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Why I Like This Story

Leading authors on their favourite stories

Thomas Malory

A new Companion and Arthur in children’s books

Things That Didn’t Happen “What If” stories in the eighteenth century

City Songs and American Life Manhattan and the Great American Songbook

Limpopo’s Legacy

Student protest in South Africa

African Studies

AFRI C AN S T U DI E S Spring 2019

African Studies 2 Art & Architecture 5 Eighteenth-Century Studies 5 Film 6 Hispanic Studies 6 History of Fashion & Textiles 7 History of Medicine 7 History: Medieval 8 History: Early Modern 13 History: Modern 15 Literature: English & American 16 Literature: German 17 Literature: Medieval 19 Literature: Renaissance 21 Music 22 Philosophy & Politics 26 Victoria County History 26 Prices and other details in this catalogue are subject to change without notice. Prices marked with (s) are subject to academic discount scales to booksellers. E-Books: A selection of ebooks are now available from the new Boydell & Brewer website as well as through your usual supplier. Go to www.boydellandbrewer.com and see if your favourite title is available for immediate download.

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Creed & Grievance Building a Peaceful Nation Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964 PAUL BJE RK A fascinating read for anyone interested in understanding either the formation of Tanzania or the man who I would argue is modern Africa’s most exceptional, idealistic, intelligent and, as this book shows, at times quite coolly ruthless, leader: Julius Nyerere. LUC AS BU LLET I N This very detailed book importantly links political events in Tanzania with what was happening regionally, continentally, and globally. Bjerk provides insight into one of Africa’s most important political figures and the domestic and international political events of the time. Recommended. CHOIC E $39.95/£25.00(s) September 2018 978 1 58046 935 7 12 b/w illus.; 392pp, 9 x 6, PB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria Edited by ABDU L R AU FU M U STAPHA and DAVI D E H RHARDT Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threaten the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security. $25.95/£19.99 March 2019 978 1 84701 219 7 384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Western Africa Series

African Islands

Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization Edited by TOY I N FALOL A and DANI E L L E PORT E R S ANCHE Z Islands and island chains like Cabo Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often side-lined in contemporary understandings of Africa as mainland nation-states take center stage in the crafting of historical narratives. Yet in the modern period, these small offshore spaces have often played important if inconsistent roles in facilitating intra- and intercontinental exchanges that have had lasting effects on the cultural, economic, and political landscape of Africa. In African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalism, contributors argue for the importance of Africa’s islands in integrating the continent into wider networks of trade and migration that linked it with Asia, Europe, and the Americas. $125.00/£95.00(s) June 2019 978 1 58046 954 8 401pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Cover image: Bottle and Glass by Tony Rothon who was born in 1949 and studied at The Slade 1967-73. He was taught painting by many of those who have become the significant artists of the era, under the professorship of William Coldstream. Over an artistic career spanning fifty years Tony has himself taught extensively and exhibited his painting widely. He works alongside his wife, the painter Sarah Nutley, from their studio in Hampstead, London. Further information may be found on their websites at sarahnutley.co.uk and tonyrothon.com

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African St udies

Ethics and Society in Nigeria

Identity, History, Political Theory NI M I WARI B OKO

African Women in the Atlantic World

Brazil-Africa Relations

Edited by MARIANA P. C A N DID O and A DAM JONES

Edited by GE RHARD SE I BE RT and PAULO FAGU NDE S VI SE N T I N I

While there have been studies of women’s roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women’s mobility, both spatially and socially; and women’s economic power and its curtailment.

When Lula da Silva became President of Brazil in 2003 he declared Africa a priority of his country’s ambitious global foreign policy. Tracing Brazil-Africa relations from the early 16th century and the slave trade to the expansion of Brazil’s interests under Lula and Dilma, the authors show that Africa-Brazil relations have a long and continuing history. Taking a broad range of perspectives, they examine: the way in which the rights of those of African descent have become increasingly accepted, but not yet fully recognized; the strengthening links of Brazilian Pentecostal Churches; the growth of South-South cooperation; and Brazil-Africa relations in the South Atlantic context. The final chapter looks at the wider implications of the ongoing political and economic crises for Brazil’s future foreign policy in Africa, and the impact of a possible new leadership from 2018.

Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880

In association with The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame $80.00/£45.00(s) February 2019 978 1 84701 213 5 9 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Western Africa Series Paperback edition for sale in Africa only 978 1 84701 215 9 £9.99 February 2019

E-BOOKS Most of the titles in this catalogue will be available as e-books. Libraries should contact their usual supplier of e-books to ask about the broad range of titles from Boydell & Brewer available for institutional use. Individuals may check our website at www.boydellandbrewer.com to check if titles of interest are available for immediate download.

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Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements, From the 1960s to the Present

In association with the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) $80.00/£60.00(s) May 2019 978 1 84701 195 4 218pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

A compelling and erudite inquiry into the capacity of the Nigerian people to radically transform their democracy. Located at the intersection of history and political theory, this work identifies the nature of Nigeria’s moral problem, forges the framework for a robust analysis, and shows a pathway out of the nation’s predicament. This three-pronged approach is founded on the retrieval of moral exemplars from the past and critical engagement with history as a social practice, philosophical concept, discipline of study, form of social imaginary, and witness of the flows of contemporary events. Nimi Wariboko analyzes various forms of political, religious, and revolutionary identities that have been put forth by different groups in the country and then examines their usefulness for the transformation of Nigeria’s problematic socio-ethical identity. $125.00/£95.00(s) March 2019 978 1 58046 943 2 279pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Experiments with Truth

Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa H E DL EY T W I DL E

Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1980 ER IC MORI E R- GE NOU D Explores the internal diversity and complexity of the Roman Catholic Church, using the central Mozambican diocese of Biera as a case study. Author Eric Morier-Genoud looks at the religious institutes within the Church “horizontally,” as a series of autonomous entities, rather than focusing on the hierarchical structure of the institution. Between 1940 and 1980, Beira was home to some 15 different congregations, ranging from Jesuits to Franciscans, from Burgos to Pipcus fathers. This plurality, as well as turbulence within the Church and the region during the 1960s and 1970s, makes this area an especially fruitful location for the author’s pioneering analysis. $125.00/£95.00(s) May 2019 978 1 58046 941 8 10 b/w illus.; 279pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Over the last decades, South Africa has seen an outpouring of life-writing and narrative nonfiction. Authors such as Jacob Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Antjie Krog, Njabulo Ndebele and Jonny Steinberg have produced a compelling and often controversial body of work, exploring the country’s ongoing political and social transition with great ambition, texture and risk. This is the first book-length account of the new non-fiction in South Africa. It reads the country’s transition as it has been refracted through an array of documentary modes that are simultaneously drawn on, refashioned and blurred into each other in modern southern African writing: long-form analytic journalism and reportage; experiments in oral history, microhistory and archival reconstruction; lifewriting, memoir and the essay. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 84701 188 6 6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB African Articulations Paperback edition for sale in Africa only 978 1 84701 189 3 £9.99 April 2019

African Studies

Land Tenure Security

State-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia Edited by SV EI N EGE Land tenure is of vital importance for the peasantry in Ethiopia, where agriculture accounts for 80 per cent of employment. Countering the dominant macro research perspective of international economists, this book provides a much-needed local analysis of the land tenure system in the Amhara highlands and the impact of the 1975 land reforms. Empirically grounded ethnographies from the northern Shoa, Wälo and Gojam regions from the Därg period (1974-1991) onwards enable the authors to show that while the land tenure system is commonly thought to have been settled by land certification, in the Amharic region tenure has become one merely of ‘conditional’ private ownership, with farmers recognising the land as their own yet within the framework of ultimate state control. Social differentiation is found to be closely related to land tenancy, with the peasant farm linked to household processes. In rural economies such as Ethiopia the land question is critical for development, and the authors draw out the implications of their research for policymakers, governments and societies in the Global South.

influence; and Turfloop remained politically significant in the post-apartheid era: it was here in 2007 that Julius Malema stumped for Jacob Zuma’s ascension to the South African presidency during the ANC’s pivotal party conference that resulted in the ousting of Thabo Mbeki. ANNE K. HEFFERNAN is Assistant Professor in the History of Southern Africa at Durham University and a Research Associate of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand. She is Co-editor of Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto ‘76 (Wits University Press, 2016). Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press $99.00/£60.00(s) January 2019 978 1 84701 217 3 210pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

A Historical and Comparative Study MOHA MM E D BASH I R S AL AU

Limpopo’s Legacy

A NNE K. HEFFERNAN

$99.00/£80.00(s) November 2018 978 1 58046 938 8 9 b/w illus.; 248pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa In 2015 and 2016 waves of student protest swept

South African campuses under the banner of FeesMustFall. This book offers a historical perspective, analysing regional influences on the ideologies that have underpinned South African student politics from the 1960s to the present. The author considers the history of student organization in the Northern Transvaal (today Limpopo Province) and the ways in which students and youth here have influenced political change on a national scale, over generations. The University of the North at Turfloop played an integral role in building the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) in the late 1960s and propagating Black Consciousness in the 1970s; in the 1980s it became an ideological battleground where Black Consciousness advocates and ANC-affiliates competed for

$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 84701 197 8 316pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series

Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate

This book charts the development of plantation slavery in the Sokoto caliphate during the nineteenth century, analyzing the ways in which conscious political choice on the part of the elites – rather than racial arguments that justified enslavement – was the major factor for the rise and maintenance of slave estates in this particular Muslim state. Salau analyzes key themes in the history of plantation slavery: slave acquisition, slave treatment, plantation management, and slave control. Building on this analysis, he points to previously unknown ways in which the caliphal state prevented the development of serfdom, arguing that while social and economic factors played a role in the rise of slavery in the Sokoto caliphate, conscious political choice was the major factor for the rise and maintenance of plantation slavery. This study, through its comparative discussion, contributes to the literature on second slavery. MOHAMMED BASHIR SALAU is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.

$80.00/£60.00(s) March 2019 978 1 84701 224 1 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series

economy: political economy; agriculture and rural livelihoods; industrial development; urbanisation; aid and trade; tourism; and the use of natural resources. Drawing comparisons with other African and developing economies, the authors also look at the wider implications of the research for the future. DAVID POTTS is Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford and was Head of the Bradford Centre for International Development 2015-16 and is co-editor of Development Planning and Poverty Reduction (2003).

