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Forty Books for Forty Years - An Informal History of The Boydell Press by Richard Barber
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.76Books define the character of a publishing house better than any account of its business transactions or its organisation. This selection of forty books to mark the fortieth anniversary of Boydell &... -
John the Fearless - The Growth of Burgundian Power by Richard Vaughan 9780851159164
Booksplease Price: £33.47John 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40The 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 British Country House Revival by Ben Cowell 9781837650583
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £67.03Fifty 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... -
Dragons - The Modern Infestation by Pamela Wharton Blanpied 9780851156804
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86Pre-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... -
Mozart`s Cosi fan tutte - A Compositional History by Ian Woodfield
Booksplease Price: £109.33WINNER 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... -
The Haskins Society Journal 14 - 2003. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
Booksplease Price: £73.97The 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... -
The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society by Richard Britnell 9781843830290
Booksplease Price: £96.11The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in... -
Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742 - Politics, Politicians and Parties by D. W. Hayton 9781843830580
Booksplease Price: £109.33In a series of studies, David Hayton offers a comprehensive account of the government of Ireland during the period of transformation from "New English" colonialism to Anglo-Irish... -
Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts by Emma Hornby 9781843834717
Booksplease Price: £109.33How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are addressed... -
Mozart`s Viennese Instrumental Music - A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention by Simon P. Keefe 9781843833192
Booksplease Price: £96.11The stylistic evolution of Mozart's Viennese instrumental repertory as a whole [1781-1791], closely tied to historical and contextual lines of enquiry, has yet to receive systematic attention. This... -
Thirteenth Century England XVIII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019 by Andrew Spencer 9781805430575
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century. The theme of this volume, "Exceptional England", follows on from... -
Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations by Donald Scragg 9781843833994
Booksplease Price: £109.33King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later... -
Women`s Experiences of the Second World War - Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life by Mark J. Crowley
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War concentrate on women's increasing participation in the workplace and on their struggles to cope with rationing and shortages. This... -
Chronology of Eclipses and Comets AD 1-1000 by D.Justin Schove 9780851154060
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28Eclipses and comets can now be precisely dated and are therefore an invaluable aid in checking the chronology of historical records. This study covers the whole world and provides a list of eclipses... -
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History across an English Region Stephen Banfield 9781783272730
Booksplease Price: £40.60Music 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... -
The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, c.1100-c.1500 by Sara Elin Roberts 9781783277261
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37The 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... -
The Cartulary and Charters of the Priory of Sain - Part II: The Charters by David Allen 9781783274949
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93The charters and other documents recorded in the thirteenth-century Cartulary of the Augustinian priory of Sts Peter and Paul, Ipswich, donated to the public library of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1806,... -
Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots John M Gilbert 9781837652297
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Examines 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 Fifteenth Century XVI - Examining Identity by Linda Clark
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The 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,... -
Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-Ea - The Evidence from Tithes, 1270-1536 by Ben Dodds 9781843832874
Booksplease Price: £96.11The peasant economy in north-east England, and indeed throughout the country as a whole, underwent many changes during the later Middle Ages, but owing to the lack of evidence it has been difficult... -
Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900 by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Fertig
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783277223Author Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine FertigFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The Boydell... -
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin M. Frazier Wood
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29"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 English Aristocracy at War - From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn by David Simpkin 9781783271825
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60In 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... -
Rediscovering Lost Landscapes - Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 by Pietro Piana
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276318Author Pietro PianaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Fourteenth Century England II by Chris Given-Wilson
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99This 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... -
Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo: The Invention of the Modern Voice by Barbara Gentili 9781837650781
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society. In the decades that span the turn of the twentieth century, the Italian tradition of... -
The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France by Louis K. Louis K. Epstei 9781783276691
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276691Author Louis K. Louis K. EpsteiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Boydell... -
The Church of England in the Twentieth Century - The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 by Dr. Andrew Chandler 9781843831655
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.86This is the first comprehensive historical picture to be published of the life and work of the Church of England in the second half of the twentieth century. It traces the evolution of the Church in... -
Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England Ben Nilson (Royalty Account) 9780851158082
Booksplease Price: £28.81Almost 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... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3 by Robin Netherton 9781843832911
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and cross-genre... -
Joan of Arc - The Early Debate by Deborah A. Fraioli 9780851158808
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Joan 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... -
Land and Nation in England - Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 by Paul Readman 9781843836520
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in Conservative, Liberal and Labour policymaking: in the context of concern about the faltering... -
Debating England`s Aristocracy in the 1790s - Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas by Amanda Goodrich 9781843836476
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The 1790s saw a lively "French Revolution Debate" in England, with much space and intellectual energy, in classic texts by men such as Burke and Paine, and ensuing pamphlet literature,... -
Verse and Voice in Byrd`s Song Collections of 1588 by Jeremy L. Smith 9781783274666
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.24As he grappled with the challenges of composing for various instrumental and vocal ensembles, William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), England's premier Renaissance composer, devoted considerable attention to... -
The Celts - A History by Daithi O Hogain 9780851159232
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22The 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... -
God and Uncle Sam - Religion and America`s Armed Forces in World War II by Michael Snape 9781783275045
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.63America's armed forces played a critical part in the defeat of Hitler's Germany and made by far the biggest contribution to the Allied defeat of Japan. In the US, military veterans of World War II... -
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... -
The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 by Kelly Devries 9780851157634
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.75This very accessible narrative...tells the story of "the first two important battles of 1066", Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge, and of the leaders of the opposing English and Norwegian... -
Dictionary of Medieval Heroes - Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts by W. P. Gerritsen 9780851157801
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.94A treasury of medieval tales about the great heroes of the time is unlocked in this volume. Some are familiar figures, like Charlemagne and his paladins, Arthur and his knights, or Tristan and...