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The Idea of Evangelisation
‘Mission’, Theology and Scripture from the Early Church to the Age of Bede
Inbunden, 2026
1557 kr
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The evangelisation of the peoples of western Europe to Christianity was arguably the single most important historical development of the early Middle Ages, shaping not only the beliefs and religious practices but also the social, political, cultural and intellectual landscape of the last 1,500 …
Female Servants in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2024
1923 kr
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What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experiences of over a thousand female servants between 1532 and 1649. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, law, migration, youth, and …
Parliamentary Elections in Russia
A Quarter-Century of Multiparty Politics
Inbunden, 2018
1160 kr
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As a nuclear power, UN Security Council member, emerging Arctic hegemon and the largest state in the world, Russia -- and its stability -- is of extreme importance in global politics. In the most comprehensive long-term study to date, Derek Hutcheson argues that Russia's legislature, the Federal …
The Myth of Pelagianism
Av Ali Bonner
Inbunden, 2018
1385 kr
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Pelagius, the first known British author, is famous for his defence of free will as the Roman Empire disintegrated. A persuasive advocate of two ideas - that human nature was inclined to goodness, and that man had free will - Pelagius was excommunicated in 418 after a campaign to vilify him for …
Transnational Networking and Elite Self-Empowerment
The Making of the Judiciary in Contemporary Europe and Beyond
Inbunden, 2018
1195 kr
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Judicial institutions in the new democracies established after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe have become patterned on a transnational template that maximises judicial empowerment to the detriment of national parliaments. Through the influence of an elite, transnational …
Sunnyside
A Sociolinguistic History of British House Names
Av Laura Wright
Inbunden, 2020
1160 kr
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This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth century. Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as Ceolmundingchaga and Prestebures, to present-day house names such as Fairholme …
Convent Autobiography
Early Modern English Nuns in Exile
Inbunden, 2019
1471 kr
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Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal to practice Catholicism in England. These nuns went into a two-fold kind of exile for their beliefs. They moved abroad and they "died to the world", …
The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste
A bilingual edition and study
Inbunden, 2020
1395 kr
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This book presents a bilingual edition and study of an anonymous work of early Arabic fiction set in pre-Islamic times: an Arab maiden called 'Laylā the Chaste' is kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage to a Persian king. Ultimately, she is saved by her handsome and beloved cousin al-Barrāq, …
A Material History of the Bible, England 1200-1553
Av Eyal Poleg
Inbunden, 2020
1161 kr
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This book is the first in-depth study of the production and use of Bibles in late medieval and early modern England. Over three and a half centuries, from the nascent universities and Latin Bibles of the thirteenth century to the death of Edward VI in 1553, it puts a new perspective on the advent …
Weaving Histories
The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India, 1800-1960
Inbunden, 2020
1426 kr
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Weaving Histories looks at the economic history of South Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry of South India between 1800 and 1960, drawing out its wider implications for the Indian economy. It employs an unusual array of sources, including paintings and …
Insane Acquaintances
Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951
Av Daniel Moore
Inbunden, 2020
805 kr
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Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of modernist art in schools, the …
Walled Gardens
Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet
Inbunden, 2021
1620 kr
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Walled Gardens: Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet is the study of a young generation of artists characterised by their engagement with new Internet technologies that have come to reorganize life and labour online, from mobile Internet and social media to Cloud Computing. Often …
Metaphysics in the Reformation
The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli
Inbunden, 2021
1040 kr
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This monograph bridges two discourses that so far have remained largely separate: debates about how and why secular modernity emerged, and Reformation studies. In telling the history of secularity, scholars have often focussed on late medieval shifts concerning the God-world-relationship …
A Material History of the Bible, England 1200-1553
Av Eyal Poleg
Häftad, 2020
442 kr
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This book is the first in-depth study of the production and use of Bibles in late medieval and early modern England. Over three and a half centuries, from the nascent universities and Latin Bibles of the thirteenth century to the death of Edward VI in 1553, it puts a new perspective on the advent …
Libertines and the Law
Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France
Av Adam Horsley
Inbunden, 2021
1791 kr
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Following the assassination of Henri IV in 1610, the political turbulence of Louis XIII's early reign led to renewed efforts to police the book trade. Yet this period also witnessed a golden age of so-called 'libertine' literature, including a plethora of sexually explicit and irreverent poetry as …
Towards a Vigilant Society
From Citizen Participation to Anti-Migrant Vigilantism
Inbunden, 2022
954 kr
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Towards a Vigilant Society sheds light on the emergence of a new society of vigilance, in particular the actions of anti-migrant groups around Dover and Calais. Based on field research on both sides of the channel, it studies the dynamics of these groups - midway between a social movement and …
Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002
Inbunden, 2022
1338 kr
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This is the first in-depth historical study of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Starting in the 1970s, feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women's inequality. They exposed the harmful …
Sunnyside
A History of British House Names
Av Laura Wright
Häftad, 2020
287 kr
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This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth century. Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as Ceolmundingchaga and Prestebures, to present-day house names such as Fairholme …
Complete Gentlemen
Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750
Inbunden, 2022
1338 kr
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Complete Gentlemen is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Ansell reconstructs dozens of encounters with continental Europe, revealing how the varying means, ambitions, …
History, Scripture, and Authority in the Carolingian Empire
Frechulf of Lisieux
Av Graeme Ward
Inbunden, 2022
1249 kr
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History, Scripture and Authority in the Carolingian Empire offers a detailed analysis of the work of the ninth-century historian Frechulf of Lisieux. It uses the creation of Frechulf's monumental Histories to explore how the past was read and interpreted in the Carolingian world.In c. 830, …
Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power
Projections and Perceptions of France in Britain c1880-1944
Inbunden, 2022
1160 kr
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Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power: Projections and Perceptions of France in Britain c1880-1944 analyses the powerful motivations that fuelled members of civil society, and in particular women, to dedicate their resources in the pursuit of improving the image of France in Britain through …
Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory.
Av Rin Ushiyama
Inbunden, 2022
927 kr
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Aum Shinrikyō's sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 left an indelible mark on Japanese society. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyō's religious terrorism. Developing a sociological framework for how uneven distributions of …
Media, Religion, Citizenship
Transnational Alevi Media and Its Audience
Inbunden, 2023
1213 kr
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Media, Religion, Citizenship explores Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship for Alevis in Turkey and across Europe. Alevis are a vibrant, transnational community across Europe whose claim for recognition has been denied. Drawing on an ethnographic study …
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Inbunden, 2023
1923 kr
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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its …
Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
Inbunden, 2023
1989 kr
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How can we reconstruct the rhythms and cadences – the prosody – of past languages? Prosody in Medieval English and Norse approaches this problem by comparing two closely related languages with a long written history in the Middle Ages. Through a series of case studies on vowel reductions and …
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
Inbunden, 2023
1213 kr
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'Clock time', which denotes particular ways of valuing temporal duration, is typically associated with monetary worth or labour. From this follows so-called thrifty attitudes towards the passing of time, which is construed as a resource that can be 'wasted' or 'saved'. Comparing the Worth of the …
The Birth of Psychological War
Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2023
1557 kr
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The Birth of Psychological War explores the history, politics, and geography of United States psychological warfare in the 20th century against the backdrop of the contemporary 'post-truth era'. From its origins in the Second World War, to the United States' counterinsurgency campaigns in Vietnam, …
Lives and Deaths of Werther
Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia
Inbunden, 2023
1097 kr
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Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, first published in 1774, has produced a global echo that rivals contemporary bestsellers. While in the German context, the book was always outshined by its famous author, patriotic writers in Italy and China saw their lives mirrored in …
Nations Apart
Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare under Nazi Rule
Inbunden, 2024
1714 kr
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Nations Apart reconsiders the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement is typically recalled in Czech historical memory as the beginning of a period of humiliation, occupation, and resistance. Against this …
Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice
Inbunden, 2024
1316 kr
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Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of justice from the Western Tradition. In Part I, Anderson addresses the debates of the sophists, a group of politically minded intellectuals from the 5th …
