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British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age - 1670-1714 by Giada Pizzoni
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A 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... -
War and Government in the Middle Ages - Essays in honour of J.O. Prestwich by John Gillingham
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75`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... -
Thirteenth Century England I - Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985 by Peter Coss 9780851154527
Booksplease Price: £96.11Set 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... -
Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas Mark Goldie 9781783277360
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08What 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... -
Knives and Scabbards J. Cowgill 9781843833536
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Catalogue 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... -
Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250 - Theory and Reality by Craig M. Nakashian 9781783274338
Booksplease Price: £31.89An 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... -
Pelagius - Life and Letters by Brinley Roderick Rees
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.34Collected 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... -
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 by Jane Whittle
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40Explores 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... -
Kings, Currency and Alliances - History and Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century by M. A. S. Blackburn 9780851155982
Booksplease Price: £109.33Historians, 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: £109.33How 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... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 Robin Netherton (Author) 9781843834519
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The fifth volume of this annual series features several articles examining the interaction of medieval... -
Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350 by Laura Slater
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.17An 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: £73.97First 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... -
The Medieval Chantry Chapel - An Archaeology by Simon Roffey 9781843833345
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05An 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... -
The Conquest of the North Atlantic by G.J. Marcus 9781843833161
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40The story of how the fearsome Atlantic Ocean was explored by early sailors, including the Vikings, whose brilliant navigation matched their bravery. The early voyages into the deep waters of the... -
Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century Dr Samuel J. Drake (Royalty Account) 9781837650088
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.72The 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... -
Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages by Anthony Musson
Booksplease Price: £96.11The 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... -
The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century: Investigations in the City by Oxford Archaeology, 2006-16 Anne Dodd 9781783276134
Booksplease Price: £31.45The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century presents the results of eleven excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology within the historic walled city of Oxford and in the extramural area just to... -
The Medieval Crusade by Susan J. Ridyard
Booksplease Price: £73.97Papers on major themes in current scholarly work on the medieval crusade, including the Templars and Jewish-Christian polemics. These papers explore major themes in recent scholarship on the... -
The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church, 1839-1872 by Bernarr Rainbow
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Survey of an important period in the development of the choral tradition in the Anglican church. When Bernarr Rainbow was director of music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, he came... -
The Battle for Palestine 1917 by Dr. John D. Grainger 9781843832638
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.84The 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... -
Parliament at Work - Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England by Chris R. Kyle
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The 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... -
The Accounts of Two Westminster Fraternities, 1474-1540 Lisa Jefferson 9781837653089
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62An 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... -
Thirteenth Century England IV - Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1991 by Peter Coss
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.73`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... -
Arthurian Poets - Matthew Arnold and William Morris by James P. Carley
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The great vogue in Victorian times for matters Arthurian owes much to the poetry of Matthew Arnold and William Morris. Unlike Tennyson, however, neither of these poets is now remembered primarily for... -
Henry Ireton and the English Revolution by David Farr
Booksplease Price: £109.33A 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... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 by Robin Netherton 9781843832034
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66The 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... -
The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire by Brent S. Sirota
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99A reassessment of the impact of the Hanoverian succession. Was the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty of Brunswick to the throne of Britain and its empire in 1714 merely the final act in the... -
Franz Schubert: Music and Belief by Leo Black 9781843831358
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22A fresh appraisal of Schubert's nature and beliefs, deriving from close study of his works. Remarkable new study...Its central submission, that we have hitherto disregarded or misinterpreted the... -
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9781843835721
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.21Splendid . . . 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: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08A 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: £96.11This 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,... -
Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the - Reform, Resistance and Renewal by Andrew Atherstone
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism This volume makes a considerable contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century... -
Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 by Emma Cownie 9781843836353
Booksplease Price: £27.60Anglo-Norman aristocratic patronage of Anglo-Saxon monasteries in post-Conquest England examined. Although the Norman Conquest of 1066 swept away most of the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of... -
Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England - from Henry II to Edward I by Christopher Mic Berard 9781783273744
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle... -
The Household Knights of Edward III - Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England by Matthew Hefferan
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38First 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... -
The Naval Mutinies of 1797 - Unity and Perseverance by Ann Veronica Coats
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A 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... -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851158563
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.09The 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... -
Medieval Ghost Stories - An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies by Andrew Joynes 9781843832690
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.76Seventy-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: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Essays 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...