Name: Bestiary
Brand: Richard Barber
Price: 29.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Bestiary

$29.99

A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary.

Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique insight into the medieval mind. Richly illuminated and lavishly produced, they were luxury objects for noble families. Their three-fold purpose was to provide a natural history of birds, beasts and fishes, to draw moral examples from animal behaviour (the industrious bee, the stubborn ass), and to reveal a mystical meaning - the phoenix, for instance, as a symbol of Christ's resurrection.

This Bestiary, MS Bodley 764, was produced around the middle of the thirteenth century and is of singular beauty and interest. The lively illustrations have the freedom and naturalistic quality of the later Gothic style, and make dazzling use of colour. This book reproduces the 136 illuminations to the same size and in the same place as the original manuscript, fitting the text around them. Richard Barber's translation from the original Latin is a delight to read, capturing both the serious intent of the manuscript and its charm.

RICHARD BARBER has written many books on the history of and life in the middle ages, from his Somerset Maugham Award-winning The Knight and Chivalry, by way of biographies of Henry II and the Black Prince, to an anthology of Arthurian literature from England, France and Germany, Arthurian Legends, and an account of the historical Arthur, King Arthur: Hero and Legend.

English Caroline Script and Monastic History

$120.00

An analysis and study of Caroline script from 200 years of ecclesiastical and secular records reveals important historical detail relating to late Anglo-Saxon England.

Caroline minuscule script was adopted in England in the mid-tenth century in imitation of Continental usage. A badge of ecclesiastical reform, it was practised in Benedictine scriptoria but was also taken up by members of the royal writing office; the chancery occupied an important place in the pioneering of calligraphic fashions. During its approximately two-century history in England, Caroline script developed a number of forms, in part reflecting different tendencies within the Reform-cause. The Rule of St Benedict was focal for this movement.

In the aftermath of the final Scandinavian conquest of England [AD1016] a Canterbury master-scribe created the form ofCaroline writing which was to become a mark of Englishness and outlive the Norman Conquest. In the closing chapter its inventor's career is discussed and his achievement assessed. This volume offers analysis of manuscript evidenceas a basis for the cultural and ecclesiastical history of late Anglo-Saxon England.

David N. Dumville is professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen

English Caroline Script and Monastic History

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages

$29.99

Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.

`A wholly feminine voice within Catholicism-they express the inexpressible better than any amount of rational thinking about God.' THE TIMES
The three women who are the subject of this fascinating study lefta rich legacyof medieval spirituality. Frances Beer explores their writings and draws on available historical evidence to bring the experience of all three women closer to a 20th-century audience. She sees Hildegard's perception of her Creator as informed by the heroic ideal, while Mechthild's erotic experience seems to show the influence of the minnesingers. Julian's experience of tender intimacy with her Lord demonstrates an egalitarian confidence in the ability of the individual soul to progress towards onenesswith the divine. Their individual natures are also further revealed through the author's examination of their resolution of a number of theological problems. In contrast, the works of two medieval men writing for women are also explored.
FRANCESBEER is Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto.

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages

Anglo-Norman Studies VI

$130.00

Battles in England and Normandy 1066-1154; Philip II's Fortress Policy in Normandy; Order of Sempringham; Anselm's Letters; Henry I, War and Diplomacy; Introduction of Knight Service in England; Scandinavian nfluence in 11th-Century Norman Literature; Gesta Normannorum; Architectural implications of Decreta Lanfranci; William and the Church of Rome; Lincoln Cathedral; `Lewes Group' of Wall Paintings; Knights Templar at Shipley Church. J. BRADBURY, C. COULSON, R. FOREVILLE, W. FRçHLICH, C.W. HOLLISTER, J.C. HOLT, E. VAN HOUTS, G. HUISMAN, A.W. KLUKAS, P.A. MACCARINI, D. OWEN, D. PARK, R. GEM.30 plates, figs.

Medieval Knighthood IV

$130.00

Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe 10c-15c. from the practical [houses, armour], to the intellectual [concept of holy war, loyalty, etc.]

