First full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.
Presents 570 newly discovered letters from Jane, fully annotated, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid.
Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation.
An authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day.
First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.
A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.
Explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed through appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in Europe.
Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 40s played in shaping his radical new musical concepts.
Contains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood.
The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.
The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.
Text with facing English translation provides fascinating insights into medieval religious life.