Tanzanian Development A Comparative Perspective Edited by DAVI D POT T S Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of different perspectives on the process of development over time and the issues facing a rapidly growing African

Written under the Skin

Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa C ARL I C OET Z E E Forgiveness and reconciliation have provided dominant ways of understanding South African literature and art, as have notions of emergence and the “born-free” status of those born after the dramatic changes of the political transition. In this book the author argues that a younger generation of South Africans is developing innovative ways of thinking about South Africa’s past that challenge the dominance of skin, and that instead acknowledge intergenerational transfer and continuity, rather than insist that everything has changed. The chapters each concern blood in some form, dealing with Mandela’s prison cell as laboratory for creating bloodless freedom; the kinship relations created and resisted in accounts of mass murder Eugene de Kock; Ruth First’s prison accounts; the first human-to-human heart transplant and racialised medicine; the artists and activists of the #Fallist moment, and Abantu book festival. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press CARLI COETZEE is Editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. She has written widely on memory and literature and co-edited The Handbook of African Literature (2019) with Moradewun Adejunmobi. $90.00/£50.00(s) March 2019 978 1 84701 221 0 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB African Articulations

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ART & ARCHITECTURE / eighteenth-century studies

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The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property L AU RI E RUSH and LUISA BENEDET TINI MILLINGTON Should be required reading not just for public authorities, but for collectors, curators, archaeologists and art historians concerned by the current ramifications of crimes against art and hoping to implement practical solutions to combat them. THE BU RL ING TON M AGA ZINE The illicit trafficking of works of art and antiquities is not a problem solely for the police and art experts. It affects us all...It is better to educate and forestall than to pursue and prosecute after the event: public information campaigns are needed. Such campaigns might usefully draw on the many instances highlighted in this important, timely chronicle and celebration of the work of the Carabinieri. TR ANS AC TIONS OF THE ANCIE NT MON UM EN T S S O C IET Y

$25.95/£19.99(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 404 8 58 b/w illus.; 231pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Heritage Matters

Insular Iconographies

Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes Edited by MEG B OULTON and M I KE BI NT LEY Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments of Anglo-Saxon England. This volume builds on her scholarly interests, offering new engagements with medieval culture and the current scholarly methodologies that shape the discipline. The contributors approach several significant objects and texts from the early and later Middle Ages, working across several disciplinary backgrounds and periods, largely focusing on the Insular World as it intersects with wider global contexts of the period. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from the material culture of baptism, to the material, symbolic and iconographic consideration of the artistic outputs of the Insular world, with essays on sculpture, metalwork, glass and manuscripts, to ideas of stone and salvation in both material and textual contexts, to intellectual puzzles and patterns – both material and mathematic – to consideration of the ways in which the conversion to Christianity played out on the landscape. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 9 11000 345 3 16 colour illus.; 60 b/w illus.; 272pp, 24 x 17, HB Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

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E I G HT EE N T H -C E N T URY S T U DI E S

British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century Challenging the AngloFrench Connection

Edited by VA L É RI E C APDEVI L L E and A L A IN K E RH E RVÉ The study of sociability in the long eighteenth century has long been dominated by the example of France. In this innovative collection we see how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century. The contributors use a wide range of sources – from city plans to letter-writing manuals, from the writings of Edmund Burke to poems and essays about the social practices of the tea table, and a variety of methodological approaches to explore philosophical, political and social aspects of the emergence of British sociability in this period. They create a rounded picture of sociability as it happened in public, private and domestic settings – in Masonic lodges and radical clubs, in painting academies and private houses – and compare specific examples and settings with equivalents in France, bringing out for instance the distinctively homo-social and predominantly masculine form of British sociability, the role of sociability within a wider national identity still finding its way after the upheaval of civil war and revolution in the seventeenth century, and the almost unique capacity of the British model of sociability to benefit from its own apparent tensions and contradictions. $115.00/£65.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 359 1 10 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the Eighteenth Century

Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain

In this innovative study Ruth Scobie shows how

these multiple images of Oceania were filtered to a wider British public through the gradual emergence of a new idea of fame – commodified, commercial, scandalous – which bore in some respects a striking resemblance to modern celebrity culture and which made figures such as Banks and Cook, Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers on Pitcairn Island into public icons. Bringing together literary texts, works of popular culture, visual art and theatrical performance, Scobie argues that the idea of Oceania functioned variously as reflection, ideal and parody both in very local debates over the problems of contemporary fame and in wider considerations of national identity, race and empire. RUTH SCOBIE is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. $99.00/£65.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 408 6 5 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the Eighteenth Century

Things that Didn’t Happen

Counterhistorical Writing in British Political Culture 1678-1743 JOH N MC TAGU E James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales born in 1688, was not a commoner’s child smuggled into the queen’s birthing chamber in a warming pan, but many people said he was. In 1708, the same prince did not quite land in Scotland with a force of 5,000 men in order to claim the Scottish crown, but writers busied themselves with exploring what would have happened if he had succeeded. These fictions had as potent an effect on the political culture of late Stuart and early Hanoverian Britain as many events that really did happen. From the alleged “Popish Plot” of Titus Oates to the South Sea Bubble, John McTague draws on a rich a rich variety of sources – popular, archival and literary – to investigate the propagandic and literary exploitation of three kinds of things that did not occur at this time: failures which inspired “what if ” narratives, speculative futures which failed to come to pass and “pure” fictions created and disseminated for political gain. JOHN MCTAGUE is Lecturer in English Literature at Bristol University. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 409 3 6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the Eighteenth Century

1770-1823

RUTH S C OBI E At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan

Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidenced by the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and a realm of fantasy reflected in theatre, fashion and the new phenomenon of mass print.

Film / Hispanic Studies

FILM

(workers’ films); crime films; and the relationship to other cinemas, be it French cinéma verité or US direct cinema. $99.00/£80.00(s) April 2019 978 1 57113 995 5 30 b/w illus.; 350pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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PA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA L

Austria Made in Hollywood JAC QUELI NE VANSAN T Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as “her” family escaped into Switzerland, exclaimed, “Don’t they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border on Switzerland!” In The Sound of Music as well as in Hollywood’s many other “Austria” films, the projections on the screen resemble reflections in a funhouse mirror. This new study focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both sides of the Atlantic and the prism of the ever-changing domestic film industry. The study chronicles the protean screen images of Austria and Austrians that set them apart both from European projections of Austria and from Hollywood incarnations of other European nations and nationals. It explores explicit and implicit cultural commentaries on domestic and foreign issues inserted in the Austrian stories while considering the many, sometimes conflicting forces that have shaped the films. JACQUELINE VANSANT is Professor of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. $90.00/£75.00(s) February 2019 978 1 57113 945 0 10 b/w illus.; 198pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

Celluloid Revolt

German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 Edited by CHRI STI NA GER HA R DT and M ARC O ABEL The epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as ‘68, it can be argued, predated that year and extended well into the 1970s, and to this day there is much debate about its effects on all areas of German society and culture. Yet relatively little sustained scholarly attention has thus far been paid to how West and East German cinemas participated in – took place in, shaped, and reflected on – ‘68. With the period now fifty years behind us, Celluloid Revolt sets out to redress that situation with new insights into what constituted German cinema around 1968 and how it interacted with the period’s cultural and political happenings. Contributors engage a range of topics, including experimental and avantgarde cinema; short films; animated films; cinema in installations and museum exhibits; collectively produced cinemas; feminist cinema; Arbeiterfilme

Doctrina pueril R A MON L LU L L Translated by JOH N DAGE NAI S Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between 1274 and 1276 to provide minimum knowledge to those people – children, but also adults – who did not have the opportunity to acquire a sufficient doctrinal and intellectual education. In the late thirteenth century this meant stressing the basics of Christian doctrine and also accessing some aspects of general culture. The most important part of the Doctrina is dedicated to the catechism (articles of faith, commandments, sacraments, vices and virtues, and so on.). Especially interesting, however, are the more general sections, encyclopedic in nature, on issues such as the three monotheistic religions of the Mediterranean, the lessons that could be studied in the medieval universities, and other medical and scientific subjects. RAMON LLULL (1232-1316) was a mystic, missionary, philosopher, and author of narrative and poetry. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature.

Introduction to a Postnational History of Contemporary Basque Literature (1978-2000) Remnants of the Nation JO SE BA GABI LOND O By developing a new theory of postnationalism

about the relationship between minor and major literatures, this book chronicles the growth and success of Basque literature after the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1975), and the historical and literary struggles that took place in its aftermath in order to achieve global recognition: the reduction of Basque literature to a representation of an exotic and magic place and people (the Basque Country), best exemplified by Bernardo Atxaga’s novel Obabakoak (1988). The book also deploys postnationalist theory in order to chronicle the way in which women’s literature challenged and changed this model in the 1990s and paved the way for what is now a complex and diverse literature. JOSEBA GABILONDO is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies, Michigan State University. $115.00/£65.00(s) April 2019 978 1 85566 332 9 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

Published in association with Editorial Barcino. $25.95/£19.99(s) February 2019 978 1 85566 309 1 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Textos Barcino-Tamesis

La imagen de Inglaterra en la prensa española del siglo XVIII L ETIC IA V I L L AM E DIANA GON Z L E Z Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII, centrándose en particular en el género más novedoso, la prensa periódica. This book constitutes the first monographic study of the cultural transfers from Great Britain to Spain through 18th-Century periodical press, one of the most innovative genres of the period. It explores the notion of anglomania – the craze for all things English which spread throughout all Europe – and its reactive phenomenon, anglophobia, offering a contextualised analysis of the transmission, reception and adaptation of British Enlightened ideas and reforms in three different types of Spanish periodicals. $99.00/£60.00(s) May 2019 978 1 85566 333 6 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

The Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literature Gonzalo de Berceo to Ambrosio Montesino L E SL EY K . T WOM EY This book takes a fresh look at some of the seemingly tired images of the Virgin Mary across the medieval and early Golden Age period in Hispanic literatures. It explores the Virgin as a gateway and as a Temple, as a garden and as a fountain, as a scented space, and as a strong defensive place (fortress or castle wall). It also explores her as a home and as a nuptial bedchamber, and sets these images in the context of known liturgical usage in medieval and early modern Spain. $115.00/£70.00(s) February 2019 978 1 85566 323 7 19 b/w illus.; 384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

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History of Fashion & Textiles / History of M

H I S TORY OF FA SHION A N D T EX T I L E S

Dressing the Scottish Court, 1543-1553

through the fifteenth century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the conception of the author as a “wordweaver” in the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established through clothing in the Nibelungenlied and the Völsunga Saga; the historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and depictions of heraldic textile weaving in late-medieval art. $70.00/£40.00(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 412 3 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Clothing in The Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland MEL ANI E SC HUESSL ER B ON D

The Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland document money spent by the royal treasury and contain numerous references to clothing and textiles. This volume is designed to make the rich material in the Accounts from the regency of the Earl of Arran (whose ward was Mary Queen of Scots) available to those interested in the study of dress and accessories. In addition to overviews of the various types of garments mentioned in the Accounts and discussion of a number of specialty categories, such as wedding and funeral clothing, this book includes the original text of every entry from the Accounts pertaining to secular clothing, with facing translation into modern English. The Accounts’ entries include information on materials and labour, and describe thousands of items for dozens of people, from court fools to nobles. They are grouped here by recipient, in “wardrobe biographies” which gather all of the entries for a particular person together in chronological order. Through the numerous clothing-related entries from this period it is possible to track the wardrobes of a number of people connected to the Scottish court, the popularity of various garments and accessories, details about their construction, and insights into the relationships of the people involved. MELANIE SCHUESSLER BOND is Professor of Costume Design, Eastern Michigan University. $130.00/£75.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 262 4 26 b/w illus.; 632pp, 24 x 17, HB Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15 Edited by ROBI N NET HERTON , GA LE R . OWEN-CRO C K ER and MONIC A WRIGHT The essays in this volume continue the Journal’s tradition of groundbreaking interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by the founding editor Gale R. OwenCrocker. The range of the other essays extends chronologically from the early Middle Ages

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The Wardle Family and its Circle

Textile Production in the Arts and Crafts Era BR EN DA M . K I NG

This book is a richly illustrated history of the Wardle family of Leek, Staffordshire, which rose to prominence in fine textile production in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Wardle family’s rich legacy is played out against the backdrop of the Anglo-Indian silk trade. Thomas Wardle travelled in India and integrated Indian designs into British silk production. His work attracted William Morris, Walter Crane and A. L. Liberty, among others, and their designs, printed by Wardle, were internationally applauded. Elizabeth Wardle, embroiderer, worked with many major architects such as R. N. Shaw, G. G. Scott Jnr and J. D. Sedding. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in textile and fashion history and the history of the arts and crafts movement, as well as the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent. BRENDA M. KING is a textile historian and holds the Chair of the Textile Society. She is also the author of Silk and Empire (2005 and 2009) and Dye, Print, Stitch: Textiles by Thomas and Elizabeth Wardle (2009). $45.00/£29.95(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 395 9 25 colour illus.; 50 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine Edited by DAV I D LU ESIN K, WI L LIAM H. S CH NEI DER and Z HANG DAQI NG Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China’s “Century of Humiliation” when imperialist powers dominated China’s foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included limited public health measures in the nineteenth century and government-sponsored healthcare in the twentieth. These external pressures, combined with a vast population immiserated by imperialism and the decline of the Chinese traditional economy, created extraordinary problems for biomedicine that were both unique to China and potentially applicable to other developing nations. In this book, scholars based in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom make the case that developments in biomedicine in China such as the discovery of new diseases, the opening of the medical profession to women, the mass production of vaccines, and the delivery of healthcare to poor rural areas should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery. $135.00/£110.00(s) May 2019 978 1 58046 942 5 4 b/w illus.; 288pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015 Edited by NI L S HANS S ON and JONATAN W I ST R AND This book explores the history of medicine in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and provides answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience? The anthology sheds new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in a multitude of different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects relevant for the transfer of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. $85.00/£65.00(s) April 2019 978 1 58046 940 1 10 b/w illus.; 312pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

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Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe Edited by LI Z HERBERT M C AVOY Several chapters could be set as reading in undergraduate courses, and graduate students and researchers seeking an orientation to the field in general, or an overview of anchoritic practice within a particular geographic region, will find much of value in this collection. PA RE RGON A rich array of articles, covering anchoritic experience across Europe. ENGLISH HISTORICA L R EVI EW

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The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia

Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352

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A first-rate example of interdisciplinary historical scholarship, drawing on art history, literary criticism, archaeology, social history, and even anthropology to illuminate a saint’s cult whose significance is finally being recognized. The book transcends the usual divide between textual and material studies that can impede medieval historians.... essential reading for anyone interested in the development of saints’ cults and royal and national self-construction in medieval Europe.

