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Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.73In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited... -
Layamon's Arthur: The Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut by W. R. J. Barron 9780859896856
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €39.52Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our... -
Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages Duncan Sayer (School of Forensic & Investigative Science, University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom)) 9780859898799
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €37.44This book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Applying explicit case studies based on a range of European sites (from Scandinavia to Britain, Southern France to the Black Sea), 'Mortuary... -
Ancrene Wisse / Guide for Anchoresses: A Translation Bella Millett (Department of English, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)) 9780859897761
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €39.16This early thirteenth-century West Midlands guide for women recluses is not only one of the major works of early Middle English prose, but is also a key document for the development of medieval... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2: 1939-1991 by Edward Acton 9780859897167
Booksplease Price: €142.22Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the... -
The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue Ralph Hanna, III (Keble College (United Kingdom)) 9780859898201
Booksplease Price: €141.62Richard Rolle - the Yorkshire hermit, visionary and transmitter of religious counsel - was widely recognised in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. However, this influential... -
New Arabian Studies Volume 5 by J. R. Smart 9780859896450
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €64.59New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents,... -
Les Marguerites by Jean Benech De Cantenac 9780859896429
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.11Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier's circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac (Bordeaux 1630-1714) was notorious in his own time but has only recently... -
Signs of Cleopatra: Reading an Icon Historically by Mary Hamer 9780859898096
Booksplease Price: €35.14Cleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the status of a foundation myth. As such, artists of all periods have drawn on it in order to... -
Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-Text Translations by Robert K. Upchurch 9780859897808
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As... -
The Comedies Of Terence by Frederick Clayton 9780859897631
RRP: €30.81Booksplease Price: €29.90'The Comedies of Terence' presents entirely new translations, in rhyming couplets, of all six extant plays by this Latin author, dating from the period 166-60 BC. An excellent literary translation,... -
Meetings With Mallarme by Michael Temple 9780859895613
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10From Paul Valery to Julia Kristeva, the work of Stephane Mallarme has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive... -
Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand 9780859899956
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire... -
La Hollande Malade by Raymond Poisson 9780859894654
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.03The book is a critical edition of La Hollande Malade, a comedy in one act by Raymond Poisson. La Hollande Malade, written in 1673, is a satirical and allegorical comedy. The historical context of... -
Pour Louis Bouilhet by Gustave Flaubert 9780859894418
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert.Book InformationISBN 9780859894418Author Gustave FlaubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 83Imprint University... -
Narratives And Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture by David E. Nye 9780859895569
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859895569Author David E. NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Exeter... -
Narratives And Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture by David E. Nye 9780859895552
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €80.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859895552Author David E. NyeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Exeter... -
Le Commerce Du Parnasse by Francoise Pascal 9780859896672
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.38This critical edition of Francoise Pascal's epistolary collection Le Commerce du Parnasse (Paris, 1669) highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer virtually unknown today,... -
Soledades by Antonio Machado 9780859897648
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.77This edition of Antonio Machado's work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado's original edition it will be... -
Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky by Ray Davison 9780859895323
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €25.44This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which... -
Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages by Duncan Sayer 9780859898317
Booksplease Price: €141.62This book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Applying explicit case studies based on a range of European sites (from Scandinavia to Britain, Southern France to the Black Sea), 'Mortuary... -
English Poetry Before Chaucer by Michael Swanton 9780859896818
Booksplease Price: €141.62A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to... -
TV-Philosophy: How TV Series Change Our Thinking by Sandra Laugier 9781804130216
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €63.87This is the first book to explore the hold of TV series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture... -
Communication Across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Professor Basil Hatim 9781905816309
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.72A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and... -
From Valois to Bourbon: Dynasty, State and Society in Early Modern France by Keith Cameron 9780859893107
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88In August 1589 Henri III, the last of the Valois Kings of France, was assassinated by a Dominican monk, Jacques Clement. This ill-fated and much maligned son of Henri II and Catherine de Medici was... -
Nazism, War and Genocide: New Perspectives on the History of the Third Reich by Neil Gregor 9780859897457
Booksplease Price: €142.48Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume of specially commissioned essays brings together contributions by internationally recognised scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to... -
William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel by John Blewitt 9781905816279
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.24A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John... -
The Medieval Mystical Tradition In England by Marion Glasscoe 9780859891837
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €32.11This collection of essays approaches medieval mysticism from a range of perspectives, including literary, historical, theological and psychological points of view.About the AuthorDr MARION GLASSCOE... -
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984 by Brian May 9781804131299
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €74.11Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership... -
Beowulf: with the Finnesburg Fragment by C. L. Wrenn 9780859895187
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €37.08This fifth, revised edition of Wrenn's Beowulf strives to retain the four distinctive features of the previous editions: textual conservatism, concise presentation, concentration on the needs of... -
Aelfric's Lives Of Three English Saints by G.I. Needham
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88Scholarly edition of Aelfric's 'Lives of Three English Saints' (Oswald, Edmund and Swithin) with contextual introduction and glossary.Book InformationISBN 9780859890762Author G.I. NeedhamFormat... -
Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages by Jeanette Beer
Booksplease Price: €26.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879288812Author Jeanette BeerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Exeter... -
On Actors And Acting by Prof. Peter Thomson
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €125.93This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre... -
Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World by Christopher Gill
Booksplease Price: €142.48This collection of essays explores the key issue of the nature of the boundary between fact and fiction, an issue which has become prominent especially through the upsurge of interest in the ancient... -
Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers by Ralph Hanna 9780859898713
Booksplease Price: €141.62This book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems. Rather than focus on bibliographical particulars,... -
The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870 Tom Williamson 9780859896344
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €39.52This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For decades historians have debated the nature, timing and even the... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2: 1939-1991 by Edward Acton 9780859895828
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.73Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the... -
Shifting The Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century by Dario Castiglione 9780859894449
Booksplease Price: €141.62A collection of essays, written by well-known specialists in their fields, which deal with the problematic and ever-shifting boundaries between the public and the private spheres in Western Europe in... -
Culture in History: Production, Consumption and Values in Historical Perspective by Joseph Melling 9780859893800
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.83This volume of interdisciplinary essays brings together leading academics from the fields of history, economic history, politics and sociology to review and take forward a series of debates on the... -
Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses: A Late-Medieval Guide for Anchorites and its Middle English Translation by E. A. Jones 9780859898850
Booksplease Price: €142.48Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same texts - De...