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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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
View book details for Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England
A Northamptonshire Maid's Tragedy
A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of the English Civil War.This book starts with an extraordinary event and document. The event is the …
The first book-length study of musical education and culture in twentieth-century Oxford.Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and …
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Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A new edition
Magic, science and second sight in 17c Scottish Higlands, with new edition of Kirk's Secret Commonwealth.The uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee future events had long been regarded as a characteristic of the Scottish Highlands, but in the late …
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 …
View book details for The Index of Middle English Prose
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 …
The first study of the performance practice, repertoire and context of the modern 'brass ensemble' in the musical world.Whereas the British 'brass band' originated in the nineteenth century and rapidly developed into a nationwide working-class movement, the perceived modern 'brass …
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