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Composers in the Middle Ages Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne 9781837650354
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A reflection on the idea of the "composer" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music. The modern concept of the individual... -
![Thomas of Eccleston's De adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam ["The Arrival of the Franciscans in England"], 1224-c.1257/8: Commentary and Analysis by Dr Michael J.P. Robson 9781837650620](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8373265/9408983/9781837650620__18103.1749638672.jpg?c=1 "Thomas of Eccleston's De adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam [\"The Arrival of the Franciscans in England\"], 1224-c.1257/8: Commentary and Analysis by Dr Michael J.P. Robson 9781837650620")
Thomas of Eccleston's De adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam ["The Arrival of the Franciscans in England"], 1224-c.1257/8: Commentary and Analysis by Dr Michael J.P. Robson 9781837650620
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08An indispensable guide to the earliest contemporary account of the Franciscan Order in England. Known as Friars Minor, Franciscans or Greyfriars, the followers of St Francis of Assisi pioneered a new... -
Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England by Leanna Brinkley 9781837651887
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence from the port books of Bristol, Southampton and... -
Sir George Dyson - His Life and Music by Paul Spicer
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £126.55George 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... -
Widows in European Economy and Society, 1600-1920 by Beatrice Moring 9781783271771
Booksplease Price: £109.332017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "A terrific piece of work". JANE HUMPHRIES, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford Widows are often... -
Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c.900-1300 by Laura L Gathagan 9781783277896
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79Considers the role gender played in the production, use and preservation of documents. How was the world of medieval documentation and memory creation affected by gender? This question is central to... -
Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze Practice: Histories of Music and Movement by John Habron-James 9781783277964
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67A landmark publication in Dalcroze studies that explores the music and movement teaching originated by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze as a diverse and living practice. Navigating Landscapes of Dalcroze... -
Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840: Beyond Borders and Boundaries Dr Alexis Wolf 9781783277889
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century. The Irish... -
Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires Dr Rhys Kaminski-Jones 9781837651955
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts. In the long eighteenth century, as Britain grappled with the aftermath of the 1707 Acts of Union and... -
Journal of Medieval Military History - Volume I by Bernard S. Bachrach
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Warfare is one of the central themes of medieval history. Until now, however, there has been no journal dedicated specifically to this area. The Journal of Medieval Military History, the new annual... -
Popular Protest and Policing in Ascendancy Ireland, 1691-1761 by Timothy D. Watt 9781783273126
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38This book explores the connexion between collective action, popular politics and policing in Ireland from the end of the Williamite war in 1691 to the outbreak of the Whiteboy agrarian protest in... -
Who was St Patrick? by E.A. Thompson 9780851157177
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Everyone knows of St Patrick, but what do we know about him? Simply that it was he who `converted the Irish to Christianity'. The strange fact is that for two hundred years or so after his death,... -
Artful Dodgers - Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London by Heather Shore 9780851158945
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22A well-researched and well-argued monograph contributing significantly to our understanding of juvenile delinquency. CRIME, HISTOIRE ET SOCIETESA fine book... based on a wide range of well-marshalled... -
The Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta Pontificum Anglorum) by William of Malmesbury by William of Malmesbury 9780851158846
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.54William was born c.1095 not far from Malmesbury in Wiltshire; he entered the monastery at Malmesbury as a boy, and stayed there as a monk for the rest of his life, writing works which were to win him... -
Art and Artifice in Twelfth-Century Iberia by Dr Rose Walker 9781837652853
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.49"This innovative, wide-ranging and erudite book illuminates the sophistication of artistic exchange at this time and place. " Costanza Beltrami, Stockholm University. Sculptors and painters produced... -
Portraying the Guru: Art, Devotion and Identity in Sikhism Atsushi Ikeda 9781837652389
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Brings to light the evolution of Sikh art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Breaking fresh ground in the study of Sikh art, after the pioneering contributions of W.H. McLeod and B.N... -
The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England during the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries Salvatore Cipriano 9781783277865
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.49Highlights the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment Universities in the early modern period were powerful institutions in... -
Hanns Eisler and His Circle in Republican Spain: Music, Antifascism, War by Diego Alonso Tomás 9781837653188
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22Studies the development and impact of Hanns Eisler's music and Marxist activism in the tensions of 1930s Spain, revealing the interplay of varied influences, ideology and antifascist propaganda... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2010 by C. P. Lewis
