Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 21 Sixth Series [Hardcover]

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. This collection is volume twenty-one of the sixth series.Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. This collection is volume twenty-one of the sixth series.The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume twenty-one of the sixth series includes the following articles: French Crossings: II. Laughing over Boundaries; Thinking in Byzantium; Why Were Some Tenth-Century English Kings Presented as Rulers of Britain; The Reformation of the Generations: Youth, Age and Religious Change in England, c.15001700; Markets and Cultures: Medical Specifics and Reconfiguration of the Body in Early Modern Europe; Troubling Memories: Nineteenth-Century Histories of the Slave Trade and Slavery; The Meaning of 'Life': Biology and Biography in the Work of J. S. Haldane (18601936); and The Demise of the Asylum in Late Twentieth-Century Britain: A Personal History. The volume also carries the Report of Council from 201011.1. Presidential address: French crossings II: laughing over boundaries Colin Jones; 2. Thinking with Byzantium Averil Cameron; 3. Why were some tenth-century English kings presented as rulers of Britain? (The Alexander Prize essay) George Molyneaux; 4. The Reformation of the generations: youth, age and religious change in England, c.15001700 Alexandra Walsham; 5. Markets and cultures: medical specifics and the reconfiguration of the body in early mol“7