These eight papers from the Strawberry Hill Conference cover a wide area, but common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic, studying residences and also developments in armour. A second group concerns ideals which motivated the aristocracy of western Europe, from the late 10th to the 15th centuries: romances, the Peace movement of Aquitaine, holy war, and loyalty. Concentration on rationalism and free will in the writings of the cultural circle which revolved around Sir John Fastolf is identified as an important element in the development of the English Renaissance.

Professor CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILLteaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.

Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, JEFFREY ASHCROFT, CHARLES COULSON, JONATHAN HUGHES, JANE MARTINDALE, PETER NOBLE, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, ANN WILLIAMS

Mímesis y Cultura en la Ficción

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Anglo-Norman Studies XIV

$130.00

Important new research on a very wide range of topics in the fields of history, archaeology, literature and palaeography.

Adela of Blois and Ivo of Chartres; Anglo-Norman families; Anglo-Scandinavian equestrian equipment; `Belrem'; Bookland, Folkland and Fiefs; Charters of David I; Counts of Boulogne under Eustace II; Dispute settlement; Financing Stephen's War; Fortification de Rouen; French literature in 12c England; Margam Annals; Ranulf II Earl of Chester's armed neutrality; Rochester cathedral priory c.1100; See of London. G.W.S. BARROW, P. DALTON, B. GAUTHIEZ, J. GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, J. GREEN, K. LOPRETE, J.S. MOORE, R.B. PATTERSON, S. REYNOLDS, I. SHORT, H.J. TANNER, A.J. TAYLOR, P. TAYLOR, H. TSURUSHIMA.
Wide-ranging volume of essays introducing new research in the fields of history, archaeology, literature and palaeography. Includes (amongst others) papers on 12th century French literature, settling disputes in Anglo-Norman England, financing Stephen's war and the Allen Brown Memorial lecture entitled Belrem. Contributors: ARNOLD J. TAYLOR, G.W.S BARROW, PAUL DALTON, BERNARDGAUTHIEZ, JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, JUDITH GREEN, KIMBERLEY LOPRETE,JOHN S. MOORE, ROBERT B. PATTERSON, SUSAN REYNOLDS, IAN SHORT, HEATHERJ. TANNER, PAMELA TAYLOR, and H. TSURUSHIMA.

Chronicles and Annals of Mediaeval Ireland and Wales

$120.00

The backbone of historical accounts of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the twelfth century is provided by annalistic texts which are related to one another in varying ways. This volume seeks to provide a series of models for the investigation of these Celtic annalistic texts.
Kathryn Grabowski carries out a complete text-historical analysis of these southern Irish annals for the years 431-1092, establishing their relationships to the other annal-collections, separating the several strata of which they are composed, and judging the relative historical value of these sources. David Dumville studies the major source, the "Clonmacnoise Chronicle", to determine an outline-history ofthe sources and subsequent development of this chronicle. Text-historical study of this kind allows interrelationships to be charted with precision, and the historical value of the texts to be estimated with a greater degree of confidence.

Chronicles and Annals of Mediaeval Ireland and Wales

Women in the Viking Age

$29.99

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world.

JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland

$130.00

Works of early Irish authors include a strong biblical component, but indicate that independent thought is accepted.

Scarcity of scientific data, a real interest in the physical world, and the need to validate the scriptures encouraged seventh-century Irish scholars toward critical reflection on scientific matters. Their world-view was based onmaterials drawn from the Bible, on earlier Christian works and on personal reflection and contemplation. This volume looks at the Irish contribution to the development of western thought in the early middle ages.
MARINA SMYTHis librarian of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and teaches early medieval cultural history.

Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland

Anglo-Saxon Exeter

$130.00

A study of the manuscripts, relics and historical traditions of Anglo-Saxon Exeter before Leofric moved the see of Devon and Cornwall there in 1050.

In his search for an historical context for the famous Exeter Book of Old English poetry, Dr Conner's examination of the archaeological and textual records of Exeter have led him to significant new conclusions about the city's tenth century monastic culture. He posits the existence of a large library dating from the time of King Æthelstan, an active scriptorium from at least the mid-century period, and suggests that five other important manuscripts may have originated at Exeter c.950-c.990.A codicological examination of the Exeter Book draws fresh conclusions about its composition and its literary context.
Anglo-Saxon Exeterconcludes with six appendices in which many documents important to the early history of the city are edited, including its relic-lists, the records for moving the see from Crediton to Exeter, Leofric's Inventory, a series of legal records which survive on a single leaf of an8th-century lectionary, and a study of the history of the Exeter Book from 1050 to the present.

