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The Literature and Politics of the Environment
Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies. Much as the …
Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England
Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in …
Medieval Women Religious, c. 800-c. 1500
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister. Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their …
Charlemagne in Italy
An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were …
Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524
The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. …
A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings. As a sub-discipline of cultural …
Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750
During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the …
Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500
New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously …
British Christianity and the Second World War
Examines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young during the Second World War. This …
Situating Medieval India
Explores state formation, social fabrics and cultural mores of medieval India from 1200-1800. The states of medieval India operated under a ruling class that was largely Muslim, …
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists
In contemporary Latin America, an emerging crosscurrent of pioneering female writers and artists with an interest in transgressing traditional boundaries of genre, media, gender …