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Book SynopsisGoing beyond the experiences of one man, this book explores the wider political, cultural and class context of the Victorian city. It is an honest tale of rags to riches that will appeal to all who wish to discover more about the dramatic history of industrial Manchester and its people.

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Book SynopsisStarting from the premise of the letter as literary artefact, with a potential for ambiguity, irony and textual allusion, this innovative analysis of the correspondence between the Cluniac abbot, Peter the Venerable, and the future saint, Bernard of Clairvaux, challenges the traditional use of these letters as a source for historical and (auto)biographical reconstruction. Applying techniques drawn from modern theories of epistolarity and contemporary literary criticism to letters treated as whole constructs, Knight demonstrates the presence of a range of manipulative strategies and argues for the consequent production of a significant degree of fictionalisation. She traces the emergence of an epistolarly sequence which forms a kind of extended narrative, drawing its authority from Augustine and Jerome, and rooted in classical rhetoric. The work raises important implications both for the study of relations between Cluniacs and Cistercians in the first half of the 12th century and for thTrade Review'... an attractively readable yet scholarly study which contains much of interest for historian, theologian, and student of medieval literature alike.' Medium Aevum 'Gillian Knight's immensely rich and detailed study of one of the best known epistolary exchanges of the twelfth century is [...] a most welcome addition to the literature.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Letter-writing and friendship reconsidered; Sanctity and rebuke: the relationship between Bernard's Apologia and Peter's letter 28; The proof of caritas: Peter, letter 65; Bernard, ep. 147; Fraudulent alms and monstrous election: Peter, letter 29; Reproach, iocus and debate: Bernard, ep. 228; Peter, letter 111; The salt of caritas: letter 111 continued; Bitterness and sweetness: Bernard, ep. 387; Peter, letter 149; Salvation, damnation and cohabitatio: Peter, letter 150; A new crusade: Bernard, ep. 364; Peter, letter 164; Duplicity or simplicity: Peter, letters 175 and 181; Bernard, ep. 265; An epistolary closure: Peter, letter 192; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisExisting studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.Trade Review’A valuable study, timeously published.’ Northern History ’English, Irish and Continental urban historians will find a comprehensive and lucid study that makes it much less easy for comparative works to ignore the political and economic significance of the Scottish burghs.’ Urban History ’...his careful exposition of the extant, but scanty, evidence steadily builds up to elucidate points left unclarified in broader studies of the institution or else taken for granted by other historians ....this study will become an essential handbook for anyone interested in the subject.’ Parliamentary History ’Our understanding of the burghs and parliament in Scotland has been greatly enhanced by this important research monograph. It should be of interest to a wider audience of urban historians of early modern Europe, as well as historians of early modern Scotland.’ Parliaments, Estates and RepresentationsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Erection and enrolment: gaining entry to parliament; Representation; The convention of burghs, the burgess estate and parliament; Individual burghs and parliament; Edinburgh: the capital and parliament; Hosting the estates; A sense of priority: status, precedence and display; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal oTrade Review’Alexandra Walsham gave us a richly detailed and intelligently nuanced account of the ways in which the ruins, wells, hedgerows and improvised shrines of the British isles were used as sacred sites in the post-Reformation period. ...Walsham’s characteristics as an historian include a mastery of a prodigious range of primary and secondary sources, the use of myriad examples and micro-narratives to qualify her and other historians’ grand narratives, and a sympathetic but unsentimental engagement with the spiritual lives of early-modern Catholics. Rounded off with a 70-page bibliography, this magisterial book will be an invaluable resource for generations of scholars.’ Seventeenth Century 'Every essay in this collection features text and language both scholarly and easy on the eye; each has a pleasing flow, which not only enhances the academic value of the work but also solidifies Walsham’s reputation as a major voice in the revision of early modern British Catholic studies.' Renaissance & Reformation 'We should be grateful to Ashgate for publishing this collection of twelve of Alexandra Walsham's articles. ... Anyone interested in the history of Catholicism in England and Wales will find this an invaluable work.' Journal of Jesuit Studies 'This volume, then, the fruit of around two decades of research, has much to offer to both students of early modern English and Dutch Catholicism.' Jaap Geraerts, Trajecta 'This volume will appeal to a wide range of readers and is an invaluable resource, boosted by an extensive historiographical survey and a thorough bibliography. Presenting a summary of existing and better-known topics in the wider field of 'recusant history', the book also presents a range of new contributions and new perspectives, and will be an essential work for those who study post-Reformation Catholicism in the British Isles, from students to seasoned professionals.' The History of Women Religious of Britain and IrelandTable of Contents1: In the Lord's Vineyard: Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain; I: Conscience and Conformity; 2: Yielding to the Extremity of the Time: Conformity and Orthodoxy *; 3: England's Nicodemites: Crypto-Catholicism and Religious Pluralism *; 4: Ordeals of Conscience: Casuistry and Confessional Identity *; II: Miracles and Missionaries; 5: Miracles and the Counter-Reformation Mission *; 6: Holywell and the Welsh Catholic Revival *; 7: Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels *; III: Communication and Conversion; 8: Dumb Preachers: Catholicism and the Culture of Print *; 9: Unclasping the Book? The Douai-Rheims Bible *; 10: This New Army of Satan: the Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion *; IV: Translation and Transmutation; 11: Translating Trent? English Catholicism and the Counter Reformation *; 12: Beads, Books and Bare Ruined Choirs: Transmutations of Ritual Life *

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Book SynopsisThe twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or ''romance'') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the vernacular made its first tentative literary appearances. These developments continued uninterruptedly through the late Byzantine and early modern periods. Scholarship since the nineteenth century has been sharply divided over these texts: do they represent the first ''breakthrough'' of an emergent ''Modern Greek'' literature, or merely a footnote to the Byzantine learned tradition? What, in particular, do they have to tell us about the collective self-definition of the Greek-speakers who wrote them (roughly during the period 1100-1600)? And how has their subsequent reception contributed to defining and consolidating the national identity of the Modern Greeks, since the nation state was established in the 1820s? The papers cTrade Review’Variorum compilations are long familiar to medievalists. This volume is notable among them for the effectiveness with which its nineteen articles create a coherent whole, responsive to their assembly between two covers in a given order.’ Annemarie Weyl Carr in ArthurianaTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Literature and Identity: 'De vulgari eloquentia' in 12th-century Byzantium; Antique nation? 'Hellenes' on the eve of Greek independence and in 12th-century Byzantium. Part 2 Byzantine Epic and the Oral Tradition: Balladry in the medieval Greek world; Byzantine historiography and modern Greek oral poetry: the case of Rapsomatis; Was Digenes Akrites an oral poem?; Digenes Akrites and modern Greek folk song: a reassessment; An epic in the making? The early versions of Digenes Akrites. Part 3 The Revival of Satire: Cappadocians at court: Digenes and Timarion; The rhetoric of poverty: the lives and opinions of Theodore Prodromos; Ptochoprodromos III: the ethopoeia of the unruly monk. Part 4 The Byzantine Novel or 'Romance': The Byzantine revival of the ancient novel; The world of fiction and the world 'out there': the case of the Byzantine novel; The poetics of the vernacular Greek romances and the 'chronotope' according to Bakhtin; Courtly romances in Byzantium: a case study in reception; Erotokritos and the history of the novel. Part 5 Byzantine Literature and the Making of a Modern Greek National Consciousness: Koraes, Toynbee and the modern Greek heritage; Romanticism in Greece; La fortune de Digénis Akritis: de l'épopée médiévale au symbole du nationalisme grec; 'Our glorious Byzantinism': Papatzonis, Seferis, and the rehabilitation of Byzantium in postwar Greek poetry; Index.

