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An examination of how trade and commerce were viewed from the "outside", in a period of vast change.

An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time.

The first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement.

The Reform Act of 1832 is shown to have politicised the electorate at all levels, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians.

The influence of the Moravian Church on the missionary awakening in England and its contribution to the movement's nature and vitality.

Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources.

Examines the relationship between the British left and national identity in socialism's formative years.

Chastelain's chronicle and career supply the context for a reappraisal of the political aspirations of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, 15c dukes of Burgundy.

A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.

Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.

New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

Brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor.

`Richly informative, an admirable piece of historical writing - offers lively interest wherever it is opened'YORKSHIRE POST

Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter

From the late-medieval period through to the 17th century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed 'license' of fooling was effectively revoked. This survey of clown traditions in the period looks at their history.

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.

The latest volume of Rossetti's correspondence, scrupulously edited by a team of experts.

This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials.

Shows how some of the ideas about the afterlife presented by spiritualism helped to shape popular Christianity in the period.

The House of Lords presented the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Published for the History of Parliament Trust.

A re-examination of the role of charity and treating venereal disease in public hospitals in early-modern London.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.

The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music.

Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of medieval warfare.

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages.

An exceptional reference work to pilgrim and secular badges of the middle ages.

The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins.

A vivid and highly-illustrated history of seafaring in the Middle Ages based on archaeological evidence and contemporary accounts.

Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon period are reassessed in this lively and provocative study.Anglo-Saxon elves [Old English aelfe] are one of the best attested non-Christian beliefs in early medieval Europe, but current interpretations of the evidence derive directly from outdated nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. Integrating linguistic and textual approaches into an anthropologically-inspired framework, this book reassesses the full range of evidence. It traces continuities and changes in medieval non-Christian beliefs with a new degree of reliability, from pre-conversion times to the eleventh century and beyond, and uses comparative material from medieval Ireland and Scandinavia to argue for a dynamic relationship between beliefs and society. Inparticular, it interprets the cultural significance of elves as a cause of illness in medical texts, and provides new insights into the much-discussed Scandinavian magic of seidr. Elf-beliefs, moreover, were connected withAnglo-Saxon constructions of sex and gender; their changing nature provides a rare insight into a fascinating area of early medieval European culture. Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2007 ALARIC HALL is a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Shows how the image of Cornish wreckers as villains deliberately luring ships on to the rocks is a myth.