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Press, Medieval History and the International Baccalaureate Diploma.
The Davenant Press is delighted to announce that
it will be publishing materials which can be used for the new Medieval Syllabus. Some will be available in October and
others in January 2011.
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New Title!
The Victorian High Church and the era of The Great Rebellion
by
J M R Bennett
This study uses High Church books and periodicals to
examine a neglected dimension of the Victorian historical imagination.
Consciousness of the past saturated Victorian intellectual life.
Present conditions were viewed in the perspective of what had gone before; and the past, or the present, accordingly found
wanting. Totemic episodes in British history pressed in closely upon the participants in contemporary political and religious
controversy. The seventeenth century was rich in provocation: the reign of Charles I; the civil war; the rule of Oliver Cromwell;
the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution all inspired, in various ways, present-minded applause or denunciation.
Historians
have studied a number of aspects of the Victorian reaction to this heritage. Thomas Carlyle’s reverence for Oliver Cromwell
is well-known. The complexities of the Whig version of the English past, and the changing responses of non-conformists to
the political behaviour of their ancestors, have been sensitively explored. But one side of the argument – in some ways,
the side that lost it - has been overlooked. Victorian High Churchmen, of differing hues, were no less voluble in appraising
the seventeenth-century past than were Whig or Dissenting historians. The fortunes of the Church of England and the health
of national religion, rather than an idea of English progress towards modern liberty, supplied the predominant organising
principle of their interest in the Stuart age. High Churchmen tended to share a focus, but reached diverse conclusions. Archbishop
Laud was judged by some to have been an Erastian or Romanising force in the English church: by others as the man responsible
for its revivification. Attitudes towards Cromwell and non-conformity differed. The urgently polemical tenor of early Victorian
histories mellowed as the century progressed.
These divergences reveal something of how High Churchmen understood the Church of England and the world around
them.
ISBN 978-1-85944-033 9 Publication September 2010
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New Title!
The Manchester School of Zionism, 1910-1917 Chaim Weizmann and The
Balfour Declaration by
Josh Glancy
ISBN 978-1-85944-032 2 Publication
February 2011
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‘False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence’
George
Duke of Clarence 1449-1478
Michael
Hicks Professor of History, University of Winchester
For full details of this title please go to the Monograph Page.
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William
de Longchamp
David
Balfour Lecturer
, College of St. Joseph, Vermont USA
Preface Ralph Turner,Florida State University
Bishop,
papal legate, chief justiciar, chancellor - and when Richard I was on a crusade, William de Longchamp was
Regent. Loyal to the king and hated and envied by many, he was deposed and exiled after clashes with Prince John and the magnates
who sought control in the king’s absence. This study presents a re-assessment of a controversial figure and examines
the life of William and the Angevin context in which he worked until his death in 1197.
ISBN 978-1-85944-007-0 July
2010 £19.99
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The Tudor Court
David Loades
Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, Honorary Research Professor, University of Sheffield Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford For full
details of this title please go to the Monograph Page.
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Neil Samman formerly University
of Wales Bangor
Preface by David
Loades
(Illustration by kind permission
of The National Archives, Kew) For full details of this title please go to the Monograph
Page.
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Josh Glancy is the first author to be commissioned in this Twentieth
Anniversary year. He is writing a paperback -
Slavery and the American Civil War
ISBN 978-1-85944-021-6 £6.99 October
2010
Josh Glancy read History at Balliol
College, Oxford. He was awarded the prestigious Gibbs Prize and is now a journalist on the Sunday Times writing
on cultural and historical subjects.
Illustrations from the Beauchamp Chapel St.Mary’s
Church Warwick (www.stmaryswarwick.org.uk) are provided by kind permission of RJL Smith & Associates Rowan Studios Farley Much Wenlock Shropshire TF13 6PE
Tel. (01952) 727255 Email: rjl.smith@btinternet.com
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TWENTY YEARS OF PUBLISHING
1990-2010
Judith Loades launched her first publishing company in 1990 with
MONASTIC STUDIES, a journal MEDIEVAL HISTORY and the first in the Pamphlet Series, THOMAS CROMWELL by Professor Sir Geoffrey
Elton, Clare College, University of Cambridge. That company was sold in 2000 and 'The Davenant Press'
was launched. New editions were printed and new titles and new series launched. During 2010 The Davenant
Press will be making special offers to customers over the last 20 years as well as offers to NEW customers. Orders and enquiries can be made by:-
Tel: to my new number: (01865) 292148 Fax: (01993) 824129 Email: Judith@history.u-net
.com
OR
By post to:
The Davenant Press PO BOX 323 Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4XN Great Britain
Judith Loades
For details of
new academic titles:- William
de Longchamp by David Balfour, Henry VIII and his progresses by Neil Samman, False Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence by Michael
Hicks please visit the Monograph page
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