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Book SynopsisSearing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across the worldthe culmination, not the beginning, of the story of one of modernity''s definitive artistic practices. Modern visual satire erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of art history. This has long been recognized as its Golden Age. It is time to look anew. In The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838, an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational team of scholars reconfigures the geography of modern visual satire, as the expansive narrative reaches from North America to Europe, to China and the Ottoman Empire. Caricature''s specific visual cultures are also laid bare, its iconographic means and material support, as well as the diverse milieu of its makingthe military, the art academy, diplomacy, politics, art criticism, and popular entertainment. Some of its greatest practitionersJames Gillray and HonoréTrade Review'As a collection of essays by multiple authors, The Effloresence of Caricature necessarily has it limitations. But that is to quibble. The best essays will provoke new studies that will explore further the international and interdisciplinary context in which caricature worked and must be studied.' Print Quarterly 'All the essays gathered here offer valuable insights into their chosen topics.' H-FranceTable of ContentsContents: The efflorescence of caricature, Todd Porterfield; Caricature on the edge of empire: George Townshend in Quebec, Dominic Hardy; Early modern Dutch emblems and French visual satire: transfers of models across the 18th century, Pierre Wachenheim; John Bull, liberty and wit: how England became caricature, Reva Wolf; On bended knee: James Gillray's global view of courtly encounter, Douglas Fordham; The light of wisdom: magic lanternists as truth-tellers in post-Revolutionary France, Helen Weston; The currency of caricature in Revolutionary France, Richard Taws; The public and the limits of persuasion in the age of caricature, Mike Goode; Signifying shape in pan-European caricature, Robert L. Patten; James Gillray, caricaturist and modernist artist avant la lettre, Christina Oberstebrink; The Musée de la caricature, Ségolène Le Men; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip''s daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands, one of the most dynamic yet politically unstable territories in early-modern Europe. Through an investigation of Albert''s reign, this book offers a new and fuller understanding of international events of the time, and the Habsburg role in them. Drawing on a wide range of archival and visual material, the resulting study of Habsburg political culture demonstrates the large degree of autonomy enjoyed by the archducal regime, which allowed Albert and his entourage to exert a decisive influence on several crucial events: preparing the ground for the Anglo-Spanish peace of 1604 by the immediate recognition of King James, clearing the way for the Twelve Years''Trade ReviewA Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2012 'This book abounds with striking new insights... this is an outstanding study of an important yet overlooked European ruler and his world.' Geoffrey Parker, American Historical Review 'Luc Duerloo’s work on Archduke Albert has certainly been worth the wait... This really is a work that should be incorporated in all future textbooks on the Dutch Revolt, the Thirty Years’ War, and their related conflicts.' Renaissance Quarterly '... as a whole Duerloo has delivered an interesting overview of European politics in the early-seventeenth century in which he makes connections that most historians have overlooked, showing the influence of family matters on Habsburg international policy.' Catholic Historical Review 'This impressive study is concerned with three interrelated themes. It offers an up-to-date biography of Archduke Albert of Austria (1559-1621), analyses international relations in the early seventeenth century and assesses the forces behind Habsburg politics in this period. In all these areas it sheds authoritative new light... Duerloo’s book will be a point of reference for decades to come.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'Luc Duerloo nimmt eine schlüssige Neubewertung der dynastischen Politik der Erzherzöge Albrecht und Isabella im europäischen Kontext vor. Seine präzise Analyse bildet die Grundlage für jede weitere Beschäftigung mit diesem Themenkomplex und macht 'Dynasty and Piety' zu einem Standardwerk zur Geschichte des Hauses Habsburg im ersten Viertel des 17. Jahrhunderts. ['Luc Duerloo makes a final revaluation of the dynastic politics of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in a European context. His precise analysis will form the basis of any further research into the theme and makes ’Dynasty and Piety’ a standard work on the history of the Habsburg dynasty in the first quarter of the 17th century.] Francia-RecensioTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Wet Paint; 2: Rural Pursuits; 3: Burning Lamps; 4: Lewd Instruments; 5: Calculated Ambiguities; 6: Family Matters; 7: Fatal Ambitions; 8: Old Masters; 9: Unfolding Legacies; 10: Cometary Turmoil; 11: Virgin Victorious; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLawyer, politician, diplomat and leading architect of the League of Nations; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, was one of Britain's most significant statesmen of the twentieth century. His views on international diplomacy cover the most important aspects of British, European and American foreign policy concerns of the century, including the origins and consequences of the two world wars, the disarmament movement, the origins and early course of the Cold War and the first steps towards European integration. His experience of the First World War and the huge loss of life it entailed provoked Cecil to spend his life championing the ethos behind and work of the League of Nations: a role for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937. Yet despite his prominence in the international peace movement, Cecil has never been the focus of an academic biography. Cecil has perhaps been judged unfairly due to his association with the League of Nations, which has since been generally regarded as a failure. However, recent academic research has highlighted the contribution of the League to the creation of many of the institutions and precepts that have, since the Second World War, become accepted parts of the international system, not least the United Nations. In particular, Cecil and his work on arms control lay the basis for understanding this new area of international activity, which would bear fruit during the Cold War and after. Through an evaluation of Cecil's political career, the book also assesses his reputation as an idealist and the extent to which he had a coherent philosophy of international relations. This book suggests that in reality Cecil was a Realpolitiker pragmatist whose attitudes evolved during two key periods: the interwar period and the Cold War. It also proposes that where a coherent philosophy was in evidence, it owed as much to the moral and political code of the Cecil family as to his own experiences in politics. Cecil's social and familial world is therefore considered alongside his more public life.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Inheritance; Chapter 2 Entering the Fray, 1903–14; Chapter 3 Changing Focus, 1914–19?; Chapter 4 The Origins of the League of Nations, 1916–18; Chapter 5 Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Chapter 6 Disarmament and First Challenges to League Authority, 1919–24; Chapter 7 The European Security Debate and the League Council Crisis, 1924–26; Chapter 8 Land and Air Disarmament Negotiations, 1925–27; Chapter 9 Naval Disarmament and the Geneva Naval Conference, 1925–27; Chapter 10 International Disarmament and Crisis in the Far East, 1928–34; Chapter 11 The Peace Ballot and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, 1934–39; Chapter 12 The Second World War, the United Nations and the Cold War, 1939–58; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

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Book SynopsisThe history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid development known as reforms. Charismatic leaders by sheer force of will, and by assiduously recruiting the support of the ecclesiastical and lay elites, pushed monasticism forward toward reform, remediating the inevitable decline of discipline and government in these institutions. A lack of concrete information on what happened at individual monasteries is not regarded as a significant problem, as long as there is the possibility to reconstruct the reformers' program.'' While this general picture makes for a compelling narrative, it doesn't necessarily hold up when one looks closely at the history of specific institutions.In Monastic Reform as Process, Steven Vanderputten puts the historyTrade ReviewMonastic Reform as Process makes important interventions in monastic studies, institutional history, and the history of the central Middle Ages as a whole. Very few scholars move so easily and aptly from broad theoretical discussion to minute analysis of particular sources and back again. Steven Vanderputten advances both our empirical knowledge of monastic communities and our insight into the concept of institutional reform. * Walter Simons *In sum, Vanderputten's book is persuasive in part because its argumentation reflects the method of the reformers: built up bit by bit with careful attention to different contexts. It might be objected that Vanderputten casts his net too wide: if almost any activity that strengthened a monastery could count as reform, then of course it can be found repeatedly over time. But defining reform programmatically would beg the question, and Vanderputten's insistence that it came in many forms, depending on different contexts, avoids a priori classifications drawn from later reforming chronicles and instead provides a compelling overall framework for explaining change. The book will be invaluable for anyone working on the period and for historians of the twelfth century who want to avoid being blinded by the flashpoints described in reforming narratives. * Speculum *Rather than tackling a large field of study, Steven Vanderputten limits his focus to Benedictine monasteries in the county of Flanders.. The content here is integrated into a collective viewpoint that allows the reader to reflect on the nature and scope of monastic reforms of the High Middle Ages. As the author says, Rather than looking at reforms as 'flashpoint events', we need to view them as processes worthy of study in their own right.'. * Revue Bénédictine *"This excellent and clearly written book serves to highlight the ways in which a knowledgeable scholar of regional politics can dislodge overly simplisticyet entrenched narratives through deep contextualization. Vanderputten demonstrates the unreliability of discourses of 'reform' so convincinglythat the reader will be unable to use the word casually again.... This work will be essential not only to researchers of central medieval Flemish history or the history of monastic reformbut also those interested more broadly in the processes of medieval institutional changeparticularly if they are seeking a model for how to situate the initiatives of individuals within larger regional histories." —Kate Craig * Comitatus *This is an important book, a sustained discussion about the nature and meaning of monastic reform in one time and place that should encourage other, similar studies.... I hope Vanderputten's study finds readership not only among those interested in Flanders or monasticism in the central Middle Ages or even ecclesiastical reform more generally. For this is a book about how institutions change, the opportunities available to those who want to change them, and the limits they face in the attempt. It is history as process. * The Medieval Review *Vanderputten's Monastic Reform as Process reflects where medieval history must go in the twenty-firstcentury. It is rich in archival research, harnessing emergent digital databases to organize an impressiverange of sources effectively which lay beyond the grasp of previous generations of scholars. Yet theauthor directs his inquiries towards key historical questions which traditional scholarship has raised, butcould not answer. The book is an excellent study of monastic reform in medieval Flanders, whichaddresses issues medievalists care about. Its historiographical corrective should appeal to a widerhistorical audience. It also represents a significant step forward as an approach to medieval history,conditioned by the new realities of historical study in the twenty-first century. * H-France Review *Vanderputten's book is persuasive in part because its argumentation reflects the method of the reformers: built up bit by bit with careful attention to different contexts.... [Monastic Reform as Process] will be invaluable for anyone working on the period and for historians of the twelfth century who want to avoid being blinded by the flashpoints described in reforming narratives. * Speculum *His broader arguments are almost surely correct and might be considered hypothetical templates for reexamining other charismatic reformers, such as Odilo of Cluny and William of Dijon. * American Historical Review *Vanderputten elegantly argues that early-11th-century monastic reform can be understood only within an explicit long-term context of the slow, cumulative development of individual monasteries, and that this reform saw each monastery as a world unto itself, with a reforming abbot using his community's traditions to gradually transform the community into the ideal monastery. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Overall, and especially for its effective interpretation of the motives that led medieval monastic authors to choose their subject matter and story-lines, this is a book that will repay reading and re-reading. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Corporate Memories of Reform2. The "Failed" Reforms of the Tenth Century3. The "Dark Age" of Flemish Monasticism4. Introducing the New Monasticism5. Processes of Reformist Government6. Shaping Reformed Identities7. The "Waning" of Reformed MonasticismConclusionAppendix A: Overview of the Leadership of Benedictine Monasteries in Flanders Reformed in the Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries between c. 900 and c. 1120Appendix B: Booklist of the Abbey of Marchiennes, c. 1025–1050Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that there is an unproblematic connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes how the Holocaust has shaped engagement with racism from the 1940s until the present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions are neither obvious nor inevitable.