PATRICK CONNER is Professor in the department of English at West Virginia University.

Italo-Hispanic Ballad Relationships: The Common Poetic Heritage

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Italo-Hispanic Ballad Relationships: The Common Poetic Heritage

Anglo-Norman Studies XII

$130.00

Topics covered include: the Bayeux Tapestry; Bishops of Winchester and the Monastic Revolution; Charters of Henry II; Early Irish Castles; Land and Inheritance in England; Life of St Margaret; Mont St Michel 966-1035; Sakeand Soke, Titles, and Tenants-in-Chief; Shaftesbury Abbey's Benefactors; 12c Anglo-Scottish Warfare; Benoit of St Maure and William; Southwell Tympanum, Glastonbury Respond, Leigh Christ; Inventio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni.
Contributors: C. HOLDSWORTH, S. BROWN, K. COOKE, M. FRANKLIN, J. HUDSON, L. HUNEYCUTT, T. McNEILL; R. MORTIMER, C. POTTS, D. ROFFE, M. STRICKLAND, H.B. TEUNIS, P. TUDOR-CRAIG, E. VAN HOUTS

Angelic Monks and Earthly Men

$29.99

`Both authoritative and attractive, this is a most welcome study... a cornucopia of facts and insights....' CHOICE

Professor Milis challenges the accepted view of monasticism as a powerful social influence on medieval life, supporting his case with detailed arguments. `A new assessment of the impact of monasticism on medieval society... a notable merit is that it obliges its readers to re-examine the assumptions which may have entered into their own consideration of the monastic role in society and led them to a different conclusion.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [Barbara F. Harvey]

The Early Stages of Composition of Galdós's 'Lo Prohibido'

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Early Stages of Composition of Galdós's 'Lo Prohibido'

Suffolk Windmills

$29.99

A full and richly illustrated history of windmills in Suffolk - a county particularly notable for them.

Some of the earliest recorded windmills were built in Suffolk, and since the middle ages Suffolk has been a county where windmills predominated. In the 1830s there were over 430 windmills in the county, though the advent of steamand oil engines and roller mills meant there was a rapid decline in numbers later in the nineteenth century.
This survey lists all the surviving mills and mill remains. It also explains the technicalities of how the differenttypes of mill worked, emphasising the particular local types and developments; and describes the life of the millers and the work of the millwrights. There is also an account of the restoration work which has been undertaken on them. Fully illustrated with photographs of what can still be seen today.

Stoke by Clare Cartulary

$36.95

The first two volumes make available all the existing pre-Reformation charter material, the third consists of an introduction and index. Taken together the three volumes illuminate the social and economic as well as the ecclesiastical organisation of the Suffolk-Essex border in the 12th and 13th Centuries.

The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, volume III

$120.00

Reviewing the first volume in this series, Christopher Allmand, writing in English Historical Review, said: `Once again, a volume of papers published by the Boydell Press has made a useful interdisciplinary contribution toan important and difficult subject. Historians may read this book with profit.' But not only historians, for the contributions to these volumes are wide-ranging, and cover all aspects of culture in the middle ages, with a strong emphasis on continental literature.

The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, volume III

The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

$170.00

Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.

Glastonbury Abbey was one of the great cultural centres of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, yet this is the first volume of scholarly essays to be devoted to the subject. Written in honour of C. A. Ralegh Radford, the first itemsare concerned with the physical remains of the abbey, ranging from the place of Glastonbury in the development of Christianity in Somerset to specific examinations of surviving monastic buildings. The main body of the essays explores documents relating to the abbey for evidence of its history and traditions, including the earliest Anglo-Saxon period, pre-conquest abbots, and links with the Celtic world. The final section deals with the cultural life of the abbey: Glastonbury's role in education is discussed and the concluding essay deals with the most magical of all Glastonbury legends - its link with Joseph of Arimathea and the Grail.

