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Runes: a Handbook
Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume III: 1450-1500
Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From …
Music in Edwardian London
Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London …
A Reader's Guide to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely …
A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword
The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as …
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages
Multi-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures. Frisian is a name that came to be identified with one of the territorially …
Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours
An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources. From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans …
Anneliese's House
The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War …
Decolonising the Mind
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.Ngugi describes this book as 'a …
Mahler's Nietzsche
Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies.Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400–1450
Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. …
Vox Clamantis by John Gower: "The Voice of One Crying"
The first English translation into verse of the full Vox Clamantis, with explanatory notes. John Gower's Vox Clamantis is one of the major poetic achievements of the Middle Ages. …