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History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents by James Gairdner 9781108010092
Booksplease Price: £38.42No English king has been the subject of more heated debate than Richard III. In this 1898 revised edition of his classic biography, Gairdner attempts to produce a more balanced analysis of the... -
Erasmus: Intellectual of the 16th Century by Nathan Ron 9783030798598
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the "Other." Should we consider Erasmus an involved or public intellectual aside figures such as Machiavelli, Milton, Locke, Voltaire and... -
The Bungle Book: Some Errors by Which We Live by G. V. Loewen 9780761866428
Booksplease Price: £41.36The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and... -
Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII: Selection of Despatches Written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and Addressed to the Signory of Venice, January 12th, 1515, to July 26th, 1519 by Sebastiano Giustiniani 9781108060028
Booksplease Price: £37.44Sebastian Giustinian (1460-1543) served as the Venetian ambassador to the court of Henry VIII between 1515 and 1519, during which time he sent back frequent and detailed dispatches to the Signory of... -
Bibliotheca Pepysiana: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys by Edward Gordon Duff 9781108002042
Booksplease Price: £23.66Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was a student of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and bequeathed his personal library of 3000 volumes to the College on condition that the contents remained intact and... -
The ABC-Clio World History Companion to Utopian Movements by Daniel Webster Hollis 9780874368826
Booksplease Price: £61.35Utopian ideas have had an impact on almost every area of life including political theory, science, psychology, society, the economy, literature, and culture. The idea of utopia has evolved and taken... -
Literature and Politics in the English Reformation by Tom Betteridge 9780719064616
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84This book is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of... -
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: The Possible Fates of Edward V and Richard of York by Gerald Prenderghast 9781476666655
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The fate of Richard III's two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More's history and... -
Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment by George Anastaplo 9780813191737
Booksplease Price: £19.24Governments throughout history have struggled to define the boundaries of the right to freedom of speech. Even though the United States explicitly articulates freedom of speech in the First Amendment... -
Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text by James Purkis 9781107119680
Booksplease Price: £90.87How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often overlooked evidence provided... -
Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood by Dr Sebastian Mitchell 9781441109637
Booksplease Price: £33.49Utopia and its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate... -
Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited by Beatriz Bossi 9783110715262
RRP: £139.50Booksplease Price: £93.87This book meets the need to revise the standard interpretations of an apparently aporetic dialogue, full of eloquent silences and tricky suggestions, as it explores, among many other topics, the... -
Holbein: Masters of Art Florian Heine 9783791387383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.7316th-century Europe was a time of unprecedented economic expansion, cross-cultural trade, religious upheaval, warring empires, and scientific advancement. With unfettered access to the court of Henry... -
Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text by James Purkis 9781107552104
Booksplease Price: £35.47How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often overlooked evidence provided... -
Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education by Stratford Caldecott
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.71Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth... -
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James 9780521816267
Booksplease Price: £112.43Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social... -
Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: Volume 36 by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773522305
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £51.83Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian... -
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Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: Volume 36 by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773523081 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £3.20Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian... -
Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore: Harlot and Heroine by Maria M. Scott 9780815391494
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore analyzes the representation of the mistress of Edward IV of England, known to us as 'Jane' Shore (c. 1445-c. 1527). The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she left her... -
Mark by Mary Ann Beavis
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.10In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Mary Ann Beavis examines cultural context and theological meaning in Mark. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian... -
The Book of Christian Martyrs by Bruno Chenu 9780334024484
Booksplease Price: £24.14This book brings together accounts of martyrdoms from many periods of the church, many cultures and many confessions. After an extended introductory section on the nature of martyrdom, the diversity... -
Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War: Volume 41 by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773523500
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £31.28Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the... -
Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore: Harlot and Heroine by Maria M. Scott 9781138622494
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore analyzes the representation of the mistress of Edward IV of England, known to us as 'Jane' Shore (c. 1445-c. 1527). The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she left her... -
The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology by A.N. Williams 9780521126892
Booksplease Price: £45.31A. N. Williams examines the conception of the intellect in patristic theology from its beginnings in the work of the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine and Cassian in the early fifth century. The... -
A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume XII - Chelsea by Patricia E.C. Croot
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.68Like so much of Middlesex, Chelsea was swallowed up by Greater London. Here its history restores its lost identity. Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn Stephen Porter 9781398122529
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and... -
Introduction to the Devout Life by Piers Paul Read
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What was revolutionary, in Francis, was his belief that one could remain in the world and yet be holy.' Piers Paul Read, from the Introduction Francis de Sales was born in France and became... -
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life by Frederic Brussat 9780684835341
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.61Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat believe that spiritual literacy is within everyone's grasp, and their inspiring book is the ideal place for readers to start discovering the true value of people,... -
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century by Ruth Ahnert 9781108438797
Booksplease Price: £35.47Examining 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... -
Reimagining Diversity, Equity, and Justice in Early Childhood by Haeny Yoon 9781032120812
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics-COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest-this timely and critical volume... -
Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources David Englander (Open University) 9780631169918
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £46.77This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It... -
The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin by John J Liptay
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £34.43Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading... -
Locke: Political Writings by John Locke 9780872206762
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.66John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of... -
Time and Myth: A Meditation on Storytelling as an Exploration of Life and Death by John S. Dunne 9780268018283
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.69Based 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... -
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Plato's "Sophist" Revisited by Beatriz Bossi 9783110286953
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24This book consists of a selection of papers which throw new light on old problems in one of Plato's most difficult dialogues. The papers included fall into three broad categories: a) those dealing... -
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek... -
Privatizing War: A Moral Theory by William Feldman 9780367787288
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors... -
Alexander Pope at Twickenham by Alan Wall 9781905700998
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Accompanying Alan Wall's Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old... -
Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 9780816648634
Booksplease Price: £28.97Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues... -
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 4: Papers and Reviews 1982-1990 by G. R. Elton 9780521533171
Booksplease Price: £35.47This collection features the publication of Sir Geoffrey Elton's articles and reviews, published between 1982 and 1990, in continuation of three previous volumes. Volume IV contains a group of pieces...