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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships by Barbara Newman
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What... -
Against Nature - The Notebooks by Tomas Espedal 9781803090535
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.70The companion volume to Espedal's Against Art, written in his characteristic poetic prose. In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult... -
Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s Chris Jones 9781138642539
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century's Revolutionary decade. The book traces a... -
Kant for Everyman Willibald Klinke (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781138650404
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99First published in 1951. This title aims to familiarise the reader with the ideas of the sometimes difficult philosopher Immanuel Kant by presenting them in a more comprehensible form. Kant for... -
Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France by Mary D. Sheriff 9780226752884
Booksplease Price: £27.92In eighteenth-century France, the ability to "lose oneself" in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was also thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and its Relevance Today by C.H. Dobinson
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This book, first published in 1969, is a detailed consideration of Rousseau's ideas on education, and an examination of how they grew out of his own experiences in childhood. With particular... -
Frameworks of Time in Rousseau by Jason Neidleman 9780367772864
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Frameworks of Time in Rousseau explores the ways in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau envisaged time as a diagnostic tool for understanding the state of society and the predicaments of modernity. Central... -
Love, Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook by Conor McCarthy
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical act of sex, and the social institution... -
Conversation, Friendship and Transformation: Contemporary and Medieval Voices in a Theology of Discourse by Jennifer Constantine Jackson
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Conversation is the central spiritual exercise in philosophical and theological reflection on language and love. Groundbreaking in its interdisciplinary approach, Conversation, Friendship and... -
Peter Abelard: Philosophy and Christianity in the Middle Ages by Leif Grane 9780367631628
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1970, Peter Abelard provides an exploration into the social and religious background to the story of Abelard and Heloise. The book presents the twelfth century as an age of... -
Peter Abelard: Philosophy and Christianity in the Middle Ages by Leif Grane
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1970, Peter Abelard provides an exploration into the social and religious background to the story of Abelard and Heloise. The book presents the twelfth century as an age of... -
The Past and the Present Revisited Lawrence Stone 9780710211934
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13First Published in 1987. Presented as two sections, the first includes three surveys which aim to describe and comment on some of radial changes in the questions historians have been asking about the... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and its Relevance Today by C.H. Dobinson 9780367767747
Booksplease Price: £108.12This book, first published in 1969, is a detailed consideration of Rousseau's ideas on education, and an examination of how they grew out of his own experiences in childhood. With particular... -
Rousseau Timothy O'Hagan 9780415308632
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Timothy O'Hagan investigates Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings concerning the formation of humanity, of the individual and of the citizen in his three master works: the Discourse on the Origin of... -
The New Significance of Learning: Imagination's Heartwork Padraig Hogan 9780415549684
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book arises from a bold suggestion: that education is to be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, as opposed to a subordinate activity controlled largely by society's... -
The Sentiment of Reality: Truth of Feeling in the European Novel by Michael Bell 9780367610661
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The book takes the form of an... -
The Queen of Crows by Myke Cole
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Despite the crippling injuries she's received, Heloise stands tall against overwhelming odds with the help of alchemically-empowered armor and an unbreakable spirit. Heloise has grown from a... -
Rousseau by Nicholas Dent
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas... -
Sociology Lit Taste Ils 90 by Levin L. Schucking
Booksplease Price: £70.29First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of a nine volume library of Sociology on the Sociology of Culture and includes a study on the sociology of literary taste. The idea underlying the book is... -
Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s by Coral Ann Howells 9781138794719
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women's novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive... -
The Enlightenment World by Martin Fitzpatrick 9780415404082
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £74.44The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious... -
Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch 9780367753511
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological... -
Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred by R. Jacob McDonie
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately 1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature" that... -
Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros Paul Gifford 9781138275683
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £33.19European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not... -
The Tangled Thread: The Morland Dynasty, Book 10 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his... -
Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945 by Rebecca Earle 9780367888206
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £44.68This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest... -
Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance by Bonnie Wheeler 9781403962942
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.About the... -
Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood by Gary Taylor
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity... -
Abelard's Love by Luise Rinser 9780803289680
Booksplease Price: £28.87Abelard's Love is an inspired retelling of the story of Abelard and Heloise-the French medieval theologian and his brilliant student-whose love affair led to a scandal that has echoed through the... -
Medieval Religion: New Approaches Constance Hoffman Berman 9780415316873
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades.Bringing together an... -
Sex and Sexuality in Europe, 1100-1750: The Devil's Roast Andrew Mansfield (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 9781138656093
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Transcending the traditional categories of 'medieval' and 'early modern' to analyse pan-European attitudes and behaviours, Sex and Sexuality in Europe, 1100-1750 provides students with a grounding in... -
The Social Contract by James Hill 9781912303458
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady by Bonnie Wheeler 9780230602366
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £90.86Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: £39.88What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
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And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman 9780571354092 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.31FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND DREAM GIRL'Gripping' Irish Independent'Lippman writes with clarity and power.' STEPHEN KING'A gritty story, vivid characters and a fast-moving, twisting... -
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND DREAM GIRL'Gripping' Irish Independent'Lippman writes with clarity and power.' STEPHEN KING'A gritty story, vivid characters and a fast-moving, twisting... -
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents by Vera Morton 9781843842958
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in... -
Joan of Arc and Spirituality by Bonnie Wheeler 9781403962225
Booksplease Price: £46.28Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an... -
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer by R. Edwards 9781403964113
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise,... -
The Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus by Juanita Feros Ruys 9781349387090
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife...