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Language and Music in Action
Harold S. Powers (1928-2007) was the Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus at Princeton and his diverse scholarly interests encompassed musicology, ethnomusicology and music …
Art, Politics and Patronage in Renaissance Castile
Focusing on the Mozarabic Chapel and Chapter Room of Toledo Cathedral and their decorative schemes, Erika Dolphin analyzes the patronage of Archbishop Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros …
Baroque Resonances
This collection of studies by Ellen Rosand represents the range of her contribution to the history and criticism of music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Varied in …
The Ashgate Research Companion to Insurgency and Counter Insurgency
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of the art and practice of insurgency and counter insurgency. This is a dimension of war whose …
Stonemasons' Marks on Buildings in Britain
Masons' marks, the ciphers made by stonemasons on the fabric of buildings, exist for practical reasons, and have been in use for over 4 000 years. For much of the period the marks …
Surveillance in Central and Eastern Europe
During Communist rule, surveillance across Central and Eastern Europe was used primarily to secure political conformity and uphold the political regime. The profound political, …
Gustav Holst and British Operatic Culture
Although Gustav Holst is rarely thought of as an opera composer, his operatic works provide a gateway to the exploration of how a budding opera composer negotiated the British …
The Roots of Modern Terrorism
This book differs from the bulk of existing literature dealing with terrorism by emphasising the historic theoretical and practical foundation to contemporary terrorism, by placing …
The Child and the European Convention on Human Rights
This Second Edition of `The Child and the European Court of Human Rights' has been fully revised to expand and update the reader on ECHR developments on children's issues and the …
Ambrosius Catharinus
Though by 1520, the Lutheran revolt had transformed the long-standing problem of reforming the Church into a major crisis, there was no serious reform initiative from the papacy …
Values in the Constitution of Europe
This collection provides a comprehensive account of the content and the implications of the 'common values' which are emerging in the present constitutional debate upon the future …
Women and the Poetics of Dissent in the English Revolution
Women and the Poetics of Dissent in the English Revolution examines the aesthetic dimensions of female sectarian culture during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. The topics …