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A new perspective on lordship in England between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta.

The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book.

Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel.

Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, one of the most important documents in modern African history, that positions it within the African Lives Matter struggle to assert an African identity rather than as simply a human rights document. Describes its underlying African origins and how the principles of the OAU influenced its path and content.

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.

British country houses have experienced a renaissance since the early 1970s. A new accord is needed today, recognising the increasingly contested contribution of country houses to British cultural life.

An exploration of the letters from the First Crusade, yielding evidence for a number of reinterpretations of the movement.

Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain.

Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The essays collected here aim to highlight human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when, whether symbol and metaphor, or actual, their lofty...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times.

Copiously illustrated edition with translation of seminal texts on the joust in medieval Iberia.

Essays on the history of bands in America from ca. 1820 to 1930, offering new insights on a major sphere of music making that brought diverse repertories to wide audiences.

The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.

Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam and African religious traditions.

Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, as well as the need for practitioners and others to recognize the multiple meanings the forest has for its populations, equally with its wealth of natural resources, when managing it.

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts.

The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family.

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.

The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.