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Book SynopsisReveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and jurisdiction; economic uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and religious differences; international relations; immigration; and arguments about personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.

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Book SynopsisSince the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.Trade ReviewWe journalists are not in the business of staying silent. For us, silence is not an option. But for those who abuse their power, censorship has always been a tool at their disposal. Well, this indispensable book shows us that, at the end, every story will be told (even the story of censorship)."" - Jorge Ramos, author of A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected here first of all reflect Vern Bullough''s concern to examine how knowledge was transmitted from one generation to the next and the impact this had on new developments in medicine and science. Universities, Medicine and Science in the Medieval West brings together the author''s pioneering studies on the medical universities of the medieval Latin world, their foundation and their influence on scientific thought, and those on the professionalization of medicine, respectively the focus of the first and second sections in the volume, along with three previously unpublished essays. The third part looks at developments in medical practice outside the university, and at topics such as nursing and medical care, medieval views of women, and female longevity and diet; it also includes the author''s much-cited study on the age of menarche.Trade Review’This book is well referenced and heavily annotated for the researcher. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in medicine and the medieval period.’ Studia Historiae EcclesiasticaeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Medical Study and the Development of Five Medical Universities: The study of medicine and the medieval university; The development of the medical university at Montpellier to the end of the 14th century; The medieval medical university at Paris; Medieval Bologna and the development of medical education; Medical study at mediaeval Oxford; The mediaeval medical school at Cambridge. Medicine and Science in the Universities: Science vs. humanities: a conflict in the 15th century Italian universities?; Science and the university in the 15th century; The emergence of medicine as a profession; Achievement, professionalization, and the university; Medieval medicine and the search for status; Population and the study and practice of medieval medicine. Medical Developments Outside the University and the Medieval Medical Tradition: Training of non university-educated medical practitioners in the later middle ages; The development of the medical guilds at Paris; Medieval nursing; A note on medical care in medieval English hospitals; Female longevity and diet in the middle ages (with Cameron Campbell); Medieval medical and scientific views of women; Sexology and the medievalist; Age at menarche: a misunderstanding; The term 'doctor'; A 15th-century prescription; Duke Humphrey and his medical collections; The teaching of surgery at the University of Montpellier in the 13th century; Medical practice in the middle ages, or who treated whom; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes you to the fencing School of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of Venice. This faithful translation of Giganti's The School by internationally-known rapier teacher Tom Leoni includes the complete text, original illustrations and an introduction on rapier fencing that will make Giganti's text easy to follow. Trade Review Table of ContentsAcknowlegements Introduction What we know about Giganti What we know about Gaganti's 1606 Book Giganti's Voice and Language, and a note on the Translation Giganti and the Italian Tradition What You need to Know to Tackle Gigante The School, or Salle, by Nicoletto Giganti of Venice, 1606 The Guards and Counter-guards Tempo and Measure How to Deliver the Thrust Why I Begin with Single Sword Guards, or Postures Explanation of the Strike in Tempo The Correct Way to Gain the Opponent's Sword and Strike Him While He Performs a Cavazione The Correct Way to Perform a Cavazione The Contracavazione to the Inside The Contracavazione to the Outside Feints-Explanation The Feint of Cavazione From the Hand How to Strike to the Chest With Single Sword-From the Measure and Parity of Swords The Pass With Feint from Out of Measure The Pass With Feint Above the Opponent's Point The Feint to the Face from Out of Measure The Correct Way to Deliver a Thrust While the Opponent Attacks You With a Cut The Correct Way to Deliver a Sure Strike Using Both Hands The Correct Way to Defend Against a Mandritto or a Riverso to the Leg The Inquartata or Void An Artful Way to Strike the Opponent in the Chest after Pressing Against Each other's Blades How to Play Single Sword Against Single Sword, With Full-intent Thrusts How to Parry Thrusts to the Chest With Single Sword The Thrust to the Face, Turning the Hand Counterattack with Cavazione from out of Measure How to Use Single Sword Against Sword and Dagger How to Parry a Thrust to the Face in Sword and Dagger How to Correctly Parry a Thrust to the Left Flank How to Correctly Parry a Thrust to the Right Flank in Sword and Dagger How to Parry a Thrust to the Face in Sword and Dagger How to Parry a Cut to the Head in Sword and Dagger How to Parry a Riverso with the Dagger Thrust to the Chest in Sword and Dagger Delivering a Thrust While the Opponent Moves Thrust Above the Dagger A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Left Side of the Body Open A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Right Side of the Body Open A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Chest Open The Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike Above the Dagger Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike in the Chest Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike to the Face With a Cavazione Over the Dagger-point How to Use the Sword to Parry a Lunging Thrust While Bringing Your Body Back How to Parry with the Dagger with Your Body Back Dagger-parry with the Body Back, with Simultaneous Sword-strike Sword-parry and Strike to the Face The Pass in Sword and Dagger, to Grapple the Opponent and Strike Him in the Face with the Dagger The Thrust to the Right Shoulder in Sword and Dagger The Pass in Sword and Dagger Glossary

