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View book details for Willington and the Mowbrays
After the Peasants' Revolt
Drawing on documentary evidence dating between 1382 and 1522, this volume examines a single manor parish that was dominated by the powerful Mowbray family, the Dukes of Norfolk, and by Katherine Neville, widow of the second Duke,as part of her …
View book details for In My Own Time
An Autobiography
This long-awaited autobiography is a must-read for classical musical enthusiasts and those fascinated by some of the twentieth century's star performers. It also offers unique insights into the history of music, the BBC and arts broadcasting in twentieth-century Britain.Sir Humphrey …
Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and representations of women.Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the …
An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century.The early modern "atom" understood as an indivisible particle of matter captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond …
View book details for Anglo-Norman Studies V
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1982
Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; …
View book details for God and the <I>Gawain</I>-Poet
Theology and Genre in <I>Pearl, Cleanness, Patience</I> and <I>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</I>
A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision.Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are accomplished examples of four different literary genres and represent some of …
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The Golden Age of the American Musical in London
A history and re-evaluation of the American musical in London between 1945 and 1972, a unique panoramic essay on British theatre of the Golden Age.West End Broadway is the first book to deal specifically with the 'Golden Age' of American …
View book details for In My Own Time
An Autobiography
This long-awaited autobiography is a must-read for classical musical enthusiasts and those fascinated by some of the twentieth century's star performers. It also offers unique insights into the history of music, the BBC and arts broadcasting in twentieth-century Britain.Sir Humphrey …
View book details for Duino Elegies
A New Translation and Commentary
A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning.Rilke continues to be the most read and discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino …
Revisits Herzog's classic film from a decisively contemporary standpoint, bringing into play the development of his filmmaking career.When it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo was widely criticized for its demanding use of human and natural resources as well …
This is the third in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail.This is the third in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail. It is based on specially commissioned research, bringing together …
Detailed study of monastic life of the English white canons, based on 15c visitation records.Monasteries were a dominant feature of the landscape of medieval England, but although much critical attention has been devoted to them, comparatively little has been written …
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return to Germany from Italy in 1788 to the death of his friend and collaborator Schiller …
View book details for Medicine's Moving Pictures
Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive …
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTA wide range of Arthurian material is discussed here, …
View book details for Speaking the Piano
Reflections on Learning and Teaching
This is a book to appeal to a wide range of readers - pianists of every level from beginner to professional, piano teachers, musicians of all kinds, and the broader community of music-lovers.In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes …
View book details for Women of Quality
Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change.Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender …
Printed Maps and Town Plans of Bedfordshire 1576-1900Widely regarded as a model of its kind, this book, which took eighteen years to prepare, catalogues the printed County maps of Bedfordshire from Christopher Saxton (1576) to the Ordnance Survey of 1901. …
View book details for <I>Carajicomedia</I>: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain
With an Edition and Translation of the Text
A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well …
View book details for Encountering <I>Disgrace</I>
Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel
First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David …
View book details for Empire, Development and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics …
View book details for An Enlightenment Statesman in Whig Britain
Lord Shelburne in Context, 1737-1805
A new assessment of the life and political career of Lord Shelburne, prime minister 1782-83, and of the context in which he lived.Lord Shelburne, Prime Minister in 1782-83, was a profoundly important politician, whose achievements included the negotiation of the …
View book details for El feri de Benastepar, o los moros de Sierra Bermeja
Edicion, Introduccion y notas de Javier Munoz de Morales Galiana y Daniel Munoz Sempere
Combining a rich depiction of historical customs with genuine admiration for the Muslim legacy of Andalucia, El feri de Benastepar is a previously unknown novel by Spanish writer Jose Miguel Hue y Camacho (1803-1841) that relates the doomed romance between …
Annual collection on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, emphasizing literary topics with essays on French, German, English, Gaelic, and Middle Scots.The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, …
This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence from the port books of Bristol, Southampton and Hull, as well as from a much broader array …
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