European history: medieval period, middle ages Books
Manchester University Press Peasants and historians Debating the medieval
Book SynopsisThis book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.Trade Review‘Practitioners of peasant history will benefit from the guides to bibliography and analysis of past ideas and present preoccupations, while newcomers are given a useful guide to the state of the subject. Those familiar with the peasant world will find well-known subjects presented from a new perspective.’Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester, Agricultural History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Early contributionsPart I: Themes 2. Population, resources and the medieval English peasantry3. Lords and peasants4. Peasants and marketsPart II: Debates5. Demography and the medieval peasantry6. Family, household and gender7. The village community and the nature of peasant society in medieval England8. Peasant cultureConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Peasants and Historians Debating the Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.Trade Review‘Practitioners of peasant history will benefit from the guides to bibliography and analysis of past ideas and present preoccupations, while newcomers are given a useful guide to the state of the subject. Those familiar with the peasant world will find well-known subjects presented from a new perspective.’Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester, Agricultural History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Early contributionsPart I: Themes 2. Population, resources and the medieval English peasantry3. Lords and peasants4. Peasants and marketsPart II: Debates5. Demography and the medieval peasantry6. Family, household and gender7. The village community and the nature of peasant society in medieval England8. Peasant cultureConclusionIndex
£23.75
Manchester University Press New Labour in Power
Book SynopsisA systematic study of the early performance of New Labour in power. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state.Table of ContentsThe character of New Labour - David CoatesNew Labour and the electorate - Andrew RussellNew labour and the Clinton presidency - Douglas JaenickeNew Labour and the "left that is left" in western Europe - Jill LovecyNew Labour and the machinery of government - Martin Burch - Ian HollidayNew Labour and the constitution - Martin Burch - Ian HollidayNew Labour and Northern Ireland - Nick RandallThe economic policy of New Labour - Michael Moran - Elizabeth AlexanderNew Labour's industrial and employment policy - David CoatesNew Labour and the global economy - Rorden WilkinsonNew Labour and the environment - Stephen YoungNew Labour's education policy - Gail Steward New Labour and welfare reform - David PurdeyNew Labour and health - Bruce WoodNew Labour and "law and order" - Inderjeet ParmarNew labour policies for the media and arts - Peter HumphreysEuropean policy - fresh start or false dawn? - Simon BulmerNew Labour and international development - Ralph A. YoungNew Labour and defence - Philip GummettNew Labour's foreign policy - Peter Lawler
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Manchester University Press Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship. -- .Table of ContentsList of illustrationsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: From Geneva to Hungary2. The state church: Scotland3. The established church: The Dutch Republic4. Persecution and toleration: FranceConclusion: The Reformed TempleBibliographyIndex
£76.50
Manchester University Press Calvinist churches in early modern Europe
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship. -- .Table of ContentsList of illustrationsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: From Geneva to Hungary2. The state church: Scotland3. The established church: The Dutch Republic4. Persecution and toleration: FranceConclusion: The Reformed TempleBibliographyIndex
£18.88
Manchester University Press Reading Ireland
Book SynopsisAn innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern IrelandTrade Review"'This book is to be welcomed heartily... the sooner this innovative and exciting study is in print the better.' Toby C. Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford"Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on textAbbreviations1. The social meaning of printPart one2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture3. The coming of the book, 1500-16504. The triumph of print, 1650-1700Part two 5. Seading for salvation6. Reading for power7. Reading for profit and pleasureAppendix
£76.50
Manchester University Press The Ancient Greeks at War
Book SynopsisThis book takes a thematic approach that analyses a broad range of military and social aspects of Greek warfare in the period from the Late Bronze Age to Alexander the Great. Topics include: the causes of war, land battles, sieges and naval warfare, as well as the economic, religious, political, and cultural impact of war. -- .Trade Review"This is a fine book, which strikes a judicious balance between accessibility and scholarship, covering a much wider range of topics than most books on warfare, and offers an intelligent and original interpretation of its subject." Dr Hans van Wees, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionWar and Peace in Ancient GreeceEarly Greek WarfareThe Makers of WarThe Patterns of WarBattlefield Engagements in the Age of the HopliteNaval WarfareSiege WarfareWar and EconomyWar and ReligionWar, the Individual and the CommunityConclusionBibliography
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Manchester University Press Making Peace with the Past
