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'Survival capitalism' and the Big Bang
This book about the Thatcher government and the City of London tells the compelling human story of the people and processes that made Britain's 1980s financial revolution. Fusing …
Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's …
Medieval Empire in Central Europe
This book offers a concise yet detailed political history of medieval Central Europe as it traces the history of the Medieval Empire from its inception as a kingdom during the …
Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition
A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids’ …
Bear Grylls Survival Skills: Signalling
The must-have survival guide for all young explorers from chief scout, adventurer, writer and television presenter, Bear Grylls.Learn vital emergency signals, important codes, and …
Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom
Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge the temporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century. When episodes involving …
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature
This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "e;Lady"e; Wisdom.
The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland
This book represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a series of three case studies, Brian …
Art and Patronage in the Medieval Mediterranean
An important trade centre in the Medieval Mediterranean, Amalfi and the surrounding region of southern Italy sustained strong art production and patronage from the eleventh through …
Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan
The essays in this volume transcend Eastern and Western geographical boundaries during a loosely defined medieval and early modern period, ranging from Carolingian Europe to Qing …
Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300-1700
This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Examining attitudes to …
Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis
A sensitive and detailed investigation of the complex relationship between text and music in medieval chant.How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music …