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Book SynopsisA collection of seventeen essays on the manuscript art of early medieval Ireland and England.Trade Review‘Most users of these books will have read several of these essays before, but having them in one place is more than a convenience: it allows us to note continuities both within Jennifer O’Reilly’s work (thus making for a more fruitful engagement with her researches) and also to recognize continuities in the artefacts themselves. Moreover, we have not simply been given reproductions of the earlier papers ... but the works have been reset and all the appropriate illustrations have been reproduced in colour — more than 150 in total — close to where they are discussed allowing us to see exactly what is meant in the various iconographical analyses. These sharp, clear colour images, along with two indices, make these books works of scholarship in their own right. We are indebted to the editors for their work for us, as well as for having given us such an appropriate monument to a great scholar’ - Thomas O’Loughlin, Irish Theological Quarterly 2020, Vol 85 (3).‘Everyone looked at the Book of Kells differently when they heard Jennifer O’Reilly talk about it. Her scholarship changed the landscape of the subject’ - Bernard Meehan, Peritia, 31 (2022).Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionThe Codex Amiatinus1. The library of Scripture: views from Vivarium and Wearmouth-Jarrow (New offerings, ancient treasures. Studies in medieval art for George Henderson, ed. P. Binski and W. Noel (Alan Sutton, Stroud 2001) 3–39)2. Celtic art and the Gospel (Search 24 (2001) 34–42)3. The art of authority (After Rome, ed. T. Charles-Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2003) 141–189)4. "All that Peter stands for": the romanitas of the Codex Amiatinus reconsidered (Anglo-Saxon/Irish relations before the Vikings, ed. J. Graham-Campbell and M. Ryan, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 157 (Oxford, 2009) 367–95. © British Academy 2009)5. The Book of Kells, folio 114: a mystery revealed yet concealed (The age of migrating ideas: early medieval art in Britain and Ireland, ed. J. Higgitt and R.M. Spearman (Alan Sutton and National Museums of Scotland, Stroud 1993) 106–114)The Book of Kells6. The Book of Kells and two Breton gospel books (Irlande et Bretagne. Actes du colloque de Rennes 1993, ed. C. Laurent and H. Davis (Terre de Brume Editions, Rennes 1994)7. Exegesis and the Book of Kells: the Lucan genealogy (The Book of Kells, ed. F. O’Mahony (Scolar Press; Aldershot 1994) 344–97. Reprinted in Scriptural interpretation in the Fathers, ed. T. Finn and V. Twomey (Four Courts Press, Dublin 1995) 315–55)8. Entry on the Book of Kells, folios 29 and 34 (Histoire de l’écriture, ed. A.M. Christin (Flammarion, Paris 1997; English version 2002. © Flammarion, S.A., Paris, 2001, 2002 and 2012)9. Two pages from the Book of Kells (Visual practices across the University, ed. J. Elkins, (Munich 2007) 164–69)10. The Book of Kells, folio 114 (Treasures of Irish Christianity: people and places, images and texts, ed. S. Ryan and B. Leahy (Dublin: Veritas, 2012) 49–52)11. The body of Christ in the Book of Kells (Proceedings of the International Symposium of Theology: The Ecclesiology of Communion (Dublin: Veritas, 2013), 52–62)The Anglo-Saxon and Later English Traditions12. An Anglo-Saxon portable altar: inscription and iconography ((with Elisabeth Okasha), Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 47 (1984) 32–51)13. St John as a figure of the contemplative life: text and image in the art of the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform (St Dunstan: his life, times and cult, ed. N.L. Ramsay, M.J. Sparks and T. Tatton-Brown (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge 1992) 165–85)14. The rough-hewn cross in Anglo-Saxon art (Ireland and insular art A.D. 500–1200, Conference Proceedings, ed. M. Ryan (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 1987; reprinted 2002) 153–58)15. Text and Image in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform(Benedetto l’Eredità Artistica, ed. R. Casanelli and E. López-Tello García (Jaca Books, Milan 2007) 95–110)16. Signs of the Cross (The History of British Art 600–1600, ed. T. Ayers, (Tate Britain and the Yale Center for British Art 2008) 176–99. © Tate 2008, reproduced by permission of the Tate Trustees)17. The medieval iconography of the two trees in Eden (A walk in the garden: biblical, iconographical and literary images of Eden, ed. P. Morris and D. Sawyer, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, supplement series 136, (Sheffield Academic Press 1992) 167–204, used by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.)Index

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Book SynopsisLandscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings.The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the discourses, images and representations of the Basque landscape; the second examines landscape practices through tourism, hiking and mountaineering. Focusing on the Basque case but establishing numerous connections with comparable phenomena in Western Europe, the book demonstrates that the landscape became a structuring element insofar as it helped shape individual identities while participating in the creation of social links. This book examines the processes of identity construction from below by means of new interpretative tools, such as Trade ReviewThrough the study of the landscape and its practices, mainly sports, Maitane Ostolaza shows us the whole of Basque society, in all its astonishing complexity. This ambitious book undertakes a true history of the environment "from below", where the realms of historicity and geography are intimately linked.Stéphane Michonneau, Professor of Contemporary History, University of LilleThanks to her vast knowledge of the scholarly literature and sources, the author beautifully analyses the process of construction of a Basque identity landscape. Her attention to the actors of this process allows her to present with great insight the different landscape grammars that demonstrate the multiple facets of the mountain, the forest and the sea.François Walter, Professor of History, University of GenevaThis original and engaging book is required reading for anyone attempting to understand not only the pivotal role of landscape (the sea, the mountains) in Basque history and identity but also the fascination exerted by Basque places (Biarritz, Gernika, Bilbao, San Sebastian) on travellers, tourists and scholars worldwide, particularly since the Romantic period. Joseba Zulaika, Emeritus Professor, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, RenoTable of ContentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONPart OneDISCOURSES, IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LANDSCAPECHAPTER 1: Narratives of LandscapeRomantic Landscapes, Mythical LandscapesLandscapes of Fuerismo: Between the Oasis and the Indomitable MountainsIn Search of a Vernacular LandscapeFrom Region to Nation via LandscapeRegional Landscapes National LandscapesCHAPTER 2: The Dissemination of Landscape Discourse and Language: The Role of the PressThe Modern Press and the Dissemination of Landscape DiscourseJournals and Periodicals: Pioneers in Extolling the Basque Landscape The 1920s Press: Landscape as a Means of Nation BuildingThe Basque-Language Press and the Popular View of LandscapePart TwoLANDSCAPE PRACTICESCHAPTER 3: Tourism and ExcursionsTourism, Identity and LandscapeExcursionsTouristic and Recreational ExcursionsCHAPTER 4: Mountaineering, Landscape and IdentityDiscovering the MountainsLandscape and Gender: Women Take to the MountainsFrom the Mountains to the Nation: The MendigoizalesCONCLUSIONSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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Book SynopsisTwo decades before the war against Ukraine, a special operation was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation's understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin's militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin's political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization and introduces the concept of mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism. It argues that the celebration of the oprichnina, Ivan the Terrible's regime of state terror (15651572), has been fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism to reconstruct the Russian Empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the global obsession with the Middle Ages is not purely an aesthetic movement but a potential weapon against democracy.The book is intended for students, schoTrade Review"In Putin's Dark Ages, Dina Khapaeva offers an original interpretation of the Russian president and his apocalyptic, reactionary worldview, arguing that it is not just neo-Stalinist, but neo-medievalist: clearly written, deeply researched and thought provoking."Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, USA"In this fascinating and innovative work, Dina Khapaeva offers a new perspective on the Putin regime as part of a wider cultural phenomenon, that of neomedievalism in the totalitarian political imagination. This book is a must for those seeking to understand Putin’s war on Ukraine and his politics of memory."Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria, Canada"An illuminating inquiry, a necessary book to understand the nature of Putinism - combining Restalinization with a multifaceted Neomedievalism. A severe dissection of a terrorist regime."François Hartog, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France"Putin’s Dark Ages is a strikingly timely intervention in the study of Russian history, memory, and politics. Before February 24, 2022, it was still possible to argue that the phenomena covered in this book—neo-medievalism, neo-Eurasianism, the celebration of Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin, etc.—were curious, but marginal developments. As Khapaeva compellingly shows, they are in fact crucial and central features of Russian society today—symptoms of a distinctive anti-modern worldview that has gained an extraordinary and inimical potency."Kevin M.F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Political Neomedievalism, the Memory of the Perpetrators, and Mobmemory 2. Putin’s Neomedieval Politics of History 3. Post-Soviet Historians and Religious Activists on the Medieval Oprichnina 4. The Post-Soviet Far Right on Establishing the New Oprichnina 5. The Oprichnina and Serfdom in Popular Culture and Public Debates 6. Re-Stalinization in Putin’s Russia 7. Working through the Past Russian-Style: Mobmemory in Vladimir Sharov’s Prose. Conclusion: The Politics of Reversed Time – Apocalypse as Practice

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Book SynopsisHow did decolonization impact on Britain? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? These questions are explored in an account of the ways in which domestic institutions reconfigured their activities for a postcolonial world, and continued to assert influence after the end of empire.Trade Review'With this book Sarah Stockwell emerges as the one of the foremost economic historians of the British Empire. By studying the linkages between the colonial service, the universities, the Bank, the Army and above all the Mint, she explains the reasons British overseas businesses were able to carry on and move with the times, with difficult and painful adjustments, eventually finding significant success hardly imaginable in the era of decolonization.' Roger Louis, University of Texas'Any sophisticated grasp of the peculiarly British dimensions of global decolonization in the decades after 1945 needs to come to grips with the empire's domestic institutional stakeholders. In this meticulous study, Sarah Stockwell delivers just that. Brimming with insights, The British End of the British Empire reveals how the institutional framework of empire persisted, and at times even flourished, in a changing world.' Stuart Ward, University of CopenhagenTable of Contents1. The imperial roles of British institutions; 2. Technical assistance and state building at the end of empire; 3. Teaching what 'the natives need to know': the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and training for overseas public administration; 4. 'Education and propaganda': the Bank of England and the development of central banking in African states at the end of empire; 5. Making Money: the Royal Mint and British decolonization; 6. 'Losing an empire and winning friends': Sandhurst and British decolonization.

