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The Boggart Sourcebook
Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 …
The Boggart
Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The …
Madness and Literature
Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in …
Historical Atlas Of South-West England
A historical atlas of the South-West of England. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the south-western peninsula of England - Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of …
Scythians and Greeks
Scythians and Greeks focuses on the ancient history of the northern Black Sea region: a major 'new frontier' of Classical studies. The book presents a series of engagements with …
The Yemeni Civil War
This book suggests an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using …
The Voyage of St Brendan
The legend of St Brendan is one of the greatest legends of the Middle Ages. To medieval Europe the ocean voyage became a metaphor for the perilous journey of the Christian soul. …
Athenaeus and his World
An international team of literary specialists explore Athenaeus' work as a whole, and in its own right. Almost all classicists and ancient historians make use of Athenaeus; …
The Dhofar War
Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. To date, this …
An American in Victorian Cambridge
Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gaining a …
The Idea Of The Vernacular
This anthology is the first to collect and to analyze a significant sample of texts from the late Middle Ages concerned with the writing or reading process. Some sixty prologues …
Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France
Louise Bourgeois was midwife to Maria of Medici, Queen of France, from 1601 to 1609, and the first woman in modern times to write about what she calls her "art". This book gives an …