The author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind looks at covert ...

An interdisciplinary approach to medical history that shows the key role that drawings and photog...

Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately i...

Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display. The p...

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured ...

A leading authority on the Bayeux Tapestry examines the work 'frame by frame' in this profusely i...

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a c...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.The ...

A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe t...

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductor...

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge ...

The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attend...

The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebra...

This first full study of Erasmus Darwin's gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as...

Considers Boult's interpretations of Elgar's major works by drawing on their correspondence, Boul...

Winner - African Studies Association's 2009 Melville J. Herskovits AwardAn intellectual biography...

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023A ne...

Text, translation, and critical study of one of the most important medieval bestiaries.The bestia...

Investigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of anim...

Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why t...

A poignant, compelling and clear-eyed memoir of a life in music, with the dogged pursuit of compo...

Feted by his contemporaries, Federico García Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 193...

Develops a new theory of space and register which will be essential reading for the music analyst...

Both native-born and immigrant men and women shaped the history of graphic design in America, par...

Brings together some of the very best surviving examples of medieval church wall paintings. This ...

Informed, ethical and professional examination of the debate surrounding the collection of archae...

An in-depth overview of Kent's economy, society and politics, and their relationship with Kent's ...

Count Petofy

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor D...

Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, ...

Presents Wagner as a serious philosopher and offers a fresh perspective on the Ring and its uniqu...

Examines an important novelistic genre of the early German Democratic Republic for what it tells ...

For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. So...

The chapter on weaponry is descriptive and there are excellent drawings as well as contemporary i...

The British Embassy in Istanbul was unique among other diplomatic missions in the long eighteenth...

Forty-five years after his death, and more than seventy years after his indictment for treason, E...

Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The co...

David Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution ...

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

'The Lords of Battle' examines the image of the 'comitatus', or warband, as it is portrayed in li...

Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of ...

The master cook who worked in the noble kitchens of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had to...

The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649. Its co...

In his search for an historical context for the famous Exeter Book of Old English poetry, Dr Conn...

Convents were an important part of medieval monastic life, but only now, with the upsurge of inte...

Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geof...

The military and religious orders of the Knights Templar (founded 1120) and Knights Hospitaller (...

Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Re...