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Detailed survey of Vivaldi's unjustly neglected chamber cantatas, showing them to stand comparison with his more famous works.Vivaldi's chamber cantatas for solo voice, some forty in total, are steadily gaining in popularity: but because of their relatively small place in …
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Opera & Music Theatre
Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on …
A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles IIShortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize, 2014 King Charles I's execution in January 1649 marked a moment …
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.The essays here continue in the Journal's tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-century Ravenna; the incidence …
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Heroism between Ethics and Morality
Detailed readings of four major medieval cycles.This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing …
Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is …
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Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Traces the history of the British General Medical Council to reveal the persistence of hierarchies of gender, national identity, and race in determining who was fit to practice British medicine.Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of …
View book details for Tallis and Byrds <I>Cantiones sacrae</I> (1575)
A Sacred Argument
What did Tallis and Byrd mean to convey by their use of the word "argument" in their title, Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur?Thomas Tallis's and William Byrd's Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (songs, which by their argument are …
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTThe influence and significance of the legend of Arthur …
A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies …
Medieval East Anglia - one of the most significant and prosperous parts of England in the middle ages - examined through essays on its landscape, history, religion, literature, and culture.East Anglia was the most prosperous region of medieval England; far …
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Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.Robert D. Fulk is arguably the greatest Old English philologist to emerge during the twentieth century; his corpus of scholarship has fundamentally shaped contemporary understanding of many aspects …
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Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century
An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade". His comments, however, were welcomed by Al-Qaeda, who had long been …
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The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadowsDecades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great …
A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble.Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. …
Examination and analysis of one of the most important artefacts of Anglo-Saxon society, the cruciform brooch, setting it in a wider context.Cruciform brooches were large and decorative items of jewellery, frequently used to pin together women's garments in pre-Christian northwest …
This study provides new insights into the history of Anglicanism, Nonconformity and ideas of English and British identity between the two world wars.This is the first full length examination of a defining moment in the history of the Church of …
View book details for Stages of European Romanticism
Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848
Employs an innovative approach by "stages" to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline.Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not …
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Handlist XXI: Manuscripts in the Hatton and e Musaeo Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Latest volume in a series which is "a monumental achievement" REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIESThe Hatton and e Musaeo manuscript collections are important donations given to the Bodleian Library during its formative years in the seventeenth century. The Hatton collection, assembled …
View book details for Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition
Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft
A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works.A milestone in Machaut studies and in late-medieval French literature in general. Machaut, already considered the seminal figure in late-medieval poetics and music, here comes across in these respects more clearly …
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Reflections on New Music
All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Gubaidulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process.Balint Andras Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and …
The so-called "Devil Theatre" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights.Representations of demonic possession and exorcism rituals abound in English Renaissance drama, an area which this book seeks to illuminate …
A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised …
The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress.William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His …
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William Cavendish, First Earl of Devonshire (1551-1626) and his Horses
Through a study of horses, the book reveals how an important and growing aristocratic estate was managed, where the aristocrat at the centre of it - William Cavendish - travelled and how he spent his time, and how horses were …
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