Book SynopsisA study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation -- .Trade ReviewDawson's book… stands head and shoulders above anything so far published on this vexed subject… it also extremely timely…' -- .Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of MapsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Political Transition, peace-making and the pastPart 1 Cultural memory, trauma, and conflict in the Irish Troubles1. Memory, myth, and tradition: Concepts of the past in the Irish Troubles2. Trauma, memory, politics: Paradoxes of the Irish peace processPart 2 Remembering Bloody Sunday3. Public arenas, personal testimonies: The institution and contestation of British offical memory of Bloody Sunday4. Trauma and life-stories: Survivor memories of Bloody Sunday5. Widening the circle of memory: Human rights and the politics of Bloody Sunday commemoration6. Counter memory, truth and justice: Bloody Sunday and the Irish peace processPart 3 'The Forgotten Victims?' Border Protestants and the Memory of Terror7. The Troubles on the Border: Ulster-British identity and the cultural memory of 'ethnic cleansing'8. Giving voice: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and memories of the Troubles in the Irish peace process9. Mobilizing memories: The Unionist politics of victimhood and the Good Friday Agreement10. Remembrance, reconciliation, and the reconstruction of the site of the Enniskillen 'Poppy Day' bombAfterwordBibliography
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Manchester University Press Male Witches in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThis is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians'' assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. Shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. It uses feminist categories of gender analysis to challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies providing a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms than has hitherto been available.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsList of figuresIntroduction1. Invisible men: The historian and the male witch2. Secondary targets? Male witches on trial3. Tortured confessions: Agency and selfhood at stake4. Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches5. Conceptual webs: The gendering of witchcraftConclusion and afterwordAppendixFiguresBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Women Scholarship and Criticism C 17901900 Gender
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Women’s HistoryGill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan BellamyChapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesGill PerryChapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish WritingsMadeline ThompsonChapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren LandChloe ChardChapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy ShelleyRichard AllenChapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century EnglandRosemary O’DayChapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of LoveCicely Palser HavelyChapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin SmithAnne LaurenceChapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”Joan BellamyChapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior DesignColin CunninghamChapter 10: Women, Translation and EmpowermentLorna HardwickChapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit WomenSusan MummPostscript BibliographyBiographies
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Manchester University Press Aesthetics and subjectivity
Book SynopsisReconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy. -- .Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionAesthetics and modernityAesthetics and 'post-modernity'1. Modern Philosophy and the Emergence of Aesthetic Theory: KantSelf-consciousness, knowledge and freedomThe unification of natureThe purpose of beautyThe limits of beauty2. German Idealism and Early German RomanticismThinking the InfiniteA 'new mythology'3. Reflections on the Subject: Fichte, Holderlin and NovalisSelf and OtherFichteHolderlinNovalis4. Schelling: Art and the 'Organ of Philosophy'Nature and philosophyThe development of consciousnessIntuition and conceptThe 'organ of philosophy'Mythology, art and modernityMythology, language and being5. Hegel: the beginning of Aesthetic Theory and the end of ArtWhich Hegel?Self-recognitionMusic and the IdeaLanguage, consciousness and beingThe Idea as sensuous appearanceThe prose of the modern worldPhilosophy and art after Hegel6. Schleiermacher: Art and InterpretationLinguisticThe 'art of disagreement'Immediate self-consciousnessArt as free production: 'individual' and 'identical' activityHemeneutics as artLiterature and the 'musical'7. Music, Language and LiteratureLanguage and musicHegel and Romanticism: music, logos, and feelingThe 'presence' of music'Infinite reflection' and music8. Nietzsche and the Fate of Romantic ThoughtThe Old and the New NietzschesSchopenhauer: Music as MetaphysicsMarx, mythology, and artArt, myth, and music in 'The Birth of Tragedy'Myth, music, and languageThe illusion of truthMusic and metaphysicsAesthetics , 'interpretation', and subjectivityConclusionThe so-called 'Oldest System Programme of German Idealism' References
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Manchester University Press The Spoken Word
