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Forty Books for Forty Years - An Informal History of The Boydell Press by Richard Barber
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.36Books 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 &... -
Fourteenth Century England II by Chris Given-Wilson
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46This 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... -
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History across an English Region Stephen Banfield 9781783272730
Booksplease Price: $52.37Music 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 Fifteenth Century XVI - Examining Identity by Linda Clark
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46The 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,... -
The Haskins Society Journal 14 - 2003. Studies in Medieval History by Stephen Morillo
Booksplease Price: $95.42The 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... -
Mozart`s Cosi fan tutte - A Compositional History by Ian Woodfield
Booksplease Price: $141.04WINNER 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... -
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin M. Frazier Wood
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.84"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... -
Women`s Experiences of the Second World War - Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life by Mark J. Crowley
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Many 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... -
Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900 by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Fertig
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49Apologies 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... -
Rediscovering Lost Landscapes - Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 by Pietro Piana
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $69.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783276318Author Pietro PianaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Thirteenth Century England XVIII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019 by Andrew Spencer 9781805430575
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49Essays 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... -
The Cartulary and Charters of the Priory of Sain - Part II: The Charters by David Allen 9781783274949
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $87.63The 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,... -
Chronology of Eclipses and Comets AD 1-1000 by D.Justin Schove 9780851154060
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.38Eclipses 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... -
Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England Ben Nilson (Royalty Account) 9780851158082
Booksplease Price: $37.38Almost 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... -
The British Country House Revival by Ben Cowell 9781837650583
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $91.94Fifty 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... -
The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, c.1100-c.1500 by Sara Elin Roberts 9781783277261
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49The 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 English Aristocracy at War - From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn by David Simpkin 9781783271825
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15In 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... -
Dragons - The Modern Infestation by Pamela Wharton Blanpied 9780851156804
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.97Pre-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... -
Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War by Prof. Anne Curry 9780851157559
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.48The 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 Celts - A History by Daithi O Hogain 9780851159232
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.79The 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... -
Joan of Arc - The Early Debate by Deborah A. Fraioli 9780851158808
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.79Joan 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... -
John the Fearless - The Growth of Burgundian Power by Richard Vaughan 9780851159164
Booksplease Price: $43.18John 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... -
Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots John M Gilbert 9781837652297
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Examines 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... -
Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts by Emma Hornby 9781843834717
Booksplease Price: $141.04How 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... -
Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742 - Politics, Politicians and Parties by D. W. Hayton 9781843830580
Booksplease Price: $141.04In 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... -
The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society by Richard Britnell 9781843830290
Booksplease Price: $123.98The 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... -
Land and Nation in England - Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 by Paul Readman 9781843836520
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.79The 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... -
Mozart`s Viennese Instrumental Music - A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention by Simon P. Keefe 9781843833192
Booksplease Price: $123.98The 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... -
Debating England`s Aristocracy in the 1790s - Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas by Amanda Goodrich 9781843836476
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.79The 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,... -
The Church of England in the Twentieth Century - The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 by Dr. Andrew Chandler 9781843831655
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $59.16This 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... -
God and Uncle Sam - Religion and America`s Armed Forces in World War II by Michael Snape 9781783275045
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $36.93America'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... -
Verse and Voice in Byrd`s Song Collections of 1588 by Jeremy L. Smith 9781783274666
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.40As 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... -
Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo: The Invention of the Modern Voice by Barbara Gentili 9781837650781
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Connects 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Apologies 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... -
Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy by Claire L. Sahlin
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88This book examines the religious authority of St Birgitta of Sweden, the charismatic moral reformer and controversial female visionary of the fourteenth century, emphasising both representations of... -
For and Against Abelard: The invective of Bernard of Clairvaux and Berengar of Poitiers Rodney M Thomson 9781783275625
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58The famous letters of Bernard of Clairvaux attacking the philosopher Peter Abelard and a vituperative response to them are presented together for the first time. The late eleventh and twelfth... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2020 Professor Stephen D. Church 9781783276059
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58The articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2010 by C. P. Lewis
Booksplease Price: $123.98The latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the European range and interdisciplinarity of the series. It opens with Anne Duggan's R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2010, on the... -
Archives of the Scientific Revolution - The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Michael Hunter
Booksplease Price: $123.98Manuscript collections created by the individuals and institutions who were responsible for the scientific revolution offer valuable evidence of the intellectual aspirations and working practices of... -
A History of Developmental and Behavioral Pediat - 1947-2019 by Phillip W. Davidson 9781648250194
Booksplease Price: $17.96The field of intellectual and developmental disabilities has evolved dramatically from the end of the nineteenth century, changing from dehumanizing institutional care to community-based services and...