Boydell et Brewer

The exploitations of medieval romance

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As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize…

Sufi City: urban design and archetypes in Touba

by Ross, Eric

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'Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba' is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded in 1887 by a Sufi shaykh in a moment of mystic illumination. Since the death of the founder in 1927,…

International relations in psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World …

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The decades around 1900 were crucial in the evolution of modern medical and social sciences, and in the formation of various national health services systems. The modern fields of psychiatry and mental health care are located at the intersection of these spheres. There emerged c…

Heresy, crusade and inquisition in medieval Quercy

by Taylor, Claire

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The medieval county of Quercy in Languedoc lay between the Dordogne and the Toulousain in south-west France; it played a significant role in the history of Catharism, of the Albigensian crusade launched against the heresy in 1209, and of the subsequent inquisition. Although Cath…

Henry Ireton and the English Revolution

by Farr, David

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A devout puritan, Henry Ireton was an immediate parliamentarian activist rising to the rank of Commissary-General of the New Model Army. Ireton shared Oliver Cromwell's religious enthusiasm and acted as one of his political mentors. Ireton, more than any other individual, even C…

The Elizabethan invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the study …

by Brackmann, Rebecca

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Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past.' - Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter…

Malory's library: the sources of the Morte Darthur

by Norris, Ralph

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A New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself. The first book-length study of the sources of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' since 1921 and the first comprehensive study since that of Vinaver's three-volume edition, 'Mal…

Romance and its contexts in fifteenth-century England: politics, piety and penitence

by Radulescu, Raluca Luria

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Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By ex…

The Teutonic knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291

by Morton, Nicholas Edward

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A detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, covering both their military and administrative affairs. The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide medical care for crusaders in the kingdom of Jerusalem. In time, it assumed a military role and played an importa…

Founding feminisms in medieval studies: essays in honor of E. Jane Burns

by Burns, E. Jane

fromGallica

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Doggett, Sarah-Grace Heller, Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer.

Corporate medievalism

fromStudies in Medievalism

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Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have pr…

Barking Abbey and medieval literary culture: authorship and authority in a female community

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Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it w…

Merchant seamen's health, 1860-1960: medicine, technology, shipowners and the state in…

by Carter, Tim

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This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by, bureaucracies and vested interests, such as ship-owners. It shows how these campaigns originated, how reformers, bureaucracies and vested int…

Anglo-Saxon prognostics: an edition and translation of texts from London, …

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Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They…

A history of Malawi, 1859-1966

by McCracken, John

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This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi during the colonial period. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it places this history within the context of the pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingsto…

The Hundred Years War in literature: 1337-1600

by Bellis, Joanna

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The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the conflict remains a sticking point in scholarship of medieval multilingualism and i…

The English aristocracy at war: from the Welsh wars of Edward I to the Battle of …

by Simpkin, David

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A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standards. Most of his countrymen had not b…

The French symphony at the fin de siècle: style, culture, and the symphonic tradition

by Deruchie, Andrew

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In this first full-length study of the symphony in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century France, Andrew Deruchie provides extended critical discussion of seven of the most influential and frequently performed works of the era, by Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Édouard …

Othmar Schoeck: life and works

by Walton, Chris

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In this, the first extended study of Schoeck in English, Walton places the man and the artist squarely in the context of his time. The work of the late-Romantic Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) has in recent years enjoyed a surge of interest. His 300 songs with piano ac…