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Survey of the reign of Henry II, offering a range of new evaluations and interpretations.

An examination of the attempt by Western-educated African intellectuals to create a 'better Africa' through connecting nationalism to knowledge, from the anti-colonial movement to the present-day.

An illustrated history of the English branch of the Order of St Lazarus, founded to care for lepers and send leper knights to the Crusades.One of the most unusual contributions to the crusading era was the idea of the leper knight - a response to the scourge of leprosy and the shortage of fighting men which beset the Latin kingdom in the twelfth century. The Order ofSt Lazarus, which saw the idea become a reality, founded establishments across Western Europe to provide essential support for its hospitaller and military vocations. This book explores the important contribution of the English branch of the order, which by 1300 managed a considerable estate from its chief preceptory at Burton Lazars in Leicestershire. Time proved the English Lazarites to be both tough and tenacious, if not always preoccupied with the care of lepers. Following the fall of Acre in 1291 they endured a period of bitter internal conflict, only to emerge reformed and reinvigorated in the fifteenth century. Though these late medieval knights were very different from their twelfth-century predecessors, some ideologies lingered on, though subtly readapted to the requirements of a new age, until the order was finally suppressed by Henry VIII in 1544. The modern refoundation of the order, a charitable institution, dates from 1962. The book uses both documentary and archaeological evidence to provide the first ever account of this little-understood crusading order.DAVID MARCOMBE is Director of the Centre for Local History,University of Nottingham.

Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.

A discussion of European understanding of the physical world from the 9th century to the 15th, ranging from astronomy to zoology - and refuting the more recent notion that the world was thought flat.

Investigation of the growing regional power of the English aristocracy in the central middle ages.

Offers the studies of the advances made by the Visigoths from the decline of the Roman Empire to the seventh century, when their kingdom stretched from the Loire to the Straits of Gibraltar. This work addresses questions thrown up by the history of the Visigoths and of the kingdom they generated.

A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history.

The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.

A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich von Kleist.

A three volume critical edition of the "Prose Tristan", based on a collation of all the manuscripts with the "Carpentras" manuscript (404).

An examination of the circumstances of youthful delinquency in London in the early nineteenth century, and the legislative measures put in place to contain and control offenders.

Diverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century.

Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust.

An exploration of avant-garde music and operatic form in Weimar Germany

The former first horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra writes about playing under Klemperer, Koussevitzky, Munch etc, the french horn, and specific horn passages.

The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.

Bach's Changing World is a study of popular culture in the community in which Bach spent the last, the longest, and the most productive part of his life: the Leipzig middle-class.

Traces the changing identity and ownership of the important city of Trieste in a turbulent period.

A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.

A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography.

A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.

First full-length survey of the Stonors, an important gentry family during the middle ages, exploring the wide connections they fostered.

A richly valuable source of knowledge. MEDIUM AEVUM

A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war.

First modern text and translation of the prose Brut chronicle, the most popular secular vernacular work of the middle ages.

A revisionist look at the true state of rural England between the two world wars.

The role of pastoral care reconsidered in the context of major changes within the Anglo-Saxon church.

Eight studies of aspects of C15 England, united by a common focus on the role of ideas in political developments of the time.

An investigation of the places in the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.