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Demonstrates that Malta was much more than a military strongpoint in the Christian-Muslim divide but rather a major centre of international exchange.Malta in the sixteenth century is usually viewed in military terms: the great bulwark of Christendom against Islam, the …
View book details for The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork …
View book details for London Marine Insurance 1438-1824
Risk, Trade, and the Early Modern State
The first comprehensive history of marine insurance transacted in London from the industry's beginnings, to the early-nineteenth-century, when legislative change ended parliamentary monopolies over the business.This book describes the development and evolution of the customary, legal, and commercial institutions of …
The whole subject is brought up to date - Arthurian buffs will want this book. DAILY TELEGRAPHWho was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous …
Exciting fresh perspectives on Edward I as man, king and administrator.The reign of Edward I was one of the most important of medieval England, but the king's activities and achievements have not always received the full attention they deserve. The …
View book details for The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The Repressed Muse
A look at the dismissal of Virgil by 18th-century poets, who nevertheless continued to be influenced by his works.In the early modern period, the culture of Rome, with Virgil as its greatest figure, was the model for emulation. The age …
The adaptation of French texts into medieval Swedish reveals the progress of a Europe-wide literary culture.Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious sources, rather than in …
How James deployed crown finance provides fundamental insights into his personal rule.This book rejects outright the stereotypical image of James VI and I as mindlessly extravagant and integrates crown finance with James's kingship. It offers both a fresh view of …
Offers a broader, more contextualized understanding of the function of ordeals in medieval literature and society.Medieval judicial ordeals, especially trial by fire or battle, conjure up vivid pictures in the modern imagination. Yet popular perceptions of the Middle Ages leave …
Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the …
Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture.Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular collection of gold and silver of any British monarch. …
In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perellos left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world. There, he spent twenty-four hours in an underground cavern, where he …
View book details for Expectations of Romance
The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England
What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of …
View book details for The Other Friars
The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and Pied Friars in the Middle Ages
A concise and accessible history of four of the monastic orders in the middle ages.In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty …
A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture …
View book details for Federico Garcia Lorca
The Poetry in All Things
Feted by his contemporaries, Federico Garcia Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936. This book shows just why his fame has endured, through an exploration of his most popular works: Romancero Gitano, Poeta en Nueva York and …
Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories.Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the …
View book details for Not Russian Enough?
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera
Offers fresh perspectives on the function of nationalist thought in the cosmopolitan opera world, with particular emphasis on the idea of "Russianness" in four nineteenth-century operas by Glinka, Serov, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.In the nineteenth century, Russian composers and critics were …
The Swallows and Amazons author's lost study of the author of Treasure Island, finally available with a substantial introduction detailing its rediscovery and Ransome's extraordinary early career.This is the first publication of a remarkable book by Arthur Ransome, originally commissioned …
View book details for Religion and the Demographic Revolution
Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s
A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world.In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and …
A hugely valuable source of information for those interested in the more "everyday" social and economic life of medieval England. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWFourth editor, Kate Parkin Inquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval …
View book details for The Segovia Manuscript
A European Musical Repertory in Spain, c.1500
Essays illuminating a complex and sophisticated musical manuscript.The Segovia Manuscript (Cathedral of Segovia, Archivo Capitular) has puzzled musicologists ever since its rediscovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is unique: no other manuscript of the period transmits a …
The German protest song from the 1960s through the 1990s and how it carried forth traditions of earlier periods.The modern German political song is a hybrid of high and low culture. With its roots in the birth of mass culture …
View book details for Holderlin after the Catastrophe
Heidegger -- Adorno -- Brecht
The first book-length study of Holderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik.Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich Holderlin were heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of …
A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England.The barks, hoots and howls of animals and birds pierce through the experience of medieval texts. In captivating episodes of communication between species, a mandrake …
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