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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,... -
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 Haskins Society Journal 28 - 2016. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93The contributions in this volume illuminate critical aspects of the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds - and more. Essays consider the complexities of the Norman administration in North... -
Sir Jonas Moore - Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science by Frances Willmoth 9780851153216
Booksplease Price: £96.11Sir Jonas Moore (1617-79) practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy had a remarkable career, and was one of the first to... -
Lord of the Pyrenees: Gaston Febus, Count of Foix (1331-1391) by Richard Vernier
Booksplease Price: £96.11The reign of Gaston III, Count of Foix and self-proclaimed sovereign Lord of Bearn, stands out as one of the rare success stories of the `calamitous' fourteenth century. By playing a skilful game of... -
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect - Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians by Shulamith Shahar
Booksplease Price: £96.11Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of Pamiers, in southern France, in 1319 and subsequently burnt at the stake for their heretical beliefs... -
Women and the British Army, 1815-1880 by Professor Lynn MacKay 9781837650552
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This book explores the world of women who married, or dealt with British soldiers below the rank of officer during the nineteenth century, including fiancées, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters,... -
The English and the Norman Conquest by Ann Williams 9780851157085
Booksplease Price: £27.80Most books on the Norman conquest concentrate on the conquerors, the Norman settlers who became the ancestors of the medieval English baronage. This book is different, setting out to examine the... -
Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union - Rapallo and After, 1922-1934 by Stephanie C. Salzmann 9781843838401
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The treaty of Rapallo, concluded in 1922 between Germany and the Soviet Union, the two vanquished powers of the Great War, ranks high among the diplomatic coups de surprise of the twentieth century... -
The Life and Music of Charles Wood Jeremy Dibble 9781837654109
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £95.74Reassesses the life, music and enduring influence of Charles Wood, a central figure in British and Irish music and one of the foremost teachers of his generation. Charles Wood (1866-1926), Armagh... -
The Medieval Clothier by John S. Lee 9781783273171
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.42Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their... -
State, Law and Gender: Debating the Age of Marriage in India, 1872-1978 by Shreya Roy 9781837651436
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62A critical analysis of marriage law in India from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century In State, Law and Gender, Shreya Roy highlights how Indian law has been implicated in women's... -
Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700 by Richard Stone 9781837650538
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a... -
Sailors, Statesmen and the Implementation of Naval Strategy by Agustín Guimerá 9781837651207
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Explores the varied relationship between political leaders and naval experts, from the 16th to 21st centuries The shaping of national defence strategies is particularly difficult in the case of... -
Philip the Good - The Apogee of Burgundy by Richard Vaughan 9780851159171
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.69Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its apogee. Professor Vaughan portrays not only Philip the Good himself, perhaps the most attractive personality... -
The Normans in their Histories - Propaganda, Myth and Subversion by Emily Albu 9780851156569
Booksplease Price: £109.03The first Normans were Rollo and his fellow Vikings, marauders from the north, who fashioned the county [later the Duchy] of Normandy from lands won at the mouth of the Seine in about 911, making... -
The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century by Marc Morris 9781843831648
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66The Bigods were one of the most powerful and important families in thirteenth-century England. They are chiefly remembered for their dramatic interventions in high politics. Roger III Bigod (c... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XIV - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1991 by Marjorie Chibnall
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Adela of Blois and Ivo of Chartres; Anglo-Norman families; Anglo-Scandinavian equestrian equipment; `Belrem'; Bookland, Folkland and Fiefs; Charters of David I; Counts of Boulogne under Eustace II;... -
Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915-1925 by Professor Deborah Mawer
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition... -
The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond by Philip MacDougall
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia continued throughout the eighteenth century, with Britain providing huge assistance to the growth of Russia's navy, and Russia making an essential but... -
Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by Dr Jake Dyble 9781837652822
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.90Draws on the rich surviving archives of the Tuscan port of Livorno to explore how General Average worked. Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the... -
Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XX by Kelly DeVries 9781783277186
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The essays in this volume of the Journal continue its proud tradition of presenting cutting-edge research with a wide chronological and geographical range, from eleventh-century Georgia (David IV's... -
Rebellion in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1500 by Adrian Jobson 9781837650965
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £96.04Essays exploring the dynamics of rebellion across Europe - from Sweden and Slovakia to the Iberian Peninsula and Hungary - over five centuries. Rebellion was a fundamental part of the political... -
Conflict, Peace and Human Security in South Asia Purna Bahadur Karki 9781837654277
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £72.02Revealing 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... -
Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages by Dr Thomas W. Smith 9781837651757
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75An exploration of the letters from the First Crusade, yielding evidence for a number of reinterpretations of the movement. The letters stemming from the First Crusade are premier sources for... -
Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade - The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century by Timothy Guard 9781783270910
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, "high chivalry" and the famous battles... -
The Archaeology of Weapons - Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry by Ewart Oakeshott 9780851157382
Booksplease Price: £39.13In The Archaeology of Weapons, Ewart Oakeshott traces the development of European arms in logical sequence, showing how changes were wrought by the use of new materials and the ever-shifting demands... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4 by Robin Netherton 9781843833666
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.36The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the... -
Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World, 1636–1676: A Study of Military Providentialism by Dr Matthew Rowley 9781837650149
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing. This book recounts Puritan struggles for military dominance and for an... -
The Haskins Society Journal 31: 2019. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan 9781783275731
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The articles in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal take the reader... -
The Medieval Siege by Jim Bradbury 9780851153575
Booksplease Price: £38.83The chapter on weaponry is descriptive and there are excellent drawings as well as contemporary illustrations. Equally, the final chapter on the conduct of sieges is admirably forthright... the index... -
The British Army, Society and Soldiering in Ireland, 1699-1793 Dr Andrew P. Dorman 9781837650996
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37A comprehensive overview of the British army in Ireland in the eighteenth century and the army's relationship with the local population. The eighteenth-century army in Ireland, which consisted of... -
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History across an English Region Stephen Banfield 9781783272730
Booksplease Price: £40.60Music in the West Country is the first regional history of music in England. Ranging over seven hundred years, from the minstrels, waits, and cathedral choristers of the fourteenth century to the... -
Thirteenth Century England XVIII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019 by Andrew Spencer 9781805430575
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century. The theme of this volume, "Exceptional England", follows on from...