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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.58For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30... -
Cornwall: A History: Revised and updated edition by Philip Payton 9780859890274
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing upon a... -
Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850 by Michael Duffy 9780859893855
Booksplease Price: £28.55A searching collection of investigations into British naval power in the closing centuries of the sailing ship era. The discussions focus on the later seventeenth century strategy of a 'big ship'... -
My Compleinte and Other Poems by Thomas Hoccleve 9780859897013
Booksplease Price: £33.67Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students... -
The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9780859898638
Booksplease Price: £33.67This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literary primary sources for the study of the Battle of... -
Owain Glyndwr: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9780859898836
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £28.89This book presents the original text and English translations of the medieval and post-medieval records, documents, poems and chronicles relating to Owain Glyndwr (1357?-1415, revolutionary and the... -
Julian Of Norwich's A Revelation Of Love (revised) by Marion Glasscoe 9780859894203
Booksplease Price: £29.41Edition with glossary: Informed by a combination of luminous spiritual insight and the integrity of common sense, this account of Julian's visionary experience is one of the most remarkable texts of... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
Booksplease Price: £40.21In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited... -
The Failure of Political Extremism in Inter-War Britain by Andrew Thorpe 9780859893077
Booksplease Price: £26.79The period between the two World Wars saw the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in most European countries, and the development of powerful communist and fascist movements in most... -
The Myths of Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859897044
Booksplease Price: £38.96Winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2005. Shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005. Widely reviewed and celebrated in hardback on publication in 2004, "The... -
Judith Mark Griffith (University of Oxford, New College (United Kingdom)) 9780859895682
Booksplease Price: £31.16Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem JUDITH the most stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the past thirty years it has attracted a wide range of... -
The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II by Jeremy Noakes 9780859893572
Booksplease Price: £31.16A collection of essays by specialist authors covering both belligerent and occupied countries: Britain, Germany, the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, Poland, France and the... -
Aldred's Marginalia: Explanatory Comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels by W.J.P. Boyd 9780859890366
Booksplease Price: £26.79Aldred's Marginalia provides an introductory discussion to the explanatory comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels.Book InformationISBN 9780859890366Author W.J.P. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 62 -
Saxon Shore: A Handbook by Valerie A. Maxfield 9780859893305
Booksplease Price: £27.57This volume presents a summary of the latest state of knowledge of each of the ten forts that originally girdled the south-eastern corner of England from Brancaster on the Wash to Portchester on... -
Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley by Steve Rippon 9780859898287
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.38This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at... -
Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' by Philip Payton 9780859897969
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of `Australia's Little Cornwall': how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this... -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: £22.59Booksplease Price: £21.78William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great... -
English Medieval Religious Lyrics by Douglas Gray 9780859893824
Booksplease Price: £29.41This volume provides a representative sample of the major genres of English medieval religious lyric. The arrangement of the texts are an important part of its value as an instrument of teaching and... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1: 1917-1940 by Edward Acton 9780859895811
Booksplease Price: £40.21This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and... -
Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-Text Translations by Robert K. Upchurch 9780859897808
Booksplease Price: £29.41Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As... -
English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon by Nicholas Orme 9780859895163
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £16.53Church dedications are as widely used as they are little studied, yet their histories are often obscure and complicated. Frequently forgotten after the Reformation, they were revived on the... -
Le Comte D'Essex by Wendy Gibson 9780859896665
Booksplease Price: £29.74If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has... -
Faction And Faith: Politics and Religion of the Cornish Gentry before the Civil War by Anne Duffin 9780859894357
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.89The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. In Faction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national... -
On Actors And Acting by Prof. Peter Thomson 9780859896719
Booksplease Price: £105.76This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre... -
Poesias Ineditas U Olvidadas by Emilia Pardo Bazan 9780859893398
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century. About the Author Reviews "The editing is sensitive and meticulous. An incisive introduction provides a... -
Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age 1750-1850 by Allan H. Pasco 9780859895507
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the... -
Letters From The Pyrenees by Don Luis Mendez De Haro Y Guzman 9780859896924
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the Pyrenees to conclude a peace treaty and marriage agreement that would end over twenty years of war between Spain and France. The hitherto... -
American Cultural Critics by David Murray 9780859894043
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its... -
La Soeur by B. Kite 9780859893985
Booksplease Price: £29.83La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph... -
The Geology Of Devon by E. M. Durrance 9780859892476
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Devon shows perhaps one of the most varied displays of geology in the British Isles. Intended for anyone with an interest in geology, The Geology of Devon covers the geological development of the... -
Approaches To The American Musical by Robert Lawson-Peebles 9780859894050
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form... -
Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology by Axel Muller 9781804130032
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.29Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the... -
Spiritual Development In The State School: A Perspective on Worship and Spirituality in the Education System of England and Wales by Terence Copley 9780859896016
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23How can children 'develop' spiritually and how do their teachers know when 'development' has occurred? This volume traces the roots and growth of school worship and spiritual development from... -
Loyalty And Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859894289
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.89This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of... -
School House in the Wind: A Trilogy by Anne Treneer by Anne Treneer 9780859895125
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in... -
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School House in the Wind: A Trilogy by Anne Treneer by Anne Treneer 9780859895125 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.33Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in... -
Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations by Clive Scott 9780859897693
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of... -
An American in Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's 'Five Years in an English University' by Charles Astor Bristed 9780859898249
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.89Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gaining a degree at Yale, Bristed... -
Toussaint Louverture by Alphonse de Lamartine 9780859896351
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850. It draws a... -
William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel by John Blewitt 9781905816347
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John...