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Fourteenth Century England II by Chris Given-Wilson
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61This new series is to be published in alternate years with Thirteenth Century England, providing a forum for the most recent research into the political, social, economic, ecclesiastical and cultural... -
The Fifteenth Century XVI - Examining Identity by Linda Clark
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination,... -
The Haskins Society Journal 14 - 2003. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.81The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes topics... -
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History across an English Region Stephen Banfield 9781783272730
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Music 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... -
A Musical Grammar in Four Parts (1806; 3rd ed. 1817) by J. W. Calcott
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54John Wall Calcott (1766-1821) was one of a small number of English musicians who compiled influential treatises from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. He worked as an organist and teacher in London... -
The English Aristocracy at War - From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn by David Simpkin 9781783271825
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.06In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standards. Most of his countrymen had not been on active... -
Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England Ben Nilson (Royalty Account) 9780851158082
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.86Almost all the great medieval shrines disappeared at the Reformation, yet for several centuries they were the outward and visible sign of the spiritual benefits believed to flow from proximity to the... -
Dragons - The Modern Infestation by Pamela Wharton Blanpied 9780851156804
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Pre-medieval dragons are a staple of Western culture, familiar through bestiaries, folklore and the framework of meaning provided by the church. Dragons of the Modern Infestation, however, must be... -
Joan of Arc - The Early Debate by Deborah A. Fraioli 9780851158808
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75Joan of Arc arrived at the French court claiming to be sent by God to come to the aid of the dauphin Charles. Most studies of Joan focus on her political expediency, but the starting point of this... -
The British Country House Revival by Ben Cowell 9781837650583
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.41Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss... -
Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain by Ana P Sánchez-Rojo 9781837651153
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment... -
Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages by Bonnie Wheeler 9780851156507
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.55The essays in this volume have a common theme and preoccupation: an intention to present medieval women - in life, literature, hagiography and art - as they thought of themselves, teased from the... -
The Royal Workshops of the Alhambra - Industrial Activity in Early Modern Granada by Alberto Garcia Porras 9781783276813
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276813Author Alberto Garcia PorrasFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint The Boydell... -
Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden Age by Clive Walkley 9781843835875
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01Juan Esquivel was a cathedral choirmaster and composer, active in Spain during the period c.1580-c .1623 in which all aspects of the arts flourished, and one of the few peninsular composers of his... -
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin M. Frazier Wood
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01"A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the... -
The Haskins Society Journal 29 - 2017. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £62.21This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates the Society's continued engagement with historical and interdisciplinary research on the early to the central Middle Ages, focusing on the... -
Macaulay and the Enlightenment by Nathaniel Wolloch 9781783277254
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £104.74Macaulay and the Enlightenment sheds new light on both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of the life and ideas of this most famous of nineteenth-century British historians. Thomas Babington Macaulay... -
Rediscovering Lost Landscapes - Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 by Pietro Piana
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £52.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276318Author Pietro PianaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 by Rachel Hammersley 9781783277841
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political... -
Sir George Dyson - His Life and Music by Paul Spicer
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £104.71George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of... -
Mozart`s Cosi fan tutte - A Compositional History by Ian Woodfield
Booksplease Price: £89.46WINNER 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... -
Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots John M Gilbert 9781837652297
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.01Examines the political significance and performativity of elite hunting in sixteenth-century Scotland. Hunting during the early modern period was not simply a popular form of elite entertainment; it... -
The Celts - A History by Daithi O Hogain 9780851159232
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.61The 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... -
John the Fearless - The Growth of Burgundian Power by Richard Vaughan 9780851159164
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.28John the Fearless, second Duke of Burgundy, is one of the more dramatic and puzzling characters among medieval rulers. He inherited the newly created duchy from his father, and defended and developed... -
Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War by Prof. Anne Curry 9780851157559
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.61The Hundred Years War embraced warfare in all aspects, from the grand set pieces of Crecy and Agincourt to the pillaged lands of the dispossessed population. What makes this book different from... -
The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, c.1100-c.1500 by Sara Elin Roberts 9781783277261
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.41The Middle Ages in Wales were turbulent, with society and culture in constant flux. Edward I of England's 1282 conquest brought with it major changes to society, governance, power and identity, and... -
War Cruel and Sharp - English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 by Clifford J. Rogers 9780851158044
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £52.70Contemporaries considered Edward III of England "the wisest and shrewdest warrior in the world", but he has not fared so well in the estimation of modern historians, many of whom have... -
Celestial Music? - Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music by Wilfrid Mellers 9780851158440
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.89The late Wilfrid Mellers, who occupies a special place among music critics, described himself as a non-believer; but his preference for music that "displays a sense of the numinous" (in his... -
The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey - Essays in Honour of the ninetieth birthday of C.A.Ralegh Radford by Lesley Abrams 9780851152844
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £84.75Glastonbury Abbey was one of the great cultural centres of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, yet this is the first volume of scholarly essays to be devoted to the subject. Written in honour of C. A... -
Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages by Prof. Anne Curry
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as a part of the wider concept of patronage: it is prominent throughout the language and life of the time. These studies examine... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XIX - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996 by Christopher Harper-Bill
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £105.14The proceedings of the 1996 Battle Conference contain the usual wide range of topics, from the late tenth century to 1200 and from Durham to Southern Italy, demonstrating once again its importance as... -
The Problem of Ireland in Tudor Foreign Policy - 1485-1603 by William Palmer
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61`His thesis is simple: English policy in Ireland was shaped to a greater extent than has previously been realized by foreign policy and the power politics of the Counter Reformation... A brief but... -
Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559 by Kenneth Carleton
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the virtual extinction of the office in... -
Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissan - Learning from the Learned. Essays in Honour of Margaret Bent by Suzannah Clark
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01Essays in honour of Margaret Bent. The chapters of this book probe the varied functions of citation and allusion in medieval and renaissance musical culture. At its most fundamental level musical... -
The Reformation and Robert Barnes - History, Theology and Polemic in Early Modern England by Korey D. Maas
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61By the time of his death at the stake in 1540, Robert Barnes was recognized as one of the most influential evangelical reformers in Henrician England. Friend and foe alike judged him the most popular... -
The Reckoned Expense - Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. by Thomas M. McCoog
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among... -
The Haskins Society Journal 7 - 1995. Studies in Medieval History by C.p. Lewis
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.64The essays in this volume derive in the main, though not exclusively, from the 13th annual conference held in Houston in November 1994. Written by an international group of scholars, they centre on... -
Writing the Early Crusades - Text, Transmission and Memory by Marcus Bull 9781843839200
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.81The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness"... -
Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750: Between the Rational and the Mystical by Tom Dixon
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in... -
Medieval Powys - Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293 by David Stephenson 9781783271405
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £105.14Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (south-west), occupying nearly a quarter of the...