Contributors: PHILIP RAHTZ, MICHAEL D. COSTEN, C.J. BOND, J.B. WELLER, ROBERT W. DUNNING, LESLEY ABRAMS, JAMES P. CARLEY, ANN DOOLEY, SARAH FOOT, DAVID THORNTON, RICHARD SHARPE, JULIA CRICK, OLIVER J.PADEL, MATTHEW BLOWS, CHARLES T. WOOD, NICHOLAS ORME, CERIDWENLLOYD-MORGAN, FELICITY RIDDY.

The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

Hacia el Verbo: Signos y Transignificación en la Poesía de Quevedo

$60.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Hacia el Verbo: Signos y Transignificación en la Poesía de Quevedo

A Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts

$29.99

Mythical creatures drawn largely from medieval travellers' tales, but encompassing civilisations from the Sumerians to the Wild West.

A dictionary? No, this is really an astonishing ark filled with beasts from a fabulous zoo far more varied and entertaining than anything from ordinary natural history. From Abaia and Abath to Ziz and Zu, from the microscopic Gigelorum that nests in a mite's ear to the giant serpent Jormungandor who encircles the whole globe, there are beasts from every corner of man's imagination: the light-hearted Fearsome Critters of lumberjack tales find a place alongside the Sirrush of Babylon and the Winged Bulls of Assyria. Some of the fabulous beasts turn out to be real creatures in disguise - a Cameleopard is a kind of glamourised giraffe -while others are almost, but not quite, human. Among the six hundred entries are some which are full-scale essays in their own right, as on Phoenix or Giants; and just in case it seems as though the authors dreamt up the entire book, there is a detailed list of books for the would-be hunter in this mythical jungle.

The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages

$120.00

These four major studies, thoroughly revised for this book, reflect this distinguished historian's continuing interest in relations between England and Wales in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. An introduction places theconclusions offered in these studies within the current framework of historical thinking about Wales in this period.
The first chapter, a survey of Anglo-Welsh ecclesiastical life in the tenth and eleventh centuries, is followed by "The Archbishops of St Davids, Llandaff and Caerleon-on-Usk", in which the twelfth-century claims of certain major Welsh churches to extensive jurisdiction and the methods by which they promoted their claims are subjectedto a searching analysis. In "St Peter of Gloucester and St Cadog of Llancarfan" a detailed examination is made of the complicated links which bound together the churches of Gloucester and Llancarfan from about 1100 and of the sources which reveal these ties. Finally in "Geoffrey of Monmouth as a historian" the motivation and methods of one of the most controversial personalities of the Anglo-Welsh Church are considered.

The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages

King Arthur: Hero and Legend

$29.99

The whole subject is brought up to date - Arthurian buffs will want this book. DAILY TELEGRAPH
Who was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous 8th century chronicler who first listed his battles to the novelists of the 20th century. A clear and readable account of the development of the stories about Arthur and his court from the earliest times to the present day.

A Yankee Musician in Europe

$29.99

Edited version of the 1837 journal of American musician Lowell Mason written while traveling through Europe.

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir directorand teacher. He published many collections of sacred music that sold in unprecedented numbers and made him a household name.
In 1837 he traveled to Europe on a little-publicized trip. This was a bold move decades before such trips by American musicians became commonplace, and his diaries from this time are a primary source of information on early nineteenth-century European music. This edition of Mason's 1837 journal has been carefully edited: throughout, Broyles has attempted to reproduce the original manuscript faithfully, making adjustments only where necessary for intelligibility. Appendices include a list names with brief biographies, an itinerary of the tour, and those letters received during the trip that still survive. An introduction completes this unique and highly readable volume.
Michael Broyles is Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History Emeritus at PennState University and Visiting Professor at Florida State University.

The Word of a Prince

$36.95

She gives the general reader fresh access to Elizabeth's mind and ideas, her wit, verve, eloquence, circumlocution, and formidable learning. OBSERVER

A new approach to historical biography - she has studied both the original sources and recent works of scholarship and has a thorough understanding of the period. SUNDAY TIMES

Until Maria Perry began her exploration of Elizabeth's papers, this vivid raw material had only been partially studied. From it, a fresh portrait of Elizabeth emerges, one which is often more cohesive and less baffling than some offered by her biographers. The dangers and insecurities of her early life, her sense of divine protection, her formidable education, all stand out as crucial elements in the formation of her character; but behind the acquired circumspection lies a personality of great warmth and spirit. On the teasing questions of love, marriage and virginity, the letters and speeches offer oblique comment; it seems certain that Robert Dudley was her one true love, and that she felt his second marriage to Lettice Knollys as a bitter betrayal.

