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The English Aristocracy at War - From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn by David Simpkin 9781783271825
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.46In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standards. Most of his countrymen had not been on active... -
Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots John M Gilbert 9781837652297
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68Examines the political significance and performativity of elite hunting in sixteenth-century Scotland. Hunting during the early modern period was not simply a popular form of elite entertainment; it... -
The Church of England in the Twentieth Century - The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 by Dr. Andrew Chandler 9781843831655
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $96.31This is the first comprehensive historical picture to be published of the life and work of the Church of England in the second half of the twentieth century. It traces the evolution of the Church in... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLVII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2024 by Mark Hagger 9781837652884
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $166.93"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King The articles collected here demonstrate the range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period. Writers and writing form an important... -
Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages by Prof. Anne Curry
Booksplease Price: $201.83The 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: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90Based 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: $241.50Booksplease Price: $235.03Powys, 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: $52.48Booksplease Price: $35.60It 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... -
Conflict, Peace and Human Security in South Asia Purna Bahadur Karki 9781837654277
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $151.24Revealing the forces driving conflict, peace, and human security in South Asia. Conflict, Peace and Human Security in South Asia explores the region's complex socio-political landscape through nine... -
The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos, 1750-1780 by Richard Maunder 9781843838937
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $62.98In 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... -
Death and Dissent -Two Fifteenth-Century Chronic - The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis, translated by John Shirley; `Warkworth`s Chronicle`- the Chronic by Lister M. Matheson 9780851157252
Booksplease Price: $155.34This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The... -
Bishop Aethelwold - His Career and Influence by Barbara Yorke 9780851157054
Booksplease Price: $62.33AEthelwold's life and his political and ecclesiastical importance in the 10th-century reformation receive thorough scholarly scrutiny in this appraisal of his life and work. The studies include a... -
Women`s Experiences of the Second World War - Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life by Mark J. Crowley
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68Many 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... -
Christabel Pankhurst - Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition by Timothy Larsen
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68Christabel 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: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68It 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: $241.50Booksplease Price: $234.40Explores 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: $201.83The 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... -
Archives of the Scientific Revolution - The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Michael Hunter
Booksplease Price: $201.83Manuscript collections created by the individuals and institutions who were responsible for the scientific revolution offer valuable evidence of the intellectual aspirations and working practices of... -
The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds by Francis Young 9781837651016
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $122.96A volume of translated documents chronicling the conflict between Franciscan friars and Benedictine monks in medieval Bury St Edmunds and the subsequent Franciscan community at Babwell Between 1233... -
Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era by Professor Nicholas Rogers 9781837651511
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.27Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and... -
The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650–1800 by Stephanie Carter 9781783277940
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $150.51Explores 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: $229.59WINNER 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: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.27This 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: $52.48Booksplease Price: $40.36The 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: $201.83The 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: $52.48Booksplease Price: $40.36The 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: $201.83The 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: $199.50Booksplease Price: $166.93Examines 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 Medieval Pig by Dolly Jørgensen 9781837651429
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $90.15Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might... -
The United States` Entry into the First World War - The Role of British and German Diplomacy by Justin Quinn Olmstead
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68The 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: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68Early 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: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.49The 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: $201.83Despite 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: $229.59'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: $202.46The 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... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2020 Professor Stephen D. Church 9781783276059
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $132.80The articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader... -
The Fifteenth Century XX: Essays presented to Rowena E. Archer by Linda Clark 9781837651993
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68"This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate in a volume honouring the distinguished scholarship... -
The History of the Albigensian Crusade - Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay`s `Historia Albigensis` by W.A. Sibly 9780851158075
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.41The Historia Albigensis is one of the most important sources for the history of the Cathar heresy and the Albigensian crusade. This new translation makes the work available in English for the first... -
Gustav Mahler - Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death. Interpretations and Annotations by Donald Mitchell 9780851159089
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $60.12A monument in Mahler studies, this volume concentrates on the composer's vocal music and, in particular, on some of his most famous, most original and best loved compositions: the late Rueckert... -
Late Medieval Ipswich: Trade and Industry Nicholas R. Amor 9781837652518
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.49A detailed study of Ipswich at a time of great growth and prosperity, highlighting the activities of its industries, merchants and craftsmen. Ipswich in the late Middle Ages was a flourishing town. A...