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Book SynopsisPeople have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning. Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Englishness extended far beyond the pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages, waving fields of corn and quaint country churches. It was found in diverse locations - urban as well as rural, north as well as south - and it took strikingly diverse forms.Trade Review'Paul Readman argues convincingly that other scholars have neglected the importance of the lived environment in shaping cultural nationalism, focusing too heavily on written histories and commemorative events and activities … Readman's monograph is a tour de force, wide ranging and convincing in its central arguments.' Rosemary Michell, American Historical Review'Fascinating … Storied Ground is a richly rewarding, thoughtful book. Readman's extensive knowledge and scholarship enable him to extend our understanding of the ways in which perceptions of English national identity were powerfully mediated through local historical associations and regional culture, but the clarity and accessibility of his writing should also win him readers well beyond an academic audience.' Barry Sloan, Victorian Studies'Storied Ground considers six powerful landscapes of modern Englishness. Two are border countries. Two are places of outstanding national beauty. Two are towns, giving Readman the opportunity to think again about English ruralism. This is a compelling study of England profound, a vital subject in these Brexit times.' Robert Colls, author of George Orwell: English Rebel'Storied Ground offers a vital account of how shifting attitudes towards landscape helped develop English and British national identities and democratic culture in the long nineteenth century. Preservationism in all its variety emerges as a radical and democratic agenda predicated on the notion that landscape was a 'national possession'. An important book, richly-documented and historiographically significant.' Matthew Kelly, author of Quartz and Feldspar. Dartmoor: A British Landscape in Modern Times'Following an introduction that explores the picturesque, symbolic, and heritage associations of' 'storied ground' with place, the focus shifts to the theme of the shaping of English identity. Six regional studies are set in the long nineteenth century from the French Revolution (1789) to WWI (1914), when mythic rural homelands were important in an age of urbanization, industrialization, and modernity … A conclusion offers a rich reprise of the 'multifarious ways' landscape contributed to English national identity before 1914. Its forty figures, 200 references, and over 1,000 footnotes make Storied Ground a foundational source in landscape and identity studies. Highly recommended.' B. Osborne, Choice'Given the recent controversies surrounding immigration and Brexit, this timely enquiry into the shaping of English national identity is supremely relevant … stimulating and authoritative …' Paul Elliott, Environmental History'Wide-ranging and stimulating … well-written and strongly recommended …' John A. Hargreaves, The Historian'Pleasant to read, vivid and precisely argued … extremely worth reading.' Andreas Fahrmeir, Historische Zeitschrift'This impressively researched and finely written study … is a lively and stimulating book, bursting with fresh insights into the relationship between people and landscapes.' Angus Winchester, Reviews in History'This stimulating and rewarding book, by a scholar who has made the study of the relationship between landscape, history and English national identity his own … makes some important and [long-overdue] arguments … [and contains] many bold but courteously-expressed challenges to historiographical orthodoxy …' Jeremy Burchardt, Environment and History'… excellent … illuminating … The result is not an overburdened text suitable only for scholars, but a readable, persuasive reconstruction of projects of national identity formation … Scholars from a variety of disciplines will find interest and revelations in Storied Ground: history, literary studies, political science, rhetoric, art history, and environmental studies are just the most obvious fields where this fine study will produce new directions and further nuances in scholarship and teaching. But … the audience for Paul Readman's book extends well beyond the academy. General readers with interests in local histories, in English history writ large, in literature, in travel and tourism, will all find food for thought here - and the pleasures of shapely prose, occasionally touched with wry humour and suffused with learning.' Anne D. Wallace, Nineteenth-Century Contexts'Paul Readman's Storied Ground … will become the standard reference point for those concerned with English landscape and national identity in the long nineteenth century … each chapter provides rich, original and nuanced analysis.' David Matless, Agricultural History Review'Insightful, original, and gracefully written … This book should be of great interest to historians and art historians, as well as those interested in tourism, historical preservation, and the construction of national identities. It is both scholarly and accessible, a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.' Jeffrey Auerbach, Journal of Interdisciplinary History'Those familiar with Paul Readman's previous work on landscape and its significance will turn with enthusiasm to his latest volume, the fruit of research in the library and in the field … Readman is an engaging and convivial guide … Using a wide range of source material, from periodical articles to popular song … he gives new insights into areas that are staples of landscape and open space histories, the New Forest and Lake District for example, and opens up less familiar landscapes, notably Manchester … I warmly commend this book. It is attractively written and illustrated, reasonably priced, and light enough to be a good companion in the field as well as intellectually weighty enough to be compelling reading in the library.' Elizabeth Baigent, Rural History'… a pleasure to read … Given our post-Brexit national dissensus, Readman's study is timely in its insistence on a more nuanced view of English cultural nationalism.' Caroline Edwards, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Borders: 1. The cliffs of Dover; 2. The Northumbrian borderland; Part II. Preservation: 3. The Lake District; 4. The New Forest; Part III. Beyond the South Country: 5. Manchester: shock landscape?; 6. The Thames; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death''s intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period''s far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies aTable of ContentsPart I. Preparatory and dying Arts: I.1. To know well to die (1490); I.2. The Calendar of Shepherds (1518); I.3. The way of dying well (1534); I.4. The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547); I.5. 'A Meditation of a penitent Sinner' (1560); I.6. A Fruitful treatise…against the fear of Death (1564); I.7. A Spiritual Consolation (1578); I.8. The repentance of Robert Greene (1592); I.9. A Salve for a Sick Man (1595); I.10. The Mother's Blessing (1616); I.11. Selected Works (1628, 1635); I.12. 'The unnatural Wife' (1628); I.13. An antidote against purgatory (1634); I.14. Holy dying (1651); I.15. The virgin's pattern (1661); I.16. A Token for Children (1676); I.17. 'A True account of…last dying speeches' (1690); Part II. Funereal and Commemorative Arts: II.1.Chronicles (1548); II.2. 'The Order for the burial of the dead' (1549); II.3. The Primer set forth at large (1559); II.4. Acts and Monuments (1576); II.5. The Glorious Martyrdom of twelve Priests (1582); II.6. The life and death of Sir Philip Sidney (1587); II.7. The French History (1589); II.8. 'Doleful Lay of Clorinda' (1595); II.9. Selected Works (1603, 1604); II.10. 'A Mirror of Modesty' (1621); II.11. 'A Sermon…the 5th of November, 1606' (1629); II.12. The Phoenix of these late times (1637); II.13. Eikon Basilike (1649); II.14. 'An Elegy on the Lady Markham' (1653); II.15. A String of Pearls (1657); II.16. Poems (1669); II.17. 'An Essay upon Death' (1696); Part III. Knowing and Understanding Death: III.1. The despising of the World (1532); III.2. A Preservative against Death (1545); III.3. A Godly Meditation (1548); III.4. A Mirror for Magistrates (1587); III.5. The Haven of Health (1588); III.6. Protection for Woman (1589); III.7. Montaigne's Essays (1603); III.8. The Works of Seneca (1614); III.9. Navmachia (1622); III.10. 'Of Death' (1625); III.11. Mikrokosmographia (1631); III.12. 'A View of the present State of Ireland' (1633); III.13. A View of all Religions in the World (1653); III.14. Natural and Political Observations (1662); III.15. Philosophical Letters (1664); III.16. Lucretius's Six Books (1683); III.17. Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692); Part IV. Death Arts in Literature: IV.1. The Ship of Fools (1509); IV.2. The Summoning of Everyman (1528); IV.3. The Dance of Death (1554); IV.4. 'Complaint of a Dying Lover' (1557); IV.5. 'A Strange Punishment' (1566); IV.6. 'Gascoigne's Goodnight' (1573); IV.7. 'The Manner of her Will' (1573); IV.8. The Mirror of Princely deeds and Knighthood (1578); IV.9. Selected Works (1594, 1604); IV.10. Selected Works (1606, 1614); IV.11. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611); IV.12. Selected Works (1611, 1613); IV.13. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613); IV.14. Urania (1621); IV.15. 'The last Will and Testament of Philip Herbert' (1650); IV.16. 'The Nymph complaining for the death of her Fawn' (1681); IV.17. Oroonoko (1688).

