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Domesday Studies - Papers read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Societry and the Institute of British Geographers, by J.C. Holt
Booksplease Price: $80.91`A scholarly feast... a milestone in the history and historiography of medieval England. Its essays are without exception authoritative and well-written and it indicates not only the progress made in... -
A Lost English County - Winchcombeshire in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries by Julian Whybra
Booksplease Price: $201.83Julian Whybra's research into the history and boundaries of the vanished shire uncovers important evidence relating to the early organisation of land tenure in one of the most turbulent periods in... -
War and Government in the Middle Ages - Essays in honour of J.O. Prestwich by John Gillingham
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68`A valuable group of papers by pupils and associates of John Prestwich, which reflects his own rigorous questioning of the sources to elicit a clear picture of the realities of the wars that so... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 by Robin Netherton 9781843832034
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $121.09The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. Historical dress and textiles, always a... -
Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas Mark Goldie 9781783277360
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.27What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated... -
Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 by Alison Binns 9780851155210
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68The first systematic investigation of monastic dedications in England and Wales. The first systematic investigation of monastic dedications in England and Wales. Each entry provides information on... -
Kings, Currency and Alliances - History and Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century by M. A. S. Blackburn 9780851155982
Booksplease Price: $229.59Historians, numismatists and philologists consider fundamental aspects of 9c political and economic history. The ninth century was a period of upheaval in England, as the kingdoms of Mercia and... -
Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, c.1070-c.1250 Julie Kerr 9781843833260
Booksplease Price: $229.59How guests were cared for in medieval monasteries, exploring the administrative, financial, spiritual and other implications. Hospitality was an integral part of medieval monastic life. In... -
The Medieval Chantry Chapel - An Archaeology by Simon Roffey 9781843833345
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $172.31An archaeological investigation into the structure of the medieval chantry chapel, with many implications for religious practice at the time. The chantry -- a special, often private, chapel within... -
Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945 Adrian Wright 9781783274994
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $57.71The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. ... -
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age - 1670-1714 by Giada Pizzoni
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68A rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era. British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth... -
Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages by Anthony Musson
Booksplease Price: $201.83The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages. This book represents the first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in... -
Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350 by Laura Slater
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $113.76An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and... -
Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend by Richard F. Johnson 9781843831280
Booksplease Price: $155.34First comprehensive study of the representations of St Michael in the liturgy, literature, and iconography of the period. The cult and legends of St Michael the archangel were widespread in... -
How We Hear Music - The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism by James Beament 9780851159409
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.46Covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background. Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time... -
Knives and Scabbards J. Cowgill 9781843833536
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.46Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function. Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the... -
Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century Dr Samuel J. Drake (Royalty Account) 9781837650088
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $64.51The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed. Winner of The Federation of Old Cornwall... -
History of Gonville and Caius College Christopher N L Brooke 9780851154237
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $143.28Christopher Brooke's account describes the working and development of the college, with much to illuminate the greater world outside its walls. Christopher Brooke's account of the history of... -
Pelagius - Life and Letters by Brinley Roderick Rees
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $80.51Collected together for the first time in one volume are the most important critical study of Pelagius to date and a selection of his letters. Collected together for the first time in one volume... -
The Battle for Palestine 1917 by Dr. John D. Grainger 9781843832638
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $50.06The story of Allied victory in the Holy Land, far from the carnage of the Western Front but a crucial, morale-boosting success under the aggressive and forward-thinking General Allenby. Three... -
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions by Terje Spurkland 9781843835042
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.46Readable, enjoyable and provides a clear overview of runes and their importance to reading the past. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and... -
The Accounts of Two Westminster Fraternities, 1474-1540 Lisa Jefferson 9781837653089
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.50An edition of the surviving accounts of two important religious fraternities, one based at St Margaret's Westminster, the other at the Chapel of St Mary Rounceval at Charing Cross. These... -
Henry Ireton and the English Revolution by David Farr
Booksplease Price: $229.59A devout puritan, Henry Ireton was an immediate parliamentarian activist rising to the rank of Commissary-General of the New Model Army. Ireton shared Oliver Cromwell's religious enthusiasm and acted... -
Thirteenth Century England I - Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985 by Peter Coss 9780851154527
Booksplease Price: $201.83Set to become an indispensible series for anyone who wishes to keep abreast of recent work in the field. WELSH HISTORY REVIEWAbout the AuthorELIZABETH GEMMILL is an Associate Professor in History in... -
The Fifteenth Century VI - Identity and Insurgency in the Late Middle Ages by Linda Clark 9781843832706
Booksplease Price: $201.83The most crucial issues in current research are debated in the latest volume in the series. The essays collected here provide fresh insight into a range of important topics across the period. They... -
Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250 - Theory and Reality by Craig M. Nakashian 9781783274338
Booksplease Price: $66.97An examination of the actions of clerics in warfare in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking at the difference between their actions and prescriptions for behaviour. Christianity has had a... -
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9781843835721
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $50.84Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly... -
Reformation and Religious Identity in Cambridge, 1590-1644 The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle 9781843833253
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.27A new investigation into the nature and identity of the Church of England on the eve of the Civil War. The character of the English Church at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the... -
Early Monasteries in Cornwall by Lynette Olson 9780851154787
Booksplease Price: $201.83This is the first study for more than seventy years to consider the early monasteries of Cornwall through a combination of evidence -written sources (the first hagiography of Brittany and Cornwall,... -
Parliament at Work - Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England by Chris R. Kyle
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68The political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century forced Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets of... -
Elgar the Music Maker Diana McVeagh 9781843832959
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.50An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi. The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar... -
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 by Jane Whittle
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.24Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour... -
Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the - Reform, Resistance and Renewal by Andrew Atherstone
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism This volume makes a considerable contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century... -
The Naval Mutinies of 1797 - Unity and Perseverance by Ann Veronica Coats
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90A reassessment of the naval mutinies of 1797, arguing that the mutinies were more industrial dispute than expression of French revolution inspired political radicalism. The naval mutinies of 1797... -
Thirteenth Century England IV - Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1991 by Peter Coss
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $173.73`Set to become an indispensible series for anyone who wishes to keep abreast of recent work in the field.' WELSH HISTORY REVIEWImportant papers playing a key role in re-awakening scholarly interest... -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851158563
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $33.79The first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation... -
The Household Knights of Edward III - Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England by Matthew Hefferan
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service. It was common for the kings of medieval England to retain a small number of knights in... -
Medieval Ghost Stories - An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies by Andrew Joynes 9781843832690
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.46Seventy-seven tales of the supernatural, intended to frighten and excite and bring to heel their medieval audience, gathered from medieval chronicles, sagas, heroic poetry and romances. Strongly... -
Fourteenth Century England XII by James Bothwell
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics. The essays presented here draw on a number of different approaches and perspectives to address and illuminate key aspects and issues of the... -
Runes and Runic Inscriptions - Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes by R.I. Page 9780851155999
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $61.57Of outstanding value to both runologist and Anglo-Saxonist alike. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Discussion of the forms of the runic alphabet and interpretations of individual inscriptions, with...