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A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World (Book)

Christopher Harper-Bill

ISBN:9780851156736

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A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 (Book)

Stephen Banks

ISBN:9781843835714

This book, the most comprehensive study of the English pistol duel yet undertaken, examines what it meant to be a man of honour in eighteenth and nineteenth century England. A thorough survey of the incidence and distribution of duelling...more details
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Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony (Book)

Marc D Moskovitz

ISBN:9781843835783

From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places Zemlinsky against the backdrops of Vienna...more details
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Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age (Book)

Ryan Lavelle

ISBN:9781843835691

The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great's reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide...more details
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Anglo-Norman Studies 32: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2009 (Book)

C P Lewis

ISBN:9781843835639

This latest collection reflects the full range and vitality of the current work on the Anglo-Norman period. It opens with the R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2009...more details
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Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Book)

Richard Hoggett

ISBN:9781843835950

The conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia left huge marks on the area, both metaphorical and literal. Drawing both on the surviving documentary sources...more details
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Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military (Book)

Laurie Rush

ISBN:9781843835394

Various international conventions have suggested, with differing levels of emphasis, the requirement for armed forces preparing for conflict to make provision for the identification and protection of the cultural heritage that may be at risk. The experience of the recent...more details
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Art and Ideology in European Opera: Essays in Honour of Julian Rushton (Book)

Clive Brown

ISBN:9781843835677

Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings emerged...more details
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Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context (Book)

Angus Watson

ISBN:9781843835776

Watson provides professional and amateur musicians and music lovers generally with a complete survey of Beethoven's chamber music and the background to each individual work - the loyalty of patrons...more details
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Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings (Book)

Peter Dickinson

ISBN:9781843835929

Bernarr Rainbow's (1914-1998) Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the leading historian of music education...more details
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Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (1216-1248) IV: 1243-1248

David Carpenter

ISBN:9781843835684

The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all manner of concessions and favours...more details
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Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism (Book)

Daniel M Grimley

ISBN:9781843835813

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is one of the most playful, life-affirming, and awkward voices in twentieth-century music. His work resists easy stylistic categorisation or containment...more details
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Constable Correspondence Volume 6 the Fishers (Book)

R B Beckett

ISBN:9780900716096

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Constable Correspondence Volume 8 Further Documents and Correspondence (Book)

R B Beckett

ISBN:9780900716171

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Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600-1800 (Book)

Mark Williams

ISBN:9781843835738

Ireland and the Irish, it is often argued, have been mired for centuries in mindsets which employ the past in order to trace and justify the enmities of the present. However...more details
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Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685 (Book)

Matthew Jenkinson

ISBN:9781843835905

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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England: Revised and Enlarged Edition (Book)

Gale R Owen-Crocker

ISBN:9781843835721

Hailed as a milestone in costume studies when it first appeared, this book is an encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries...more details
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Great Tooley of Ipswich (Book)

Jr Webb John

ISBN:9780900716102

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Haskins Society Journal 21: 2009. Studies in Medieval History (Book)

William North

ISBN:9781843835608

Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and the continent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries...more details
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Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press (Book)

J Christopher Warner

ISBN:9780851156422

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Honour, Interest and Power: An Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715 (Book)

Ruth Paley

ISBN:9781843835769

Condemned as 'useless and dangerous', the House of Lords was abolished in the revolution of 1649, shortly after the execution of the King. When it was reinstated...more details
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Imogen Holst: A Life in Music: Revised Edition (Book)

Christopher Grogan

ISBN:9781843835998

Imogen Holst (1907-1984), was a key figure in twentieth-century British musical life. The only child of English composer Gustav Holst, she excelled as a composer...more details
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Index of Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474: Index of Wills from the Register Baldwyne' (Book)

Peter Northeast

ISBN:9781843835936

This volume is a companion to the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474, edited in two parts under the aegis of the Suffolk Records Society. It provides comprehensive...more details
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Jocelin of Wells: Bishop, Builder, Courtier (Book)

Robert Dunning

ISBN:9781843835561

Jocelin, bishop of Wells is an iconic figure in his native city; but his career as courtier and statesman moved far beyond the west country. From a family network which had produced bishops over several generations...more details
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Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume VIII (Book)

Clifford J Rogers

ISBN:9781843835967

The journal's hallmark of a broad chronological, geographic, and thematic coverage of the subject is underlined in this volume. It begins with an examination of the brief but fascinating career of an armed league of (mostly) commoners who fought to suppress mercenary bands and to impose a reign of peace in southern France in 1182-1184...more details
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Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Book)

Noel Fallows

ISBN:9781843835943

This book traces the rise and fall of the joust in Iberia between the late fourteenth and the late sixteenth century, when it was supplanted by the more innocuous cane game and the spectacle of the bull-run. It focuses on three jousting treatises written by practising champions at the time: Ponc de Menaguerra's Lo Cavaller (The Knight'...more details
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Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music During the Spanish Golden Age (Book)