MARIA PERRY is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, where she read history.

The Medieval Archer

$29.99

A study of the archer and his weapon from the 11th to the 15th century, focusing on military tactics but also exploring the archer's position in society.

It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society. SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN

This book traces the historyof the archer in the medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. From a close study of early evidence, the author shows that the archer's role before the time of Edward I was an important but rarely documented one, and that his new prominence in the fourteenth century was the result of changes in development of military tactics rather than the introduction of the famous "longbow".
A second thread of the book examines the archer's role in society, with particular reference to that most famous of all archers, Robin Hood. The final chapters look at the archer in the early fifteenth century and then chronicle the rise of the handgun as the major infantryweapon at the bow's expense.

JIM BRADBURY writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the Middle Ages.

Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine

$36.95

`...excellent study of the prince's career. A first-class synthesis of the entire literature of this subject.' BRITISH BOOK NEWS

Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history, victor of three great battles and a model of chivalry and courtesy. Behind this image, which many of his contemporaries accepted and eagerly believed in, it is difficult to get at the realities of his character and of the life that he led. Most of his biographers have based their work on the splendid vision of chivalry conjured up by Froissart, but the present book deliberately shuns this approach, to see what can be found in official records, particularly from the prince's household and those who campaigned with the prince. Special attention has been paid not onlyto the confusing and confused accounts of the great battles, but also to the prince's early years, his close companions who contributed so greatly to his successes, and to his government of Aquitaine, an obscure but very importantpart of his career. A number of minor but persistent errors in early histories, deriving from Froissart, are corrected. A concluding chapter examines how the legend of the Black Prince (and his curious nickname) came into being.By separating the image and the reality, a clearer picture of the prince emerges. Dr RICHARD BARBER is the author of The Arthurian Legends, King Arthur: Hero and Legend, Tournaments, a biography of Henry II, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe, and the recently revised seminal study of The Knight and Chivalry.

La Edición de Textos

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Art and Power

$36.95

A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautifully illustrated. SUNDAY TIMES

The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and a complex and subtle expression of political theory. From the Renaissance festivals ballet, opera and even the proscenium arch theatre are derived. Festivals are therefore a vital part of European cultural history. Here Roy Strong provides a guide to theirorigins and purpose, and their lasting influence.

A Suffolk Bibliography

$39.95

[East Anglian] A comprehensive guide to the literature on almost everyaspect of Suffolk.

This volume is the result of nearly fifteen years' work since the idea of such a bibliography was first considered by the Suffolk Records Society in 1964. It is designed as a practical working bibliography, and gives a comprehensive guide to the literature on almost every aspect of Suffolk. The introduction sets out the history of the project, the minor exclusions made in order to keep the work within manageable proportions, and the form of arrangementunder approximately two hundred and twenty headings. In all, there are over eight thousand entries. Locations are given for items not in the Suffolk Record Office. A Suffolk Bibliography will be an invaluable tool forresearchers and a constant companion for the reader interested in Suffolk's past.

Góngora's Poetic Textual Tradition

$125.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Anglo-Norman Studies V

$120.00

Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; Chronicon ex Chronicis; Development of Stamford; Relations between Crown and Episcopacy. M. BAYLÉ, M. BENNETT, D. BERNSTEIN, M. CHIBNALL, K. CIGGAAR, R.R. DARLINGTON, J. DECAENS, R. GEM, J. GREEN, S.F. HOCKEY, R.C. JOHNSTON, L. KEEN, P. McGURK, C. MAHANY, D. ROFFE, D. WALKER. 64 plates, figs.

