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“... which frames of reference best clarify particular events. This is where John Morrill and Brendan Bradshaw’s collection is so impressive. Hiram Morgan’s piece, for example, argues that England’s behaviour towards its neighbours was defined less by colonialist ambition than by a conservative desire to keep French and Spanish influence out of ...”

“... context than is offered by the many biographies that approach Catholic hagiography. This was Brendan Bradshaw and Eamon Duffy’s purpose in organising a conference in 1985 to mark the 450th anniversary of Fisher’s execution. The proceedings of this are now published as Humanism, Reform and the Reformation. Several essays emphasise Fisher’s ...”

“... on Roman law and the ‘civil science’ to which it gave rise), ‘transalpine humanism’ (Brendan Bradshaw) and ‘scholasticism: survival and revival’ (J.H. Burns). This section examines the major discursive forms of Latin political culture, emphasising provincial and national dialects only where necessary. In the next we enter on the era of ...”

“... with a degree of confidence. The question of tone in Irish historical writing has been raised by Brendan Bradshaw in ‘Nationalism and Historical Scholarship’, an essay published in Interpreting Irish History. Bradshaw is concerned to show that ‘value-free’ history cannot work in a society such as ...”