Bøger i British Academy Monographs serien

This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion), by considering them primarily as legal defendants.

Feminist Transformations examines the history of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin. Centred on this key issue of gender inequality, the book explores how feminists advanced women's rights in Germany. More broadly, it reflects critically on what these advancements have meant for feminism and gender justice.

Gardenier aims to shed light on what appears to be the emergence of a new society of vigilance, especially around borders in Calais and Dover. Based on field research on both sides of the Channel, he aims to understand the dynamics of anti-migrants groups whose action is halfway between classical social movement and vigilantism.

This is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representations of the 'Aum Affair' have hindered social repair and reconciliation.

Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power tells the story of the gendered methods, policies, and institutions that contributed to the making of French cultural diplomacy in Britain, against the backdrop of war, changing Franco-British relations, European tensions and the global transformation of what 'foreign affairs' meant to states.

Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe offers comparative research on the emergence and development of medieval chartered towns within northern European territories subjected to conquest and colonisation, namely Ireland, Wales, Prussia, and Livonia.

History, Scripture, and Authority is the first book-length study of the ninth-century historian Frechulf of Lisieux in any language. It uses the creation of Frechulf's monumental Histories to explore how the past was read and interpreted in Carolingian Europe.

This is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.

This book analyses the relationship between art and the Internet from 2008 to 2016. As well as offering a critical account of the field, it also proposes a wider historical argument about what it means to live, work, and make art with the Internet in the twenty first century.

This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence to the twentieth century.

Insane Acquaintances explores the encounter between modernist art and the British public. Built around case studies of modernist 'moments' in the period 1910-1951, it explores some of the legacies of modernism in Britain.

This study of hundreds of manuscripts and early printed books reveals that the Bible has never been an abstract text. This book offers a new history of the Bible in England, putting the advent of moveable-type print and religious reform in a new perspective.

Convent Autobiography explores the ways in which cloistered women evaluated and articulated their senses of self through letters, chronicles, accounts and other such genres. The book explores writings by women who composed under their own names and those who composed anonymously and considers three case studies devoted to anonymous chronicling.

Sunnyside discusses changes to British house names from medieval naming practices to the present-day. The demise of pub names and shop names such as la Worm on the Hope and the Golden Tea Kettle & Speaking Trumpet are detailed alongside the rise of heraldic names such as the Red Lion.

Judiciary institutions in Central and Eastern Europe have become patterned on a template that maximises judicial empowerment to the detriment of national parliaments. Transnational Networks and Elite Self-Empowerment explores this new social class of elite legal professionals who make public policy in place of formal democratic institutions.

In the first long-term analysis of Russian parliamentary elections, Hutcheson explores the country's seven rounds of election since 1993. Through the twists and turns of political reform, he combines official data, primary material and in-depth analysis to investigate the changes in Russia's political system.

This book argues that the anti-metaphysical stance of many reformers is itself a metaphysical position.

The Myth of Pelagianism is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary work that combines textual research with sociological analysis and evidence from previously unpresented manuscripts. It offers a revision to our understanding of Pelagius and the formation of Christian doctrine.

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly contain dreams or visions alongside those that do. It shows how Scotland made its own dream-vision tradition which expressed distinctive Scottish agendas and identities.

This book looks at the economic history of south Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry in colonial south India.