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Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Warfare in History) מאת Yuval Noah Harari Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing army,...

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The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (History of British Intelligence) מאת David Burke On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article 'Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy who came in from the Co-op.' Melita Norwood, the last of the atomic spies, had finally been run to ground, but at 87 she was deemed too old to prosecute. He...

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The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422) מאת James G. Clark Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a r...

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Pain and Suffering in Medieval Theology: Academic Debates at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century מאת Donald Mowbray Questions of pain and suffering occur frequently in medieval theological debate. Here, Dr Mowbray examines the innovative views of Paris's masters of theology in the thirteenth century, illuminating how they constructed notions of pain and suffering by building a standard terminology and conceptual ...

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The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Brittannie) (Arthurian Studies) מאת Geoffrey of Monmouth This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, contains the first appearance of many mythical figures, King Lear and King Arthur among them. It rapidly became a `bestseller' across the British Isles and Europe: over 200 manuscripts survive. Here, an authoritative version of...

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Debussy's Mélisande: The Lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte מאת Gillian Opstad Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their involvement with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, illustrating the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. The three women presented here were not only remarkable fo...

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A Catalogue of Mediaeval English Rolls of Arms (Aspilogia) מאת Anthony Richard Wagner 'Aspilogia' means materials of heraldry, and this first volume in the series on heraldry published by the Society of Antiquaries is a comprehensive listing of the known medieval rolls of arms of English origin. The rolls vary from very grand and luxurious painted manuscripts to simple records made b...

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Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c.1480-1560 (Warfare in History) מאת David Potter The 'other' Renaissance experienced by France was that of war. In Italy from 1494 to 1529, for instance, France was involved in at least a hundred battles, some of them 'batttles of giants' like Marignano. After 1530, though the emphasis partly shifted away from Italy and major battles were replaced...

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The Genius of Valhalla: The Life of Reginald Goodall מאת John Lucas When Sir Reginald Goodall died in 1990, at the age of 88, he had already acquired cult status and was considered one of the greatest Wagner conductors of our times. Although he had conducted the première of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945 and was admired by Erich Kleiber and Otto Klempere...

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The Making of the Elizabethan Navy 1540-1590: From the Solent to the Armada מאת David Loades When Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 the English Navy was rather ad hoc: there were no warships as such, rather just merchant ships, hired when needed by the king, and converted for military purposes, which involved mostly the transport of troops and the support of land armies. There were no p...

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The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760 מאת Antti Matikkala This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of th...

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The British Naval Staff in the First World War מאת Nicholas Black This book examines the role of the Naval Staff of the Admiralty in the 1914-18 war, reassessing both the calibre of the Staff and the function and structure of the Staff. It challenges some of the views of historians such as Arthur Marder and naval figures such as Captains Herbert Richmond and Kenne...

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The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860 (Worlds of the East India Company) מאת Anthony Webster This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the East India Company's reign as the sovereign power in India. This was a most turbulent period for British commerce with India. The period began with t...

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A Companion to Bede (Anglo-Saxon Studies) מאת George Hardin Brown The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church (c.672-732), he was the author not only of the well-known Ecclesiastical History of the English...

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The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin מאת Henry Hardy Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of cont...

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Rolls of Arms of Henry III: The Matthew Paris Shields (c.1244-59); Glover's Roll (c.1253-8) and Walford's Roll (c.1273); Additions and Corrections to A ... English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (Aspilogia) מאת Thomas Daniel Tremlett In the thirteenth century, written records of the arms borne by knights first begin to appear, and the three manuscripts described in this volume cover perhaps one-tenth of those who might have been qualified to bear arms. It is a large enough proportion to give a good picture of English heraldry of...

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Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work (Aldeburgh Studies in Music) מאת Lucy Walker Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the 1920s and examines a broad range of influences on Britten, inclu...

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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 מאת Robin Netherton The fifth volume of this annual series features several articles examining the interaction of medieval romance with textiles and clothing. French Gothic ivory carvings illustrating courtly romances reveal details of fashionable dress; the distinct languages of narrative poetry and Parisian tax recor...

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Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott: Song of Pain and Beauty מאת Pamela Blevins This dual biography of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott tells the dramatic story of two geniuses who met at the Royal College of Music in 1911 and formed an unlikely partnership that illuminated and enriched the musical and literary worlds in which they moved. Gurney's poetry and songs have taken their ...

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The Letters of Samuel Pepys מאת Guy de la Bedoyere The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the Earl of Sandwich, his rise to gre...

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Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century מאת Helen Doe Far from the genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century and actively ran non feminine busi...

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Wasperton: A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (Anglo-Saxon Studies) מאת Catherine Hills (Edited by Martin Carver) For decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British? New light on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a small vil...

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Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis: Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music) מאת Emma Hornby How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are addressed here through a case study of the second-mode tracts, lengthy and complex solo chants for Lent, which wer...

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Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents מאת Felix Meyer Born in New York in December 1908, the venerable but still active American composer Elliott Carter is one of the most highly regarded figures in the music of our time. His works span more than seven decades and have been the subject of many analyses, and most of his writings have appeared in careful...

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Leprosy in Medieval England מאת Carole Rawcliffe One of the most important publications for many years in the fields of medical, religious and social history. Rawcliffe's book completely overhauls our understanding of leprosy and contributes immensely to our knowledge of the English middle ages. This is a fascinating study that will be a seminal w...

