Reconstructing Kirkstead Abbey,Lincolnshire: The Charters,Earthworks and Architecture of a Lost Cistercian House

Kirkstead abbey, in the Witham Valley of Lincolnshire, is a little-known but highly significant Cistercian house, both for its early history and architecture, and for the fact that it was treated unusually on being one of the monasteries seized by the Crown for the treason of its president after the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536. Substantially ruined and poorly preserved above ground, recent study has questioned its traditional interpretation. Its standing remains are sparse but extremely informative; its site at least partly marked by earthworks; and its home estate can be reconstructed from a late 13th-century cartulary and a remarkable series of loose charters.     

The Peruvian ‘Revolution’ Considered

D. Chaplin (ed): Peruvian Nationalism, a Corporatist Revolution A. Lowenthal (ed): The Peruvian Experiment, Continuity and Change under Military Rule E.V.K. Fitzgerald: The State and Economic Development, Peru since 1968 BENEFICIARIES: INTENDED, IMAGINED OR REAL Group versus/or class solidarity     

清代的国史馆及其修史制度

清代国史馆 ,是纂修清朝历史的常设机构 ,从康熙二十九年 (16 90 )正式设立 ,到宣统三年 (1911)被北洋政府接管 ,2 0 0多年间 ,国史馆先后纂修大量的各朝纪、志、传、表及大清一统志、皇清奏议等史籍。形成了一整套行之有效的修史制度、编纂程序和对修史人员的管理方法 ,这些制度和方法对我们今天的史学研究和准备开展的纂修大型清史工作 ,不无裨益。     

Indigenous Island Empires: Yap and Tonga Considered

The indigenous social‐political‐economic spheres whose nexuses were located, respectively, in Yap and Tonga, and which included adjacent islands and archipelagoes, are frequently referred to as ‘empires’. This work summarises and examines historical and ethnographic data on these two cases, and then compares them both with one another and with more general concepts of empire. While stressing that these instances only remotely resemble modern empires, it concludes that for broader comparative purposes the Yap and Tonga spheres can usefully be termed empires.     

The Non-Jurors and their History

This paper is concerned to establish and elucidate the intellectual distinctiveness of the Anglican Non-Jurors of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. It places the Non-Jurors in the context of the early Counter-Enlightenment and finds their distinctiveness within it, as a body, in the extent and intensity of their commitment to rationalist, critical historical study as a theological method, reflecting a primitivist, or more precisely, restorationist religious stance. The writings of Charles Leslie and Jeremy Collier are those chiefly used in exemplification. The concluding part of the study enquires into the sources of the Non-Jurors' confidence in the value of historical argument in controversy. It points particularly to the Non-Jurors' use of the practices of contemporary historiography, which regulated the application of rationalism by requiring concurrent application of doctrinal and moral standards.     

地方史研究在国史研究中的地位与作用

地方史研究与国史研究同为历史研究的组成部分 ,是局部与整体、个性与共性的关系 ,地方史的研究是开展国史研究的基础和前提。现在在国史、地方史的研究质量、深度、范围上仍存在许多不尽人意的地方 ,如何把国史、地方史研究向纵深方向推进 ,是国史、地方史研究人员同样面临的问题