Clive Walkley

ISBN:9781843835875

Juan Esquivel was a cathedral choirmaster and composer, active in Spain during the period c.1580-c .1623 in which all aspects of the arts flourished...more details
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Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Five: 1958-1965 (Book)

Philip Reed

ISBN:9781843835912

The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten - edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke - covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two major operatic works...more details
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Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Book)

Peter Holman

ISBN:9781843835745

It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last composer to write for it. On one level this book is a straightforward attempt to disprove this statement...more details
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Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939 (Book)

Georgina Byrne

ISBN:9781843835899

From the moment of its arrival in Britain in 1852, modern spiritualism became hugely popular among all sections of society. As well as offering mysterious and entertaining sA(c)ance phenomena...more details
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Music at German Courts, 1715-1760: Changing Artistic Priorities (Book)

Samantha Owens

ISBN:9781843835981

What was musical life at German courts really like during the first six decades of the eighteenth century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the Holy Roman Empire's kaleidoscopic political landscape? Through a series of individual case studies contributed by leading scholars from Germany...more details
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New Percy Grainger Companion (Book)

Penelope Thwaites

ISBN:9781843836018

In the thirty years since his Centenary in 1982 it has become even clearer that Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - composer, pianist and revolutionary - was a man born out of his time. Many of his ideas...more details
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Placenames, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape (Book)

Nicholas J Higham

ISBN:9781843836032

An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal....more details
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Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83: Part 2: Appendices, Bibliography and Indexes (Book)

David J Crankshaw

ISBN:9781843835523

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Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. (Book)

Thomas M McCoog

ISBN:9780851155906

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Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire (Book)

Avril A Powell

ISBN:9781843835790

Structured around the lives and careers of two Scottish scholar-administrator brothers, Sir William and Dr John Muir, who served in the East India Company and the Raj in North-West India from 1827-1876...more details
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Sedulius Scottus, de Rectoribus Christianis: An Edition and English Translation (Book)

R W Dyson

ISBN:9781843835660

Sedulius Scottus (fl. ca 850) is an important figure in the early history of European political thought, one of a group of ninth-century authors who produced short treatises in which they attempted to clarify the proper relation between spiritual and secular power...more details
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The Birth of a Borough: Stafford, an Anglo-Saxon New Town': Archaeological Excavations, 1954-2004 (Book)

Martin Carver

ISBN:9780851156231

The majority of our county towns, and the shires themselves, owe their origins to the campaigns of Alfred and his children Edward the Elder and Aethelflaeda...more details
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The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland (Book)

Steve Boardman

ISBN:9781843835622

Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been lavished fruitfully on Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany. And yet of all of them...more details
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The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688 (Book)

Olaf Van Nimwegen

ISBN:9781843835752

The Dutch army is absolutely central to all of the debates about tactical, strategic and organizational "military revolution" in the early modern period...more details
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The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858 (Book)

Margaret Makepeace

ISBN:9781843835851

The East India Company, which was by 1800 a commercial organisation of unrivalled size and complexity managing a vast empire in Asia, also played a crucial role in the British economy...more details
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The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834: Masters of the Eastern Seas (Book)

Jean Sutton

ISBN:9781843835837

This book covers every aspect of the East India Company's trade during the final century of its commercial life as the focus moves steadily eastwards...more details
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The Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy: The War of 1739-1748 (Book)

Richard Harding

ISBN:9781843835806

Although it was the Seven Years War (1756-63) that confirmed Britain as the leading maritime power, this book argues and demonstrates that it was the thinking through of military strategy...more details
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The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England (Book)

Nicholas J Higham

ISBN:9781843835820

Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland...more details
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The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1661-1729 (Book)

Patrick Walsh

ISBN:9781843835844

As a politician, in the years 1715-29 simultaneously Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Chief Commissioner of the Revenue, Lord Justice, and Privy Councillor...more details
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The Troyes Memoire: The Production of a Medieval Choir Tapestry (Book)

Tina Kane

ISBN:9781843835707

The Troyes Memoire', a medieval manuscript fortuitously preserved in the archives of the town of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of the written instructions used in designing tapestries during the Middle Ages; it deals with the production of a tapestry designed for the choir in the Church of Sainte-Madeleine...more details
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The Vienna Don Giovanni (Book)

Ian Woodfield

ISBN:9781843835868

In the year following its 1787 Prague premiA]re, Don Giovanni was performed in Vienna. Everyone, according to the well-known account by Da Ponte...more details
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Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth Century (Book)

Marie Therese Flanagan

ISBN:9781843835974

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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Book)

Della Hooke

ISBN:9781843835653

Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource...more details
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Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church, Volume I (Book)

Kenneth Fincham

ISBN:9780851153537

This is the first of two volumes which reproduce manuscript and printed documents for the years 1603-1642. The articles issued by archbishops...more details
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