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The intricate structure and the many different narrative threads of the Prose Lancelot are here skilfully analysed, showing them to be a major new development in literary technique.

First book-length study of hagiographical legends of the Virgin Mary in medieval England, with particular reference to her relationship with Jews, books, and the law.

The life and political career of William Conolly, a key figure in the establishment of the eighteenth century protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

The huge changes in the landscape as a result of the Christian conversion of East Anglia are examined in this multi-disciplinary study.

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development.

Moskovitz's exploration of Zemlinsky's songs, operas, choral works, chamber music and symphonic compositions follows the composer's search for a distinctly personal sound, revealing an artist caught up in the music of his time yetunwilling to abandon his 19th century roots.

New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.

Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age.

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY

New essays on major aspects of the work of the great medieval German poet.

Examines evidence from across the region and highlights important areas in which policy-relevant research is required.

First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.

German attitudes toward and stereotypes of Russia before the First World War and how they were inculcated in the public.

New selection of Pepys' letters throws light on his life and early career, and includes 30 never previously published.

An introductory text.

A collection of studies by key academics on ethnic identity in Africa.

Detailed survey of the continued development of the siege in the later middle ages, showing the effects of new technology and armaments.

The Littlehampton volume focuses on 12 parishes with particular emphasis on seaside development from the 18th century onwards.

A dramatic archaeological find at Windsor Castle reveals Edward III's 'House of the Round Table', designed to show off Edward's power and prestige at a crucial moment in his attempts to lay claim to the throne of France.

Traherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET

Essays seeking to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research that challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints.

A specially-priced three volume paperback set of Donald Mitchell's acclaimed study of Mahler's music.

The first modern account of the advancement of political and religious ideas in Scotland in the years between the Restoration of Charles II and the collapse of royal authority under James VII and II.

This work argues that Great Expectations best exemplifies Charles Dickens's worldview, and brings together the various themes he addresses in all his works.

PETER PEARS's reputation as an outstanding and distinctive tenor is grounded in his interpretations of Benjamin Britten's works; their partnership of thirty years significantly shaped and defined musical developments not only in England but on a broader plane. Throughout their busy professional lives they travelled extensively, on concert tours and on holiday, finding fresh stimulus in change. Pear's twelve travel diaries, brought together in this volume, record much of that travel and provide valuable contextual material on the musical development of both Pears and Britten.The first diary dates from 1936, the year before his friendship with Britten began, when he went on tour to North America with the New English Singers. Other diaries record the five-month tour to the Far East and the important encounters (especially for Britten) with the gamelan music of Bali and the Japanese Noh theatre; visits to Russia as guests of Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya, where they met significant figures from Russian musical life; and attendance at the Ansbach Bach Festival when Pears was at the height of his career. Also recorded are holidays in the Caribbean and Italy, a concert tour through the north of England, and accounts of the rehearsals and performances of the New York premieres of Billy Budd and Death in Venice.

For pregnant women in the 1940s and 50s, Dr. Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the "normal" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments, and even hospitalization unnecessary. His book, first published in Great Britain in 1942 as Revelation of Childbirth, spoke of the joys of natural childbirth. Women from around the world, but primarily Britain and the United States, wrote long, detailed, and poignant letters in response, describing their own experiences. This edited collection of correspondence affords a rare look at the childbirth experiences of women in hospitals and birthing centers in post-war America and Great Britain. In these letters, women, from the perspective of the patient, discuss the way they were viewed by society and hospitals, as well as by their own partners, doctors, and nurses. Ultimately, Post-War Mothers provides an important opportunity to examine womens' own evaluation of the American and British "childbirth experience" in the first decade of the post-war period.

Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community.

The first detailed narrative of the Composers' Forum, documenting the vast array of composers, musical styles, ideologies, and audience responses in New York in the 1930s.