Anglo-Norman Studies III

$120.00

Battle of Hastings; Séemiologie du tombeau de comte de Champagne; Romanesque Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey; Chichester Cathedral; Cluniacs in England; Battle Abbey; William fitz Osbern and Lyre Abbey; Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Honour of Clare; Norman Settlement in Dyfed; Women and Succession; Land and Power: Estates of Harold Godwineson; Danish Kings and England in 10c.
R.A. BROWN, M. BUR, R. GEM, B. GOLDING, J.N. HARE, S.F. HOCKEY, E. VAN HOUTS, R. MORTIMER, I.W. ROWLANDS, E. SEARLE, A. WILLIAMS, D. WILSON

Habits of Poetry: Habits of Resurrection

$60.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Habits of Poetry: Habits of Resurrection

Anglo-Norman Studies I

$130.00

Bayeux Tapestry; Feudal Society in Orderic Vitalis; Sacre des rois Anglo-Normands et Angevins; Defeated Anglo-Saxons Take Service with the Eastern Emperor; Anglo-Saxon Warfare on the Eve of the Conquest; Norman Military Revolutionin England; Crusading Warfare 1092-1130; Norman Conquest: 1066, 1106, 1154? Domesday Book; Norman Settlement in Wales; English Royal Succession 860-1066; 11c Romanesque Sculpture. N.P. BROOKS, M. CHIBNALL, R. FOREVILLE, J. GODFREY, N. HOOPER, D. COOK, R. HILL, J.H.LE PATOUREL, H.R. LOYN, D. WALKER, A. WILLIAMS, G. ZARNECKI. 48 plates, figs.

Insular Latin Grammarians

$120.00

The adaptation of Late Latin grammars from the schools of the Roman Empire for use in a foreign Christian society culminated in the British Isles in the 7th and 8th centuries in the development of two distinct types of grammar designed respectively for elementary and for more advanced students. These works, whether they take the form of elaborate commentaries on the classical grammarians, or of simple collections of paradigms, reflect the reading and intellectual preoccupations of their authors, the first teachers in the West to face the problem of large-scale formal foreign-language teaching. The influence of the Insular grammarians extended far beyond their own time: their works,taken to the Continent by Irish and Anglo-Saxon missionaries, shaped both the latinity and the pedagogical technique of their pupils the Carolingians, and their influencein foreign-language teaching has persisted until our own time.

Casiodoro de Reina

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

American Women Composers before 1870

$36.95

First study of American women composers and attitudes towards women musicians in the nineteenth century.

Early American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in the New York Public Library, Yale University,Boston Public Library, and the New York Historical Society that form the basis of this study. Beginning with the first sheet music published by a woman in America, in the 1790s, the book goes on to examine music by mid-nineteenthcentury composers, including brief biographies of five prominent women active in the 1850s and 60s.
Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

El Prado de Valencia

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Neoclassicism in Music

$29.99

The first historical and critical study of neoclassicism from the genesis of the concept in fin de siecleFrance in the 1870s through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. By the end of the nineteenth century the traits of "classicism" in music had become clearly established. This codification cast long shadows over contemporary artists, encouraging a movement away from order, continuity and tradition towards freedom, innovation and novelty - and the term neoclassicism made its first appearance.

This study, the first ever critical examination of "neoclassicism" in music, provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins, then looks in turn at Wagner and the French reaction to him; Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel and their French contemporaries; Germany and France in the decade which includes the First World War, with special reference to Thomas Mann and Ferrucio Busoni, and to Jean Cocteau and the "New Simplicity"; and Igor Stravinsky, the composer most frequently cited in connection with this term.

Reprint; first published 1988.

Blythburgh Priory Cartulary Part One

$36.95

Cartulary of one of the earliest houses of Augustian canons to be established in the diocese of Norwich.

The priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Blythburgh was one of the earliest of the many houses of Augustinian canons established in the diocese of Norwich; the beginnings of conventual life most likely date from the mid-12th century.

The Victoria History of the County of Oxford

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Oxford

Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality

$36.95

Study of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.

