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Gower's preoccupation with the authority of fathers (and of kings) employed to illustrate his relation to his text.

Douceline de Digne, founder of the beguine community of the Ladies of Roubaud in Provence, was an important woman mystic of her time; contextual material includes comparison with the beguines of northern Europe.

Wide-ranging study of the myth of Medea, concentrating on but not exclusively confined to its medieval incarnation.

An indispensable series for anyone who wishes to keep abreast of recent work in the field. WELSH HISTORY REVIEW

Detailed investigation into a transitional period of the Abbey's history, covering the whole community.

The concept of Purgatory in Middle English didactic writings is explored through examination of visions of the afterlife, sermons, homiletic treatises, and lyrics.

A study of Anglo-Norman medical prescriptions, which analyses six collections comprising over 1000 receipts. It includes a historical introduction that offers an account of popular medicine in the period 1100-1300.

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.This book represents the first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages. Up until now historians have used medieval legal records to demonstrate the operation of legal rules, the functioning of legal institutions and the development of the legal profession, but they have rarely considered the attitudes that arose as a result of the processes of law. The papers in this volume investigate the way expectations of thelaw were generated, captured, revealed or replayed for posterity in medieval Europe in jurisprudential reasoning, the activity of charter writing, the framing of definitions of 'liberty', the concern for historical justifications, and the phraseology of various forms of legislation and chancery bills. Attitudes and perceptions are also considered with regard to the active role played by rulers of European states in law-giving and in the organisation of legal institutions. Contextualising some of the developments in medieval law, this volume not only enables generalisations to be made about expectations of the law, but also highlights the existence of national and supra-national similarities as well as differences arising in medieval Europe.Dr ANTHONY MUSSON teaches in the School of Law at the University of Exeter.Contributors: RICHARD W. KAEUPER, D. HEIRBAUT, M. KORPIOLA, JUDITH EVERARD, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, JULIA C. CRICK, H. SUMMERSON, G. SEABOURNE, G. DODD, T. HASKETT, ANTHONY MUSSON, C. STEBBINGS, P. TUCKER

`The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time.

Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.

Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), radical thinker, is the subject of this study, and he is presented here as a forerunner of New Right ideology rather than as `early English socialist'.

Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.

Twelve papers focus on mysticism as an experience and on the work of individual mystics.

Birgitta's religious authority considered, with regard to her prophetic mission and her authenticity as a medium of divine revelation in 14c Europe.

An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east England, charting relations between the monastic community and the invading Normans.

Offers an account of a fifth-century bishop of Auxerre, who on two occasions came to Britain.

A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

Essays dealing with the controversial concept of the "work", and how far social and cultural practices are integral to it.

Texts and translation of all Debussy's songs with valuable notes.

15th-c. adaptations of Chretien de Troyes, the use of motifs, and standard features including current state of research and book review section.

A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music.

A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts.

A detailed historiographical examination of the role the Ovimbundu people have played in Angolan politics from Portuguese colonization to the present.

An expression of Elliott Carter's musical philosophy, this volume presents essays and lectures, which show his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer. It is a useful record for historians of modern music.

An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology.

Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians.

Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond.

Analysis of the structure of traditional stories and fairytales, bringing out their shared characteristics, and showing why they remain so powerful and resonant today.

In this volume are the second part of Christine Poulson's survey of the Arthurian legend, an update to Mary Wildman's guide to modern Arthurian literature, an article on Ponticus Virumnius and the text of Gildas, and an article on the origins of Chretien de Troyes' "Conte del Graal".