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The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world.

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background.

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany.

Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.

Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.

First in-depth account of the role played by the Crown Agents in the growth of the colonies.

Shortlisted for the Herskovits Award, this book throws light on secrecy and violence in Uganda, Rwanda and the Great Lakes area of East Africa.

Fresh and innovative takes on the dissemination of music in manuscript, print, and, now, electronic formats, revealing how the world has experienced music from the sixteenth century to the present.

Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.

Current approaches to the archaeological understanding of permanence and transience in the early modern period,

A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history.

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historicalcontext.

The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.

A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.

Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of scienceand medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century.

This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.

The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study.

A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular.

Drawing upon the interdisciplinary field of social memory studies, this book opens up new vistas on the historical and political culture of early modern England.

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dramatists and novelists of the late twentieth century.

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.

A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words.