The harmonic language of the late nineteenth-century is studied here as a development of common-practice tonality, taking as a model selected songs by Hugo Wolf. Late nineteenth-century romantic composers employed extended-tonallanguage in a variety of genres, and a special feature of such tonal exapansion was the use of extra musical elements. Hugo Wolfs output, encompassing over 160 miniature masterworks, displays all the necessary characteristics, and makes an ideal subject for studying extensions of tonality.
The study is organised to focus on individual techniques of tonal expanison, then to explore the foundations of that technique, and finally, to illustrate the conclusions with particular Wolf songs. Necessarily, Wolf's relationship to Richard Wagner, and to Wagner's revolutionary musical language, forms a part of this study, and so too does the similarity of Wolf's music to that of his contemporaries.

Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality

Diego de San Pedro's 'Tractado de Amores de Arnalte y Lucenda'

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Diego de San Pedro's 'Tractado de Amores de Arnalte y Lucenda'

The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal

La Figura en el Tapiz: Teoría y práctica narrativa en Juan Carlos Onetti

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

La Figura en el Tapiz: Teoría y práctica narrativa en Juan Carlos Onetti

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred (Leyland, Penwortham, Brindle, Croston, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Tarleton, Rufford, Chorley, Hoole, Eccleston, Standish) and of two of the five ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred (Blackburn parish and Whalley). Some very considerable places in the volume never achieved the status of ancient parish: Darwen was part of Blackburn parish, and Whalley included Accrington, Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, and Nelson. In the Middle Ages the area was relatively poor, with extensive royal forests used for deer and, later, cattle and sheep farming. From the late 18th century the woollen industry gave way to cotton spinning and weaving in hundreds of factories, and the coalfield was exploited. Despite the growth of industry the area retains much undeveloped countryside, gentry houses in the lush pasture land of the Ribble Valley, and many oldfarmhouses on the slopes of the Pennine moorlandsand Pendle Hill.

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

Reading and Writing Women's Lives

$29.99

The contributors to this volume -- including Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Janet Egleson Dunleavy, James R. Kincaid and Joseph Wiesenfarth -- focus on how men and [particularly] women respond to the ideological pressure of manners for their gender and class as they attempt to define themselves in the novel of manners. Focusing on literary, feminist, and general political concerns, the essays explore the relationships between society's and literature's conventions in works by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf and Barbara Pym, among others. Bege K. Bowers is Associate Provost at Youngstown State University. Barbara Brothers is Professor Emeritus, Youngstown State University.

Metaphysics and Aesthetics in the Works of Eduardo Barrios

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Metaphysics and Aesthetics in the Works of Eduardo Barrios

Centinela Contra Franceses

$60.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

A Patron and a Playwright in Renaissance Spain

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

A Patron and a Playwright in Renaissance Spain

A History of Wiltshire

$115.00

Ecclesiastical History, Industries, Roads, Canals, Railways, Population Table, Sport, Spas and Mineral Springs, Freemasonry, Forests. Indexed.

La Comedia erudita de Sepúlveda

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Rosalía de Castro and the Galician Revival

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Rosalía de Castro and the Galician Revival

The Persistence of Human Passions: Manuel Mujica Láinez's Satirical Neo-Modernism

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Persistence of Human Passions: Manuel Mujica Láinez's Satirical Neo-Modernism

Cervantes: Pioneer and Plagiarist

$60.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Story

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Oxford

$115.00

Ecclesiastical History, Religious Houses, Social and Economic History, Table of Population, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Ancient Earthworks, Sport.

Las 'Novelle' de Ramón Gómez de la Serna

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Las 'Novelle' de Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Diego de San Pedro's 'Cárcel de Amor'

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

La Infelice Dorotea

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Federico García Lorca y las Vanguardias: Hacia el Teatro

$95.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Federico García Lorca y las Vanguardias: Hacia el Teatro

A History of Wiltshire

$115.00

Wilton borough, Old Salisbury borough, New Salisbury city, Underditch hundred. Indexed.

