In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, who...więcej »
Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissancewięcej »
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and com...więcej »
The first full-length study of the government of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela within wider discussions on populism and globalisation in Latin America. It provides a comprehensive and critical account o...więcej »
This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, f...więcej »
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, i...więcej »
There is no other comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin. The book is aimed at arts students - the primary market. Deals extensively with gender issues.więcej »
This book provides an engaging and informative insight into
the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary
Ireland.więcej »
This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his workwięcej »
Offers readings of Kelman's style, characterisation and linguistic innovations within the diverse contexts of Scottish socialism, public transport, emigration, 'Booker Prize' culture and Glasgow's ...więcej »
A collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, some of which published in modern English for the first time, and contextualised by an extended intorduction and and useful contextua...więcej »
John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. For many he is the inheritor of and American tradition that includes Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Yet for some...więcej »
This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s...więcej »
Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and...więcej »
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.więcej »
This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in ...więcej »
This is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing life's stages, from birth to death, the study explores atti...więcej »
Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experien...więcej »
One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and ...więcej »
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in doing so reveals the differing foundations of c...więcej »