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Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian). "the Second Part", Chapters IV-XLI: T. by Sebastian Brock 9789068317084
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £87.62Born in Qatar in the early seventh century AD, Isaac of Niniveh (also known as Isaac the Syrian) was the author of a number of very fine writings on the spiritual life which have proved very... -
Dr John Walker and The Sufferings of the Clergy by G.B. Tatham 9780521101387
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This is a study of the origins, writing and reception of Dr John Walker's 'The Sufferings of the Clergy' (1714), which was an important account of the events of the Civil War period as they affected... -
British Choral Singing: A History from Medieval Times to the Present Day Peter Ward Jones 9781837652945
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £95.74Charts choral traditions in Britain, evolution, sociological composition, engagement with and place within cathedrals and secular spaces. Choirs are living organisms and ever changing. This book... -
Moral Knowledge by Oliver A. Johnson 9789401185578
Booksplease Price: £46.28As its title indicates, this book is concerned with two different fields of philosophy, ethics and epistemology. The bulk of the argument is devoted to epistemological questions, as these arise... -
Conservation Research in Libraries by David Howell 9783110375251
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £108.16Conservation research in libraries is a rapidly growing field. This book places analysis within its context in conservation and provides examples of how this expensive resource can be used. Through a... -
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men by John Aubrey 9781108079334
Booksplease Price: £28.57This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains... -
Bibliophobia: Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade. In a Letter Addressed to the Author of the Bibliomania by Thomas Frognall Dibdin 9781108015592
Booksplease Price: £23.66In 1809, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) published the first edition of Bibliomania, focussing on the contemporary craze for book collecting. Introduced in English at the end of the eighteenth... -
Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries by Elizabeth Solopova 9781800349223
Booksplease Price: £43.21The catalogue is the first step towards a systematic description of the manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, one of the most influential medieval English works. The Bible is the first complete... -
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men by John Aubrey 9781108079358
Booksplease Price: £28.57This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains... -
The Fox-North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution, 1782-4 by John Cannon 9780521076678
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.89Dr Cannon studies the workings of the eighteenth-century constitution, concentrating on the years of acute crisis from 1782 to 1784. He examines the formation of the Fox-North coalition, its... -
Blessed Giles of Assisi by Walter W. Seton 9781108017596
Booksplease Price: £23.66One of the original disciples of Saint Francis, Blessed Giles of Assisi preached a message of poverty and penance throughout Italy, the Holy Land, and North Africa before turning to a life of... -
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men by John Aubrey 9781108079341
Booksplease Price: £32.52This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains... -
Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona Opie 9781782500322
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.97In the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie observed that although many books had been written about how children should play, none had been written about how they actually played. To fill the gap they carried... -
Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late-Medieval England by Myra Seaman 9781526143815
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £62.19Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61... -
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes Barbora Sojkova 9781800505995
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.48Yoga Studies in Five Minutes provides an accessible guide to the diverse and growing field of research into yoga as a social, historical and cultural phenomenon. Both leading scholars and innovative... -
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes Barbora Sojkova 9781800506008
Booksplease Price: £24.40Yoga Studies in Five Minutes provides an accessible guide to the diverse and growing field of research into yoga as a social, historical and cultural phenomenon. Both leading scholars and innovative... -
A Century of Bibles: The Authorised Version from 1611 to 1711 by W.J. Loftie 9781108010948
Booksplease Price: £28.58William John Loftie (1839-1911) wrote prolifically on topics related to travel, art, architecture, and history. In this 1872 work, his stated desire was to investigate those editions of the... -
Theosophy or Psychological Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered before the University of London in 1892 by F. Max Muller 9781108073264
Booksplease Price: £49.54German-born Sanskritist and philologist Max Muller (1823-1900) was a pioneer in the field of comparative mythology and religion. Settling in England in 1846, during his distinguished career he served... -
Death and the Oxford Box Veronica Stallwood 9780747244783
