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British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History (with accompanying DVD) by Graham Ley 9780859898324
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27The book includes a complimentary DVD providing an album of rare and previously unpublished items from private collections: historical documents, programmes, designs, photographs, and clips from... -
Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages by Harold Fox 9780859898652
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.45A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. This book provides a new perspective on an important aspect of Dartmoor's... -
Empsael Et Zoraide by Bernardin De Saint Pierre 9780859894647
Booksplease Price: £20.03Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is for most people the author of one book: Paul et Virginie. This new edition of his play Empsael et Zoraide, presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a... -
Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' by Philip Payton 9780859897969
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of `Australia's Little Cornwall': how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this... -
Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand 9780859896962
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897 - 1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror' a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident... -
Vida De Segundo: Version castellana de la Vita Secundi de Vicente de Beauvais by Hugo O. Bizzarri 9780859896757
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69One of the most widely circulated items of wisdom literature during the Middle Ages, the Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with... -
Mining in Cornwall and Devon: Mines and Men by Roger Burt 9780859898898
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.46Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral ownership, and mine management in the South West of England. The work brings together material from a variety of hard-to-find... -
Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature by David Williams 9780859896504
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.21Now published in paperback, this fully-illustrated book explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function... -
God's Exiles and English Verse: On The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry by John D. Niles 9781905816095
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.65This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text,... -
Poetics of the Pretext: Reading Lautréamont by Roland-François Lack 9781804131220
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and promoted to the vanguard of theoretical debate by the... -
Cynewulf's Elene by P. O. E. Graddon 9780859895088
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.76This new edition of an important early English poem includes a history of the text and an updated bibliography.Book InformationISBN 9780859895088Author P. O. E. GraddonFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar: A critical edition with translation by D. H. Frost 9781804130308
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies... -
Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945 by Christopher Andrew 9780859892438
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91The essays in this volume assess the influence of intelligence on the Second World War and open up a number of other important areas for research. Studies of the growth of the imperial intelligence... -
Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery by Robb Robinson 9780859896283
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16A distinct branch of the multi-faceted fishing industry, trawling dates back at least to the 1370s when attempts were made to prohibit the use of a primitive trawling device, the 'wondyrychoun' on... -
Ancrene Riwle by M.B. Salu 9780859893411
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79Translation of the Middle English manual 'Ancrene Riwle' ('Rule for Anchoresses'), which was composed between 1225 and 1240 for the spiritual instruction of women. This edition contains an... -
The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 2: Volume Two 1933-1952 by Steve Nicholson 9781905816415
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00New in paperback with contextualising timeline and revised bibliography This is the second volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre... -
Caesarism in the 21st Century: Crisis and Interregnum in World Order by Eric Fattor 9781804130704
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20The troubles of the contemporary moment in history can be interpreted many different ways. Indeed, there has been no shortage of analysis and commentary on events like the attacks of September 11th,... -
The South-West and the Sea by Stephen Fisher 9781804132012
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.06This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967, under the auspices of the... -
The Myths of Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859897044
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.34Winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2005. Shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005. Widely reviewed and celebrated in hardback on publication in 2004, "The... -
The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle by James F Burke
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879288300Author James F BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint University of Exeter... -
Mustapha Et Zéangir by Chamfort
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.58An historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright. Each volume in the series is available individually, and a special subscription rate is available in advance of publication for each group... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859896023
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.40This is a new edition of Volume Three of the four volume collection of documents on Nazism 1919-1945, with substantial revisions to three chapters and the inclusion of many new documents, an index... -
The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation with Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories W. R. J. Barron 9780859897556
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.59In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general. One of the legend's... -
Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos by Dorothy Whitelock 9780859890717
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.16Fully annotated edition of the 'Sermo ad Anglos' with a glossary that includes an introductory examination of Wulfstan’s works and career.Book InformationISBN 9780859890717Author Dorothy... -
Satire and Society in Ancient Rome by Susan H. Braund 9780859893312
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79These essays explain how satire can, and cannot, be used as a source for Roman social history: the possibilities and the limitations.About the AuthorSusan Braund is Professor of Classics at Stanford... -
Squaddies: Portrait of a Subculture by John Hockey 9780859892483
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.12This remarkable book is the first ever sociological study of an operational army unit. The author, himself a former regular soldier, observed a group of raw recruits to the British Army during their... -
Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen: The Work of Valerius Maximus by Clive Skidmore 9780859894777
Booksplease Price: £119.73'Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen' is a collection of historical anecdotes written during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius in the first century A.D. The book aims to redefine the significance of... -
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches Lawrence Normand 9780859893886
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the... -
Roman Domestic Buildings by Ian M. Barton 9780859894159
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.91From the hovels of peasants to the palaces of monarchs, this book provides an architectural picture of Roman society through a study of domestic buildings.About the AuthorIAN BARTON was until his... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 1: The Rise to Power 1919-1934: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895989
RRP: £22.59Booksplease Price: £21.46Volume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934... -
My Compleinte and Other Poems by Thomas Hoccleve 9780859897013
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £31.04Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students... -
Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts by Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9780859898416
RRP: £35.80Booksplease Price: £33.92Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is a highly readable and well-illustrated guide to manuscript study for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature.Bringing together... -
The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' by David Watt 9780859898690
Booksplease Price: £109.44Thomas Hoccleve's Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book... -
Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City by Mike Pearson 9780859898751
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city - Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it... -
The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification by Derek Lewis 9780859894944
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.89The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life. Contributors... -
Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' by Philip Payton 9780859898737
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £30.74In this book, Philip Payton provides a vivid insight into the experiences of regional Australia during the Great War of 1914-18. Alighting upon 'old Kio', the copper-mining communities of South... -
Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912 by Andrew Shail 9780859898539
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing... -
Beverlei by B. J. Saurin 9780859893497
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45An eighteenth-century "bourgeois tragedy", written in an English style. This is an important text, which provides an appreciation of the spirit of the era, and demonstrates the bridging of... -
Political Speeches And Journalism (1923-1929) by Miguel de Unamuno 9780859894401
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45This book reprints a wide variety of articles and speeches for the first time since they appeared in Spanish and foreign journals and in clandestine broadsheets from France. Some censored material... -
The Jews Of South West England: The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities by Bernard Susser 9780859893664
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.58The definitive study of the once-important Jewish communities of Devon and Cornwall, providing an in-depth study of the demography and economic activity as well as the political, cultural, religious...