Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Debussy's Mélisande
The Lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their involvement with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, illustrating the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. The three women presented here were not only remarkable...
Almshouses in Early Modern England
Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Reformation saw not only the survival of many medieval institutions but also a remarkable number of new...
Henry of Lancaster's Expedition to Aquitaine, 1345-1346
Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In 1345 Henry of Lancaster, earl of Derby - the most prominent soldier, diplomat and statesman of his generation - led an English royal army to the duchy of Aquitaine and inflicted two devastating defeats on the French royal forces. These were the first decisive victories for either side, and swung...
Medieval Life
Archaeology and the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis of an impressive body of material. It will be eagerly read by current and future generations of archaeologists, and will demonstrate the significance of historical archaeology to a much wider scholarly audience."...
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands...
Remaking English Society
Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups...
by Christopher Corèdon, Ann Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is intended to put an end to all that - though such a claim is inevitably rash. However, it has been designed in the hope that...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives...
by Sharon L. Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an active and influential figure in France throughout her life. As the fifteenth century...
A Perceforest Reader
Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century...
The Complete Story of the Grail
Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval and its continuations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' I>Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea...
Perceval
The Story of the Grail
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval is the most important single Arthurian romance. It contains the very first mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and the focal point of the spiritual quest of the knights of Arthur's court. Chrétien left the poem unfinished, but the extraordinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized...
by David Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity, from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly...