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Latest work on Arthur by respected scholars.

A fascinating survey of the changing fortunes of Steinbeck's critical reputation.

This historical and critical study of "neoclassicism" in music, covers the genesis of the concept in France in the 1870s through to the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. It provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins and then looks in turn at various composers.

A collection of essays examining how philosophers in the Western tradition have viewed and written about children through the ages.

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Offers evidence from Continental sources on early fifth-century Britain, and from Irish sources on Gildas' own reputation and career. This book is suitable for students of post-Roman Britain.

An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes.

`A major contribution to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University.

A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy.

A new, deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem.

A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807.

Explores the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important German Romantic poet of all.

An examination of how historical thinking has changed in recent years, through a comparison between Eastern and Western epochs.

A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today's Germany.

A study of the breakthrough of the Germanic vernacular dialects into the realm of written language between the eighth and tenth centuries.

Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer.

An important contribution to the understanding of the theatrical output of major figure of Spanish literary canon.

A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts.

Surviving theatrical contracts throw light on the remarkable degree of theatrical activity throughout 17c Spain.

First full-length study and edition of the acts of the Court of Arches, the most important medieval English ecclesiastical court.

Demonstrates that separatist thinking in Ireland was crucial even when the political focus was on home rule.

Medieval natural philosophy illuminates Chaucer's use of the motif of sight and the relationship between love and knowledge.

A collection of 32 modernised versions of "The Canterbury Tales" which offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, during the period.

Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being.

`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIES

Using examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings, this book provides a preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio.

It is true that certain aspects of Chaucer's syntax and lexis have been dealt with in fairly over the years, but other subcategories of Chaucerian English, such as phonology and morphology, deserve more attention. This work is limited to Chaucerian phonology and morphology, and assumes some familiarity with the rudiments of linguistics.

Explores the concept, and the 'imaginary world' surrounding Chaucer's "The House of Fame". This book contains an outline and discussion of the poem. It explores the 'history' and meaning of the idea of 'Fame', such as Chaucer might have received from tradition. It demonstrates that "The House of Fame" is in a sense, Chaucer's creative manifesto.

Makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems. This book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them. It represents authors such as Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps as well as some poems, and translations from Cicero and Boccaccio.