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Forty Books for Forty Years - An Informal History of The Boydell Press by Richard Barber
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.97Books 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... -
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History Thijs Porck 9781783273751
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XXV - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2002 by John Gillingham
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are six... -
Anglo-Norman Studies VII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1984 by R. Allen Brown
Booksplease Price: £89.88Bookland and Fyrd Service; Normans in Africa, Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean; BL Additional MS. 40,000 ff 1v-12r; Ministers in the Midlands; Aristocration autour du Bec, 1077; Naval Logistics... -
The Fifteenth Century VIII - Rule, Redemption and Representations in Late Medieval England and France by Linda Clark
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01A variety of new perspectives and fresh insights into people and society in fifteenth-century England and France are gathered together here. We learn from contemporary accounts of the battle of... -
Journal of Medieval Military History - Volume VI by Clifford J. Rogers
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61This sixth volume continues the journal's tradition of providing a wide range of scholarly studies, covering topics as diverse as Carolingian war-horse breeding, late-medieval Spanish methods of... -
English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages - Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540 by Elizabeth Makowski
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and... -
The Restoration of the Church of England: Canterbury Diocese and the Archbishop's Peculiars by Tom Reid 9781783276882
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.24Lambeth Library MS 1126 was compiled, probably in late 1663, on behalf of Gilbert Sheldon, the new archbishop of Canterbury, as a conspectus of the parishes of Canterbury diocese and the... -
Textiles, Text, Intertext - Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker by Maren Clegg Hyer
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here... -
Surveyors of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, 1827-1906: Reports and Letters by Christine Reynolds
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.24`A fundamental resource for anyone interested in the Abbey's architecture and contents.' Dr Richard Mortimer. The papers of the nineteenth-century Surveyors of the Fabric are an essential resource... -
The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124-1130): Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms by Enrico Veneziani
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68A complete reappraisal of the papacy of Honorius II, highlighting the strategies to which this pontificate turned in order to govern ecclesiastical institutions and to deal with secular matters. The... -
Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century by Phyllis Weliver
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01Words and Notes encourages a new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words... -
Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries by J.b.l. Tolhurst 9781783273409
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.21During the Middle Ages, the Divine Office, or daily round of prayers, formed the central focus of the monastic life. The liturgical book which contained all the prayers, hymns, etc. which were said... -
Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire by Sarah Kirby 9781783276738
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276738Author Sarah KirbyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher Boydell... -
Ireland’s Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology by Dr Patrick W Hayes 9781783277063
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital... -
Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World, 1636–1676: A Study of Military Providentialism by Dr Matthew Rowley 9781837650149
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.68A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing. This book recounts Puritan struggles for military dominance and for an... -
Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ire - Saffron, Stockings and Silk by Susan Flavin 9781843839507
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08This book, based on extensive original research, argues that everyday Irish consumption underwent major changes in the 16th century. The book considers the changing nature of imported goods in... -
The Hospitallers and the Holy Land - Financing the Latin East, 1187-1274 by Judith Bronstein 9781843831310
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The Order of the Hospital of St John was among the most creative and important institutions of the Middle Ages, its history provoking much debate and controversy. However, there has been very little... -
The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century by Adrian R. Bell 9781843836742
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61The "long" fourteenth century saw England fighting wars on a number of diverse fronts - not just abroad, in the Hundred Years War, but closer to home. But while tactics, battles, and... -
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, - Papers from the fourth Strawberry Hill conference, 1988 by Christopher Harper-Bill 9780851152653
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61Reviewing the first volume in this series, Christopher Allmand, writing in English Historical Review, said: `Once again, a volume of papers published by the Boydell Press has made a useful... -
The Haskins Society Journal 28 - 2016. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.24The contributions in this volume illuminate critical aspects of the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds - and more. Essays consider the complexities of the Norman administration in North... -
The Haskins Society Journal 13 - 1999. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.81The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the... -
Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 - Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers by Richard Blake
Booksplease Price: £106.89The Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact,... -
The Fifteenth Century IX - English and Continental Perspectives by Linda Clark
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.01The essays here provide a series of unusual, varying and complex perspectives on late-medieval society, with a particular focus on the European context. They show how in the north of England the... -
Thirteenth Century England X - Proceedings of the Durham Conference, 2003 by Michael Prestwich
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61This collection presents new and original research into the long thirteenth century, from c.1180-c.1330, with a particular focus on the reign of Edward II and its aftermath. Other topics examined... -
Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants - Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles by Emma Hornby
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £105.14Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through the liturgical year. However,... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLI - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2018 by Elizabeth Van Houts
Booksplease Price: £90.28This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XXII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1999 by Christopher Harper-Bill
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Anglo-Norman Studies, published annually and containing the papers presented at the Battle conference founded by R. Allen Brown, is established as the single most important publication in the field... -
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England by Katherine J. Lewis
Booksplease Price: £101.04The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety... -
Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the battle Conference 1983 R. Allen Brown 9780851151977
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61Battles in England and Normandy 1066-1154; Philip II's Fortress Policy in Normandy; Order of Sempringham; Anselm's Letters; Henry I, War and Diplomacy; Introduction of Knight Service in England;... -
The Haskins Society Journal 16 - 2005. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
Booksplease Price: £73.28The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal, presenting recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, includes topics... -
The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain by Professor Kenneth Kreitner
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.61Winner of the 2007 AMS Robert M. Stevenson prize The arrival of Francisco de Penalosa at the Aragonese court in May 1498 marks something of an epoch in the history of Spanish music: Penalosa wrote... -
The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936: A Curious Rural Revolt by John Bulaitis 9781837651870
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837651870Author John BulaitisFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Bishop Aethelwold - His Career and Influence by Barbara Yorke 9780851157054
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.79AEthelwold's life and his political and ecclesiastical importance in the 10th-century reformation receive thorough scholarly scrutiny in this appraisal of his life and work. The studies include a... -
Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine - A Biography of the Black Prince by Richard Barber 9780851156866
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.28Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history, victor of three great battles and a model of chivalry and courtesy. Behind this... -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851157474
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.79The myths and legends of prehistoric Ireland have inspired writers through the ages, down to W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in our own century, but what do we know of the realities of ancient Irish... -
Brethren in Adversity - Bishop George Bell, the Church of England and the Crisis of German Protestantism by Dr. Andrew Chandler 9780851156927
Booksplease Price: £67.74Throughout the middle years of the twentieth century George Bell, bishop of Chichester 1929-57, was deeply involved in the ecumenical movement and the political life of Europe. His sustained... -
Sir Jonas Moore - Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science by Frances Willmoth 9780851153216
Booksplease Price: £89.88Sir Jonas Moore (1617-79) practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy had a remarkable career, and was one of the first to... -
Television Opera - The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television by Jennifer Barnes 9780851159126
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.96Television opera - that is, opera commissioned for television - was one of the earliest attempts by television to bridge the distinction between high culture and popular culture: between 1951 and... -
The Anglo-Saxon World 2e by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9780851158853
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.19The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving...