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Chapter 6 Dark Nights of Romance
(2021)
romance; essays
Chapter 6 Dark Nights of Romance
(2021)
romance; essays
Chapter 9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages
(2015)
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This ...
Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
(2023)
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be ...
Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
(2023)
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be ...
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
(2023)
This book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's efforts to stimulate commerce, colonial enterprise and economic growth. These ...
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
(2023)
This book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's efforts to stimulate commerce, colonial enterprise and economic growth. These ...
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
(2023)
This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within ...
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
(2023)
This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within ...
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
(2015)
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This ...
The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London
(2023)
At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new skills and technologies, unknown to English artisans, becoming the first ...
The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London
(2023)
At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new skills and technologies, unknown to English artisans, becoming the first ...
Architecture and Politics in Africa
(2022)
Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational ...
New Medieval Literatures 18
(2018)
An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them." Alcuin Blamires Review of English Studies"
The Erard Grecian Harp in Regency England
(2023)
During the early nineteenth century, the harp was transformed into a sophisticated instrument that became as popular as the piano. This was largely the result of the harp's intensive technical, musical and visual upgrading, ...
Across the Copperbelt
(2021)
The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, ...
Chapter 2 Demonic Daydreams
(2018)
“St Dunstan stood in his ivied tower, Alembic, crucible, all were there; When in came Nick to play him a trick, In guise of a damsel passing fair. Every one knows How the story goes: He took up the tongs and caught hold ...
Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past
(2018)
A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and ...
Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation
(2019)
This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, ...
Chapter 10 Lifting the Veil
(2018)
Always rewriting and always rewritten, romance also opens onto new ways
of seeing. Romance retains its power in part because, in its engagement
with thinking, feeling, and being in the world, it continues to allow ...