Booksplease Price: £96.11The latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the European range and interdisciplinarity of the series. It opens with Anne Duggan's R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2010, on the... -
A History of Developmental and Behavioral Pediat - 1947-2019 by Phillip W. Davidson 9781648250194
Booksplease Price: £13.92The field of intellectual and developmental disabilities has evolved dramatically from the end of the nineteenth century, changing from dehumanizing institutional care to community-based services and... -
St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200 by Gerald Bonner 9780851156101
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £37.25`Very fine collection of essays a rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new interpretations of greatest value for Anglo-Saxon history.' SPECULUM St Cuthbert is known to many as the the... -
Patronage and the British Navy, 1775-1815 Catherine Beck 9781837652273
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79Argues that patronage served a very useful function and should not be seen as a form of corruption. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the rich and varied nature of patronage... -
Abandoning America - Life-stories from early New England by Susan Hardman Moore 9781843838173
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.52CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return... -
Farm Accounts in Rural Europe, c.1700-1914: "To Better Know One's Own?" by Dr Federico D’Onofrio 9781837651009
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Analyses how book-keeping and estate accounting transformed attitudes and practices in farm management over three centuries of European history. From the eighteenth until well into the twentieth... -
Music in Edwardian London by Simon McVeigh 9781837651344
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.30Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a... -
Bloodied Banners - Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield by Robert W. Jones 9781843835615
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66`A penetrating investigation of medieval martial display... The reader is struck by its originality, and by its sophisticated and critical interpretative engagement with historical and literary... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
Booksplease Price: £86.86Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing... -
Liszt Recomposed: Exploring Intertextual Fluidity in Song by Nicolás Puyané 9781837650477
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces. Franz Liszt... -
Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities Julie Hotchin 9781837652846
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed. Over the last... -
Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England by Michèle Cohen 9781837650699
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in eighteenth-century... -
Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century: The Dispute between the Monks and the Archbishops, 1184-1200 by James Barnaby 9781783277667
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £65.79Documents a long-running dispute between the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s. For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their... -
The Haskins Society Journal 30 - 2018. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan 9781783274857
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates the Society's continued interest in a broad range of geographical contexts and methodological approaches to medieval history. Chapters include... -
The Purcell Compendium by Peter Holman 9781837652686
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.54Ground breaking and comprehensive reference volume covering an extensive range of Purcell studies, including his life and works, his milieu and the reception of his music to the present. In the 30... -
The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF Fr.1): Scripture Transformed in Fourteenth-Century England by Kathryn A Smith 9781837652693
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79A lavishly illustrated study of the Welles-Ros Bible, exploring its provenance, ownership, design and production. At some point between c.1366 and 1373, the noblewoman Maud de Ros, widow of the... -
The Haskins Society Journal 34: Studies in Medieval History by William North 9781837650422
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.55Essays illuminating a wide range of topics from Cistercian preachers and the "geography" of purgatory to royal and ecclesiastical justice and power. This volume continues the Society's commitment to... -
Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750: Between the Rational and the Mystical by Tom Dixon
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62During 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... -
Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450 by Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici 9781837652075
Booksplease Price: £27.60Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for any discipline dealing with past societies and cultures. One of the most... -
Victorian Artists and their World 1844-1861: As reflected in the papers of Joanna and George Boyce and Henry Wells by Katie J T Herrington 9781783272594
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92The diaries and letters of siblings Joanna and George Boyce, and Joanna's husband Henry Wells (published as The Boyce Papers in 2019) give us a rare insight into the working practices and milieu of... -
For and Against Abelard: The invective of Bernard of Clairvaux and Berengar of Poitiers Rodney M Thomson 9781783275625
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The famous letters of Bernard of Clairvaux attacking the philosopher Peter Abelard and a vituperative response to them are presented together for the first time. The late eleventh and twelfth... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Ireland, 1442-1540: Culture, Politics and Kildare-Ormond Rivalry by Dr Alan Kelly 9781837650521
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A reassessment of the rivalry between the two great Anglo-Norman magnate families in late medieval and early modern Ireland, putting forward a new interpretation of events. The Fitzgerald Earls of...