[R]epresents a painstaking effort to piece together information from disparate sources of varied provenience into an exceptionally accurate and comprehensive, yet brief and readable survey of Latin-Turkish interactions in the fourteenthcentury Aegean. This book will serve scholars in research and teaching for a long time.

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A mixture of elegant prose and beautiful illustrations...provides historians with valuable insights into the cult of St Edmund, king and martyr. LO CAL H I STOR IAN Longlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2016

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Mike Carr … qualifies and corrects common assumptions about the conduct of the Crusades by revealing profound diversity among Islamic actors on one hand, and rivalries both subtle and profound within Greek and Latin Christianity on the other. DE R E M I LI TAR I $25.95/£19.99 June 2019 978 1 78327 405 5 4 b/w illus.; 214pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Warfare in History

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The Divine Office in AngloSaxon England, 597-c.1000 JES SE BIL L ET T

Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity L AU RENCE G. DUGGA N [A] well-written account that gives the reader many examples of clerics who went to war, their participation in warfare, their role in the Crusades, and the peculiar rise of clerical military orders. it has the virtue of covering the entire span of European civilization. C AT HOL IC HISTORIC AL REV IEW

Exemplary as a study of how theory and practice relate to each other. SEHEPUNKTE $25.95/£19.99(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 400 0 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Magisterial ... This excellently written book should be in your library, or even on your shelf, because it has so much detail in its pages that you may find yourself referring back to it often. It is, in short, a very well-written book with succinct and clear conclusions filled with erudite and scholarly analysis, but still accessible to those of us who know less about liturgy. JOU R NAL OF ENGLI SH AND GE RMANIC PH I LOLO GY

Jesse Billett has produced a truly magisterial work on the development of the Divine Office throughout the Anglo-Saxon period. SPECU LUM $25.95/£19.99 February 2019 978 1 90749 735 3 485pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia

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Orderic Vitalis

Life, Works and Interpretations Edited by C HARL E S C . RO Z I E R et al First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period. [T]his volume offers new perspectives suggesting that a more interdisciplinary approach to medieval historical texts is worthwhile, and it will surely benefit any student or scholar of the period. C OM I TAT U S

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constructed collection of essays would be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in ecomedievalism and/or animal studies. T H E M EDI EVAL R EVI EW $25.95/£19.99 February 2019 978 1 78327 369 0 27 b/w illus.; 312pp, 0 x 0, PB Anglo-Saxon Studies

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Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages Edited by P.H. C ULLUM and KATHERI NE J. LEW IS A fine set of essays. ... The contributions are well written and argued, and their brief historiographical introductions are very useful. It should provide a springboard for more in-depth study of medieval masculinities. CATHOLIC HI STORIC AL REVIEW

A rich collection that will be of great interest to scholars of clerical and lay masculinities, the hagiography and cults of male saints, and men’s piety. MEDIEVAL REVIEW $25.95/£19.99(s) February 2019 978 1 78327 368 3 2 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Gender in the Middle Ages

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Urban Bodies

Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities

An engaging and thought-provoking overview of various types of evidence that shed light on both medieval perceptions of beasts and the often blurred boundaries between them and humans.... The varieties of beasts and diverse source materials considered here make this volume valuable not only to those interested in natural history, but also for those interested in medieval allegories for, and expressions of, identity, warfare and the supernatural. EARLY MEDIEVA L E UROPE The essays in Representing Beasts cogently and vividly convey a broader understanding of human and non-human interaction during the Middle Ages in England and Scandinavia . This tightly

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GE R AL D P. DYS ON This first full-length study of Anglo-Saxon priests’ books draws on a wide array of evidence, including booklists, music, liturgy, narrative, and crucially the surviving manuscripts. It opens with a consideration of the context of a priest’s life and work, moving on to examine the issues of clerical literacy and the availability of books to priests, uncovering avenues for priestly education and elucidating the role that the secular clergy played in channels of manuscript production and distribution. The second part of the book analyzes the documentary and manuscript evidence for certain classes of priests’ books, challenging existing thought and arguing that two poorly understood manuscripts are in fact books for priests. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 366 9 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Rawcliffe’s significant research should send a new generation of scholars in exciting directions, and, at four hundred pages and with almost two thousand footnotes, this book will be the standard text in the field for decades to come. I SI S Vividly written, clearly argued and meticulously researched, [it] represents a significant milestone in the revision of public health history ... [and] will remain a key work for scholars of urban and medical histories for many years to come and, it is to be hoped, an inspiration for further study of this important topic. U R BAN H I STORY

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Contexts for Pastoral Care

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Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia

Anglo-Saxon Priests and Priestly Books, c. 900-1100

Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2018

Edited by L I E SBET H VAN HOU T S This year’s volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of England and its aftermath, from study of horses and knights to its archaeologies to castle construction and the representation of a chanson de geste on an Italian church façade. The volume also includes papers on royal and private authority in Anglo-Saxon England; the relationship between Anglo-Norman rulers and their neighbours; intellectual history; priests’ wives; and noble lepers. $90.00/£50.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 399 7 256pp, 0 x 0, HB Anglo-Norman Studies

Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347)

BRI D GET W E L L S - FU RB Y The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of widowhood, married for the third time to a congenial partner of her own choice. This sounds a remarkable and unusual story – but was it? This book uses the episodes of Lucy’s life to explore how far she was exceptional in her time and rank and highlights aspects of personality and personal relationships which are not often recognized. BRIDGET WELLS-FURBY is an independent scholar whose interests lie chiefly in late medieval landed estates and their context. $99.00/£60.00(s) February 2019 978 1 78327 367 6 234pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England from Henry II to Edward I CHRI STOPHER MIC HA EL BER A R D The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur’s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less remote. This book provides a comprehensive history of the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal understanding of the myth of King Arthur’s return to the Brittonic Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological interpretation of the myth. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BERARD is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Providence College. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 374 4 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

The Black Prince and the Grande Chevauchée of 1355 MOLLI E M. MADDEN On 19 September 1356 Edward of Woodstock,

known as the Black Prince, and his Anglo-Gascon army defeated Jean II of France at the Battle of Poitiers. The victory was the culmination of an expedition which had begun in England in 1355, and saw the successful undertaking of the so-called “grande chevauchée” – which depended on a system of purveyance and recruitment in England, in addition to an efficient supply train which accompanied the army. This book examines in detail the efficient and effective logistics that drove that success; it also shows the powerful connection between tactics and strategy on the one hand, and geography, human topography, and the need for food, water and rest, on the other. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2018 978 1 78327 356 0 252pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Warfare in History

Cartae Baronum Edited by NEI L STAC EY The cartae baronum are a vital source for our knowledge of the twelfth century, as returns submitted to King Henry II by his tenants-inchief on such matters as the number of knights created; they enable individual honours to be traced and landholders to be identified. This important volume brings together all the extant cartae baronum for the first time. In addition to these, there are notices, mostly from the early thirteenth century, of those cartae which are now lost. Each individual cartae here is accompanied

by a detailed note that identifies the individual tenant in chief, briefly discusses the history of his barony or holding, and defines the nature of his obligations to the crown under Henry II. The editor has also corrected a number of long-established textual errors, and identified as many subtenants as possible and located their toponyms. NEIL STACY gained his DPhil from Oxford. His publications include books on the estates of the abbeys of Glastonbury and Shaftesbury. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 0 90113 472 1 320pp, 24.2 x 14.6 Publications of the Pipe Roll Society New Series Pipe Roll Society

The Cartulary and Charters of the Priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Ipswich Part I: The Cartulary

Edited by DAVI D AL L E N The charters and other documents recorded in the thirteenth-century cartulary of the Augustinian priory of Sts Peter and Paul, Ipswich throw light on an institution whose early history was mostly shrouded in obscurity. They are an important source for the study both of the expansion of the priory estates and the consolidation of its holdings by the gift or purchase of adjoining parcels of land in common fields, and a mine of information for the student of place-names. The Cartulary is presented here with introduction and notes. DAVID ALLEN was archivist in the Suffolk Record Office for over thirty years. He has also produced, among other works, Ipswich Borough Archives, 1255-1835: A Catalogue (Suffolk Records Society 43). $90.00/£50.00(s) October 2018 978 1 78327 354 6 4 b/w illus.; 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Suffolk Charters

The Contemporary English Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses Edited by DAN E M BRE E and M . TE RE S A TAVORM I NA The nine chronicles edited here are the principal surviving historical narratives of the Wars of the Roses written in English by men who lived through those wars. These are the best accounts by commoners (and one lord) written for their fellow Englishmen with a narrow, often exclusive, focus on the battles and politics of the Wars of the Roses. They were all produced within a few years of the events they describe, and have a particular immediacy. Six of these chronicles recount in detail particular events while the remaining three describe the development of the larger conflict over extended periods.

Constructing a Civic Community in Late Medieval London

The Common Profit, Charity and Commemoration DAVI D HARRY In the late fourteenth century, London’s

government, through mismanagement and negligence, experienced a series of crises. This book examines the strategies employed by the generation of London aldermen who governed after 1397 to regain control of their city. By examining a range of interdisciplinary sources, including manuscript and printed books, administrative records, accounts of civic ritual and epitaphs, the author shows how, by carefully constructing the idea of a civic community united by shared political concerns and spiritual ambitions, a small number of men virtually monopolised power in the capital. $130.00/£75.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 378 2 1 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Fifteenth Century XVI Examining Identity

Edited by L I NDA C L ARK The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination; the parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the influence of their learned vicar; how monastic chroniclers changed their focus as the century progressed; the perhaps unjustified reputation of Bishop Ayscough of Salisbury; and the significance of Edward IV’s charter of ecclesiastical liberties. Another strand concentrates on Ireland, to explore both the complex relations between the Gaelic-speaking peoples of the west and the Stewart monarchy in Scotland, and the status and participation in government of the English settled near Dublin. Unusual perspectives on London are derived from a study of those engaged in identity theft there at the start of the century, and two heralds’ accounts of the public processions and elaborate funeral rites accorded to a French ambassador at its end. $99.00/£60.00(s) December 2018 978 1 78327 361 4 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB The Fifteenth Century

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The Haskins Society Journal 29 2017 Studies in Medieval History Edited by L AUR A L. GATHAG A N et al This volume of the Haskins Society Journal includes an investigation of equestrian symbolism in Lombard southern Italy; an inquiry into documentary production in Northern France; and a new look at Anglo-Saxon servitude. Further chapters offer an exploration of Norman ducal estates through GIS mapping; a study of Winchester cathedral priory through the lens of the Codex Wintoniensis; an examination of royal political strategy during the interregnum crisis of King Stephen; and a prosopographical analysis of Robert Curthose’s crusade curiales. The first critical edition and translation of the Carmen Ceccanense – an overlooked source for German imperial history – will be widely welcomed. A new look at the Domesday Book, with a comprehensive survey of previous scholarship, completes the volume. $90.00/£50.00(s) November 2018 978 1 78327 357 7 10 colour illus.; 2 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Haskins Society Journal

