Publisher's Synopsis
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers, and by winners of the Society's prizes. Volume 28 commemorates 150 years of Royal Historical Society publishing, and includes the following articles: 'Alive - And Still Kicking: The RHS at 150'; 'Formalising Aristocratic Power in Royal acta in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century France and Scotland'; 'Castles and the Militarisation of Urban Society in Imperial Japan'; 'Buildings, Landscapes and Regimes of Materiality'; 'The Rise and Fall (?) of America's Neoliberal Order'; 'Sacred Landscape, Spiritual Travel: Embodied Holiness and Long-Distance Pilgrimage in the Catholic Reformation'; 'The Woman to the Plow and the Man to the Hen-Roost': Wives, Husbands and Best-selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England'; and 'Anti-Socialism, Liberalism and Individualism: Rethinking the Realignment of Scottish Politics, 1945-1970'.
