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Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age 1750-1850 by Allan H. Pasco 9780859895507
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.18Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the... -
After Ever: Little Stories for Grown Children by D Avery 9780692175477
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692175477Author D AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher... -
Miners, Mariners & Masons: The Global Network of Victorian Freemasonry by Roger Burt 9781905816248
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained attention by academic historians. General histories of the period hardly... -
El Ritmo by Salvador Rueda 9780859894012
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.20El ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the... -
Holocaust Theology: A Reader by Prof. Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9780859896252
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.49Where was God when six million died? Over the last few decades this question has haunted both Jewish and Christian theologians. If God is all-good and all-powerful, how could he have permitted the... -
Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley by Steve Rippon 9780859898287
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €25.44This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at... -
Solving Language Problems: From General to Applied Linguistics by Reinhard R. K. Hartmann 9780859894845
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.77The book provides an overview of key areas and will serve as a useful introductory text for those following university courses in this field.Book InformationISBN 9780859894845Author Reinhard R. K... -
The Maritime History of Cornwall by Philip Payton 9780859898508
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €70.90Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall's often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent... -
Cornwall: A History: Revised and updated edition by Philip Payton 9780859890212
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €80.15A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing upon a... -
Les Tromperies by Pierre de Larivey 9780859895392
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.77Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France in 1541 and died in 1619 in Troyes. Little is known about him or his life, but, in addition to his translations of various Italian books, he has left... -
Petit Glossaire Pour Servir A L'Intelligence Des Auteurs Decadents Et Symbolistes by Paul Adam 9780859895941
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88This glossary, published in 1888, is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of `definitions' as mystifying as the words they claim to define. It... -
Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Year War, 1756–1763: The Sails of Victory by David Syrett 9780859897860
Booksplease Price: €142.48The Seven Years War was the most successful in British History, with naval supremacy triumphantly asserted over France and Spain, and a vast new overseas empire conquered. This is the story of the... -
The Digby Poems: A New Edition of the Lyrics by Helen Barr 9780859898171
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €42.66In Helen Barr's new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. The critical apparatus includes a full introduction, extensive annotation to each... -
The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World by Maren Clegg Hyer 9780859898430
Booksplease Price: €141.62This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources. Everyday... -
Identity Politics Past and Present: Political Discourses from Post-War Austria to the Covid Crisis by Ruth Wodak 9781905816804
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €85.35This new book in Critical Discourse Studies uses detailed and systematic analysis of the discursive construction of Austrian identities across a period of 20 years - from 1995 to 2015 - to trace the... -
Ancrene Wisse: Parts Six and Seven by Geoffrey Shepherd 9780859892568
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88An edition of parts six and seven of the Middle English treatise 'Ancrene Wisse' ('Guide for Anchorites'), composed between 1225 and 1240. This scholarly edition includes an introduction, notes,... -
The Mary Play: From the N. town Manuscript by Peter Meredith 9780859895477
RRP: €33.20Booksplease Price: €31.78The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle and is the only English play which deals with Mary's parents and her early life; the... -
Vaccination Wars: Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century by Ella Stewart-Peters 9781804130001
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.36For as long as there have been vaccines, there have been those who oppose them. As the world continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges of managing an effective vaccination... -
Three Northumbrian Poems by A. H. Smith 9780859890786
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.75Edition of 'Caedmon's Hymn', 'Bede's Death Song' and 'The Leiden Riddle' with contextual introduction, notes and glossary.Book InformationISBN 9780859890786Author A. H. SmithFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Compromising of Louis XVI: The Armoire de Fer and the French Revolution by Andrew Freeman 9780859892988
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88In November 1792, an iron wall-safe, or armoire de fer, was discovered hidden within a wall in the Tulieries palace. It contained secret correspondence which Louis XVI had kept from the outbreak of... -
Hen Domen, Montgomery: A Timber Castle on the English-Welsh Border by Robert Higham 9780859896528
RRP: €84.49Booksplease Price: €77.02The motte and bailey castle at Hen Domen, Montgomery was occupied from the late eleventh century until c.1300. Excavations here lasted from 1960 to 1992, and remain the most detailed examination of... -
Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility by Tatiana Konrad 9781804131176
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.24Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such... -
Exeter Excavations: the Guildhall Site by John Collis 9781804131848
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.10Redevelopment of this open space in the middle of Exeter gave archaeologists an opportunity to explore the earliest settlement. Did it have its origin as a major Roman fort? There is little evidence... -
Saxon Shore: A Handbook by Valerie A. Maxfield 9780859893305
RRP: €30.81Booksplease Price: €29.69This volume presents a summary of the latest state of knowledge of each of the ten forts that originally girdled the south-eastern corner of England from Brancaster on the Wash to Portchester on... -
Grand-Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre by Prof. Richard J. Hand 9781804130155
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.36While the infamous Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over... -
Joint Construction of Narratives in the Psychoanalytic Setting: The Role of Shifting Perspective Eszter Berán 9781804130483
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €99.73Self-narratives of the client serve as a starting point in verbally oriented psychotherapies. Therapeutic work involves the reconstruction of the clients’ self-narratives, with both client and... -
Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels by William Hansen
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.96The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman... -
Magister Paulus Niavis: Epistole breues, Epistole mediocres, Epistole longiores by Rand H Johnson
Booksplease Price: €20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879288515Author Rand H JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Exeter... -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: €26.88Booksplease Price: €26.62William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great... -
The Dream of the Rood Michael Swanton 9780859895033
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition... -
Landscape and Settlement in Britain, AD 400-1066 by Simon Burnell 9780859893862
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources. Simon Esmonde... -
The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859898591
Booksplease Price: €141.62This compelling book from Mark Stoyle sets out to uncover the true history of Boy, the canine companion of Charles I's famous nephew, Prince Rupert. Like his master, Boy was held to possess dark... -
Insects and Other Invertebrates in Classical Antiquity by Ian C. Beavis 9780859892841
Booksplease Price: €141.62A comprehensive survey of insects and terrestrial invertebrates (worms, scorpions, spiders, etc) in Antiquity.About the AuthorIan C. Beavis is the Curator at Tunbridge Wells Museum.Book... -
The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation Neil Cartlidge (Department of English Studies, Durham University (United Kingdom)) 9780859896900
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.38The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both... -
Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance volume 2: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Culture by Giuliano Di Bacco 9780859898614
Booksplease Price: €141.62From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their... -
Acting Greek Tragedy by Graham Ley 9780859898928
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €59.48Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and... -
Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 by Alan G. Jamieson 9780859897280
Booksplease Price: €141.62This book examines how the principal British maritime industries - shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to a changing world in the period 1918 to 1990, and discusses their... -
Spiritual Development In The State School: A Perspective on Worship and Spirituality in the Education System of England and Wales by Terence Copley 9780859896009
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €73.74How can children 'develop' spiritually and how do their teachers know when 'development' has occurred? This volume traces the roots and growth of school worship and spiritual development from... -
Countering The Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort by Margaret-Anne Hutton 9780859895859
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €126.65This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has... -
American Cultural Critics by David Murray 9780859894043
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €23.81This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its...