In this unique and entertaining collection of articles, a noted scholar and compiler of key works of reference reflects on the nature of... Læs mere
The first edition of the devotionary composed by Constanza de Castilla. Comprising a variety of prayers and liturgical offices in Spanish and Latin, the book provides evidence of the beliefs, experience, and expression of religious women in Spain of the later Middle Ages.
The Prideaux Lectures were given in 1990 by Adrian Hastings, published here in volume form. He surveys the range of interactions between the Christian church and the English state.
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held... Læs mere
A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's 14th-century Les Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer, a translation of the travelogue of Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy who spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia.
This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources.
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new... Læs mere
Between February 1990 when the South African president F.W. De Klerk, released Nelson Mandela from prison and legalised the ANC, and April 1994 when the first democratic elections were held, South Africa experienced revolutionary changes.
In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pioneer of... Læs mere
The Shakers were a celibate, mystical and communitarian sect which flourished in the United States from the 1770s to the end of the nineteenth century. Their cultural influence far exceeded their statistical presence in American society.
An eighteenth-century "bourgeois tragedy", written in an English style. This is an important text, which provides an appreciation of the spirit of the era, and demonstrates the bridging of comic and tragic theatre styles.
This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence.