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View book details for Crises in Economic and Social History
A Comparative Perspective
Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept …
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow.Personal names can provide a rich and often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it an …
View book details for Defending British India against Napoleon
The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13
A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to British India was countered.Following Napoleon's defeat of Prussia in 1806 and his treaties with Russia and Persia in 1807, the French threat to Britain's position in India seemed …
View book details for Illuminating the <I>Roman d'Alexandre</I>: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264
The Manuscript as Monument
Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu.Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle …
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, …
View book details for The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Volume 2
The Political Process
Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that …
View book details for Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya
Sources, Origins & History
A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and …
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political …
The Cartulary of Newnham PrioryA cartulary of the deeds and charters of Newnham Priory in Bedford was compiled in the early fifteenth century. It contains the Priorys deeds and charters from 1166 to 1409. The Latin transcriptions have been explained …
View book details for The Fifteenth Century XV
Writing, Records and Rhetoric
This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWThe focus of this volume may be summed up as "The Word". Its essays examine the contents and provenance of manuscripts which were …
View book details for Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans …
An examination of the work and music of the Royalist composer William Lawes.William Lawes is arguably one of the finest English composers of the early seventeenth century. Born in Salisbury in 1602, he rose to prominence in the early 1630s; …
View book details for Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC
Works, Politics, Performances
Bold new essays demonstrate how Leonard Bernstein influenced American culture, society, and politics through his conducting, composing, political relationships, and activism.Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he …
View book details for Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age
The Eglantine Table
Uses the rare depictions of musical instruments and musical sources found on the Eglantine Table to understand the musical life of the Elizabethan age and its connection to aspects of culture now treated as separate disciplines ofhistorical study.The reign of …
First complete translation of detailed chronicle of medieval England, one of Shakespeare's most important sources.Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one …
View book details for The Tender Gaze
Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage
By exploring the concept of the "tender gaze" in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves …
View book details for Italian Opera Singing at the Time of <I>Verismo</I>
The Invention of the Modern Voice
Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society.In the decades that span the turn of the twentieth century, the Italian tradition of operatic singing became 'modern'. This book identifies and explores the formative …
The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 7A calendar of the pipe rolls of the reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire 1189-1199, by G. Herbert Fowler and Michael W. Hughes. The calendar in English is preceded …
View book details for Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours
From the Fifth Century to the Viking Age
An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources.From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic …
View book details for Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Machines, Madness, Metaphor
An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.At the turn of the fifteenth century it must have seemed to many …
View book details for Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
A History of a Medical Treatment
An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality.From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth …
View book details for Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance
Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond
The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a …
Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.In 1959 C. P. Snow memorably described the `gulf of mutual incomprehension' which existed between `literary intellectuals' and scientists, referring to them as `two cultures'. This volume looks at the extent to …
View book details for Beyond the Pale
The Holocaust in the North Caucasus
The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this contextWhen war between the Soviet Union and Germany broke out in 1941, thousands …
View book details for The Genius of Valhalla
The Life of Reginald Goodall
The life of enigmatic Wagner conductor, Reginald Goodall, by the author of the acclaimed Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music, newly available in paperback.When Sir Reginald Goodall died in 1990, at the age of 88, he had already acquired cult …
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