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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change.

Offers a major new contribution to understanding Schubert's creative approach and the gothic imagination more generally.

Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford's career as composer, conductor and teacher, as well as promoter of opera in English and arranger of Irish folk music.

A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story.

Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature.

This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field.

This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms 'Renaissance' and 'Reformation' in Scottish History.

A miracle book, prayers and hymns inspired by Simon de Montfort provide rare evidence of an unusual aspect of popular religion.

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.

A reassessment of the rivalry between the two great Anglo-Norman magnate families in late medieval and early modern Ireland.

Essays dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe.

A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing.

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.

Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century.

Brings to life the day-to-day details of staging the premiere of one of the most iconic works of Western classical music.

Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation through the most extensive study of Beethoven's sketches yet.

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.

Reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion.

This book reveals a great deal about the attempts, and failures, of the French absolutist monarchy to stimulate commerce, colonial enterprise and economic growth, and how these attempts and failures contrasted with the successes of Amsterdam and London.

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

Examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period.

This volume, containing the general memoranda section, completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.

This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire in medieval England.

A pioneering work which delves into and reveals the links between music, moral instruction and social reform.

Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid the rapidly transforming religious landscape of China's ethnic borderland.