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Book SynopsisWhy were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston''s magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.Trade Review'Aston's forensic attention to detail, penetrating insight and comprehensive mastery of her subject are on show from the first page. This is a book that could only have been written after a lifetime of scholarly enquiry, and is a worthy testament to Aston's formidable skills as both writer and historian. … Broken Idols remains a suitably powerful, perceptive and significant final contribution to the field by a truly brilliant and inspirational scholar.' Jonathan Willis, Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. The call to destroy; 2. Answering the call; 3. Steps to the temple; Part II: 4. Saints popular and unpopular: St Thomas of Canterbury and St George; 5. Reforming sound: bells and organs; 6. Images of the Trinity; Part III: 7. Windows; 8. The cross; 9. Word against image; Conclusion.

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What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires followed the same patterns, triggered when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by cumulative changes in population structure that collided with popular aspirations and state-elite relations. Examining the great revolutions of Europethe English and French Revolutionsand the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan, he shows how long cycles of revolutionary crises and stability similarly shaped politics in Europe and Asia, but led to different outcomes.In this 25th anniversary edition, Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last twenty-five years, from the Phili

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Book SynopsisMethodism played an important part in the spread of Christianity from its European heartlands to the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. From John Wesley's initial reluctance, via haphazard ventures and over-ambitious targets, a well-organized and supported Wesleyan Society developed. Smaller branches of British Methodism undertook their own foreign missions. This book, together with a companion volume on the 20th century, offers an account of the overseas mission activity of British and Irish Methodists, its roots and fruits. John Pritchard explores many aspects of mission, ranging from Labrador to New Zealand and from Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka, from open air preaching to political engagement, from the isolation of early pioneers to the creation of self-governing churches. Tracing the nineteenth-century missionary work of the Churches with Wesleyan roots which went on to unite in 1932, Pritchard explores the shifting theologies and attitudes of missionaries who crossed cultural aTrade Review’There has long been a need for a concise and comprehensive account of British Methodism's engagement in world mission. John Pritchard's volume admirably meets that need and will be essential reading for any student of Methodism.’ Brian E. Beck, former President and Secretary of the Methodist Conference '... a very important, readable history of a wonderful story where British and Irish missionaries, alongside local converts, migrants and those in the colonial world, established Methodism across the planet. A denomination of 80 million people needs to remember where it came from so that it can help determine its future. This text, and its companion volume, will be a major contribution to this.' Irish Methodist Newsletter 'John Pritchard has spent most of his ministry in mission and mission affairs for the Methodist Church and this work is informed by all of that, but it is primarily a carefully researched and thoughtful analysis of the vast canvas of mission the Methodist in all of their denominational manifestations undertook over 140 years. John is to be congratulated and I, for one, await keenly the second volume covering the twentieth century which is hinted at in the conclusion.' Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society ’John Pritchard has written a very satisfying book that is likely to serve for a good time as the standard work on Methodist mission activity before 1900. Along with [the] companion volume ...scholars and general readers are now equipped with two excellent accounts of the work of the Methodist missionary societies.’ Wesley and Methodist StudiesTable of ContentsAbbreviations; Glossary; Place-Names; Preface; Chapter 1 Beginning with Wesley; Chapter 2 Coke’s World Parish; Chapter 3 1813; Chapter 4 Colonies and Dominions; Chapter 5 Pioneers; Chapter 6 Gospel and Justice; Chapter 7 The WMMS: The First Fifty Years; Chapter 8 Into India; Chapter 9 The Challenge of China; Chapter 10 Advance in Africa; Chapter 11 Islands in the Sun; Chapter 12 Parallel Missions; Chapter 13 The Century in Retrospect; Chapter 14 The Life of the Missionary; Chapter 15 Women Workers; Chapter 16 Missionary Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century; Conclusion A New Century;

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Book SynopsisPosing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some historical assumptions rest. For example, studying conventional pedagogical texts and practices used for girls'' home education alongside evidence gleaned from women''s diaries and letters suggests domestic settings were the loci for far more rigorous intellectual training than has previously been acknowledged. Contributors cast a wide net, engaging with debates between private and public education, the educational agenda of Hannah More, women schoolteachers, the role of diplomats in educating boys embarked on the Grand Tour, English Jesuit education, eighteenth-century print culture and education in Ireland, the role of the print trades in the use of teaching aids in earlTrade Review'This book is an outstanding contribution to the silent revolution that is placing education at the heart of the cultural history of the "long eighteenth century". The editors set out to redefine education as a cultural, rather than a political, social or purely instructive practice. The editors and contributors demonstrate convincingly the innovative work that is possible outside conventional disciplinary boundaries in the conceptual space constituted through education. This is a book that sets agendas for future research and debate as it sheds light on "new ways of seeing" in the history of education. It is a book with the potential to reconfigure both history and education.' Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester, UK 'A first-rate volume that is of considerable value, both for content and for methodology.' Enlightenment and DissentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin; 'O miserable and most ruinous measure': the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800, Sophia Woodley; Evangelicalism and enlightenment: the educational agenda of Hannah More, Anne Stott; Marketing religious identity: female educators, Methodist culture, and 18th-century childhood, Mary Clare Martin; Learning and virtue: English grammar and the 18th-century girls' school, Carol Percy; ' Familiar conversation': the role of the 'familiar format' in education in 18th- and 19th-century England, Michèle Cohen; Hosting the Grand Tour: civility, enlightenment and culture, c. 1740-1790, Jennifer Mori; 'Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity': English Jesuit education and culture in the long 18th century, 1688-1832, Maurice Whitehead; Colonising the mind: the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c 1750-1850, Deirdre Raftery; 'Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c.': booksellers and the infant school market, Jill Shefrin; Delightful instruction? Assessing children's use of educational books in the long 18th century, M.O. Grenby; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume casts a fresh look at the multifaceted expressions of diachronic Hellenisms. A distinguished group of historians, classicists, anthropologists, ethnographers, cultural studies, and comparative literature scholars contribute essays exploring the variegated mantles of Greek ethnicity, and the legacy of Greek culture for the ancient and modern Greeks in the homeland and the diaspora, as well as for the ancient Romans and the modern Europeans. Given the scarcity of books on diachronic Hellenism in the English-speaking world, the publication of this volume represents nothing less than a breakthrough. The book provides a valuable forum to reflect on Hellenism, and is certain to generate further academic interest in the topic. The specific contribution of this volume lies in the fact that it problematizes the fluidity of Hellenism and offers a much-needed public dialogue between disparate viewpoints, in the process making a case for the existence and viability of such a polyphony.Trade Review'This volume offers a penetrating and multifaceted analysis of Hellenic identity from antiquity to the present day. It includes contributions from some of the world's leading scholars and ranges across fields as diverse as history, literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, cinema, and diaspora studies. This is a fascinating exploration of how Greeks, past and present, at home and abroad, have employed language, religion, cultural memories, folkways, intellectual discourses, conceptions of time, and ethnographic self-representations to proclaim an identity that has had to respond and adapt to the varying conditions of imperialism, conquest, displacement, as well as to the perceived status of Greece within the European and global imagination.' Jonathan M. Hall, University of Chicago, USA 'Although the permutations of Hellenism have been a deeply influential aspect of Western history and culture, usually they have been approached in a geographically and chronologically limited way and by relatively traditional methods. This volume breaks new ground by exploring Hellenic identities more broadly in their richly multifaceted versions through time, and by drawing on some of the most exciting innovations in cultural studies, literary and historical disciplines, anthropology, and other fields. Five chapters trace the development of Hellenisms from antiquity to the Middle Ages, four follow the emergence of Hellenism and Philhellenism in modern Greece and Europe, and the last five investigate the impact of Hellenism on Greece and the Greek diaspora. This is a book which will be of enormous interest not only to specialists of all Greek periods but also to scholars analyzing the transmission and reception of cultural models through history. As a whole, it argues convincingly that the study of the Greeks and of Hellenisms should be intertwined.' Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan, USATable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction, Katerina Zacharia; Part I Hellenic Culture and Identity from Antiquity to Byzantium: Herodotus' 4 markers of Greek identity, Katerina Zacharia; Greek identity in the archaic and classical periods, Simon Hornblower; Greek identity in the Hellenistic period, Stanley Burstein; Graecia capta: the confrontation between Greek and Roman identity, Ronald Mellor; Hellenic identity, Romanitas and Christianity in Byzantium, Claudia Rapp. Part II Cultural Legacies: Travelling Hellenisms: Mediterranean Antiquity, European Legacies and Modern Greece: Philhellenism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, Glenn Most; Philhellenic promises and Hellenic visions: Korais and the discourses of the enlightenment, Olga Augustinos; Hellenism and the making of modern Greece: time language, space, Antonis Liakos; The quest for Hellenism: religion, nationalism and collective identities in Greece, 1453-1913, Dimitris Livanios. Part III Ethnic Identity: Places, Contexts, Movement. Facets of Hellenism: Hellas, Europe, Modern Greece, Diaspora: Dreams of treasure: temporality, historicization, and the unconscious, Charles Stewart; Cultural difference as national identity in modern Greece, Peter Mackridge; 'Reel' Hellenisms: perceptions of Greece in Greek cinema, Katerina Zacharia; Against cultural loss: immigration, life history, and the enduring 'vernacular', Yiorgos Anagnostou; Greek-American identity: what women's handwork tells us, Artemis Leontis; Bibliography; Select glossary; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers'' communities, and the accompanying transformations in social status, family structure, and collective life and culture of the workers. An especial focus is the cultural transformations which occurred at the time of the 1905-1907 revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, incorporating it into tsarist Russia. In parallel with this, Professor Zarnowska has been concerned to examine the gender-determined inequalities of the life opportunities of women and men, and how these altered as social modernisation in Poland progressed. She looks at the changing legal and social status of women and their life chances, as well as the emergence of new social models of women''s roles. Several studies are also devoted to the impact exerted by urban civilisTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 The Working Class and Social Change in Poland in the Final Decades of the 19th Century and in the Early 20th Century - The Working Class Culture: La classe ouvrière polonaise à la charnière des XIXe et XXe ss.: integration et differenciation; Die soziale Herkunft des städtischen Proletariats im Königreich Polen; Probleme der Herausbildung und politischen Formierung der Arbeiterklasse. Ost-mitteleuropäische Besonderheiten; Rural immigrants and their adaptation to the working-class community in Warsaw; Working-class culture or workers' culture? The problem of working-class culture in Poland at the turn of the 20th century; Religion and politics: Polish workers c. 1900; Education of working-class women in the Polish kingdom (the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century). Part 2 The Political Culture of Society Early in the 20th Century - The Revolution of 1905-07 in the Polish Kingdom: Determinants of the political activity of the working class in the Polish territories on the turn of the 19th century; Some aspects of the democratization of political life in congress Poland at the beginning of the 20th century; Revolution of 1905-07 and the political activation of the working class in the Polish kingdom; Die Genese der Spaltung in der Polnischen Sozialistischen Partei im 1906. Part 3 The Changing Family and the Socio-Cultural Position of Women: Working family in the kingdom of Poland at the end of the 19th century; Women in working class families in the Congress kingdom (the Russian zone of Poland) at the turn of the 19th century; Changes in the occupation and social status of women in Poland since the Industrial Revolution till 1939; Family and public life: barriers and interpenetration - women in Poland at the turn of the century; Social change, women, and the family in the era of industrialization: recent Polish research; Index.