Herbert of Bosham A Medieval Polymath

Edited by MIC HAEL STAUN TON Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194) is one of the most brilliant, original and versatile thinkers of the twelfth century. Herbert was Thomas Becket’s closest confidant, a theologian, biblical commentator, historian, letter-writer and Hebrew scholar; he wrote a Life of St Thomas unlike any other contemporary biography, and produced one of the most visually-arresting illuminated Bible books of his age. The chapters in this book, the first to be entirely devoted to Herbert, examine his eventful and troubled life, his remarkable corpus of works, and how they came to be neglected and rediscovered. They provide an introduction to his life, writings and legacy, direction to existing scholarship on the subject, and new insights on, interpretations of and discoveries about an idiosyncratic representative of the “twelfthcentury renaissance”. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 90315 388 8 14 colour illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Heresy in Late Medieval Germany

The Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians

Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century

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Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire

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of persecution shattered German-speaking Waldensian communities, with the scale of inquisitions matching or even greater than the better-known trials in southern France. In the middle of the persecution was the influential and enigmatic figure of the Celestine provincial and inquisitor of heresy, Petrus Zwicker (d.1403). Zwicker was an accurate and intelligent interrogator with direct access to the Waldensians’ sources and knowledge. But although he is one of the most effective inquisitors of the Middle Ages, he was even more important as the author of anti-heretical texts. With his unique biblicist and pastoral style, Zwicker struck the right note at a moment when the Church was in crisis. His texts spread rapidly, they were preached to the people and translated into German, and helped to build the fear of heresy, anti-clericalism and disobedience in the years of the Great Western Schism. This book is the first full-length study on Zwicker and his significance to the history of heresy and its repression. It offers a meticulous analysis of the sources left by him and teases out new, groundbreaking discoveries from careful examination of previously poorly known manuscripts. REIMA VÄLIMÄKI is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Cultural History, University of Turku $130.00/£75.00(s) March 2019 978 1 90315 386 4 1 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages

The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunction with the ecclesiastical reform movement, has been seen as sounding the death knell for sacral kingship. Through a groundbreaking comparative approach and an in-depth engagement with the historiographical traditions of the three realms, this book challenges the paradigm of the desacralisation of kingship and demonstrates the continued relevance of liturgical ceremonial, particularly at the moment of a king’s accession to power. In integrating the study of male and female rites and by bringing together multiple source types, including liturgical texts, historical narratives, charter evidence and material culture, the author demonstrates that the resonances of liturgical ceremonial, and the biblical models for kingship and queenship it encompassed, continued to shape concepts of rulership in the high Middle Ages. JOHANNA DALE is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at University College London. $99.00/£60.00(s) February 2019 978 1 90315 384 0 5 b/w illus.; 299pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Inquisition and its Organisation in Italy, c.1250-c.1350 J ILL MO ORE Inquisition against heresy in Italy was a partnership between the papal inquisitor, usually a Dominican or Franciscan friar, the local bishop and the civic authority; and it is generally considered that the inquisitor was the leading figure. This book questions whether this is true. Through an examination of the roles of the different partners, and in particular the part played by the lay and clerical staff of the inquisition, it offers a much more diverse picture. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources, the book analyses these divergences, and shows the internal operations of the inquisition. It also teases out the lives and histories of the individuals who spent their careers working for the inquisition – notaries, messengers, spies and many more – and shows how inquisition against heresy was part of the civic fabric of the Middle Ages. $99.00/£60.00(s) May 2019 978 1 90315 389 5 2 b/w illus.; 264pp, 23.4 x 15.6 Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages

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The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant

Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem with an edition and translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (BAV Reg. Lat. 712) EIVOR A N DE RSE N OFT E STAD Why did the twelfth-century canons at the Lateran church (San Giovanni in Laterano) in Rome claim the presence of the Ark of the Covenant inside their high altar? This book argues that the claim responded to new challenges in the aftermath of the First Crusade in 1099. The Christian possession of Jerusalem questioned the legitimation of the papal cathedral in Rome as the summit of sacerdotal representation. The Ark of the Covenant was central as part of the treasure from the Jerusalem temple, allegedly transported to Rome, and according to contemporary accounts depicted on the arch of Titus. The author explores the history of the Lateran Ark of the Covenant through a reading of the description of the Lateran Church. She follows the transmission of the text both in the Lateran Archive and in a monastic settings in northern France and Belgium, comparing the claim to the Ark with similar claims in texts from Jerusalem. The book also includes a new edition of the Descriptio and an English translation. $120.00/£75.00(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 388 1 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century

The Manuals of Bernard Gui and Nicholas Eymerich DE R EK HI LL The Inquisition played a central role in European history. It moulded societies by enforcing religious and intellectual unity and it helped lay the foundations for the persecution of witches. This book looks at how the philosophy and practice of Inquisition developed in the fourteenth century. It saw the proliferation of heresies defined by the Church and the classification of many more magical practices as heresy. The consequential widening of the inquisition’s role led to it being seen as an essential part of the Church and the guardian of all the Church’s doctrinal boundaries; the inclusion of magic also changed the Inquisition’s attitude towards suspects, and the use of torture became systematised and regularised. These changes are charted here through the inquisitorial manuals of Bernard Gui and Nicholas Eymerich, using other sources where available. $99.00/£60.00(s) March 2019 978 1 90315 387 1 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages

Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War PH IL IP J. C AU DREY The Court of Chivalry was England’s senior military court during the age of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), but unfortunately only a bare few cases survive. This book explores three of the best preserved: Scrope v. Grosvenor (138591), Lovel v. Morley (1386-7) and Grey v. Hastings (1407-10), disputes in which competing knightly families claimed rightful possession of the same coat-of-arms. Hundreds of witnesses gave evidence in each of these cases, in the process providing vivid insights into the military, social, and cultural history of late medieval England. This study asks a number of important questions. How did the plaintiffs and defendants choose their witnesses? What motives and constraints shaped their choices? How did they gain access to the various gentry networks that spoke in their defence? Perhaps most significantly, what does the testimony itself reveal about the chivalric culture of the age? These questions enable the historian to probe in considerable depth the character of gentry military society, and its chivalric ethos. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 377 5 200pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Warfare in History

Old Age in Early Medieval England A Cultural History T H I J S PORC K This first full survey of the early medieval conception of old age makes use of a wide variety of sources, ranging from the visual arts to hagiography, homiletic literature and heroic poetry. Individual chapters deal with early medieval definitions of the life cycle; the merits and downsides of old age as represented in Anglo-Saxon homilies and wisdom poetry; the hagiographic topos of elderly saints; the portrayal of grey-haired warriors in heroic literature; Beowulf as a mirror for elderly kings; and the cultural roles attributed to old women. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 375 1 8 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages The English Crown and the Church, c.1200-c.1550 Edited by T HOM AS W. SM I T H and H E L E N K I L L IC K Late medieval petitions, providing unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions presented to the English crown, and the study of papal justice, canon law and ecclesiastical petitions (emphasising the international dimension of petitioning as a legal device exercising authority across Latin Christendom. $99.00/£60.00(s) December 2018 978 1 90315 383 3 231pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Popular Memory and Gender in Late Medieval England Men, Women and Testimony in the Church Courts, c.1200-1500 BRONAC H C . KANE Records from the English ecclesiastical courts of the middle ages preserve the testimony of “ordinary” folk on such matters as debt, inheritance, marriage, and domestic violence. This book mines these records to examine how gender influenced the ways in which memories were recalled, arguing that it both shaped remembrance, and structured gender identities. It also shows how women’s uses of the church courts provide important evidence for their active participation in legal activity, and how far they could exercise power in their own right. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 352 2 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gender in the Middle Ages

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Song of Du Guesclin Translated by NIGEL BRYA N T Bertrand du Guesclin, born into a modest Breton knightly family, was one of the main architects of the recovery of France after the disaster at Poitiers in 1356. He made his name initially on the battlefield, fighting the English in Brittany, and winning his one great victory in battle at Cocherel in 1364. Defeated at the battle of Najera by Edward the Black Prince, he was ransomed by Charles V because he was so valuable to the kingdom of France. He was appointed Constable of France and continued the work of expelling the English from French territory until his death in 1380. This meteoric career was celebrated immediately after his death in The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin. Written by the trouvère Cuvelier in the verse-form and manner of a chanson de geste, it is the very last of the Old French epics and an outstanding example of the roman chevaleresque. This is its first translation into English. $90.00/£50.00(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 227 3 448pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Women and the Land, 1500-1900 Edited by AM ANDA C APE RN, BRION Y M C D ONAGH and J E NN I FE R ASTON Women and the Land examines British women’s legal rights to land and the reality of their land ownership over four centuries. Historians, geographers and literary scholars come together to explore women’s experience of the rural landscape and their perceptions of place and environment in the countryside, ranging from women’s knowledge of farming and estate management to their participation in the landed economy to litigation over land. Readers will encounter women from across the whole social spectrum in a variety of roles from great landowners to farmers and tenants; travellers and writers to urban entrepreneurs; to women who told their stories of land and ownership through the law courts. It contributes to debates in women’s and gender history by addressing the question of the centrality of land and landed property to women’s cultural and political identities. This book will be an essential reference guide for academic researchers, postgraduates and local historians alike.

The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 Edited by BARRY C OL L ET T and ANGE L A SM I T H with J U L IAN R E I D Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. This book is an edition of the original fortnightly building site accounts of 1517-1518, giving us a window onto a late-medieval building site, with its details of early sixteenth-century building materials, craft techniques, project management skills and working conditions, including siesta periods and sub-contracting. The introduction describes Fox’s long road to 1517: his motives far more complicated than a bishop looking for worldly fame and heavenly reward. Taken together, they provide a detailed account of the foundation of the College, both literal and metaphorical. $60.00/£35.00(s) February 2019 978 0 90410 728 9 25 b/w illus.; 272pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Oxford Historical Society New Series

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The Culture of Castles in Tudor England and Wales

Swords in Early Medieval Northern Europe

AU DREY M . T HORSTAD

SU E BRUNNI NG Swords have been objects of fascination for millennia. Understanding their significance has become more pertinent since the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard (2009), an unprecedented assemblage of metalwork that is dominated by sword-fittings. Looking beyond modern value judgements, this study contextualises AngloSaxon swords within their own milieu by focusing on contemporary perceptions, exploring how those who owned, used and encountered these artefacts actually thought about them. The investigation covers the entire Anglo-Saxon period from the fifth to the eleventh centuries and has two strands: the ‘presentation’ of swords in early medieval art, archaeology and texts; and the attitude of warriors towards swords. Understanding this relationship is fundamental, since swords were designed specifically for warfare and did not double as tools or hunting weapons. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 406 2 60 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England JEN N IF ER EVAN S A short and sweet book on the cultural place of aphrodisiacs in early modern England. Evans has made a lively contribution to the wider scholarship on sexuality, gender, and fertility. BU LLET I N OF THE HISTORY OF M EDICI NE

This is a highly readable, thought-provoking account of the role aphrodisiacs played in England from c. 1600-1800 in ensuring not just a lusty appetite for sex but also a healthy conception and pregnancy. Highly recommended. CHOIC E $25.95/£19.99(s) May 2019 978 0 86193 350 1 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

Castles were much more than lordly residences: they were spaces of interaction between the powerful and the powerless and part of larger networks of tenants, parks, and other properties. They were political, symbolic, residential, and military, and shaped the ways in which people consumed the landscape and interacted with the local communities around them. This volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the sociocultural understanding of the castle in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, a period during which the castle has largely been seen as in decline. Bringing together a wide range of source material it investigates the personnel of the castle; the use of space for politics and hospitality; the landscape; ideas of privacy; and the creation of a visual legacy. By focusing on such an iconic structure, the book allows us to see some of the ways in which men and women were negotiating the space around them on a daily basis; and just as importantly, it reveals the impact that the local communities had on the spaces of the castle. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 384 3 28 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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The Dinner Book of the London Drapers’ Company, 1564-1602 Edited by SAR AH A. MI L N E As a compilation of incredibly detailed accounts

for many consecutive years of corporate dining (between 1564 and 1602), the Drapers’ Company Dinner Book is extraordinary. It records the organisation of the Company’s dinners and the supply of items of food and drink, as well as the names of guests in the hall and employees in the kitchen. This edition is presented with introduction and notes. SARAH A. MILNE is a Research Associate at the Survey of London, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She is also a Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Westminster. $25.95/£40.00(s) March 2019 978 0 90095 260 9 1 b/w illus.; 256pp, 24.4 x 15, HB London Record Society

Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland MA RTHA MC GI LL Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, “whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry”. Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560 Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries, castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to 1830, this book draws on a wide range of sources, and examines beliefs across the social spectrum; it shows how ghost stories achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the afterlife; the construction of national identity; and the impact of the Enlightenment. $90.00/£50.00(s) November 2018 978 1 78327 362 1 265pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series

The Histories of Alexander Neville (1544-1614)

A New Translation of Kett’s Rebellion and The City of Norwich Edited by INGRI D WALTON , C L IV E W I L K I NS - JON E S and PH IL I P W I L S ON Kett’s Rebellion is one of the earliest and most important sources on the ‘Commotion Tyme’ of 1549, while The City of Norwich is one of the earliest published urban histories. Neville’s Reply to the Welsh Nobility challenges the accusations of libel that followed his publication of Kett’s Rebellion and is a small masterpiece of forensic oratory. These texts and translations are prefaced by a wide-ranging introductory section that examines Neville’s life, his texts’ origins and literary contexts, their significance in the development of Tudor historiography, and the ways they reflect contemporary politico-religious concerns. A translators’ preface discusses the role of translations in the appreciation of historical sources, using recent developments in translation theory. $120.00/£75.00(s) February 2019 978 1 78327 332 4 4 b/w illus.; 384pp, 24 x 17, HB

L IAM P. T E M PL E Traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it became a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm. The book argues that the seventeenth century witnessed the final separation of mysticism from the established churches, with mystical experience viewed as having little to contribute to theological and doctrinal discussions, in stark contrast to the privileged position it had often occupied in the medieval period. Both Protestant and Catholic mysticism was increasingly criticized as enthusiastic, with critics drawing on prevalent medical theories to discredit mystical experience as irrational and melancholic. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, mysticism began to be discredited by thinkers like John Locke as part of an early enlightenment emphasis on rationality, natural religion and politeness. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 393 5 4 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635-1642 Edited by L E ONI E JAM E S The Lambeth and Croydon Palace accounts for William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, represent the only extant record of his household during his tenure in office. These important records are here edited and analysed in full for the first time. A lengthy introduction sets the accounts in context, recreating the physical appearance of the household and its head; demonstrating how the household responded to its immediate social environment and the wider political context; interrogating the gifts and their givers to identify networks of people in social, political and religious terms; and, more generally, teasing out the relationship between material objects and political power. LEONIE JAMES is Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury. $120.00/£70.00(s) March 2019 978 1 78327 386 7 1 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Church of England Record Society

Mysticism in Early Modern England

A Protestant Lord in James VI’s Scotland

George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554-1623) M I L E S K E RR- PET E RS ON George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in the reign of James VI. Reputed to be the richest earl in Scotland, and the founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen, the towns of Peterhead and Stonehaven, Marischal and his kindred were witness to a Scotland reeling from the consequences of the Protestant Reformation and coming to terms with their ambitious new king, who would be whisked away to England in 1603. This book explores Marischal’s political struggles in the north east and at court, and his strategies in managing the kindred throughout these storms MILES KERR-PETERSON is an affiliate in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 376 8 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB St Andrews Studies in Scottish History

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State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648-1789

The Making of Victorian Bristol

STE PHEN A. L AZER

Overshadowed by more economically vibrant towns of the industrial north, Bristol’s prospects in 1800 were far from certain. This book provides a detailed account of how Bristol was transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. It explores the development of the physical fabric of the city, looking at the impact on the landscape of new types of buildings, increased housing and the repurposing of older areas, the growth of manufacturing, and the disruptive technologies of the railways and steam-powered ships. It examines how the population responded to the opportunities, and challenges, afforded by national economic growth and world trade and which groups had the power to decide what solutions should be adopted. Finally, it considers the growing influence of central government on local decisions in relation to issues such as public health, education and housing. A distinctive and original contribution to the historiography of Bristol and the study of urbanisation in nineteenth-century Britain in general.

This book investigates how Alsace became French after 1648. It demonstrates how the French monarchy transformed this fractured borderland into a province by negotiating sovereignty with Alsace’s many individual rulers. A close study of five territories ruled by one Alsatian dynasty reveals the wide range of available power-sharing solutions and the decisive role local officials played in producing them on the ground. Author Stephen Lazer’s research makes a much-needed contribution to our understanding of the process of state formation in early modern Europe. STEPHEN LAZER is Lecturer of History at Arizona State University. $99.00/£80.00(s) June 2019 978 1 58046 953 1 279pp, 9 x 6, HB Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

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Revisiting the “Nazi Occult” Histories, Realities, Legacies Edited by MONICA BL AC K and ERIC KURL ANDER New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism’s occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century. Illuminating and well-conceived ... sure to stimulate new debates on the topic.... [R]eopens the conversation about how the occult in Nazi Germany informs our understanding of cultural and intellectual history in twentieth-century Germany. GERMAN STU DIES REV IEW $34.95/£25.00(s) January 2019 978 1 64014 050 9 6 b/w illus.; 306pp, 9 x 6, PB German History in Context

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The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850

Economy, Empire and Business KA ROL INA H U T KOV This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities and the industry was an important sector in Britain; unable to produce raw silk domestically companies in Britain resorted to acquiring supplies from its colonies and territories under its influence. The most successful of these was the English East India Company in Bengal, which invested over £1 million into developing raw silk production in India to meet the demands of British silk weaver. Central to this activity was the transfer of technologies from the West to the East – one of the first in this direction. To date, literature on the Company has largely focussed on its politics and trading activities. Here, as a large corporation actively engaged in manufacturing activities, the company is presented as a key player in the connection between the economies of Bengal and Britain in the long eighteenth century. $120.00/£70.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 394 2 5 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Worlds of the East India Company

The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne, July 1915-July 1916 Edited by PET E R HOWS ON Few men spent the whole of World War One serving in the British Expeditionary Force, from its initial deployment in August 1914 to its demobilization in February 1919. One who did was the Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne, the bishop of Khartoum, who became Deputy Chaplain General, with responsibility for the oversight of all Anglican chaplains. Gwynne kept a detailed record of his life as a unit chaplain and how he managed the transition to high office in the Army Chaplains’ Department. The diaries are preceded by an introduction that discusses the work and organisation of Anglican chaplains in the department and how Gwynne came to have the role in it that he did. $120.00/£70.00(s) March 2019 978 1 78327 396 6 4 b/w illus.; 208pp, 0 x 0 Church of England Record Society

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State Surveillance, Political Policing and CounterTerrorism in Britain 1880-1914

VL A D S OLOMON This book deals with the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Little has been written on this early formative period for the British security state, which began in earnest as a response to the Fenian dynamite campaign of the 1880s. Based on newly declassified documents, Solomon weaves together separate narrative threads which converge to paint a complex picture of the institutional innovations and personal rivalries that produced Britain’s first national political police. The interactions between high-ranking bureaucrats, policemen and politicians reveal how often conflicting ideas on controlling organized radicalism coalesced into a unified counter-subversive strategy. Stressing the distinctness of the early British model of political policing, the narrative goes past the confines of a scholarly account by using source material to flesh out multidimensional characters, ranging from choleric Home Secretaries to remorseful anarchist double agents embroiled in a high-stakes and often unscrupulous combination of espionage, collusion and betrayal. VLAD SOLOMON gained his PhD in Modern British History from McGill University, Montreal. $115.00/£65.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 387 4 10 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB History of British Intelligence

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Two Weather Diaries from Northern England, 1779-1807 The Journals of John Chipchase and Elihu Robinson

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Edited by ROBERT TI T TL ER These two journals, kept by Quakers in northeast and north-west England respectively, record in careful detail weather and agricultural events of their time and regions, from lightning strikes to the life-cycle of snails. Taken together, these journals suggest something of the intellectual and cultural bent of two publicly engaged men of their time, both of middling status and informal education, living far from the cosmopolitan world of London and the universities. ROBERT TITTLER is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University in Montreal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. $90.00/£50.00(s) February 2019 978 0 85444 077 1 2 b/w illus.; 330pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Surtees Society

Melville’s Mirrors

Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author BR IA N YOT H E RS Yothers conducts [the] rather daunting task ... of synthesizing the history of Melville criticism ... with aplomb and successfully carries out his intention of creating a “meaningful taxonomy of the various critical mirrors used to understand Melville’s work.”... [T]his engaging and meticulously researched volume dedicated to the extensive field of Melville studies will be a useful text for scholars and reference libraries alike. T H E Y EAR’S WORK I N E NGLISH STUDI ES

A Vicar’s Wife in Oxford, 1938-1943

The Diary of Madge Martin Edited by PATRIC IA MALC OL MS ON and ROBERT MALC OL M S ON War had an impact on even genteel civilians in unraided cities like Oxford, among them Madge Martin (born 1899), wife of the vicar of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. Her pre-war life, full of travel, theatre visits, walks, books and films, was jolted into very different realities: she found herself volunteering with the Red Cross, and housing her two sisters’ families, who self-evacuated at different times to Madge’s home to escape London’s air raids. Her private diary, engagingly and accessibly written, discloses much about her thoughts and feelings and social relations; and her ambivalences concerning her role as a parson’s wife. It shows both the persistence of comfortable, established lifestyles and necessary adaptations to the constraints of existing in wartime. It is presented here with notes and introduction. $34.95/£25.00(s) September 2018 978 0 90250 974 0 16 b/w illus.; 292pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Oxfordshire Record Society

Of value to anyone wishing to get a purchase on critical approaches to Melville’s work, the study is intriguing for its narrative form; Yothers becomes a disinterested Ishmael following scholars in their quest for Melville. The title and subtitle are appropriate because, as the author makes clear, Melville’s work allows for a variety of critical perspectives and yet remains slightly beyond the critical moment. In an epilogue, Yothers highlights how Melville has moved from a figure of literary study to a cultural figure, making way for yet another future for Melville studies. CHOIC E With rigor and grace, Melville’s Mirrors examines a topic as vast and seemingly ungraspable as Ishmael’s snowy phantom: the history of Melville criticism from 1920 to 2010.... [This book is] the most comprehensive and judicious study of Melville scholarship to date. LEVIAT HAN : A JOU R NAL OF ME LV ILLE ST U DI ES

$24.95/£16.95(s) April 2019 978 1 64014 053 0 222pp, 9 x 6, PB Literary Criticism in Perspective

English: Shared Futures Edited by ROBE RT E AGL E STON E and GAI L M ARSHAL L The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared Futures celebrates the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity, explores its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world, and brings together the huge scholarly, cultural and social energy of the biggest subject in the Arts and Humanities. It represents the synergies produced when practitioners and students from across the discipline come together, and aims to enable new understanding of the challenges that the discipline faces within schools and universities, the vital cultural and political role that English plays, and a renewed appreciation of the intellectual vitality and commitment of its scholars and students. Overall, it demonstrates the rich ecosystem of a subject crucial to social, cultural, and economic well-being, and offers ways in which its vitality can be ensured in the face of new challenges within and beyond the academy. $39.95/£30.00(s) November 2018 978 1 84384 516 4 253pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Essays and Studies

A Liberal Education in Late Emerson

Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind SE AN RO S S M E E HAN Recent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) and a recognition that the conventional view of an aging Emerson, distant from public matters and limited by declining mental powers, needs rethinking. Sean Meehan’s book reclaims three important but critically neglected aspects of the late Emerson’s “mind”: first, his engagement with rhetoric, conceived as the organizing power of mind; second, his public engagement with the ideals of liberal education and debates in higher education reform early in the period (18601910) that saw the emergence of the modern university; and third, his intellectual relation to significant figures from this age of educational transformation, such as Walt Whitman, William James, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard’s first African American PhD. Emerson’s rhetoric of mind informs and complicates these lessons since the classical ideal of a general education in the common bonds of knowledge counters the emerging American university and its specialization of thought within isolated departments. SEAN ROSS MEEHAN is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing, Washington College, Maryland. $90.00/£75.00(s) January 2019 978 1 64014 023 3 196pp, 9 x 6, HB Mind and American Literature

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Malory’s Magic Book King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980 ELLY M C C AUSL AND Covering texts by J.T. Knowles, Sidney Lanier, Howard Pyle, T.H. White, Roger Lancelyn Green, Alice Hadfield, John Steinbeck and Susan Cooper, among others, this volume explores how books for children frequently become books about children, and consequently books about the contiguity and separation of the adult and the child. Against the backdrop of Victorian medievalism, imperialism, the rise of child psychology and two world wars, the diverse ways in which Malory’s text has been altered with a child reader in mind reveals changing ideas regarding the relevance of King Arthur, and the complex relationship between authors and their imagined juvenile readers. It reveals the profoundly fantasised figures behind literary representations of childhood, and the ways in which Malory’s timeless tale, and the figure of King Arthur, have inspired and shaped these fantasies. $99.00/£60.00(s) February 2019 978 1 84384 519 5 12 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

Why I Like This Story Edited by JAC K S ON R . BRY E R On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that “Nobody can read like a writer,” Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by fifty leading American writers on their favorite short stories. The essays not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carver, Hughes, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, and Malamud; but the book also includes pieces on stories by less-wellknown practitioners such as André Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, and William H. Gass, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kristin Valdez Quade, Jamaica Kincaid, Phil Klay, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected.

