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38 History The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders Galbert of Bruges Translated by Jeff Rider On March 2, 1127, while praying in the church of Saint Donatian in Bruges, Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins and killed by a sword blow to the forehead. The murder of Charles, who had no progeny, nor named successor, upset the balance of power among England, France and the Holy Roman Empire, giving rise to a prolonged struggle for the countship and bloody civil war, impacting the commercial life of the most prosperous regions of medieval Europe. The eyewitness account by the Flemish cleric Galbert of Bruges of the scandalous assassination and struggle for power that ensued is the only journal to have survived from 12thcentury Europe. This new translation by medieval studies expert Jeff Rider greatly improves upon all previous versions, substantially advancing scholarship on the Middle Ages while granting new life and immediacy to Galbert’s candid narrative. Jeff Rider is a professor of Romance languages and literature at Wesleyan University. January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15229-6 £30.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-15230-2 £15.99 Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition Edited by Robert Harms, Bernard Freamon and David Blight While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the 19th century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading. ‘The focus on the abolition period marks the volume as unique. It is valuable for that purpose, besides vetting very fine scholarship. I would recommend it to anyone interested in slavery, the Indian Ocean, the Islamic world, and abolition.’ – Paul Lovejoy, author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Robert Harms is the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies at Yale University. Bernard Freamon is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School and director of the Law School’s Zanzibar Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking. David Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. + 3 maps PB ISBN 978-0-300-16387-2 £20.00 Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain Amanda E. Herbert In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, cultural, economic and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long 18th century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world. Amanda E. Herbert is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University. February 224 pp. 234x156mm. 27 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17740-4 £40.00 The Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730 Brent S. Sirota This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England’s key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernisation of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelising and educating merchants, seamen and slaves throughout the British empire – all leading to what has been termed the ‘age of benevolence’. Brent S. Sirota is an assistant professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University, Durham, NC. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth- Century Culture and History February 352 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16710-8 £45.00 A Plague of Informers Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England Rachel Weil Stories of plots, sham plots and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil’s compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or longterm effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk. Rachel Weil is associate professor of history at Cornell University. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth- Century Culture and History February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 15 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17104-4 £25.00*
Art 39 An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siècle Vienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity Broncia Koller (1863–1934), Seated Nude (Marietta), 1907. Oil on canvas, 107.5 x 148.5 cm. © Eisenberger Collection, Vienna Gemma Blackshaw is associate professor of history of art and visual culture at Plymouth University. Exhibition The National Gallery, London, 09/10/13 – 12/01/14 Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900 Gemma Blackshaw With a foreword by Edmund de Waal Contributions by Tag Gronberg, Julie Johnson, Doris Lehmann, Elana Shapira, Sabine Wieber and Mary Costello During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siècle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects’ shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to the end of the First World War. This is viewed as a time when the avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a more complex story, through thoughtprovoking texts by leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele alongside those of their predecessors, blurring the conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and early-20thcentury art, and revealing surprising continuities in the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book also features works by lesser-known female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the time. The National Gallery • London November 192 pp. 279x229mm. 140 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-1-85709-561-6 £35.00* * Also from the National Gallery, London – see page 58 Translation rights: The National Gallery Company, London
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