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An examination of kings' courts and lords' courts in Normandy that opens a new chapter in the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the state in early modern France.

First scholarly study devoted to Guernsey in the nineteenth century, as it changed from a francophone to an anglophone society.

Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with full indices.

In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and composer.

A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude.

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications.

The conventions of television and their impact on composer and opera are discussed, with particular reference to Amahl and the Night Visitors, Owen Wingrave, and The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit.

Rank and state, church and clergy, marriage, Jane Austen's own convictions: a historian explores.

Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janacek.

Drawing on sources from archaeology and written texts, the author brings out the full significance of trees in both pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxon religion.

This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union.

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency.

A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.

A reappraisal of Bede's writings, focusing on his use of genre and rhetoric.

Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure.

An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings.

The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

Dr Garde questions modern interpretations of the nature and purpose of Old English religious poetry.

Using the case of early-sixteenth-century Antwerp, argues that practices of religious toleration in the Christian West first emerged not as the outgrowth of beliefs about human rights, but as a practical consequence of religious coexistence.

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.

Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

An important source of information for the reign of Edward the Confessor, with a unique political perspective on the ascendency of Godwine and his sons.

A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II

Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture.

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.

A translation of the only book that focuses solely on the pianistic aspect of Busoni's wide-ranging career.Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minuteslong, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his day as an author and pedagogue and, most especially, as a pianist. Busoni's recordings of pieces by Chopin and Liszt -- and of his own arrangements of keyboard works by Bach and Beethoven -- are much prized and studied today by connoisseurs of piano playing. Yet even his most important biographers have cast only a cursory glance at the pianistic aspect of Busoni's fascinating career. Grigory Kogan's book Busoni as Pianist (published in Russian in 1964, and here translated for the first time) was and remains the first and only study to concentrate exclusively on Busoni's contributions to the worldof the piano. Busoni as Pianist summarizes reviews of Busoni's playing and his own writings on the subject. It also closely analyzes the surviving piano roles and recordings, and examines Busoni's editions, arrangements, and pedagogical output. As such, it will be of interest to pianists, teachers and students of the piano, historians, and all who love piano music and the art of piano playing. Grigory Kogan (1901-1979) was a leading Soviet pianist and music critic. A conservatory professor at the age of twenty-one, Kogan created the first-ever course in Russia dealing with the history and theory of pianism. Through his brilliant lectures, his concert performances, and his many books, articles, and reviews, Kogan influenced an entire generation of Soviet pianists. Svetlana Belsky is a teacher and performer, and is coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago.

Brings together over thirty of the leading scholars in Post Medieval archaeology and examines how this relatively new discipline has developed and where it is going.

Breden shifts the focus of academic study away from product and towards process, demonstrating how an understanding of process assists in the reading of the theatrical product.

An examination of both the role played by Fortune in Arthurian literature and legend, and the fortunes of the legend itself.

A study of Matilda of Scotland (wife to Henry I) and the political acumen and personal skills she brought to the role of queen.