Bibliographical Note — The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University

1957 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-436
Author(s):  
August C. Bolino
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Film Library ◽  
Bibliographical Note ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
American Historical Review ◽  
Saturday Review ◽  
Fruitful Research

Although the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University has been described recently in such diverse publications as the London Times, Osservatore Romano, Time, The American Historical Review, the Saturday Review and the National Geographic, it has never been explored fully by the scholarly world. The object of this article is to describe the extent of the microfilm collection at Saint Louis University, to provide some guides to the use of the manuscripts, and to indicate some possible areas of fruitful research in business and economic history.

Medieval Social and Economic History as Viewed by North American Medievalists

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 630-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibald R. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
North American ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
American Historical Review ◽  
Subsequent Discussion

The problem of how North American medievalists should deal with social and economic history is one which seems to have some importance the present time. Two recent articles in the JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY are concerned with this matter. So are two others which have just appeared in the American Historical Review and which, since they examine quantitative history in general, throw light on this problem. Because of this kind of current interest, it was decided to hold a special session devoted to social and economic history at the recent semicentennial anniversary meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America. This session was preceded by a questionnaire sent to 105 medieval historians of the United States and Canada who represented every field study, every age group, and every geographic area of this continent. Seventy replies were received and a lively discussion took place later at the meeting itself, which some thirty scholars attended. This article represents an attempt to sum up the results of both the survey and the subsequent discussion because it should be of value not only to medievalists but also to a wider body of scholars who share an interest in economic and social history in general.

The English Aristocracy, Its Crises, and the English Revolution, 1558-1660

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Hexter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
American Historical Review ◽  
York Review ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Historical Contribution

“A landmark in the historical landscape” —The Economist; “A major contribution … an impressive achievement, which must in future put all historians in his debt” —The Listener; “A remarkable achievement … an outstanding study of a very real and great value” —History; “A mammoth and marvellous book” —American Historical Review; “Immense value” —English Historical Review; “A model” —Journal of Economic History; “A major historical contribution … a magisterial and seminal work” —Journal of Modern History; “A brilliant and original contribution” —New York Review of Books; “Social history at its absolute best” —Past and Present.Such was the chorus of critical encomium that greeted the publication of Lawrence Stone'sCrisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641. Despite the chorus Stone could hardly have helped being disappointed at the actual reviews. One or two were almost as fatuous as they were brief. Others, sensible within their limits, were still too short. This seems to have been the fault of editors, so intimidated by the pejorative sense of the term “discrimination” that they refuse to discriminate between a work worth more than twenty pages and one worth less than twenty words, performing their editorial duties in the matter of book reviews with a sort of timorous and lunatic egalitarianism. Moreover, in considering Stone's work, many of the reviewers hastily plunged into what has come to be called “the gentry controversy” or “the storm over the gentry,” and some became almost totally immersed in it.

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