"In this book, Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European Middle Ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman w…
The text is an indispensably detailed document that charts the history of the Asante monarchy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Context is provided by the inclusion of other writings by or about Agyeman Prempeh, together with four introductory essays by the world…
"In The Comedians of the King, Julia Doe traces the impact of Bourbon patronage on the development of French lyric comedy. The book presents the history of an understudied genre and the institutional structures that supported it, determining how changes in royal sponsorship, esp…
Robert Stein, 'Burgundian bureaucracy as a model for the Low Countries? The Chambres des Comptes and the creation of an administrative unity'. Philippe Godding, 'Le Conseil de Brabant sous Philippe le Bon. L'institution et les hommes'. Mario Damen, 'Taxation for prince and offic…
