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The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages / ed. Trevor Dean

Review Date:

1 Nov 2000

In the middle of the period covered by this book, one of the most resonant accounts of urban life ever written was composed by the poet Dante. For all its startling vividness, however, Dante's evocation of the city in the Divine Comedy is not easy to interpret.

A People Apart: the Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 / David Vital

Review Date:

1 Oct 2000

Any reviewer must experience an initial sense of admiration if not awe in picking up this 900-page magnum opus.

The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Donald MacRaild

Review Date:

1 Jun 2000

This is a timely and necessary book after nearly a quarter of a century during which a steady stream of specialist monographs and articles on Irish communities in individual British towns and cities has appeared.

Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Immigrants, c.1000–c.1300 / Joseph Huffman

Review Date:

1 Feb 2000

Joseph P. Huffmans Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Immigrants, c.1000-c.1300: (Cambridge 1998) is the most recent contribution to a burgeoning field of historical scholarship, i.e. the study of Anglo-German relations in the Middle Ages. Over the last fifteen years a number of studies have appeared on the subject.