Book SynopsisDiscussing the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the Early Modern period, this text examines English, Scottish and Welsh oral culture to provide a pan-British study, covering tradition, memories of the civil war, mechanics for settling debts and more.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsContributors1. Introduction - Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf2. Language, Literacy and Aspects of Identity in Early Modern Wales - Richard Suggett and Eryn White3. The Pulpit and the Pen: Clergy, Literacy and Oral Tradition in the Scottish Highlands - Donald Meek4. Speaking of History: Conversations about the Past in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England - Daniel Woolf5. Vagabonds and Minstrels in Sixteenth-Century Wales - Richard Suggett6. Reformed Folklore? Cautionary Tales and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England - Alexandra Walsham7. The Genealogical Histories of Gaelic Scotland - Martin MacGregor8. Constructing Oral Tradition: The Origin of the Concept in Enlightenment Intellectual Culture - Nicholas Hudson9. 'Things Said or Sung a Thousand Times': Customary Society and Oral Culture in Rural England 1700-1900 - Bob Bushaway
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Manchester University Press Catholics and the protestant nation
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays combines the interests of leading Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .Trade Review"'This is a distinguished collection of essays, vigorously written.' Bill J. Shiels, University of York"Table of ContentsContentsContributorsPreface and acknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: English Catholic history in context - Ethan Shagan2. Is the pope Catholic? Henry VIII and the semantics of schism - Peter Marshall3. Confronting compromise: the schism and its legacies in mid-Tudor England - Ethan Shagan4. Elizabeth and the Catholics - Michael C. Questier5. Construing martyrdom in the English Catholic community, 1582-1602 - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.6. From Leicester his Commonwealth to Sejanus his fall: Ben Jonson and the politics of Roman (Catholic) virtue - Peter Lake7. Papalist political thought and the controversy over the Jacobean oath of allegiance - Johann Sommerville8. ‘Furor juvenilis’: post-Reformation English Catholicism and exemplary youthful behavior - Alison ShellIndex
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Manchester University Press Queenship in Britain 16601837 Royal Patronage
Book SynopsisLooks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. This book presents fresh approaches in gender history and court studies.Table of ContentsContentsEditor’s acknowledgementsList of contributorsList of illustrationsIntroduction: Court studies, gender and women’s history 1660-1837 – Clarissa Campbell Orr1. Catherine of Braganza and cultural politics – Edward Corp2. Mary Beatrice of Modena: the ‘second bless’d of womankind’? – Andrew Barclay3. Queen Anne: victim of her virtues? – Robert Bucholz4. Queen Caroline of Ansbach and the European princely museum tradition – Joanna Marschner5. Queens-in-waiting: Caroline of Ansbach and Augusta of Saxe-Coburg as Princess of Wales – Christine Gerrard6. Anne of Hanover and Orange (1707-59) as patron and practitioner of the arts – Richard G. King7. The daughters of George II: marriage and dynastic politics – Vanessa Baker-Smith8. ‘To play what game she pleased without observation’: Princess Augusta and the political drama of succession, 1736-56 – John L. Bullion9. Queen Charlotte, ‘Scientific Queen’ – Clarissa Campbell Orr10. Queen Adelaide: malign influence or consort maligned? - A. W. PurdueIndex
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Manchester University Press Celtic Identity and the British Image
Book SynopsisThis work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a grasp of issues of national identity and state formation.Table of ContentsSelf and other; gendering the Celt; nationality, identity and language; the imagined community.
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Manchester University Press LifeCycle in Western Europe c1300c1500 Manchester
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing life's stages, from birth to death, the study explores attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, and the influence played by gender, class and regional location. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Age and life expectancy3. Infancy4. Boys and girls5. Adolescence and youth6. Adulthood7. Old age8. EndingsBibliography
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Manchester University Press Medieval Maidens Young Women and Gender in
Book SynopsisThe medieval landscape, as traditionally viewed, was hardly populated by women - aside from the occasional queen, mistress, abbess, or mystic. This study aims to fill that gap by examining the experiences and voices of young medieval womanhood.Table of ContentsList of abbreviationsNote on textsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMedieval youth, Constructing gender, Approach and sources1. AttributesBodies, Minds, Exit Points, Perfect Age, Conclusion2. UpbringingModes of learning, Teachers, Messages, Conclusion3. WorkNoble service, Town and country, Conclusion4. SexualitiesSexual boundaries, Flirtation and fantasy, Conclusion5. Voices‘Send more clothes’, ‘Marry me’, ‘Ave Maria’, Restive voices, ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Railways and Culture in Britain The Epitome of
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.Trade Review"'This is an important, agenda-setting work. The quality of the scholarship is very high'. Dr Ralph Harrington, University of York"Table of Contents1. History, modernity, fictionPart 1: In the Canon2. Rain, steam and what?3. Eight great pages: Dombey and Son4. 'Death by the railroad': Anna Karenina5. Railway life: La Bete Humaine6. Accident: new English life?Part 2: Beyond the Canon7. Crime on the line8. Crime on the train9. 'The lost idea of a train': comic fiction10. Train Landscape: Eric Ravilious, William Heath Robinson and Rowland Emett11. Return ticket to postmodernismIndex
