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Analysis of Latin sacred music written during the century illustrates the rapid and marked change in style and sophistication.
An account of the causes, combatants and course of events in the successive conflicts which troubled the duchy for half a century.
Essays offer a chronological survey of the development of English policy towards Ireland in the late 17th - early 18th century.
Prison disturbances during the period reveal inadequacies of the practice and philosophy of custodial sentencing.
A biography of one of the most prominent soldiers in the New Model Army, who made Cromwell Lord Protector but stopped him becoming king.
An exploration of how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm and other cities of the region.
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.
An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule.
New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past.
New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
A new analysis of one of the most loaded terms in the German language: Heimat, or Homeland.
This first comprehensive study of the dragon-fight in Old English and related literatures casts fresh light on Beowulf's last battle.
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain.
Part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Collaborative Series, which now includes editions of the main texts through from A to F.
Metrical study of Old English poetry drawing on database of almost half the surviving corpus - a uniquely extensive sample.
Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation.
The second of a two-volume prosopography of persons occurring in the sources of post-Conquest England.This second volume of persons named in English records between 1066 and 1166 follows on from its predecessor Domesday People: [Of] undoubted importance...in understanding the nature of Norman aristocratic society and the forceswithin it... a monumental effort. HISTORY Drawn from extensive and wide-ranging research in British and French archives, the 7500 entries in this volume provide the first authoritative prosopographical key to over 60,000 names found in English administrative documents such as the Pipe Rolls and the Cartae Baronum, as well as various Surveys and thousands of royal and private charters. Both volumes focus upon regional origin, family, and the descent of fees, and together they provide the most complete view to date of the people responsible for the conquest and colonization of England. Dr K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford.
A record of material and spiritual gifts to churches, compiled from 3000 wills made over 180 years.Reads like a medieval detective story. A splendid book... should be treated as a companion volume to The Stripping of the Altars. JULIAN LITTEN, CHURCH TIMES In the late medieval churches of the former deanery of Dunwich there are many features which were provided by testamentary gifts; this study of three thousand wills from fifty-two Suffolk parishes, written between 1370 and 1547, records such material and spiritual bequests. Many purchased prayer (the prayers of the poor being particularly sought), vital for the swift passage of the soul through Purgatory; other testators left instructions for the acquisition of liturgical books, church plate and embroideredvestments. Gifts and outright donations also provided stained glass, seven-sacrament fonts and rood-screens which have survived. The wills give no hint of the destruction that was to come - a medieval chancel with vacant niches and whitewashed walls says more than the wills are prepared to tell - but the pennies and shillings which had helped towards building expenses in this coastal district of East Anglia produced at least two of the finest parish churches in the country within a few decades of the Reformation. The late JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART was a tutor for the Board of Continuing Education for the universities of Cambridge and East Anglia.
A guide to sieges that took place in Europe and the Near East between 450 and 1565.
The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.
Survey of the activities of one of the most important cross-Border families, the ancestors of Robert the Bruce.
A concise general history of German literature from the early middle ages to the beginning of the 20th century.
A collection of Lewis White Beck's most important essays on Immanuel Kant's philosophy.
The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.
A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.
A history of monastic foundations in East Anglia, from the middle Anglo-Saxon period to the Normans.
Wace's Roman de Rou relates the history of the Normans from Rollo (Rou) to the battle of Tinchebray, establishing their right to the English throne.
The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day.
New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends during the Third Republic.
A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense.
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