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Robert Lowell in a New Century European and American Perspectives

$90.00/£75.00(s) May 2019 978 1 64014 028 8 5 b/w illus.; 214pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in American Literature and Culture

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Inscription and Rebellion

Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature S ON JA E . K LO C K E Exemplary .... [A]n outstanding contribution to the field of German studies, particularly the study of GDR history and culture .... Klocke’s interdisciplinary study perfectly exemplifies the benefits of bringing historical research and literary analysis into fruitful dialogue with each other.

Edited by T HOMAS AUSTEN F EL D Robert Lowell (1917-1977) holds a place of unchallenged prominence in the poetic pantheon of the twentieth-century United States. He is an essential focal point for understanding the connection between poetry and American history, social justice, and personal identity. The essays presented here reveal new aspects of Lowell: for instance, insights from his letters to his wife, the writer Elizabeth Hardwick, offered by the editor of the forthcoming edition, Saskia Hamilton. Other essays examine Lowell’s struggles with bipolar illness, with marriage, and with money; his economic views and his early personality issues; his extended sojourn in Amsterdam; his special relationship with Ireland; and his 1961 volume Imitations.

the texture as much as in the “arguments” of the books he engages. The book begins with Frederick Douglass, continues with W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and Richard Wright, and treats works by writers not often discussed in books concerning race in American literature – for example, Stephen Crane and Jack Kerouac. It brings to bear on such books as Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom<I/>, Du Bois’s <I>The Souls of Black Folk, and Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage a degree and quality of attention one usually associates with the study of lyric poetry. The book offers a general framework within which to read African-American (and American) literature. MARK RICHARDSON is Professor of English at Doshisha University, Japan. He is co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost (Harvard University Press).

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The Wings of Atalanta

Essays Written along the Color Line MA R K R IC HARD S ON This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is – has always been – an imaginary place with real people living in it. The second is that slavery and its legacies explain how and why this is the case. The second premise assumes that slavery – and, after that fell, white supremacy generally – were necessary adjuncts to American capitalism. Mark Richardson registers these two premises at the level of style and rhetoric – in

The study as a whole succeeds in demonstrating the value of literature in complicating and expanding the collective memory archive, and shows the fruitfulness of a medical humanities approach to this corpus of texts. MODERN L ANGUAG E R EV IEW $29.95/£19.99(s) March 2019 978 1 64014 055 4 258pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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travel writing. The volume examines how writers engage with classic tropes of travel writing and how they react to the current sense of crisis and belatedness. It also links travel to debates about the role of the nation, mass migration, and the European project, and to Germany’s place in the larger world order. $90.00/£75.00(s) April 2019 978 1 64014 011 0 279pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The Faust Tales of Christoph Rosshirt

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany

A Critical Edition with Commentary

The Literature of Inner Emigration

Edited by J. M . VAN DE R L AAN

JOHN KL APPE R

2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title [G]enuinely indispensable, even to readers well versed in the topic of “inner emigration.” The two initial chapters ... are disproportionately powerful distillations of research in literary history, genre criticism, social analysis, and factual-archival investigation.... [A] monumental study.... AUST R IAN ST U DIES

Klapper’s detailed efforts to historicize the reception history of the inner emigration, and to expand the imaginative scope within which twenty-firstcentury readers might re-engage with it, offer a blueprint for enriching new departures in this area. JOUR NAL OF EU ROPEAN STUDIE S

[A] useful and important addition not only to literary studies but to the investigation of the arts under National Socialism in general. MODE RN L A NG UAG E REVIEW

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Anxious Journeys

Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German Edited by KARI N BAUMG A RTN ER and MONI KA SHAFI This is the first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German. Its thirteen essays address texts by leading authors such as Felicitas Hoppe, Christoph Ransmayr, Julie Zeh, Navid Kermani, Judith Schalansky, Ilija Trojanow, and others, alongside topics such as Turkish-German travelogues and the relationship of comics to

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch Edited by GR AHAM BART R AM , S A R A H M C GAU GH EY and G A L IN T I HANOV Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe’s cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch’s political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. $95.00/£75.00(s) April 2019 978 1 57113 541 4 300pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Faust legend, made famous largely by Goethe’s tragedy, was first collected and presented as a cohesive narrative by Christoph Rosshirt in the 1570s. Rosshirt was also the first known to have provided illustrations of Faust. This book offers a critical edition of Rosshirt’s six tales, including: a facsimile of the manuscript; a German transcription and first-ever English translation; and a history of Faust illustrations with Rosshirt’s own illustrations and other examples up through Delacroix. A final chapter assesses Rosshirt’s significance for the Faust tradition and reviews the evidence for a historical Faust. $110.00/£90.00(s) May 2019 978 1 64014 043 1 37 b/w illus.; 232pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Fontane in the TwentyFirst Century Edited by JOH N B. LYON and BRIAN T U C K E R Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German literature, the most important representative of poetic realism, and likely the best German-language novelist between Goethe and Mann, yet scholarly attention to his works often lags behind his stature, at least in the English-speaking academy. This volume, coinciding with Fontane’s 200th birthday in 2019, assesses the relevance of Fontane’s works for us today and highlights recent English-language research. The contributions survey a range of Fontane’s literary production, using a variety of up-to-date approaches, and speak to both German and non-German audiences in the twenty-first century. $90.00/£75.00(s) April 2019 978 1 64014 009 7 4 b/w illus.; 279pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Goethe Yearbook 26

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Volume 26 features a special section on Goethe’s narrative forms, with contributions on uncanny narrating in the ballads, conscious subplots and mimetic desire in the novels, and his Novelle in the aftershock of Kleist. It also showcases work presented at the 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including essays by Eva Geulen on morphology and by W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. Finally, there are articles on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature, plus book reviews. $85.00/£65.00(s) June 2019 978 1 64014 049 3 338pp, 9 x 6, HB Goethe Yearbook

Kafka after Kafka

Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism Edited by IRIS BRUCE and MARK H. GELBER The topic of “Kafka after Kafka” is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka’s works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with this topic. An essay on major trends in current Kafka criticism provides background for several essays on novelists, philosophers, and critics whose relationship to Kafka is not very well known. A section devoted to Kafka from an Israeli perspective includes artists not commonly known in the US or Europe (Ya’acov Shteinberg, Hezi Leskly, Sayed Kashua), as well as an essay on the recent trial in Israel regarding the fate of Kafka’s literary legacy. A final section addresses important contemporary approaches to Kafka in film studies, animal studies, the graphic novel, and in postmodern culture and counterculture. $90.00/£75.00(s) February 2019 978 1 57113 981 8 4 b/w illus.; 318pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems J. M. R . L E N Z Edited and translated M ART I N WAGNE R and EL LWO OD W IGGI NS Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) is, after Goethe, the most important writer of the German Sturm und Drang. Crucial in the reinvention of German literature through the reception of Shakespeare, his works contain a scathing critique of the ethical, political, and sexual regimes then prevailing in German and Eastern European territories. Lenz strongly influenced later German writers-most notably Georg Büchner and Bertolt Brecht. Given his importance and lasting reception, it is surprising that many of his texts are not available in English. While his best-known dramas have been translated, many of his essays have not, and none of his stories or poems have been. This volume contains new – and, in many cases, first – English translations of Lenz’s most important plays, stories, poems, and essays. It is the first representative English collection of Lenz’s works. Providing reliable translations of Lenz’s key writings and succinct glosses of historical and literary references, this book is a valuable resource for classroom use or for anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, and the theory and practice of theater. $85.00/£65.00(s) March 2019 978 1 57113 993 1 334pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Medieval English Theatre 40 Edited by S AR AH C ARPE N T E R et al The articles in this fortieth volume of the premier journal in early drama studies engage with the key communities for early theatre: royalty, city and household, and religious institutions. Topics include the Royal Entry of Elizabeth Woodville into Norwich (1469) and entertainments for James VI and I on his Northern tour (1617); the sun’s contribution to stage effects in the York Corpus Christi Play: the engagement with local worthies in Mankind; and the convent drama of Huy, in the Low Countries. $39.95/£30.00(s) June 2019 978 1 84384 528 7 200pp, 23 x 16.4, PB Medieval English Theatre

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Arthurian Literature XXXIV Edited by EL I Z ABET H ARC H I BAL D and DAV ID F. JOH NS ON The enduring appeal and rich variety of the Arthurian legend are once again manifest here. Topics treated in this latest volume include the end of Erec et Enide; the identity of the traitor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and a detailed treatment of the lead cross supposedly found in Arthur’s grave at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191.

The Medieval Romance of Alexander The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great J EA N WAQUELI N Translated by NIGEL BRYA N T Nigel Bryant’s translation of Jehan Wauquelin’s The Medieval Romance of Alexander, is, without a doubt, a very important book. This text fills a gap because it supplies the first English translation of what is inarguably the most important French text of the Alexander romance. THE ME DIEVA L REV IEW When one reads this excellent translation, Bryant’s comments about Waquelin’s craft ring true, for Waquelin has an “excellent sense of pace, rhythm and proportion.” [...] Highly recommended. CHOICE $25.95/£19.99 January 2019 978 1 84384 520 1 324pp, 0 x 0, PB

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scholarly attention. As the first monograph to look extensively at either castles or space in Malory, this book aims to fill that gap. It reads the Morte through its castles – their architecture, structural and symbolic significance, and geographical locations, together with their political, communal, ritual, domestic, and martial functions. The book also traces the mutual development of space and identity in the text, looking at Malory’s Arthurian community in and around castle space, both as individuals and together; it offers new insights into the community’s central organizing body, the Round Table, in particular. $99.00/£60.00(s) May 2019 978 1 84384 527 0 8 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature RORY G . C RI T T E N Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay and Charles d’Orléans present themselves as the makers not only of their texts, but also of the books that transmitted their writing. This new study argues that they elaborated a “self-publishing pose” with the aim of regaining their audiences’ confidence in the face of the compromised social, physical and material conditions they inhabited. Dr Critten shows that while the strategies of self-presentation that these authors develop draw on trends in contemporary literature and book history (such as the proliferation of the “go, litel bok” motif and the increasing popularity of the singleauthor codex), their approach to writing differs fundamentally from that pursued by their immediate predecessors, Chaucer and Gower, and by their most prominent peer, Lydgate. Rather, in their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2018 978 1 84384 505 8 3 b/w illus.; 238pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB

Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North

A New Companion to Malory Edited by M E GAN G. L E I TC H and C ORY JAM E S RU SH TON Malory’s Morte Darthur is a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieu: textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and up-dates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions on and contexts connected with the Morte. Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 84384 523 2 11 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

