Of the three Cistercian houses in north Staffordshure, Hulton Abbey is the only one to have been properly investigated. Founded in 1219, it was a poor monastic house which was dissolved in 1538.
The report from excavations of a thirteenth century Carmarthenshire castle, the seat of the Lords of Dryslwyn until its capture by Edward I in 1287.
This book explores the space Jean Paulhan sought to carve out, between art for art's sake and art for... Læs mere
This book attempts to reveal how the fantastic operates and how it produces its effects, and analyses the devices and techniques used by the fantastic in order to produce hesitation in the mind of the reader. It proceeds through an analysis of one French and one Russian work.
Discussing different themes, different texts, and working with different methodological presuppositions, the papers in this collection nevertheless share... Læs mere
This book addresses a central concern in the work of Italy's most important contemporary novelist, Italo Calvino. It investigates the relationship between the visual and the textual in Italo Calvino's oeuvre—a key aspect of the author's multidimensional writings.
This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in... Læs mere
Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very... Læs mere
This monograph is the definitive survey of iron tools and other fittings in use during the period c1066 to 1540AD.