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Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend מאת Richard Mortimer The millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth presents an appropriate occasion for a full-scale, up-to-date reassessment of his life, reign and cult, a reappraisal which is provided in the essays here. After an introduction to the many views of Edward's life, and a reinterpretation of the developme...

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Navies of Rome מאת Michael Pitassi This publication represents the first true examination of the Roman Navy as an independent arm of the military. Though many may perceive the Roman Empire as a primarily land based organisation, an empire forged by the formidable legions of infantry, the truth is that the Roman Empire was as much a m...

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Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume VII: The Age of the Hundred Years War מאת Clifford J. Rogers This seventh volume of the Journal of Medieval Military History has a particular focus on western Europe in the late middle ages, and specifically the Hundred Years War; however, the breadth and diversity of approaches found in the modern study of medieval military history remains evident. Some essa...

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The Medieval Cook מאת Bridget Ann Henisch 'An excellent book and a delight to read, written with panache and entirely convincing.' Professor PETER COSS, Cardiff University. This book takes us into the world of the medieval cook, from the chefs in the great medieval courts and aristocratic households catering for huge feasts, to the peas...

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The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 מאת Andrew Chandler This is the first comprehensive picture of the life and work of the Church of England in the second half of the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of the Church at a time of immense upheaval. The Church was inevitably faced with the need for (sometimes painful) reform as society became more se...

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Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 מאת Winton Dean This first of the classic two-volume survey of Handel's operas was first published in 1987 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 1995. Now it is brought back into print in a year which has seen numerous productions and recordings of the operas and which marks the 250th anniversary of Handel...

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Country Remedies: The Survival of East Anglia's Traditional Plant Medicines מאת Gabrielle Hatfield Many domestic plant remedies were used within living memory in rural East Anglia - and indeed survive today, as shown in this volume. Informants have been for the most part elderly country people, and in almost every instance, this information has never been written down, but has been preserved oral...

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Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900 מאת David Boyd Haycock Maritime medicine, together with its links to the development of empire, is a burgeoning area of historical interest and enquiry.This book, based on extensive original research, explores the history of health and medicine in maritime and imperial contexts in a key period, reflecting the growing prof...

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Celtic Curses מאת Bernard Mees The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period, and other traces of Celtic stipulation and binding onl...

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The Herald in Late Medieval Europe מאת Katie Stevenson The officers of arms (kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants) have often been overlooked by scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they played important parts in a number of areas. They were crucial to foreign and domestic relations, an...

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The Entring Book of Roger Morrice (1677-1691) VII: Index מאת Alasdair Hawkyard Index to the acclaimed six-volume set of The Entring Book of Roger Morrice. Indexed set, ISBN #9781843834304, is priced at $1250....

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Swords of the Viking Age מאת Ian Peirce This new work fills a vacuum in English language studies of the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking Age, from the mid-eighth through to the mid-eleventh century. Given the mission of seeking out the best representative examples of the broad diversity of sword types surviving fr...

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Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 מאת Jonathan Reinarz In the middle of the eighteenth century, hospitals were unfamiliar institutions to the inhabitants of most English towns and cities. As early as the late nineteenth century, however, hospitals had become central to both the provision of health care and medical education in most large urban populatio...

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Erik Chisholm, Scottish Modernist (1904-1965): Chasing a Restless Muse מאת John Purser Erik Chisholm was the pre-eminent composer and musician in Scottish classical music in the first half of the twentieth century. As Sir Charles Mackerras put it, 'Chisholm was a musician of rare capabilities. He was a pianist and organist, a conductor, a composer, a lecturer on music, an entrepreneur...

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The Civil Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 (Suffolk Records Society) מאת Eric James Gallagher The eyre was an organised judicial visitation to the counties of England by the king's justices to hear all types of plea, civil and crown, as well as to investigate any matters for the king that pertain to the county; it was thus a hugely important part of the legal process. This volume presents an...

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Re-reading Poetry: Schubert's Multiple Settings of Goethe מאת Sterling Lambert One of the most important aspects of Franz Schubert's song production has remained relatively neglected: the many occasions on which he set poetry to music more than once. This practice of returning to poems, and responding to them anew, is unusual and suggests a greater degree of literary sensitivi...

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The Langobards before the Frankish Conquest: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology) מאת Giorgio Ausenda The Langobards or Lombards were the last Germanic group to invade the Roman Mediterranean, crossing the Alps into Italy in 568-9. They were nonetheless one of the longest-lasting, for their state survived Charlemagne's conquest in 774, and was the core of the medieval kingdom of Italy. The incomplet...

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Anglo-Norman Studies 31: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2008 מאת C. P. Lewis The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life of Edward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I...

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The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations מאת Martin K. Foys In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This volume demonstrates the value of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the ...

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Calendar of the Fine Rolls of Henry III (1216-1248): III. 1235-1242 David Carpenter

Calendar of the Fine Rolls of Henry III (1216-1248): III. 1235-1242 מאת David Carpenter The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all manner of concessions and favours, they are central to the study of political, governmental, legal, social and economic history. The reign of Henry III (1216-1272) is a particular...

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The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291 מאת Nicholas Morton 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 important part in the defence of the Christian territories in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Baltic regions of Prussia and Livonia; in the...