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Drawing together an impressive number of disciplines, including those associated with timekeeping, psychology, climate history, agricultural history, and military history, Langeslag sketches out the physical and mental contexts that surround medieval literatures’ presentation of the seasons. T HE MEDIEVAL REV IEW $25.95/£19.99 March 2019 978 1 84384 525 6 258pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Castles and Space in Malory’s Morte Darthur MOL LY A. M ART I N Castles play an integral part in Malory’s Morte Darthur; Camelot, Tintagel, Joyous Gard, and Dover, for example, are the crucial backdrop to the action and both host and shape the story. But despite this, Malory’s castles have received limited

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New Medieval Literatures 19 Edited by PHI LI P KNOX et al New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Essays in this volume trace institutional histories, examining the textual and memorial practices of religious institutions across the British Isles; explore language games that play with meaning in Anglo-French poetry; examine the interplay of form and matter in Italian song; position Old Norse sagas in an ecocritical and a postcolonial framework; consider the impact of papal politics on Middle English poetry; and read allegorical poetry as a privileged site for asking fundamental questions about the nature of the mind. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 84384 526 3 224pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB New Medieval Literatures

Reading and Writing in Medieval England

Essays in Honour of Mary C. Erler Edited by MART I N C HASE and M ARYANNE KOWA L ESKI Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered social and intellectual links and networks between individuals, particularly among women: these are subjects which the pioneering work of Mary C. Erler has done so much to illuminate. The essays here, in this volume in her honour, build on her scholarship, engaging with Professor Erler’s characteristic use of bibliography in the service of biography by investigating how the physical object of the book can enlighten our understanding of medieval readers and writers. $99.00/£60.00(s) March 2019 978 1 78327 355 3 6 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Reading Horace’s Lyric

A Late Tenth-Century Annotated Manuscript from Bavaria (British Library, Harley 2724) PAUL INA TAR ASK I N Horace was a cornerstone of the medieval academic curriculum and a major inspiration for poets writing in Latin and, in due course, in the European vernaculars. Of the abundant commentaries and glosses on his works, those contained in British Library Harley 2724 stand out. This important manuscript of Horace’s complete works was compiled in Bavaria at the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century and it contains copious contemporary annotations. Although its value has long been recognised, this is the first detailed analysis of the scholia on Horace’s lyric verse. Unlike schoolroom commentators who focus primarily on expounding the poet’s language and literal meaning, the Harley scholiast collects notes on copious subjects culled from a wide variety of classical and early medieval authorities and commentators. He enjoys narrative, copying extensive extracts verbatim and weaving his own prose from multiple sources. For him, expounding Horace is not an end in itself but a springboard for the accumulation of encyclopaedic wisdom to be used as the basis for further commentaries, compilations or perhaps even literary works. This study of the scholiast’s techniques, sources, and possible goals, fully illustrated with copious excerpts, lays the foundations for further work. $99.00/£60.00(s) January 2019 978 1 89774 735 3 3 colour illus.; 178pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)

Studies in Medievalism XXVIII Medievalism and Discrimination Edited by KARL FU GE L S O Discrimination has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely been weaponized as thoroughly and publically as in recent exchanges. The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has taken in medievalism (studies) relative to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity. These papers thus inform many of the subsequent chapters, which address a wide variety of aspects of medievalism, showing how many cultural areas it touches upon. Subjects include Evelyn Underhill’s literary interest in the Arts and Crafts Movement; the Anchoresses of the filmmaker Chris Newby and novelist Robyn Cadwallader; cinematic battle orations; contemporary representations of Viking helmet horns; modern board-game culture; and Vincent Van Gogh’s Studio of the South. The volume also includes a transcription and contextualization of the celebrated scholar Helen Waddell’s notes on medieval texts. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 84384 517 1 6 colour illus.; 4 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medievalism

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The Taill of Rauf Coilyear Edited by R AL PH HANNA The author of the fifteenth-century Older Scots romance of Rauf Coilyear may be unknown, but the popularity of this comic king-in-disguise tale is undisputed; it is cited by William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas at the turn of the century, and again in the mid-sixteenth century Complaynt of Scotland. The disguised king in this case is Charlemagne, and the hero a bluff collier called Ralph. The text (which survives only in a print from 1572) is presented here with full introduction and notes. $70.00/£40.00(s) May 2019 978 1 89797 637 1 2 b/w illus.; 160pp, 21.6 x 13.8 Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

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Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval L I N D S AY AN N RE I D The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is an important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for the Middle English literary lenses through which Shakespeare and his contemporaries often approached Greco-Roman mythology. Drawing examples from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Lucrece, and Twelfth Night, it reinvestigates a selection of moments in Shakespeare’s works that have been widely identified as “Ovidian”, scrutinising their literary alchemy with an eye to uncovering how ostensibly classical references may be haunted by the under-acknowledged, presences of medieval intertexts and traditions. Its central concern is the mutual hauntings of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower in the early modern literary imagination; it demonstrates that “Ovidian” allusions to mythological figures such as Ariadne, Philomela, or Narcissus in Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works were sometimes simultaneously mediated by the hermeneutic and affective legacies of earlier vernacular texts, including The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Confessio Amantis. LINDSAY ANN REID is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2018 978 1 84384 518 8 12 b/w illus.; 274pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Renaissance Literature

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It is a much-needed contribution to the current discussion of baroque guitar history [...], stringing, and performance. His summary of past and current thought on performance related issues, combined with his references to translated original source material, allows even novices to understand and engage with the issues presented. LU T E S O CI ET Y OF

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$34.95/£25.00(s) February 2019 978 1 58046 957 9 10 b/w illus.; 266pp, 9 x 6, PB Eastman Studies in Music

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KAT H E RI NE BU T L E R

Julius Eastman and His Music

No one who reads this fine study will again treat music as a background to the Elizabethan court.

Edited by RENÉE LEV I N E PA R KER and M ARY JANE LEAC H

AM ER ICAN H I STOR ICAL R EVI EW

[Eastman’s work] effectively rewrote the history of post-war American New Music, restoring to its narrative a gay black voice creating a liberating, highenergy form of organic minimalism. THE GUA RDIAN A composer of visionary power, a singer with a cavernous bass voice, a collaborator with the diverse likes of Meredith Monk and Pierre Boulez, Eastman had long been a fixture of the New York Music scene....Part of the pleasure of Eastman’s rediscovery has been the belated, deserving reinsertion of a black, gay figure into music history. T H E N EW YORK TIMES

$19.99/£16.99 October 2018 978 1 58046 956 2 18 b/w illus.; 284pp, 9 x 6, PB Eastman Studies in Music

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[A] major undertaking of importance, a careful and thorough study of numerous examples of secular music that is undergirded by a keen understanding of music’s role in the political life of a fascinating era. EAR LY M U SIC

Maurice Duruflé

The Man and His Music JA MES E. FR AZ I E R A work of unprecedented scope and depth... [Frazier’s book] is a biography abundantly rich in detail; though it declines the tone of a hagiography…. Frazier’s book will no doubt stand as a defining work in Duruflé scholarship and nurture scholars of 20th-century French organ music for years to come. AM ER ICAN ORGANI ST One of the best musical biographies I have read for many years: sound in musical and, for the most part, in historical judgment... sympathetic without being sycophantic, and most gracefully written. Duruflé deserves no less. GR AMOPHONE $39.95/£25.00(s) April 2019 978 1 58046 960 9 18 b/w illus.; 402pp, 9 x 6, PB Eastman Studies in Music

Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century LEX EI SENHARDT

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[E]ngaging, well written, and well researched.

Tightly organized and impeccably researched, this engaging study triangulates the disciplines of musicology, literary history, and iconography to present the political roles music could play within Elizabeth’s court, and adds welcome nuance to the pre-existing scholarly narratives of monarchial control over the arts. R ENAI S S ANCE QUA RT E R LY $25.95/£19.99 June 2019 978 1 78327 403 1 2 b/w illus.; 271pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

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Widor

A Life beyond the Toccata JOH N NE AR Invaluable.... In Near’s genial, well-paced narrative, a portrait of a highly erudite and humorous man emerges – Widor’s intimate recollections of such luminaries as Rossini, Anton Rubinstein and Liszt fizz with vitality.... A rich source of contemporary material and ... a lively picture of Parisian musical life from the 1860s to 1937.... Beautifully produced and designed. GR AMOPHONE John R. Near has honoured his subject by combining powerfully muscular English prose with research so staggeringly comprehensive as to be what fashionable circles would call ‘a gamechanger.’ ... New insights aplenty.... A pleasure to read and to own. T H E ORGAN

Battuto and Pizzicato

The biggest virtue of Eisenhardt’s book is its careful, thorough analysis of the complexities encountered when performing solo music for the five-course guitar [or guitar-accompanied song]. This book will prove especially useful, then, for the modern performer interested in the five-course guitar, upon whom ultimately falls the task of answering the many remaining riddles that arise from the instrument’s widely acknowledged imperfections.

Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

The documentation is wonderfully rich – would that we had something comparable for earlier composers.... A major achievement.... A wealth of revealing information. T I M ES LI T ER A RY SU PPLEM ENT

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Beyond Fingal’s Cave

Ossian in the Musical Imagination JA MES P ORT E R

Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music

Nazi Germany to Émigré California LILY E. HI RSC H Musicologist Anneliese Landau worked in early German radio, the Nazi-era Jewish Culture League, and the Jewish Centers Association in Los Angeles. In these roles, she came to know many significant historical figures: among them, the composer Arnold Schoenberg, conductor Bruno Walter, and rabbi-philosopher Leo Baeck. Hirsch’s biography of Landau offers fresh perspective on the Nazi period as well on musical life in southern California. It is also a unique story of survival: an account of one woman’s confrontation with other people’s expectations of her, as a woman and a Jew. LILY E. HIRSCH is the author of A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League. $99.00/£80.00(s) February 2019 978 1 58046 951 7 7 b/w illus.; 248pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

This is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian’s poems – shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson – was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems’ authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter’s book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many others were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording. JAMES PORTER is Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen. $125.00/£95.00(s) March 2019 978 1 58046 945 6 478pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Beethoven’s Conversation Books

Volume 3: Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823) Edited and translated by THEOD ORE ALBRECH T By 1818, Beethoven had begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer’s death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education. These important booklets are here translated into English in their entirety for the first time. The volumes in this series include an updated editorial apparatus, with revised and expanded notes and many new footnotes exclusive to this edition, and brand new introductions, which together place many of the quickly changing conversational topics into context. Due to the editor’s many years of research in Vienna, this edition represents an entirely new venture in source studies. THEODORE ALBRECHT is Professor of Musicology at Kent State University, Ohio.