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Book SynopsisDividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone''s account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century, Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability. The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and, as Stone elegantly argues, one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.Trade Review‘Much the best all-round analysis of the causes of the English Revolution that we have.’ Times Literary Supplement‘He was that rare person among the academic species, both a historians' historian and a popular one.' Michael Thompson, The Guardian‘Lawrence Stone belonged to a remarkable generation of British historians who dominated and defined their subject for nearly half a century, and which included Christopher Hill, G.R. Elton, Asa Briggs, J.H. Plumb, Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Thompson. They all wrote widely and well, and reached a large audience in universities and far beyond. But in many ways, Stone was the most creative - and the most controversial - of them all.’ David Cannadine, The IndependentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition – Clare JacksonPrefacePreface to the second editionPart I HistoriographyChapter 1 Theories of revolutionChapter 2 The social origins of the English RevolutionPart II InterpretationChapter 3 The causes of the English Revolution Presuppositions The preconditions 1529-1629 The precipitants, 1629-39 The triggers, 1640-2 Conclusion Chapter 4 Second thoughts in 1985Index

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Book SynopsisThe medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Agesthe female bodyexists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it resists the customary marginalization that defined most other monstrous groups in the Middle Ages. Though medieval maps located the monstrous races on the distant margins of the civilized world, the monstrous female body took the form of mother, sister, wife, and daughter. It was, therefore, pervasive, proximate, and necessary on social, sexual, and reproductive grounds. Miller considers several significant texts representing authoritative discourses on female monstrosity in the Middle Ages: the Pseudo-Ovidian poem, De vetula (The Old Woman); a treatise on human generation erroneously attributed to Albert the Great, De secretis mulierum (On the Secrets of Women), and Julian of NoTrade Review"This is a fine, stimulating book which constructs a subtle, complex argument not only about monsters, but the theorizing of men and women in the thirteenth and fourtteenth centuries."-- The Medieval Review"Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex workings of medieval teratological discourse, its constructive and deconstructive capacities, and its role within the formation of medieval socioreligious material and textual identities."- Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Monstrous Borders of the Female Body 1: Ovidian Poetry, Virgins, Mothers, and Monsters: Ovidian and Pseudo-Ovidian Bodies 2: Gynecology, Gynecological Secrets: Blood, Seed, and Monstrous Births in De secretis mulierum 3: Mystical Theology, Monstrous Love: The Permeable Body of Christ in Julian of Norwich’s Showings Conclusion: The Monstrous Borders of the Self Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCapetian France 9871328 is an authoritative overview of the country's development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period. When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in 987, his powers were weak and insignificant, but from an inauspicious beginning he founded a dynasty that was to last over 300 years and that came to dominate western Europe. This carefully updated third edition draws extensively on new scholarship that has emerged since the previous edition. It contains images, maps, family trees and a discussion of key sources, allowing the reader to develop a strong contextual knowledge as well as a greater connection with the material world of the period.Maintaining a balance between a compelling narrative and an in-depth examination of central themes of the age, Capetian France 9871328 provides a comprehensive account of this significant era within FranTable of ContentsChapter 1: French Society in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; Chapter 2: Politics and Society: A Regional View; Chapter 3: The Early Capetians, 987–1108; Chapter 4: The Revival of Royal Power, 1108–1226; Chapter 5: Louis IX: The Consolidation of Royal Power, 1226–70; Chapter 6: The Last Capetians, 1270–1328: The Apogee of Royal Power; Chapter 7: Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches legal, historical and sociological to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study, which is written from a legal standpoint, is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime, court appearance and punishment, separate studies of witchcraft, infanticide and poaching, and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Crime and the Historian; 1. Criminal Courts and Procedure at Common Law 1550-1800 2. The Nature and Incidence of Crime in England 1559-1625: A Preliminary Survey 3. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stewart Essex 4. Crime and Delinquency in an Essex Parish 1600-1640 5. Communities and Courts: Law and Disorder in Early-Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire 6. Quarter Sessions Appearances and their Background: A Seventeenth-Century Regional Study 7. Crime and the Courts in Surrey 1736-1753 8. Infanticide in the Eighteenth Century 9. The Game Laws in Wiltshire 1750-1800 10. Finding Solace in Eighteenth-Century Newgate 11. The Ordinary of Newgate and His Account; Crime and Criminal Justice: A Critical Bibliography; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisUsing gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story''s mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women''s multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the ''hearts and minds'' of the Cuban people. Drawing on extensive, rarely-examined archives including interviews and oral histories, this author offers an entirely new interpretation of one of the Cold War''s most significant events.Trade Review'Drawing upon impressive research, Lorraine Bayard de Volo has written a fascinating new history of the Cuban insurrection: a history from below. She convincingly shows that earlier political histories, with their focus on strategy and bullets, obscure the equally, or more, important story of ideas - efforts to capture hearts and minds - without which the revolutionaries would not have come to power.' Karen Kampwirth, Knox College, Illinois'The Cuban revolution will never look the same after one reads Lorraine Bayard de Volvo's deeply researched, surprising account. She has made me look afresh at women's revolutionary activism outside the mountains, at Castro's tactical gender equity, and at Che Guevara's commitment to militarized masculinity. Everyone interested in war, revolution and feminist research will have their eyes opened by this new book. That's a promise.' Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy'Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory centers on women who heretofore were rarely acknowledged but whose contribution makes this text a very inclusive history of the mid-twentieth-century Cuban insurrection. Bayard de Volo provides a rich and detailed account of the political activities of women from the 1930s onward that in fact shaped and facilitated Castro's success when he entered Havana on January 1, 1959. In doing so, Bayard de Volo recounts the thirty-year struggle from an intersectional perspective, using gender, class, age, region, and race as key points of her examination.' A. Lynn Bolles, American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Revolution retold: what a gender lens tells us about the Cuban insurrection; 2. 'How can men tire when women are tireless': women rebels before Moncada; 3. A movement is born: military defeat and political victory at Moncada; 4. Abeyance and resurgence: sustaining rebellion in prison and exile; 5. Gendered rebels: barriers and privileges; 6. War stories celebrated and silenced: tactical femininity, bombing, and sexual assault in the urban underground; 7. 'Stop the murders of our children': mothers and the battle for hearts and minds; 8. Gendered rebels: the Guerrilla war of ideas; 9. Women noncombatants: multiple paths and contributions; 10. Las Marianas: even the women in arms; 11. Past is prologue: victory and consolidation.

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Book SynopsisIn a radical reappraisal of Iran''s modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country''s traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis, and the birth of the Islamic Republic. The first edition was named the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009. This second edition brings the narrative up to date, with the Green uprisings of 2009, the second Ahmadinejad administration, the election of Rouhani, and the Iran nuclear deal. Ervand Abrahamian, who is one of the most distinguished historians writing on Iran today, is a compassionate expositor, and at the heart of the book is the people of Iran, who have endured and survived a century of war and revolution.Trade Review'The book's greatest achievement is that it helps the reader to straightforwardly navigate historical events since late nineteenth century that have shaped today's Iran. [It] unquestionably is a distinguished reference for those looking for a beautifully written narrative of contemporary history of Iran.' Seyed Ali Alavi, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. 'Royal despots': state and society under the Qajars; 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War; 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah; 4. The nationalist interregnum; 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's White Revolution; 6. The Islamic Republic; Notes; Bibliography; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those wholike their historical contemporariesperceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture.Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty culturists. Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London'sTrade ReviewClark’s study is an elegant one, rich in detail with a sophisticated argument that compellingly encapsulates an important element of the beauty scene in a major global city ... Debates over beauty—currently a multibillion-dollar global industry incorporate and reveal issues of business, law, the body, morality, and labour in Britain and beyond, making The Business of Beauty a timely and important contribution. * Histoire sociale/Social History *[T]his text complements existing work around fashion and modernity in London, with a timely focus on the impact that colonialism, nationalism, and gender based conventions in the nineteenth century have had on so many aspects of life. * Journal of Dress History *Clark’s fascinating study of beauty entrepreneurship in 19th-century London provides wonderful insights not only into Victorian and Edwardian business and marketing practices but also into the history of gender, self-fashioning, national identities, and urban cosmopolitanism. Through careful research, the author has unearthed a wide array of intriguing source material that will surprise and delight. * Paul R. Deslandes, University of Vermont, USA *In this lively and imaginative new study, Jessica Clark demonstrates how the Victorians invented a major beauty industry in the center of their capital city. By focusing on hairdressers and other beauty experts, Clark’s fascinating and entertaining new book establishes how London became the center of a new type of consumer culture, in which consumers who could afford it could transform their bodies and identities. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of London, gender and capitalism. * Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. ’Backmewsy’ Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aimée Lloyd 3. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah “Madame Rachel” Leverson 4. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H.P. Truefitt 5. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eugène Rimmel 6. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Siècle: Jeannette Pomeroy 7. From Beauty Culturist to Beauty Magnate: Helena Rubinstein Epilogue Appendix I Appendix II Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFranciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumà rraga, the first archbishop of Mexico, begged the king to find someone else to do his job so that he could go home. Fray Juan de Ribas, one of the original twelve 'apostles of Mexico' and a founding pillar of the church in New Spain, later fled with eleven other friars into the wilderness to escape the demands of building that church. Fray Jerà nimo de Mendieta, having returned from an important preaching tour in New Spain, wrote to his superior that he did not want to enlist again, and that the only way he would return to the mission field was if God dragged him by the hair. This discontent was widespread, grew stronger with time, and carried important consequences for the friars' interactions with indigenous peoples, their Catholic co-laborers, and colonial society at large. This book examines that discontent and seeks to explain why the exhilaration of joining such a 'gloTrade Review''Franciscan Spirituality's strengths lie in its explication of the transformation of the Franciscan Order in the Americas in the sixteenth century, its focus on the tension between spirituality and mission, and its ability to migrate between two scales of analysis: the history of individual Franciscans and the history of the order. Turley makes good use of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus to assist his approach. This conceptual framework and the coherence and consistency of these three themes make the book a concise and original contribution to the history of the Franciscan order.' Sixteenth Century Journal ’Turley provides a well-written account that demonstrates the impact missionary work had on the spiritual life of the Franciscans. Employing well-known sources and events in new ways to expose diversity and conflict, Turley’s work encourages readers to consider the impacts of evangelization beyond the natives to include the Franciscans charged with their conversion.’ American Historical Review 'Franciscan Spirituality and Mission in New Spain contributes a vital facet to the study of Franciscan missionaries in early colonial Mexico, and presents an essential chapter in the global history of the Franciscan order. Turley’s insightful and well-researched study provides valuable insight into the spiritual conflicts that framed the Franciscan attitudes toward the mission enterprise. As a study of how Franciscan spirituality influenced mission politics at both a colonial and imperial level, it will be of particular interest to scholars of sixteenth-century Mexico, early modern missions, and Franciscan history.' Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Medieval precedents of missionary spirituality, 1209-1523; The eremitic ideal of the mission pioneers, 1524-1548; The difficult reality of the mission practitioners, 1524-1548; Flight and fight in the missionary Church, 1549-1574; Eremitic retreat and a new missiology in the Church, 1549-1574; Crisis and renewal in the maturing Church, 1574-1599; Peninsular repercussions of the mission enterprise; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe true story of 'The King's Curse'; the extraordinary life of Margaret Pole, niece of Richard III, loyal servant of the Tudors.Trade Review‘At last, a biography of one of the most powerful and fascinating women of the Tudor period: the tragic and dramatic story of Margaret Pole, the last Plantagenet, has too long been overlooked’ -- Leanda de Lisle, author of Tudors: The Family Story‘Carefully written … serious and judicious’ -- Hilary Mantel

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Book SynopsisMirsad Hadžkadic never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirsad made the life-changing decision to run, despite the fact that he had a successful, thirty-year career as a professor at the University of North Carolina.

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Book SynopsisNo written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. They are not, of course, reflective pieces, but they do convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening. Those settled in the East faced crises all the time, while crusaders and pilgrims knew they were experiencing defining moments in their lives. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. These had an impact on the lives of all Latin Christians, but at the same time individuals felt impelled to describe both their own personal achievements and disappointments and the wonders and horrors of what they had seen. Moreover, the representatives of the military and monastic orders used lettersTrade Review'... in crusader studies, these letters will help to shed light on the feelings, motivations, and beliefs of the writers, which are not usually evident in the chronicles. This will be particularly relevant for teaching, as the material presented here is an anthology of sorts, which students at undergraduate and postgraduate level will find extremely useful for their research. The valuable work by Ashgate thus continues, and other volumes in the series are eagerly awaited.' Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 'Altogether, this book is an important contribution to research, and especially to teaching, about the crusading movement.' The Medieval Review 'This excellent and very useful collection... The book is now essential reading for any course in crusade history and takes a proud place in a distinguished publication series.' Edward Peters, Catholic Historical Review 'The great strength of the collection is its scope... [a] fascinating and accessible contribution to the growing body of literature on the crusades.' Parergon 'The translations are readable without compromising on accuracy ... The collection’s strength is in its potential contribution to a fully realised undergraduate reading-list, providing a source type often neglected and inaccessible, to be read alongside more familiar accounts.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Maps; Chronology of events; Introduction; Contents; Letters from the East; Sources; Sources in translation containing letters from the East; Index.

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Book SynopsisOutremer: Faith and Blood is a 28mm skirmish wargame featuring small groups of warriors fighting in Outremer during the Crusades. While suitable for one-off skirmish encounters the focus of the game is a structured and progressive campaign setting in which they are able to watch their force grow and develop over a series of scenarios and encounters from a small party of five or so soldiers into a powerful warband a score strong. Character development is key, and a wide range of troop options and factions allows a high degree of individuality and personalization. Players will also be able to recruit mercenaries and agents such as Hashashin and Varangian survivors to bolster their forces--potent but expensive additions that will add a distinct flavor to each encounter.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Rules Building a Warband The Campaign Scenarios

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Book SynopsisExamining a single broad tribal identity al-Azd from the immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time.

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