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A detailed study of the well-known, yet poorly understood, music theory of composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).The music theory of composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), originally entitled Unterweisung im Tonsatz, is well known, yet poorly understood. This book provides a critical engagement …
A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, …
View book details for Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature
Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity
First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.During the Middle Ages, the lives of saints such as Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt - "holy harlots", women who repented of an early life …
View book details for Limpopo's Legacy
Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa
Argues that the historical primacy of youth politics in Limpopo, South Africa has influenced the production of generations of nationally prominent youth and student activists - among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, and Peter Mokaba.In 2015 …
View book details for The Cunningham Papers, Volume II, 1942-1946
Selections from the private and official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, O.M., K.T., G.C.B., D.S.O. and two bars. The Triumph of Allied Sea Power.
This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and to those interested in the Naval History of the Second World War, particularly after the USA's entry. Also of interest is the late Prince Philip's introduction in which he says …
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Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda
First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial …
View book details for Transatlantic German Studies
Testimonies to the Profession
The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s …
View book details for The United States and West Africa
Interactions and Relations
The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa …
View book details for Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021
The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries.The essays collected here demonstrate the rich vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular focus on the interrelations between the various parts of north-western Europe. …
View book details for Lowestoft, 1550-1750
Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town
A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography.`A superbly researched study.... An excellent addition not only to the history of Suffolk but of early modern society and economy more generally.' Professor RICHARD SMITH, University of …
View book details for Framing the World
Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought
A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory.The long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred years Western …
The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars in the field.The essays in this latest volume have a particularly strong focus on English material; they include explorations of Malory's presentation of Sir Dinadan, the connections between ballads and …
Focuses critical attention once again on the nature and process of reading, taking into account both current theory and historical investigations.Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. …
View book details for Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700
Michel Pignolet de Monteclair and the prince de Vaudemont
Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through an investigation of exchanges and collaborations between musicians and dancers from the two major national musical traditions in the early years of the century.This study stems from discoveries in a trove of …
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Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba
A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides.Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital …
Exactly what does a conductor do in front of an orchestra? Internationally renowned conductor Christopher Seaman offers lively and informative answers in this wise yet humorous book.What does a conductor actually do? How much effect does he or she have? …
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - …
View book details for Love and Death in Goethe
`One and Double'
Explores the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important German Romantic poet of all.Goethe, in association with his younger Romantic compatriots the Schlegels, Novalis, Fichte, and Schelling, struggled with the subject-object dichotomy, and tried to …
View book details for The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property
Saving the World's Heritage
First comprehensive study of Italy's "art police", an organisation devoted to protecting cultural artefacts.Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and …
View book details for The English Aristocracy at War
From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn
A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families.In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later …
View book details for Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
Learning a New Master Narrative for America
An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience.Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on …
View book details for Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Image, Relic and Material Culture
Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in …
View book details for When the Dead Rise
Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today.The proliferation of books and films about the "undead", those literally returning from the grave, in modern popular culture has been commented on as a …
First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period.The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European historical writing and, as such, …
Looks at the politics of the Catholic Church during a turbulent period in central MozambiqueThis book is concerned with the internal diversity and complexity of the Roman Catholic Church. It aims at exploring, unpacking, and explaining how the Roman Catholic …
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