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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 &... -
Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the battle Conference 1983 R. Allen Brown 9780851151977
Booksplease Price: £109.03Battles 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 Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England by Katherine J. Lewis
Booksplease Price: £103.44The 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... -
The Haskins Society Journal 28 - 2016. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93The 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... -
Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 - Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers by Richard Blake
Booksplease Price: £109.33The 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,... -
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History Thijs Porck 9781783273751
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67How 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... -
Merchant Seamen`s Health, 1860-1960 - Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain by Tim Carter
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by, bureaucracies and vested interests, such as ship-owners. It... -
The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124-1130): Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms by Enrico Veneziani
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37A 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... -
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, - Papers from the fourth Strawberry Hill conference, 1988 by Christopher Harper-Bill 9780851152653
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Reviewing 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... -
Death and Dissent -Two Fifteenth-Century Chronic - The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis, translated by John Shirley; `Warkworth`s Chronicle`- the Chronic by Lister M. Matheson 9780851157252
Booksplease Price: £73.97This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The... -
Ireland’s Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology by Dr Patrick W Hayes 9781783277063
Booksplease Price: £110.29This 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... -
Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ire - Saffron, Stockings and Silk by Susan Flavin 9781843839507
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This 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... -
Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World, 1636–1676: A Study of Military Providentialism by Dr Matthew Rowley 9781837650149
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37A 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... -
The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936: A Curious Rural Revolt by John Bulaitis 9781837651870
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837651870Author John BulaitisFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840: Beyond Borders and Boundaries Dr Alexis Wolf 9781783277889
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century. The Irish... -
Bishop Aethelwold - His Career and Influence by Barbara Yorke 9780851157054
Booksplease Price: £29.68AEthelwold'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: £20.94Edward, 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: £23.54The 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... -
Sir Jonas Moore - Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science by Frances Willmoth 9780851153216
Booksplease Price: £96.11Sir 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... -
Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War by Julie Spraggon 9780851158952
Booksplease Price: £109.33This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the... -
From Kings to Warlords - The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages by Katharine Simms 9780851157849
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in... -
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages by P.h. Cullum 9781783273683
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the... -
The Haskins Society Journal 31: 2019. Studies in Medieval History by Laura L. Gathagan 9781783275731
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The articles in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal take the reader... -
Saints` Cults in the Celtic World by Steve Boardman 9781843834328
Booksplease Price: £96.11The way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the... -
Red Flag and Union Jack - Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881-1924 by Paul Ward 9781843836360
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22It is generally assumed that the language of patriotism and national identity belongs to the political right, but the emergence of socialism in the 1880s shows clearly that the left also drew on such... -
French Revolutionaries and English Republicans - The Cordeliers Club, 1790-1794 by Rachel Hammersley 9781843836469
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Following the cataclysmic events of 1789, some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should... -
Public Participation in Archaeology by Suzie Thomas 9781783274659
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.52Across the world public archaeology, the way in which it is understood as well as the way it is practised or delivered, has many facets. In some countries it is not only unknown, but is actively... -
Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military by Laurie Rush 9781843837527
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.52"Laurie Rush, a senior archeologist with the U.S. Army, has assembled a seminal book on the threat to important cultural sites from combat operations, and none too soon. Spurred by the tragic... -
Britten`s Gloriana: Essays and Sources by Paul Banks 9781843837978
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Glorianahas been a source of... -
The Clarinet by Jane Ellsworth 9781648250170
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.06With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on... -
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions by Terje Spurkland 9781843831860
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till around the end of the fourteenth century,... -
Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy by Claire L. Sahlin
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This 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: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The 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: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The 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: £96.11The 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: £96.11Manuscript 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: £13.92The 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... -
Nurturing the Love of Music - Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music by Vincent A. Lenti 9781648250149
Booksplease Price: £33.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648250149Author Vincent A. LentiFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint The Boydell PressPublisher... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLVI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2023 Professor Stephen D. Church 9781837651047
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.55"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King Considers the clerical friends of Ermengarde of Brittany, showing how these men enabled Ermengarde to fulfil both her duty and her desire to live... -
Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era by Professor Nicholas Rogers 9781837651511
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and...