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Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages by Prof. Anne Curry
Booksplease Price: £96.11The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as a part of the wider concept of patronage: it is prominent throughout the language and life of the time. These studies examine... -
Songs for Cabo Verde - Norberto Tavares`s Musical Visions for a New Republic by Susan Hurley-glowa 9781648250217
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Based on twenty years of collaborative fieldwork, Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic focuses on the musician Norberto Tavares but also tells a larger story... -
Medieval Powys - Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293 by David Stephenson 9781783271405
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (south-west), occupying nearly a quarter of the... -
The Medieval Archer by Jim Bradbury 9780851156750
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.95It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society. SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN This book... -
Christabel Pankhurst - Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition by Timothy Larsen
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been... -
Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge by Jonathan Smith
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75It was in the 19th and early 20th centuries that Cambridge, characterised in the previous century as a place of indolence and complacency, underwent the changes which produced the institutional... -
Localization and Globalization of Religions by Maurits S. Hassankhan 9781837651399
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62Explores the adaptation of Hinduism and Islam in diasporic settings and inter-religious relations in the Girmit diaspora. Archival research, micro-biographies, and ethnographic studies shine light... -
The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Dauvit Broun 9780851153759
Booksplease Price: £96.11The close ties between Gaels of Ireland and Scotland are well known, but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the elite in the core areas of the kingdom of the Scots apparently turned their backs... -
Women`s Experiences of the Second World War - Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life by Mark J. Crowley
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War concentrate on women's increasing participation in the workplace and on their struggles to cope with rationing and shortages. This... -
Arthurian Poets - Edwin Arlington Robinson by James P. Carley
Booksplease Price: £33.47`Traditional yet original, realistic but not in the reductive sense, he is too good to be forgotten.' ROBERTSON DAVIES Robinson's Arthurian poems, published between 1917 and 1927, won him a Pulitzer... -
The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos, 1750-1780 by Richard Maunder 9781843838937
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £29.99In the baroque era most concertos were - in the modern sense of the term - chamber music, to be played by a small group of musicians each reading from an individual printed or manuscript part... -
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin 9781837651122
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96The definitive reference book on Ireland's cultural and religious heritage. Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore,... -
Red Flag and Union Jack - Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881-1924 by Paul Ward 9781843836360
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22It is generally assumed that the language of patriotism and national identity belongs to the political right, but the emergence of socialism in the 1880s shows clearly that the left also drew on such... -
Britten`s Gloriana: Essays and Sources by Paul Banks 9781843837978
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Glorianahas been a source of... -
The Clarinet by Jane Ellsworth 9781648250170
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.06With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on... -
The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650–1800 by Stephanie Carter 9781783277940
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Explores the breadth, diversity and significance of the commercial music trade and its communities across Britain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Adding to the existing... -
Mozart`s Cosi fan tutte - A Compositional History by Ian Woodfield
Booksplease Price: £109.33WINNER of the Mozart Society of America 'Marjorie Weston Emerson Award' for 2008 This study proposes a hypothesis to account for some of the opera's long-standing 'problems'. It suggests that Mozart... -
Ireland and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century by Fergal O'Leary 9781837650606
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This book examines the place of imperialism in the cultural, political and economic life of late nineteenth-century Irish society. It highlights the tensions which arose because Ireland was at the... -
The Celts - A History by Daithi O Hogain 9780851159232
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The Celts were one of the most important population groups to spread across the ancient European continent. From 800BC to 1050AD their story is one of expanding power and influence followed by... -
The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society by Richard Britnell 9781843830290
Booksplease Price: £96.11The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in... -
Land and Nation in England - Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 by Paul Readman 9781843836520
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in Conservative, Liberal and Labour policymaking: in the context of concern about the faltering... -
Mozart`s Viennese Instrumental Music - A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention by Simon P. Keefe 9781843833192
Booksplease Price: £96.11The stylistic evolution of Mozart's Viennese instrumental repertory as a whole [1781-1791], closely tied to historical and contextual lines of enquiry, has yet to receive systematic attention. This... -
Careers and Crises in the Age of Charles I by David Cressy 9781837652914
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.49Examines a selection of Charles I's people, exploring their aspirations and discontents, their engagement with kindred and colleagues, and central authority, in an age they recognized as 'troubled'... -
The United States` Entry into the First World War - The Role of British and German Diplomacy by Justin Quinn Olmstead
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The complicated situation which led to the American entry into the First World War in 1917 is often explained from the perspective of public opinion, US domestic politics, or financial and economic... -
Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France - From Grand Tour to School Trips by Gabor Gelleri 9781783274369
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Early modern educational travel is usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young nobleman's journey through the established highlights of Europe. Lessons of Travel presents how, in... -
Designs upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages Professor Oliver Creighton 9781843838258
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52The phrase "designed landscape" is generally associated with the great parks and gardens of the post-medieval period, with grand country houses surrounded by parkland, such as Chatsworth... -
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century Englan - Gender, Work and Wages by Nicola Verdon 9780851159065
Booksplease Price: £96.11Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an... -
Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 - `The Desired Haven` by Angela McCarthy 9781843831433
Booksplease Price: £109.33'I have at last reached the desired haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the year of her arrival at Lyttelton, when writing home to cousins in County Down. There was a huge amount... -
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291 by Nicholas Morton 9781843834779
Booksplease Price: £96.41The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide medical care for crusaders in the kingdom of Jerusalem. In time, it assumed a military role and played an important part in the defence of the... -
Society at War - The Experience of England and France during the Hundred Years War by Christopher Allmand 9780851156729
Booksplease Price: £96.11War's impact on two societies, England and France, in the late middle ages is fully explored through the evidence and commentary presented here, showing how they reacted to the conflict between them... -
Dictionary of Medieval Heroes - Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts by W. P. Gerritsen 9780851157801
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.94A treasury of medieval tales about the great heroes of the time is unlocked in this volume. Some are familiar figures, like Charlemagne and his paladins, Arthur and his knights, or Tristan and... -
English Caroline Script and Monastic History - Studies in Benedictinism, AD 950-1030 by David Dumville 9780851153230
Booksplease Price: £96.11Caroline minuscule script was adopted in England in the mid-tenth century in imitation of Continental usage. A badge of ecclesiastical reform, it was practised in Benedictine scriptoria but was also... -
Medieval Knighthood IV - Papers from the fifth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1990 by Christopher Harper-Bill 9780851153193
Booksplease Price: £109.03These eight papers from the Strawberry Hill Conference cover a wide area, but common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic,... -
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England by Katherine J. Lewis
Booksplease Price: £103.44The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety... -
Premodern Masculinities in Transition by Professor Konrad Eisenbichler 9781837651702
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting,... -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851157474
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54The myths and legends of prehistoric Ireland have inspired writers through the ages, down to W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in our own century, but what do we know of the realities of ancient Irish... -
From Kings to Warlords - The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages by Katharine Simms 9780851157849
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in... -
Saints` Cults in the Celtic World by Steve Boardman 9781843834328
Booksplease Price: £96.11The way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the... -
The Reckoned Expense - Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. by Thomas M. McCoog
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among... -
The Material Text in Wycliffite Biblical Inscription and Sacred Truth by David Lavinsky 9781783272549
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The reform movement known variously as Wycliffism or Lollardy is now a familiar feature of the premodern intellectual and religious landscape. But even though "heresy" has migrated to the...