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View book details for The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork …
The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialismThe colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Lidia Jorge and Manuel Alegre …
First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution.Thomas Kyd (1558-94) is best known as author of The Spanish …
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La correspondencia de Cesar Vallejo es la mejor puerta de entrada documental a su biografia. Esta edicion recoge todas las cartas que se conocen escritas por Vallejo y dirigidas a el; ademas, esta se enriquece con notas aclaratorias que permiten …
View book details for Thirteenth Century England XVII
Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017
Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a …
View book details for Forgotten Dreams
Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog
Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the …
View book details for Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature
Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity
Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination, examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the role of women in the Third ReichIn recent years, historians have revealed the …
View book details for The Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Beyond
Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work.Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan …
View book details for The Wings of Atalanta
Essays Written along the Color Line
Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading African-American (and American) literature.This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne …
View book details for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Cinema
Life and Works
Rocco focuses on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's relations with the world of cinema and gives us the first detailed study of the author's wide-ranging filmography.A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance. Gerald …
View book details for Grete Meisel-Hess
The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis
This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism.Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist …
Bedfordshire wills 1480-1519These are the 194 wills in Latin in the earliest surviving register of wills proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Bedford. The register is held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service at ABP/R 1. …
View book details for Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c.700-1130
From Bede to Symeon of Durham
An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.Historical texts of all kinds were written in the community of St Cuthbert c.700-1130, from short annals …
View book details for Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin
From Nazism to the Cold War
Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women.This book steers attention toward two key aspects of German culture - film and fashion - …
An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century.The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, …
View book details for Shades of the Prison House
A History of Incarceration in the British Isles
As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times …
View book details for Medieval Life
Archaeology and the Life Course
An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis …
View book details for Rethinking Hanslick
Music, Formalism, and Expression
An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings.Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal …
View book details for Abandoning America
Life-stories from early New England
In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historicalcontext.CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Abandoning America brings …
View book details for The Bjorling Sound
A Recorded Legacy
Detailed examination of the vocal and interpretive artistry of the great Jussi Bjorling.A half century after his death in 1960, Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling remains one of the most beloved singers in the world. He spent forty-five of his forty-nine …
View book details for The Politics of Work in a Post-Conflict State
Youth, Labour & Violence in Sierra Leone
A detailed examination of the nature of post-conflict society and youth violence, with important implications for peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery.High youth unemployment is seen as a major issue across Africa and globally, not solely as a source of concern for …
Masculinist and feminist worldviews in post-1945 German literature, and the possibility of a dynamic reconceptualization of human subjectivity.Rooted in Enlightenment rationalism, modernity tends to privilege masculine-connoted characteristics -- conscious subjective agency, rational control and self-containment, the subjugation of nature -- …
View book details for Children on the Move in Africa
Past and Present Experiences of Migration
A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child …
View book details for The French of Medieval England
Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England.Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic, cultural, and political elements unique to the pluri-lingual situation of medieval England …
View book details for Writing Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936
Realities, Representations, Reactions
Tracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in Spain from the 19th century through the decades before the Civil War.The international contributors to this volume explore the rich diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain through …
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