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The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) by Mike Pincombe
Booksplease Price: £26.09This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the... -
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: £21.23When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical... -
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A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773527331 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £8.18Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international... -
A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773526945
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £51.83Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international... -
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential... -
Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present: The Art and Ethics of Gaining Favor by Jeff Diamond 9781498548892
Booksplease Price: £103.11Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present explores a common ethical problem for intellectuals of the Renaissance: How does one win the favor and patronage of the wealthy and powerful and yet... -
The Female Tudor Scholar and Writer: The Life and Times of Margaret More Roper Aimee Fleming 9781399047753
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Margaret More Roper may be remembered as the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, but she was much, much more. Well-educated, loyal, passionately pious, and a skilled writer and translator, Margaret... -
Time and Myth: A Meditation on Storytelling as an Exploration of Life and Death by John S. Dunne 9780268063320
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.78Based on the Thomas More Lectures John Dunne delivered at Yale University in 1971, Time and Myth analyzes man's confrontation with the inevitability of death in the cultural, personal, and religious... -
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures: Scenarios in Effective Communication to Citizens and Corporations by Marina Brambilla 9783631666838
RRP: £51.65Booksplease Price: £46.49The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this... -
John Henry Newman: Theology & by 9781138873339
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one... -
Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature: Stylistic Explorations Israel A. C. Noletto 9781032688930
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary... -
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought by Joanne Paul
Booksplease Price: £26.61While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of political thinking... -
Selected Writings: William Tyndale by William Tyndale
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek, and half of the Old Testament, which he translated from the orginal... -
The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky by Paul A. Tenkotte
Booksplease Price: £61.80The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky is the authoritative reference on the people, places, history, and rich heritage of the Northern Kentucky region. The encyclopedia defines an overlooked region... -
Seeking Spirituality by Ronald Rolheiser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this wide-ranging text, Ronald Rolheiser gives information and practical advice on how to build a spi rituality for today and for the next century. He also explai ns what Christian spirituality is... -
Subjects of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare by Ivan Lupic 9780812251609
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupic uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While counsel was an important form of practical... -
Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern by Seth Lerer 9780231123723
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.85How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more... -
The Heretic's Wife by Brenda Rickman Vantrease 9780312573515
Booksplease Price: £18.62Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions - English Catholics opposed to the... -
Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography by G. Harold Metz 9780367024635
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69First published in 1982, this volume responds to the attribution of numerous plays to Shakespeare which were not his own and selects four plays which have been ascribed in whole or in part to... -
Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 4 by Professor Lee Cullen Khanna
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £91.48This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century. They also proved themselves nimble survivors... -
On Sibyl's Shoulders: Seeking Soul in Library Leadership by Donna Brockmeyer 9780810851207
Booksplease Price: £61.04Discussing the many elements of library leadership from a variety of perspectives_including ancient, contemporary, and feminist_and interwoven with candid insights and ideas of professional library... -
Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700: Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality by James Colin Davis 9783319872650
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined 'realities'. Alternative Worlds... -
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice by Cristy Clark 9781474487450
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure... -
The Metaphysics of Mind by Anthony Kenny 9780192830708
Booksplease Price: £40.19The ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gilbert Ryle have had a major influence on the work of Anthony Kenny, who has explored many aspects of the philosophy of mind in a series of books over the past... -
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Saint Thomas's Eve: (Tudor Saga) by Jean Plaidy 9780099493235 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.15Step back in time with multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy as she expertly paints a picture of Tudor England and its capricious and fickle King and court. This... -
Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700: Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality by James Colin Davis 9783319622316
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined 'realities'. Alternative Worlds... -
Italia con gusto e amore: Road Trip to the Roots of Italian cuisine by Annette Canini Daems 9789401499064
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Travel to the roots of Italian cuisine. Annette Canini Daems guides you through the country where food is not merely a product, but a whole culture. She guides you on a wonderful road trip through... -
Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 by Andrew Fitzmaurice 9780521822251
Booksplease Price: £99.43Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary... -
The Third Sword: On The Political Role of Prophets by James Bernard Murphy 9781009372282
Booksplease Price: £75.63Prophets are wild cards in the game of politics, James Bernard Murphy writes in this startling new book. They risk their lives by calling out the abuses of political and religious leaders, forcing us... -
The Bible Word-Book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the Authorised Version of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer by William Aldis Wright 9781108024648
Booksplease Price: £55.45William Aldis Wright (1831-1914) was a literary and biblical scholar who served first as Librarian, then Bursar, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and as secretary to the Old Testament Revision Company,... -
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival Tim Surma 9783031746604
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.98This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve... -
Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon by Peter Kirwan 9781107096172
Booksplease Price: £99.43In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book,... -
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century by Ruth Ahnert 9781107040304
Booksplease Price: £94.51Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison... -
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal's fall from power in 1529... -
Meg by Paula A. Vogel
Booksplease Price: £14.743m, 2f / Platforms, moveable props American College Theatre Festival Winner. Base on the life of Margaret More Roper. The political and ruthless male hierarchies of Henry VIII and the Church are... -
The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Socio-linguistic Study by Jonathan Hope 9780521417372
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £80.10This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centuries,... -
Returning Questions: A Dialogical Introduction to Philosophy by Otto R Piechowski 9780761824718
Booksplease Price: £76.50The readings presented in Returning Questions: A Dialogical Introduction to Philosophy are short, clear and direct. They are meant to stimulate meaningful dialogue and interactive learning to... -
Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630 by Rosemary Horrox 9780521187374
Booksplease Price: £39.39This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide... -
Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England by Jaime Goodrich 9780810129382
Booksplease Price: £37.05With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women's devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female... -
The Little Book of Hertfordshire Ruth Herman 9781803995458
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Hertfordshire is a county full of stories. Its closeness to London attracts the great and the good (and the not so good). We have saints - St Albans, St Thomas More and the only English Pope,...