The Century of Calamity. England in the Long Eleventh Century, Hardback - T.D. Asch

The dramatic story of a tumultuous period of English history - a time when kings fell, families were split and a way of life was lost forever. Pack...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fecamp's Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piet...

A detailed examination of the English glass industry with an emphasis on the archaeological evidence.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

Examines Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture -- .

Provides a comprehensive history of manufacturers, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that w...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): William Edward Hartpole LeckyIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 556Publication date: 2009...

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fecamp's Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piet...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

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This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. Yet the primary sources show that parties with disputes got on with the...

This collection offers bold new readings of the images, composition, reception, and contexts of the beautiful, twelfth-century Markyate Psalter.Pub...

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the impo...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examin...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

The thirteenth century was a crucial period of reform in the English church, especially for the pastoral care of laypeople. With this holistic stud...

The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. This book presents a major reevaluation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces

Publisher: Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations (BBTT)Illustration(s): Ill.4figs.Number of pages: 424Collection: Belfast Byzantine Texts & Tran...

Reducere. The essays in this volume revisit issues of exile and occupation during the sixth century BCE through texts, iconography, and material culture. Unl...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

'The Battle of Maldon', along with 'Beowulf' and Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', is perhaps the best known text of the Anglo...

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

In this collection the multidimensional story of children's literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, quest...

DescriptionThe impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial ha...

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This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Nicola Minott-AhlNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 18Cover type: Hardbac...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

The first full-length study of the famous Scottish king Mael Coluim III.Illustrations: 8 Plates, black and white

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit wil...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inco...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed.P...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

The period from 1650 to 1800 was a time of immense change in Scotland, witnessing the Union of 1707, the Jacobite Risings, and the flowering of the...

Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 222Collection: Fourteenth...