... on weaponry. Furnished burial becomes common in Britain by the sixth century, and while exhibiting interesting differences in detail British practice reveals important points of similarity with the rite of furnished burial practiced in northern Gaul. The new artistic styles and artifact forms...

... Barockforschung, vol. 41. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, for the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 2005. 560 pp. eur 98.00. Frohock, Richard. Heroes of Empire: The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1596 – 1764. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 227 pp. $46.50. Goldberg, Eric J...

... 90656 Durham, NC 27708 JMEMS@duke.edu https://jmems.trinity.duke.edu Edited by Polly Ha and Anastasia Stylianou Volume 53 / Number 1 / January 2023 Protestantism has long been identified as a unifying feature of early modern British identity. In recent years historians have...

... British legionnaire and Christian emperor outside the minster. Its presence there would not, I suspect, have puzzled Cynewulf. In his poem, the geography of political empire and thus of Christendom is portrayed from the vantage of England: the heroic figures of the poem, Constantine and Elene...

.... 5. Formations of empire, nation, and state Alexander, Julia Marciari, and Catharine MacLeod, eds. Politics, Transgres- sion, and Representation at the Court of Charles II. Studies in British Art, vol. 18. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art; London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies...