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Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters. The Dundonian physician Peter Goldman, one of an immigrant family of merchants, was the first Scot to take a medical degree from Leiden; he then undertook research in Oxford, London, and Paris, before resettling in Dundee. An important figure in contemporary Scottish literary culture, he maintained a wide correspondence with significant intellectual figures and influenced two landmark Scottish publishing projects: the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum (1637) and the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654). However, his major literary achievement was his Latin poetry, which establishes him as a unique voice of his time. His longest and most prominent work is an elegy on the deaths of four of his brothers, strikingly narrated in the voice of their lamenting mother. This book reconstructs and provides a study of Goldman's life, career and writing. It also offers a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters, with accompanying commentary. Appendices provide an edited list of his remarkable library and a transcript of his testament.
Examines the relationship between Church and State, the character of radical thought in Enlightenment England, and the nature of that Enlightenment itself.
Examines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important themes of pre- and post-colonial political community, religion and national identity.
A history of surgeries on the clitoris, and what these tell us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality.
Explores similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam and African religious traditions.
Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, and the need to recognize its multiple meanings equally with its wealth of natural resources.
Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts.
Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.
The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family.
Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.
Feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.
Explores the varied relationship between political leaders and naval experts, from the 16th to 21st centuries
Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century.
Brings to life a fascinating page of history in a scholarly but highly readable account of the "tithe war".
Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.
Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade.
The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare.
Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces.
An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century.
Investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers including those, like William Penn, not previously with this concept.
Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song.
Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships.
Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.
A rich survey of all Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano.
The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.
Explores the adaptation of Hinduism and Islam in diasporic settings and inter-religious relations in the Girmit diaspora.
Explores state formation, social fabrics and cultural mores of medieval India from 1200-1800.
A critical analysis of marriage law in India from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century
"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The Boyce Papers give readers a rare insight into the milieu of the artists of the mid-Victorian period
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