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dawn on a cold February morning and a mist hangs over Oxford, shrouding spires and domes. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging group. It gets her... -
Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum - The Evesham Book of the Abbot by Henrico Austin Wilson
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.49A monastic ritual intended for use in the Benedictine monastery of St Mary and St Egwin, Evesham, Worcestershire, edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow MS 7 [SC 6419]. Although similar to... -
The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham by Adam of Eynsham 9780197223215
Booksplease Price: £51.51The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham is a late fifteenth-century translation of the late twelfth-century Visio monachi de Eynsham by Adam of Eynsham [later author of the Magna vita sancti Hugonis]. ... -
English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Part I by Andrew Clark 9781138314252
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text... -
Oxford Remains Veronica Stallwood 9780755300747
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Tensions are running high at Bartlemas College, Oxford. Daisy Tompkins, a bright, attractive student has put in a formal complaint about her tutor, the odd and unpopular Joseph Fechan. Faith Beeton,... -
English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Part II by Andrew Clark 9781138315082
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text... -
Oxford Blue Veronica Stallwood 9780747260080
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here, in the peace of the countryside, she hopes... -
Complementary Notions: A Critical Study of Berkeley's Theory of Concepts by D. V. Parke 9789024713387
Booksplease Price: £46.74This volume grew out of work on Berkeley which was presented in a dissertation several years ago. Though now much revised and greatly expanded. particularly in respect of the theory of concepts, a... -
Rain Dodging: A Scholar’s Romp through Britain in Search of a Stuart Queen by Susan J. Godwin 9781647425692
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Scholar Susan Godwin is hooked when she comes across the captivating story of Mary of Modena—a seventeenth-century Italian princess who was only fourteen when coerced into marriage with the future... -
Oxford Mourning Veronica Stallwood 9780747253433
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When novelist Kate Ivory first meets Dr Olivia Blacket, an academic at Leicester College, Oxford, the atmosphere is far from amicable. Olivia refuses to show Kate the fascinating material she is... -
Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford in 1738: Together with Poems, Odd Lines, Fragments & Small Scraps, by `Shepilinda' (Elizabeth Sheppard) Geoffrey Neate (Person) 9780904107296
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A delightful and often witty description of the Oxford colleges in the eighteenth century. Shepilinda's Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford is a light-hearted but valuable manuscript... -
Songs of Farewell by Hubert Parry 9780193518469
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £9.33Parry's Songs of Farewell were composed over the final decade of his life. The elegiac tone of the Songs may also reflect a sense of loss caused by the First World War - in which some of Parry's most... -
Oxford Fall Veronica Stallwood 9780747255130
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Christopher Townsend, Development Officer of Bartlemas College, was reportedly drunk when he plunged from the top of the Tower of Grace. His tragic death does, however, lead to an offer of work for... -
The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke by John Willinsky
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped... -
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Oxford Knot by Veronica Stallwood 9780747259909 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more than a little... -
Oxford Knot Veronica Stallwood 9780747259909
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more than a little... -
Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War by Emma Smith 9781108499286
Booksplease Price: £112.93The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon... -
A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Valerie Rumbold 9780521136815
Booksplease Price: £29.56The collection of pre-1825 printed music in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the most important in the British Isles after the British Library and the Bodleian Library, particularly for its holdings... -
The Pure Love of Madame Guyon: The Great Conflict in King Louis XIV's Court by Nancy C. James 9780761837572
Booksplease Price: £40.38In seventeenth-century France, Madame Guyon wrote about the concept of "pure love." "Love pure and holy, is a deathless fire," she wrote, and is "ethereal fare." Her popular books spread quickly... -
Women, Transnational Networks and Patriotism in Northern and Central Europe, 1763-1814 Prof Nicole Pohl 9781783277902
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £80.21A gateway to the complex world of eighteenth-century sociability of elite women and of their lasting impact on modern concepts of national identity and community. In the dynamic intellectual and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism by Samuel Fanous 9780521853439
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly... -
Coconut: How the Shy Fruit Shaped our World by Robin Laurance 9780750990615
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.41Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth and success. They have saved lives, not only by...