$80.00/£45.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 152 8 1 b/w illus.; 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 MIC HA EL L AS SE R

and Harlem. Then a chronological look at how the urban sensibility evolved in the early decades of the century, followed by the Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II. MICHAEL LASSER, a former teacher and theater critic, is host of the syndicated public-radio show Fascinatin’ Rhythm (winner of the Peabody Award) and the author of two previous books. $34.95/£25.00 April 2019 978 1 58046 952 4 30 b/w illus.; 350pp, 9 x 6, HB

Claude Debussy

A Critical Biography FR ANC OI S L E SU RE Translated by M ARI E ROL F François Lesure’s “critical biography” of Claude Debussy (2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer’s life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in which he worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy’s complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documentsincluding private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure’s book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer’s death in 1918. This new English translation, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure’s numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information on crucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure’s seminal work. Rolf ’s translation will make Lesure’s findings accessible to scholars, musicians, and music lovers in English-speaking lands and around the world. MARIE ROLF is senior associate dean of graduate studies and professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and a member of the editorial board for the complete works of Claude Debussy. $99.00/£80.00(s) June 2019 978 1 58046 903 6 478pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. A lot of them were native New Yorkers, or else they got to Gotham as fast as they could. It was as if they were standing on the East Bank of the Hudson, facing west and describing America to the Americans: not its geography or politics but its heart. Michael Lasser’s introduction describes his coming of age in Broadway theaters and jazz clubs around Manhattan in the 1950s. The following chapters look closely at songs, but the book never ceases to give one man’s take on the music he has lived with for more than half a century. First, an exploration of the ways in which songs portrayed Broadway

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Dedicating Music, 1785-1850 EMILY GREEN The use of title page dedications in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century marketplace for printed music reflects a changing financial and aesthetic landscape in which patronage was waning and independent artistry surging. Title-page dedications designated written music as a noncommodifiable gift while presenting composers with opportunities for self-promotion. They also contributed to a new kind of branding by communicating composers’ friendships and artistic allegiances.Dedicating Music considers dedications issued in print between 1785 and 1850 in sets of overlapping corpuses: offerings to peers, patrons, and friends, and dedications issued by publishers. EMILY GREEN is Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University $99.00/£80.00(s) May 2019 978 1 58046 949 4 17 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert Edited by JOE DAV I ES and JAMES WI LLIAM S OBASK IE It is commonly assumed that Franz Schubert

(1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies, and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama. Challenging this view, Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert provides a timely re-evaluation of Schubert’s operatic works, while demonstrating previously unsuspected locations of dramatic innovation in his vocal and instrumental music. The volume draws on a range of critical approaches and techniques, including semiotics, topic theory, literary criticism, narratology, and Schenkerian analysis, to situate Schubertian drama within its musical and cultural-historical context. In so doing, the study broadens the boundaries of what might be considered ‘dramatic’ within the composer’s music and offers new perspectives for its analysis and interpretation. Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert will be of interest to musicologists, music theorists, composers, and performers, as well as scholars working in cultural studies, theatre, and aesthetics. $99.00/£70.00(s) February 2019 978 1 78327 365 2 352pp, 24 x 17, HB

George Rochberg, American Composer Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity

A MY LYNN W LODARSK I Here is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting into a rich cultural context the career of George Rochberg, widely acknowledged as one of the most prominent musical postmodernists. Drawing from unpublished materials including diaries, letters, sketches, and personal papers, the book traces the impact of two specific personal traumas – Rochberg’s service as an infantryman in World War II and the premature death of his son – on his work as a leading composer, college educator, and public intellectual. The book significantly expands our understanding of Rochberg’s creative work by reconstructing and examining the earliest seeds of his aesthetic thinking – which took root while he served in Patton’s Third Army – and following their development through his mature compositional period into the final stages of his long career. It argues that Rochberg’s military service was a transformative life experience for the young humanist, revealing personal trauma and aesthetic recovery to be the basis of Rochberg’s postwar ideas about humanism, musical quotation, and neotonality. AMY LYNN WLODARSKI is associate professor of music at Dickinson College. $99.00/£85.00(s) April 2019 978 1 58046 947 0 4 b/w illus.; 310pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Howard Skempton Conversations and Reflections on Music

E ST H E R C AVET T Edited by E ST H E R C AVET T and M AT T H EW H E AD Howard Skempton (b. 1947) has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, performer and commentator. His music is characterised by simplicity yet sophistication and is appreciated by both lay and specialist listeners in equal measure. Skempton studied in London with Cornelius Cardew in the late 1960s, co-founding the Scratch Orchestra, and has written over 600 pieces since then, informed by and informing compositional trends. His output includes pieces for solo piano, accordion, cello, and guitar, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and voice. His music is performed by leading artists and recorded by, amongst others, Sony and NMC. This book offers an intimate view of a composer’s creative world and how others may interpret it. It includes manuscripts of six previously unpublished compositions and images of Skempton and his collaborators. $80.00/£45.00(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 321 8 26 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Karl Muck Scandal

Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America M E L I S S A DAW N BU RR AGE At the height of World War I, America turned

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against its ethnic German population in a mood of rampant anti-German intolerance. Melissa Burrage’s book recounts, for the first time in full and accurate detail, a campaign directed by prominent New Yorkers against Karl Muck, celebrated German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, leading to his arrest, internment, and deportation. Attacks on Muck illuminate bigger national themes in American history, including: Total War; State power; irresponsible journalism; vigilante justice; sexual surveillance; attitudes toward immigration; anti-Semitism; and the development of American musical institutions. $34.95/£25.00(s) June 2019 978 1 58046 950 0 10 b/w illus.; 368pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

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Liszt’s Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano

the salon was represented in different media; and to showcase the heterogeneity of the salon through a selection of case studies. It offers fresh considerations of familiar salons in large cultural centres, as well as insights into lesser-known salons in both Europe and the United States. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the collection underscores the enduring impact of the European musical salon.

Colors in Black and White HYU N JO O KI M

Liszt’s Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano: Colors in Black and White provides a comprehensive survey of Liszt’s reworking of instrumental colors and idiomatic gestures. It relates Liszt’s sonic reproductions to the widespread nineteenth-century interest in visual-art reproduction. Hyun Joo Kim illustrates Liszt’s diverse approaches to the integrity of the music in a detailed, insightful, and vivid manner through close study of his arrangements of Beethoven’s symphonies and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell Overture, his two-piano arrangements of his own symphonic poems such as Mazeppa and Hunnenschlacht, and his Hungarian Rhapsodies. HYUN JOO KIM is an independent scholar in Seoul, South Korea. $99.00/£80.00(s) March 2019 978 1 58046 946 3 3 b/w illus.; 286pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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Music and Faith

Conversations in a Post-Secular Age JONATHAN ARNOL D Explores examples of how the Christian story is still expressed in music and how it is received by those who experience it, whether in church or not. Through conversations with a variety of writers, artists, scientists, historians, atheists, church laity and clergy, the term post-secular emerges as an accurate description of the relationship between faith, religion, spirituality, agnosticism and atheism in the west today. In this context, faith does not just mean belief; as the book demonstrates, the temporal, linear, relational and communal process of experiencing faith is closely related to music. Music and Faith is centred on those who are not professional musicians, philosophers or theologians, but who find that music and faith are bound up with each other and their own lives. Often the results of this ‘binding’ are transformative, whether it be in outpourings of artistic expression of another kind, or greater involvement with issues of social justice, or becoming ordained to serve within the Church. Even those who do not have a Christian faith find that sacred music has a transformative effect on the mind and the body and even the ‘soul’. $39.95/£30.00(s) May 2019 978 1 78327 260 0 12 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Edited by KATHERI NE BUTL ER and SAMANTHA BASSL ER Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical culture. Far from merely offering material for musical settings, authoritative tales from classical mythology, ancient history and the Bible were treated as foundations for musical knowledge. Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical thought, but also its styles, techniques, and practices during this period. It shows that music itself performed and created knowledge in ways parallels to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to construct social, political, and philosophical views. $99.00/£60.00(s) March 2019 978 1 78327 371 3 10 colour illus.; 5 b/w illus.; 280pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

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Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Edited by ANJA BU N Z E L and NATASHA LO GE S This collection explores the idea of music in the salon during the long nineteenth century, both as a socio-cultural phenomenon, and as a source of artistic innovation and exchange. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly approaches, this book uses the idea of the salon as a springboard to examine issues such as gender, religion, biography and performance; to explore the ways in which

Paul Dukas

Composer and Critic L AU R A WAT S ON As a noted composer and critic, and later an editor

and composition teacher, Paul Dukas (18651935) was a major figure in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French music. Although his catalogue of published scores was relatively modest in quantity, he was internationally recognised as an artist and intellectual of distinction who contributed significantly to Parisian musical cultures and critical debates as they evolved from the 1890s until the 1930s. Moving in the same circles as Debussy and Fauré, Dukas created works that reflect French sensibilities but also resonate with transnational audiences. L’Apprenti sorcier is still his best-known work, while the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue has been revived and remains relevant for the twentyfirst century. Works such as the Piano Sonata and the ballet La Péri respectively exemplify the twin attractions of tradition and progress for the composer. Intensely self-critical, however, he ended up destroying many of his scores. This book is the first full-length Anglophone study of Dukas. It perceives his critical essays as a form of creative, philosophical thought that synthesised the riches of the Parisian music scene yet also represented the formation and development of his own artistic voice. Investigating Dukas’s interrelated identities as composer and critic, it seeks to explain his broad aesthetic motivations and artistic agenda. LAURA WATSON is Lecturer in Music at Maynooth University. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2019 978 1 78327 383 6 10 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Sir Henry Wood

Champion of J.S. Bach HA NNAH FRENCH Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms for nearly half a century, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day. Less known is Wood’s pivotal role in advocating and performing the music of J.S. Bach, much of which, incredibly, was unknown in England at the turn of the twentieth century. This book uncovers Wood’s pivotal role in the English Bach revival. His performances of works such as the St Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass caused a stir; the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites became staple fixtures in the musical calendar; and his orchestral arrangements of Bach’s solo works and cantata arias were key to the popularisation of the composer in England. Largely untouched, the hundreds of Bach scores individually marked up by Wood reveal the minutiae of his thoughts on performance and offer a fascinating parallel to his available recordings from the period. Illuminating a significant new aspect of the musical life of England before WWII, the book also demonstrates that Wood’s advocacy continues to influence perceptions of Bach even today. HANNAH FRENCH is an academic, broadcaster, and Baroque flautist based in London. $90.00/£50.00(s) June 2019 978 1 78327 385 0 20 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique JOHN NEAR In his Preface to the complete organ works of

J.S. Bach, Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)-a leading figure of the French Romantic organ school-conveyed what he considered the essential maxims of organ performance practice and technique. These principles extend to his and his followers’ organ compositions. John Near translates for the first time all the statements from Widor’s Bach Preface that reflect his distinctive and influential approach to performance style and artistic awareness. The volume also includes correlative source material and further writings by Widor on the organ.

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Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy JO SHUA PARE N S It is difficult to do justice to the erudition and insights of Parens’s book in a short essay. It is essential reading for people interested in medieval philosophy, Alfarabi, Maimonides, or Leo Strauss. REV IEW OF P OLI T ICS

[T]he first major English-language work dealing explicitly with the Platonic character of nonChristian medieval political philosophy and Strauss’s rediscovery of that character. Not the least of Parens’s virtues is that in his careful readings he sets additional interesting philosophical tasks for his own readers. Thanks to Parens’s provocative work, it may be time for a full-scale reevaluation of the underappreciated elements of Strauss’s 1935 text. PE RSPE CTIVES ON P OLI T ICAL S CI ENCE

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Augustine’s Political Thought Edited by RIC HARD J. D OU GH E RT Y This collection of essays examines Augustine’s corpus with a view to understanding his political thought. Taking seriously what he has to say about politics, the contributors here begin with Augustine’s own reflections on politics-and often in writings where one least expects to find such reflections, such as the autobiographical Confessions, his letters, and his sermons. The contributors then consider the ways in which Augustine’s teaching relates to that of his predecessors, the classical thinkers, as well as to the thought of other medieval thinkers, revealing that Augustine both drew on and diverged from the classical tradition and influenced the political thought of later medieval and even modern thinkers. This important collection thus contributes to the history of political thought and to the study of the questions at the center of all Western political thought.

A History of the County of Essex

XII: St Osyth and Environs C H RI S T HORN TON , H E RBE RT E I DE N The nine Essex parishes lying in a coastal district between St Osyth and the Naze headland at Walton encompass a number of distinct landscapes, from sandy cliffs to saltmarshes, recognised as environmentally significant. The landscape has constantly changed in response to changing sea levels, flooding, draining and investment in sea defences. Inland, there was an agriculturally fertile plateau based on London Clay, but with large areas of Kesgrave sands and gravels, loams and brickearths. Parts were once heavily wooded, especially at St Osyth. The coastal area has produced significant evidence of early man and was heavily exploited and settled in prehistory. The medieval settlement pattern largely conformed to a typical Essex model, with a complex pattern of small villages, hamlets and dispersed farms, many located around greens or commons. The largest settlement was the nucleated village or small town at St Osyth, located outside the abbey gates, which had a formal market and wool fair in the Middle Ages. In the 19th and 20th centuries the coast witnessed the development of seaside resorts at Walton, Clacton and Frinton. Some overspill affected the surrounding more rural parishes, and from the 1920s new types of resort developed in the form of seaside camps, chalets and caravan parks. $165.00/£95.00(s) April 2019 978 1 90435 649 3 80 b/w illus.; 472pp, 30.5 x 20.8, HB

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