This is a unique history of French medicine between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Brockliss focuses on physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, providing an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. But he also discusses other denizens of the medical world-- quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others--setting them within the broader context of social, economic, demographic, and cultural change.

The Medical World of Early Modern France

History

Jones, Colin

Brockliss, Laurence

Europe

Clarendon Press

Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain: Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions

Smith, Harry

Oxford University Press

Calvet's Web is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores for the first time an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, and offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.

Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

Providing a statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study, of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, and wealth at death.

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

Moss, Michael

Stevenson, John

Ackroyd, Marcus

Retford, Kathryn

Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar

In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.

Biographies & Memoirs

Cardwell, John

Historical

Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in Nelson's defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson , he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.

Pierre-Joseph Amoreux of Montpellier was a Linnaean naturalist, agronomist and bibliographer whose adult life spanned the last decades of the ancien régime, the French Revolution, the age of Napoleon and the Restoration. Thanks to his many publications and contacts, he was a well-known figure in his own day, not just in the Midi but in Paris and beyond. His autobiography, published here for the first time along with a substantial introduction, provides the fullest first-person account of the life of a provincial man of science during this tumultuous period of France's history. Before the French Revolution, Amoreux used his Montpellier base and the new prize-essay contest to become a renowned and respected figure in the multi-centred Republic of Letters. Post-Revolution, when French science became exclusively centred on Paris, he succeeded in relaunching his scientific career through frequent visits to the capital where he cultivated the leading lights of the Institut and the Jardin des plantes. Laurence Brockliss opens this volume by providing an in-depth analysis of the context of Amoreux's life and work, based on his surviving letters, printed and manuscript books and articles, and his autobiographical Souvenirs. Amoreux emerges as a driven, often ruthless, man of science, wealthy enough to devote the majority of his life to his intellectual pursuits, keen to retain his independence, and more interested in worldly success than he pretended. The following fully annotated transcription of Amoreux's Souvenirs provides an unparalleled insight into the world of the minor intellectual in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, where success or failure could turn on the whims of publishing fashion and the vagaries of the postal service. The Souvenirs also offer novel access to the vibrant underbelly of intellectual life in early nineteenth-century Paris as Amoreux introduces us to a little-known world of libraries, museums, booksellers, collectors, nurserymen and dealers.

From Provincial savant to Parisian naturalist: the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2017:10) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Voltaire Foundation

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/careers and children from the Bronze Age to the present. By demonstrating how the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable forms of child rearing has shifted through the ages, and not necessarily in a linear direction, it will emphasize how relatively recent our contemporary understanding of good and bad parenting is, and hence the high likelihood that that understanding has not been completely digested. The book is divided into six, multi-authored chapters. The first four deal with different manifestations through the centuries of what would be today considered violence and neglect: 1) child sacrifice; 2) infanticide and abandonment; 3) physical and mental cruelty; and 4) exploitation. The fifth and sixth chapters look at the various violent and nonviolent strategies used by children as coping mechanisms in what to us seems a very harsh world. Each chapter consists of a number of short chronologically or thematically specific extracts, written by nearly 40 historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars and theologians, and knitted together into a coherent narrative by the editors. Table of Contents Introduction (Laurence Brockliss and Heather Montgomery) Child Sacrifice Child Sacrifice in the Ancient World: Blessings for the Beloved (Francesca Stavrakopoulou) Childhood, Sacrifice and Redemption (James Francis) The Blood Libel – Literary Representations of Ritual Child murder in Medieval England (Elisabeth Dutton) Child Sacrifice in Early Modern Europe: Text, Image and Fantasy (David Maskell) The Blood Libel against the Jews in Poland (Pawel Maciejko) The First World War and Child Sacrifice (Adrian Gregory) Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman to Early Medieval World: Archaeological Perspectives (Sally Crawford) Infanticide in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Martin Ingram) Infant Abandonment in Europe 1700–1850 (Alysa Levene) Unwanted Children and Adoption in England (Heather Montgomery) Stigmatising and Removing Defective Children from Society: The Influence of Eugenic Thinking (Kieron Sheehy) Abortion in the Twentieth Century in England (Ellie Lee) Physical Cruelty and Socialisation Violence in the ‘Upbringing’ of Ancient Sparta (Nigel Kennell) Corporal Punishment and the Two Christianities (Henrietta Leyser) Abusive Parenting: The Case of Jacques-Louis Ménétra (Laurence Brockliss) Children and Physical Cruelty – The Lockean and Rousseauvian Revolution (Anja Müller) Childhood and Violence in Working-Class England 1800–1870 (Jane Humphries) Corporal Punishment in the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century (Heather Ellis) Children, Cruelty and Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century England: The Legal Framework (Stephen Cretney) Child Exploitation Children at Work in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1680–1050 BCE): A Brief Survey (Chrysanthi Gallou) Apprenticeship in Northwest Europe 1300–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) The Royal Navy’s Commissioned Sea Officers 1700–1815 (John Cardwell) The Rural Child Worker (Jane Humphries) What was the Effect of Compulsory Schooling on the Phenomenon of Working Children? (Nicola Sheldon) For Love, not Money: Children’s Unpaid Care Work in Modern Britain (Saul Becker) Violent Children, Youth Enforcers, and Juvenile Delinquents Pupil Violence in the French Classroom 1600–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) Bullying in English Schools and Universities (Laurence Brockliss) Student Violence in Early Modern Cambridge (Alexandra Shepard) Masterless Children during the Thirty Years’ War (Alan Ross) Juvenile Delinquents in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Heather Shore) Juvenile Delinquents in the Post-War Soviet Union (Juliane Fürst) Juvenile Crime in Post-war Britain (Abigail Wills) Coping Strategies and Exit Routes Pavel Morozov: Soviet Hero (Catriona Kelly) Child Runaways in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (George Rousseau) Child Witches in Seventeenth-Century Germany (Lyndal Roper) The War Games of Children in Nazi Germany (Nicholas Stargardt) Child Suicide in Jude the Obscure (Josephine McDonagh) Self Harm – The Curse of Modern Britain (Rosemary Peacocke)

Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition (Childhood in the Past Monograph)

Politics & Social Sciences

Montgomery, Heather

Anthropology

Oxbow Books

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/careers and children from the Bronze Age to the present. By demonstrating how the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable forms of child rearing has shifted through the ages, and not necessarily in a linear direction, it will emphasize how relatively recent our contemporary understanding of good and bad parenting is, and hence the high likelihood that that understanding has not been completely digested. The book is divided into six, multi-authored chapters. The first four deal with different manifestations through the centuries of what would be today considered violence and neglect: 1) child sacrifice; 2) infanticide and abandonment; 3) physical and mental cruelty; and 4) exploitation. The fifth and sixth chapters look at the various violent and nonviolent strategies used by children as coping mechanisms in what to us seems a very harsh world. Each chapter consists of a number of short chronologically or thematically specific extracts, written by nearly 40 historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars and theologians, and knitted together into a coherent narrative by the editors. Table of Contents Introduction (Laurence Brockliss and Heather Montgomery) Child Sacrifice Child Sacrifice in the Ancient World: Blessings for the Beloved (Francesca Stavrakopoulou) Childhood, Sacrifice and Redemption (James Francis) The Blood Libel – Literary Representations of Ritual Child murder in Medieval England (Elisabeth Dutton) Child Sacrifice in Early Modern Europe: Text, Image and Fantasy (David Maskell) The Blood Libel against the Jews in Poland (Pawel Maciejko) The First World War and Child Sacrifice (Adrian Gregory) Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman to Early Medieval World: Archaeological Perspectives (Sally Crawford) Infanticide in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Martin Ingram) Infant Abandonment in Europe 1700–1850 (Alysa Levene) Unwanted Children and Adoption in England (Heather Montgomery) Stigmatising and Removing Defective Children from Society: The Influence of Eugenic Thinking (Kieron Sheehy) Abortion in the Twentieth Century in England (Ellie Lee) Physical Cruelty and Socialisation Violence in the ‘Upbringing’ of Ancient Sparta (Nigel Kennell) Corporal Punishment and the Two Christianities (Henrietta Leyser) Abusive Parenting: The Case of Jacques-Louis Ménétra (Laurence Brockliss) Children and Physical Cruelty – The Lockean and Rousseauvian Revolution (Anja Müller) Childhood and Violence in Working-Class England 1800–1870 (Jane Humphries) Corporal Punishment in the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century (Heather Ellis) Children, Cruelty and Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century England: The Legal Framework (Stephen Cretney) Child Exploitation Children at Work in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1680–1050 BCE): A Brief Survey (Chrysanthi Gallou) Apprenticeship in Northwest Europe 1300–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) The Royal Navy’s Commissioned Sea Officers 1700–1815 (John Cardwell) The Rural Child Worker (Jane Humphries) What was the Effect of Compulsory Schooling on the Phenomenon of Working Children? (Nicola Sheldon) For Love, not Money: Children’s Unpaid Care Work in Modern Britain (Saul Becker) Violent Children, Youth Enforcers, and Juvenile Delinquents Pupil Violence in the French Classroom 1600–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) Bullying in English Schools and Universities (Laurence Brockliss) Student Violence in Early Modern Cambridge (Alexandra Shepard) Masterless Children during the Thirty Years’ War (Alan Ross) Juvenile Delinquents in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Heather Shore) Juvenile Delinquents in the Post-War Soviet Union (Juliane Fürst) Juvenile Crime in Post-war Britain (Abigail Wills) Coping Strategies and Exit Routes Pavel Morozov: Soviet Hero (Catriona Kelly) Child Runaways in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (George Rousseau) Child Witches in Seventeenth-Century Germany (Lyndal Roper) The War Games of Children in Nazi Germany (Nicholas Stargardt) Child Suicide in Jude the Obscure (Josephine McDonagh) Self Harm – The Curse of Modern Britain (Rosemary Peacocke)

Social Sciences

The University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. Institutions have waxed and waned over the centuries, but Oxford has always succeeded in reinventing itself to meet the demands of a new age. This book offers a succinct illustrated account of the university’s colorful and controversial eight-hundred-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid. It describes the extraordinary and influential people who shaped the development of the institution and helped to create today’s world-class research university. Richly illustrated with archival material, prints, and portraits, this book explores how a university in a small provincial town rose to become one of the top universities in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The University of Oxford: A Brief History

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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The Medical World of Early Modern France

Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain: Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions

Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar

Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar

From Provincial savant to Parisian naturalist: the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2017:10) (French Edition)

Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition (Childhood in the Past Monograph)

Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition (Childhood in the Past Monograph)

The University of Oxford: A Brief History