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Manchester University Press Cromwells MajorGenerals Godly Government During
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.Trade Review"'A splendid book. It illuminates the whole of the 1650s and Cromwell's complex relationship with the people and culture of the time. A tremendous achievement.' Professor John Morrill, Cambridge University"Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: Background and historiography2. The system: Origins and construction3. The men: Backgrounds, careers and beliefs4. The helpers: The commissioners for securing the peace of the Commonwealth5. Old local government and new local government6. The decimation tax7. Securing the peace of the Commonwealth8. The struggle for the Godly Nation9. The major-generals and the 1656 election10. Defeat at Westminster and fall from power11. ConclusionPostscript: The major-generals' later careersBibliography:IndexMaps and tablesMap 1: The major-generals' associationsTable 1: The major-generals' associations Table 2: Numbers of parliamentary seats and exclusions in the major-generals' associations
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Manchester University Press Chartism
Book SynopsisNo British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research. -- .Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 May-September 1838: ‘I have in my hand a charter – the people’s charter’Chartist lives: Abram and Elizabeth Hanson2 October-December 1838: ‘The people are up’Chartist lives: Patrick Brewster3 January-July 1839: ‘The People’s Parliament’Chartist lives: Thomas Powel4 July-November 1839: ‘Extreme excitement and apprehension’ Chartist lives: John Watkins5 November 1839-January 1840: After NewportChartist lives: Samuel Holberry6 February 1840-December 1841: ‘The Charter and nothing less’Chartist lives: Elizabeth Neesom7 1842: ‘Toasting muffins at a volcano’Chartist lives: Richard Pilling8 1843-1846: Doldrums YearsChartist lives: Ann Dawson9 July-1846-April 1848: ‘A time to make men politicians’Chartist lives: William Cuffay10 April 1848-1852: ‘Decent revolutionaries’?11 Chartist Lives: ‘Ever present to the progressive mind’Money, prices and wages: a noteA note on sources and further readingIndex
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Manchester University Press Literature Theology and Feminism
Book SynopsisNewly available in paperback, this book offers an authoritative overview of the broad and complex terrain of feminist theorising concerning the relationship between literature and theology as it has developed over the past several decades. It provides the first comprehensive evaluation of the significance of women''s literature in the development of feminist theology and offers a critique of the variety of reading practices currently employed by religious feminists. As well as illuminating current reading strategies, the work argues that it is now appropriate for feminists to develop new ways of reading the divine in women''s writing. Drawing upon the pioneering work of Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray the work sets out a new framework for feminist religious reading that is both creative and challenging and which will be of interest both to scholars and students in this area.Through its artful and compelling feminist reconsiderations, the book makes a refreshiTable of ContentsIntroduction1. If literature is a Girl2. Visions and revisions3. Beyond the one and the other4. The problems with poststructuralism5. Julia Kristeva and journeys to the end of night6. Luce Irigaray and the threshold of the divine7. Helene Cixous and mysteries that beat in the heart of the world8. An open conclusionPostscript: Reading Elizabeth SmartIndex
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Manchester University Press Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe
Book SynopsisWhat, in the 16th and 17th centuries, was "superstition"? Where might it be found and how might it be countered? This text reveals attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints and demonology, Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of "superstition" in the reformed churches.Table of ContentsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction - Helen Parish & Wiliam G. NaphyPart I: Superstition, Tradition and this World1. Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Protestant Nuremberg - Bridget Heal2. Not like us: Catholic identity as a defense against Protestantism in Rottweil, 1560-1618 - Jason Nye3. Traditional Practices: Catholic Missionaries and Protestant Religious Practice in Transylvania - Maria Craciun4. The Jesuit Legend: Creating Superstitions and Myths - Eric NelsonPart II: Superstition, Tradition and the Other World5. ‘The Spirit of Prophecy has not wholly left the World’: The Stylisation of Archbishop James Ussher as a Prophet - Ute Lotz-Heumann6. Serving Two Masters: John Knoz, Scripture and Prophecy - Dale Johnson7. A Protestant or Catholic Superstition? Astrology and Eschatology during the French Wars of Religion - Luc Racaut8. Rational Superstition: The Writings of Protestant Demonologists - Peter G. Maxwell-Stuart9. Deceptive Appearances: Ghosts and Reformers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England - Peter Marshall
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