TransactionsoftheRoyalHistoricalSociety

TheTransactionsoffersreadersanannualcollectionofmajorarticlesrepresentingsomeofthebesthistoricalresearchbysomeoftheworld'smostdistinguishedhistorians.Volume12ofthesixthseriestakesthetheme'Englishpoliteness:conduct,socialrankandmoralvirtue,c.1400–c.1900'asitsmainfocusandincludesEnglandandtheContinentintheNinthCentury,andincludespapersonthefollowing:EndsandBeginnings;SomePardoners'Tales:TheEarliestEnglishIndulgences;TravellersandtheOrientalCity,c.1840–1920;TheMythsoftheSouthSeaBubble;ThePlaceofTudorEnglandintheMessianicVisionofPhilipIIofSpain;TheCharityofEarlyModernLondoners;FromCivilitastoCivility:CodesofMannersinMedievalandEarlyModernEngland;TopographiesofPoliteness;PoliteConsumption:ShoppinginEighteenth-CenturyEngland;CreatingaVeilofSilence?PolitenessandMaritalViolenceintheEnglishHousehold;CoursesinPoliteness.