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Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558
The first comprehensive history of Calais under English rule, casting new light on the development of its vigorous political and commercial society. The capture of Calais by Edward …
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognized …
Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Medieval France
The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the …
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded …
Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France
First comprehensive examination of the ways in which printers, publishers and booksellers adapted and rewrote Arthurian romance in early modern France, for new audiences and in new …
Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939
This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas. Music Criticism in France examines the aesthetic battles that …
Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages
Essays on aspects of medieval military history, encompassing the most recent critical approaches. The essays in this volume honour the career and achievements of Richard Abels, the …
Paradise Destroyed
2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe …
Black France / France Noire
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's …
Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France. Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, …
Contesting French West Africa
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researched study reveals, the …