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Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, D. J. (2012). Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire. In T. Devine, & J. Wormald (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0023

The revitalization of Scottish history in the 1960s reawakened scholarly interest in overseas connections that had lain more or less dormant since the 1930s. As a result, eighteenth-century Scots have appeared as Virginian tobacco merchants, Jamaican... Read More about Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire.

The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008 (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008. In S. Fast, & K. Pegley (Eds.), Music, Politics, and Violence (60-82). Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press

© 2012 Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. An essay by Dubravka Ugrešic tells the story of the singer "Neda U.," who "came from Sarajevo, and her songwriter, N., [who] came from Zagreb." Neda "became⋯ a Serb" during the war in Croatia whe... Read More about The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008.

La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir (2011)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2011). La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir. Chevalerie et christianisme aux xiie et xiiie siècles (123 - 135). Presses Universitaires de Rennes

A study of the degree of spirituality and religious practice exhibited by the mid-thirteenth century poet and novelist, Philippe de Remy (d.c. 1263), particularly looking at his poetry and his romance, La Manekine (c. 1239).  It examines the ort... Read More about La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir.

Cannons and constitutions (2011)
Book Chapter
Prior, C. W. (2011). Cannons and constitutions. In C. W. A. Prior, & G. Burgess (Eds.), England's Wars of Religion, Revisted (101-124). Farnham: Ashgate

This chapter examines how the introduction of new ecclesiastical Canons in 1640 touched off a debate among writers who made a direct link between religion and liberty. 

The Warenne family and its status in the kingdom of England (2011)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2011). The Warenne family and its status in the kingdom of England. Princely rank in late medieval Europe : trodden paths and promising avenues (281 - 307). Jan Thorbecke Verlag

An examination of the degree of status awarded a dynasty of English earls from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the interaction between royal power and princely power in England

Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) (2010)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2010). Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962). In D. L. Madsen (Ed.), Native authenticity: Transnational perspectives on Native American literary studies (103-122). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press

Due to his Indian ancestry, the Canadian poet Frank James Prewett was nicknamed "Toronto" by the illustrious literary friends he met while recovering in England following his service in World War I. Those friends included Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sa... Read More about Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962).