The Genoese in Spain: Gabriel Bocángel y Unzueta (1603-1658)

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Genoese in Spain: Gabriel Bocángel y Unzueta (1603-1658)

La Realidad Invisible

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Calderón y la obra corta dramática del siglo XVII

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Calderón y la obra corta dramática del siglo XVII

The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon

The Myth of Icarus in Spanish Renaissance Poetry

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Myth of Icarus in Spanish Renaissance Poetry

Teatros y Comedias en Madrid: 1699-1719

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Qur'an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79

$120.00

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Language of the Texts
Tapsir
The Texts
Glossary
Photographs of the Texts
Bibliography and Abbreviations

The Qur'an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79

The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral

Juan Manuel Studies

$120.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Kent

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Kent

El Sacrificio de la Misa, La Vida de Santa Oria, El Martirio de San Lorenzo (Obras Completas V)

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

El Sacrificio de la Misa, La Vida de Santa Oria, El Martirio de San Lorenzo (Obras Completas V)

Tonos a lo Divino y a lo Humano

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti

Teatros y Comedias en Madrid: 1687-1699

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

$140.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

Natural History. Early Man. Anglo-Saxon Remains. Domesday. The Fuedal Baronage.

The 'Comedia Lacrimosa' and Spanish Romantic Drama (1773-1865)

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The 'Comedia Lacrimosa' and Spanish Romantic Drama (1773-1865)

Garrett and the English Muse

$95.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester

$140.00

Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses. Social and Economic History. Industries. Agriculture. Forestry. Sport. Schools.

The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

Topography: West Derby hundred (cont., including Liverpool, Wigan), Salford hundred.(part, including Manchester)

Antología de la Poesía Mexicana Moderna

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Benjamin Disraeli in Spain, Malta and Albania, 1830-32

$105.00

A full study of Disraeli's long and important journey to the East, which exercised a decisive influence upon his personal development as well as affecting his foreign policy when he became price minister. The tour covered Gibraltar and Spain, Malta, Corfu and Albania, and the Middle East.

Benjamin Disraeli in Spain, Malta and Albania, 1830-32

The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham

A History of the County of Leicester

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Alfonsina Storni

$60.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Haz y Envés del Cuento Risible en el Siglo de Oro

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Haz y Envés del Cuento Risible en el Siglo de Oro

Escritos Autobiográficos y Epistolario

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

A History of Wiltshire

$115.00

Bradford, Melksham, and Potterne and Cannings hundreds (including Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, and Trowbridge). Indexed.

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely

$145.00

This volume contains the history of the City of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the Colleges and Halls of the University. Also included are Cambridge University and Borough Hearth Tax Assessments.

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

The volume contains the histories of the three ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred north of the Ribble (Mitton, Chipping. and Ribchester) and of the eight ancient parishes in Amounderness hundred (Preston, Kirkham, Lytham, Poulton-le-Fylde, Bispham, part of Lancaster, St. Michael-on-Wyre, and Garstang). A very large part of Amoundernesshundred is the level area between the Ribble estuary and Cockerham Sands called the Fylde and one known as 'the wheatfield of Amounderness'. Some of the ancient parishes include places that have become larger, more populous, and better known than the old centres ofpopulation which gave the parishes their names. Poulton-le-Fylde includes Fleetwood, and Bispham is better known to the world as the seaside resort of Blackpool, which also extends into Poulton.

The Jew in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós

$105.00

A study of Galdós' Jewish characters and what they tell us about the place of Jews in C19th Spanish society and culture.

Few Spanish novelists have dealt with the problem of religion and religious commitment more comprehensively than Benito Pérez Galdós. His lifelong preoccupation with man in search of transendence repeatedly led him to evaluate andcriticize the religious institutions that stifled rather than helped man in his search. In the Jews, Galdós saw a people who, though victimized by religious intolerance, managed to survive persecution and affirm an abiding faithin God. He created Jewish characters throughout his long literary career and therefore presents the most comprehensive portrait of Jews as they existed in the culture, the religion and fabric of C19th Spanish society.

The Jew in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

Topography: Lonsdale hundred, north and south, Index to Vol III, Corrigenda.

The Victoria History of the County of Norfolk

$145.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Victoria History of the County of Norfolk

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

Topography: West Derby hundred (part including Prescot).

Galdós and Beethoven: 'Fortunata y Jacinta'

$105.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Galdós and Beethoven: 'Fortunata y Jacinta'

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster

$115.00

Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses. Political History. Industries. Agriculture. Forestry. Sport. Ancient Earthworks. Schools. Index to vols I and II.

Index to The Victoria History of the County of York

$115.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.