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Loyalty And Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859894289
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €80.50This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of... -
Loyalty And Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859895002
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of... -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text by William Langland 9781804132142
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €99.73The earliest version of William Langland's Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life's work will take. Piers Plowman is a... -
Partisan Politics: Looking for Consensus in Eighteenth-Century Towns by Jon Rosebank 9781905816675
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.60New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics. It was the... -
Church And State: The English Experience by Adrian Hastings
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €19.67The prestigious Prideaux Lectures were given in 1990 by Adrian Hastings, published here in volume form. With a distinctive and fresh approach, he surveys the vast range of interactions between the... -
The Geology Of Cornwall by E. B. Selwood 9780859895293
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €80.15Cornwall is renowned for the diversity and complexity of its geology. This geology, and its relation to the mineral wealth of the county, has been the subject of continuing investigation since the... -
'Film Europe' And 'Film America': Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939 Andrew Higson 9780859895460
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.40Winner of the 2000 Prix Jean Mitry. A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of... -
The Geology Of Cornwall by E. B. Selwood 9780859894326
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13Cornwall is renowned for the diversity and complexity of its geology. This geology, and its relation to the mineral wealth of the county, has been the subject of continuing investigation since the... -
William Morris’s Socialism and Politics: Claiming a Decent Life John Blewitt 9781804132173
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €101.00Since the early 1960s, the Journal of the William Morris Society (renamed Journal of William Morris Studies in 2005) has attracted a wide range of scholars to consider the life and work of this... -
Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge: John Wright’s Alma Mater by Dr. Christopher Stray 9781804130278
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.24John Wright's Alma Mater was the first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain. Yet this trailblazing and revealing work has never been reprinted since its appearance in 1827. Full of... -
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness Lasse R. Gammelgaard 9781804132258
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.37Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in turn been interested... -
A.L. Rowse And Cornwall: Paradoxical Patriot by Philip Payton 9780859897983
Booksplease Price: €33.78Winner of the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2006, and Overall Winner of the Holyer an Gof Trophy, this gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in... -
God's Exiles and English Verse: On The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry by John D. Niles 9781804130698
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text,... -
Language and Identity in the University: Exploring Marginality and Liminality in Higher Education Yolanda Cerda 9781804131862
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €89.49Language and Identity in the University is an exploration of the relationship between language and the construction of identities in Higher Education contexts and what this relationship reveals about... -
A.L. Rowse And Cornwall: Paradoxical Patriot by Philip Payton 9780859897440
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10Winner of the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2006, and Overall Winner of the Holyer an Gof Trophy, this gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in... -
Medicine And Science At Exeter Cathedral Library: A short-title catalogue of printed books, 1483-1900, with a list of 10th-19th century manuscripts by Peter W. Thomas 9780859895743
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €85.70Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. The collection is one of the best of its kind and is a major resource. It includes... -
Ontographies: A Media Philosophy of Immanence Lorenz Engell 9781804132463
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €69.00Ontographies proposes a radical shift, moving beyond the crisis of representation by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspective for understanding our media-saturated... -
The International Arms Trade: Reconfiguration of the Defence-Industrial Landscape Kenneth Boutin 9781804131268
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €94.61This volume provides an analytical framework for the international arms-transfer system and offers important insights into that system as it is being transformed by the development of the... -
The Campaigns of John Baxter Langley: A Keen and Courageous Reformer by David George 9781905816477
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.60Once notorious but now largely forgotten, the political idealist and radical John Baxter Langley was typical of the well-educated and ethical Victorians who struggled to create a fairer, more equal... -
The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England John Clark 9781804132395
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.09Shortlisted by The Folklore Society for The Katharine Briggs Award 2025. Two medieval chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, reported the mysterious appearance of a pair of... -
The Saints` Lives of Jocelin of Furness - Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics by Helen Birkett
Booksplease Price: €108.74First comprehensive study of four important medieval saints' lives, setting them in their political and ecclesiastical context. Jocelin of Furness (fl.1175x1214), the Cistercian hagiographer,... -
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural Jeremy Harte 9781804132401
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.00What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle... -
The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England John Clark 9781804131367
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €90.58Two medieval chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, reported the mysterious appearance of a pair of 'Green Children'-with green skins and speaking an unknown language-in the... -
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural Jeremy Harte 9781804130957
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €94.61What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle... -
Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader by Steve Neale 9781905816583
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €111.53This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the... -
Finding Birt Acres: The Rediscovery of a Film Pioneer Deac Rossell 9781804131466
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €101.10Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic... -
Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance: Collected Essays by Graham Ley 9780859898911
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version... -
School House in the Wind: A Trilogy by Anne Treneer by Anne Treneer 9780859895125
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.30Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in... -
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity Robin Douglas 9781804131237
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €94.61Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted... -
Toussaint Louverture by Alphonse de Lamartine 9780859896351
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850. It draws a... -
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity Robin Douglas 9781804132418
Booksplease Price: €29.82Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted... -
Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema David Ingram 9780859896092
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €20.52This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely... -
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Transitive Media [Philosophy]: Think(er)ing Technologies in Real-Time Wolfgang Ernst 9781804132326
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.62With the pervasive digitalization of communication and information devices in society, and with the increasing supremacy of software that dissimulates its physical medium, actual technologies are... -
Elles: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern French Poetry by Women by Sir Martin Sorrell 9780859894487
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €20.18Elles is the first bilingual anthology of its kind. It introduces English-speaking readers to some of the best French poetry written by women over the last twenty years. Martin Sorrell has chosen a... -
Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations by Clive Scott 9780859897693
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.54Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of... -
Chuck, Appearance and Reality: Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy Kelly Dean Jolley 9781804132357
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €99.88How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? On the face of it, Chuck appears to be fun and funny network TV show merging spy thriller with romantic comedy, a piece of... -
Revisiting the First Cold War: A View from the 21st Century Aiden Warren 9781804132111
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €95.83Against the backdrop of major geopolitical developments, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and intensifying great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific, this book undertakes a comprehensive... -
Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest by Anne Etienne 9781804132241
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.49What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in... -
An American in Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's 'Five Years in an English University' by Charles Astor Bristed 9780859898256
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.37Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gaining a degree at Yale, Bristed... -
Picturegoers: A Critical Anthology of Eyewitness Experiences by Luke McKernan 9781804130124
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €89.46This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included...