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Theatre in Towns by Helen Nicholson
Booksplease Price: £52.18The only academic study of the role of theatre in towns, focusing on post-industrial, market and seaside towns. Written for theatre academics and students, with a secondary readership in cultural... -
Theatre in Towns Helen Nicholson 9781032444352
Booksplease Price: £20.99Theatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this book... -
The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre by Helen Nicholson 9781137508096
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.52This book is the first major study of amateur theatre, offering new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities. Historically informed, it traces how amateur theatre has... -
Theatre, Education and Performance by Helen Nicholson 9780230574236
Booksplease Price: £36.82In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre practitioners make to the education of... -
Teaching Drama, 11-18 by Helen Nicholson 9780826448057
Booksplease Price: £44.79Drama teachers often thrive on shared experience and the imaginative exchange of ideas and perspectives. Yet books that provide such access are, strangely, hard to find. Teaching Drama 11-18 is an... -
Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre by Helen Nicholson 9781137003966
Booksplease Price: £86.43This core text offers insight into theatre-making that takes place in communities across the world. Offering an overview of the theory that underpins practice in applied drama, this thought-provoking... -
Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre by Helen Nicholson 9781137003959
Booksplease Price: £28.88This core text offers insight into theatre-making that takes place in communities across the world. Offering an overview of the theory that underpins practice in applied drama, this thought-provoking... -
The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1314) Helen Nicholson 9781032920108
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Seven hundred years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses enormous controversy and speculation. In October 1307, all the brothers of the military-religious order... -
On the Margins of Crusading: The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World Helen Nicholson 9781138269835
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Founded to support Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and most famous for their support for crusading, the Military Religious Orders' activities and interests stretched far beyond the frontiers of... -
Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi Helen Nicholson 9780367194765
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Published in 1997, this is a translation of the Intnerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, 'The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard,' based on the edition produced in 1864... -
Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500 by Helen J. Nicholson 9780333763315
Booksplease Price: £36.82Warfare in medieval times was never static or predictable - although there were ideals and conventions to follow, in the field commanders had to use their initiative and adapt to the needs of the... -
A Brief History of the Knights Templar by Helen Jane Nicholson 9781849011006
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the... -
The Crusades by Helen Jane Nicholson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95In addition to a clear, engaging survey of the Christian crusades to the Holy Lands, this book offers an overview of the many contemporary campaigns against non-Christians throughout Europe and the... -
Knight Templar 1120-1312 by Helen Jane Nicholson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed they were God's warriors fighting on God's... -
The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi Helen J. Nicholson 9780754605812
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13This is a translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, a contemporary chronicle of the Third Crusade, 1187-1192. Told from the viewpoint of the European crusaders, it recounts... -
Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners by Jan Cohen-Cruz 9781137366405
Booksplease Price: £46.74Completing a trilogy of works by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Remapping Performance focuses on the work of artists and experts who collaborate across fields to address social issues. The book explores work of a... -
Performance, Madness and Psychiatry: Isolated Acts by Anna Harpin 9781137337245
Booksplease Price: £90.56This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and... -
Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare by Jenny Hughes 9780367671204
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare brings together an international group of artists, activists and scholars to explore precarity in the contexts of applied and socially engaged theatre... -
The Knights Hospitaller Helen J. Nicholson 9781843830382
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.62Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is... -
Theatre and Education by Edward Bond 9780230218574
Booksplease Price: £9.68What motivates theatre-makers who work in education? How can theatre respond to young people's experiences of living in a globalised world? Theatre& Education provides an insight into the energy,... -
The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century: Sons of Saint-Gilles by Kevin James Lewis
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called 'crusader states' established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The... -
Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre by Jenny Hughes
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that... -
Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices by Emma Govan 9780415286534
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century. This introduction to... -
Research Methods in Theatre and Performance by Baz Kershaw
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79How have theatre and performance research methods and methodologies engaged the expanding diversity of performing arts practices? How can students best combine performance/theatre research approaches... -
Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography by Alison Donnell 9780312226671
Booksplease Price: £90.86Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from... -
The Gestures of Participatory Art by Sruti Bala
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or... -
How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice by Michael Anderson 9781474227964
Booksplease Price: £40.79How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and... -
Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities by A. Jeffers 9780230247475
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.87Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where... -
Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities by A. Jeffers 9781349319992
Booksplease Price: £75.80Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where... -
The Gestures of Participatory Art by Sruti Bala 9781526148124
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or... -
The Life of the City: Space, Humour, and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siecle Montmartre Julian Brigstocke 9781138250772
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Could the vitality of embodied experience create a foundation for a new form of revolutionary authority? The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde... -
The Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson 9780313326851
Booksplease Price: £51.71The Crusades of the Middle Ages were fought by Latin Christians against peoples who they believed were threatening the existence of their Christian faith. Some of these campaigns were against... -
Women and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson 9780198806721
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £26.12The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the... -
Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages by Clifford J. Rogers 9780313333507
Booksplease Price: £66.27The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the... -
Encounters: The Crusades In 50 Objects Cathleen A. Fleck 9781032016757
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the... -
Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages by Michael D. Bailey
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.94The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Johan Huizinga more than eighty years ago in his classic Autumn of the Middle Ages. Although Huizinga... -
Do it Yourself: Making Political Theatre Common Wealth 9781526192974
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.45A unique guide to creating political theatre, produced by one of the UK's most exciting companies.Do It Yourself is a vital resource for anyone interested in exploring theatre culture grounded in and... -
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of...