2012 autumn forthcoming publications catalogue

Medieval Life, Medieval PetsDaily life in the Middle Ages

German CinemaA new event-centred history

UnwellHIV in Zimbabwe, silicosis in

South Africa, beriberi in Japan, bacteriology in colonial India

Benjamin Britten at 100In pictures, in letters, in school

Autumn 2012

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African Hosts and their GuestsCultural Dynamics of TourismEdited by WALTER VAN BEEK and ANNET TE SCHMIDT

Africa is a ‘theme park’ for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly ‘authentic’ cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the ‘other’ and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots.Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volume deals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between ‘hosts’ and ‘guests’.$90.00/£50.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84701 049 0 32 b/w illus.; 304pp, 25.4 x 17.8, HB

African Theatre 11FestivalsEdited by MARTIN BANHAM, JAMES GIBBS and FEMI OSOFISAN

During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as ‘Reclaiming the African Past’ and ‘African Renaissance’, they have used the performing arts to address a variety of topical issues and to confront images embedded by a century of patronising colonial expositions. The themes indicate the desire to take history by the forelock, challenge perceptions and transform communities.$34.95/£18.99 November 2012 978 1 84701 057 5 192pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB African Theatre

ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives in African Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU Guest Editor CHIMALUM NWANKWO

This special issue of African Literature Today is devoted to some of the pioneer voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: Bessie Head, Cyprian Ekwensi, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Flora Nwapa, Ousmane Sembene and Zulu Sofola.The contributors explore the development of these influential writers and their impact on the continent and beyond, through a study of their writing, sources and influences. Some also focus on case studies of specific works which are particularly important in the creative development of the author.Nigeria: HEBN

$34.95/£18.99 November 2012 978 1 84701 056 8 200pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB African Literature Today

Colonialism and Violence in ZimbabweA History of SufferingHEIKE SCHMIDT

This is a social history of memory, violence, and landscape in the Honde Valley in eastern Zimbabwe, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. It shows how sense is made of violence through mediations between negotiations of the present, imaginations of the future, and memories of the past. The concept of violence is re-examined through the prism of suffering as part of everyday identity formation. Major themes running through the book are the frontier character of the valley; insurgency and counter-insurgency (the Liberation and Renamo wars); spiritual healing; gendered and age-specific responses to the opportunities and challenges violence presents; the practices and meaning of landscape in the articulation of colonial violence and political and personal landscape uses in response to such violence.HEIKE SCHMIDT is visiting professor for African History and Society at the Department of African Studies, Vienna University$95.00/£55.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84701 051 3 15 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Ethnicity in ZimbabweTransformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990 ENO CENT MSIND O

The study begins in 1860, a year after the establishment of Inyati mission station in the Ndebele Kingdom, and ends in the post-colonial period. Author Enocent Msindo asserts that-despite what many social historians have argued the creation of ethnic identity in Matabeleland was not solely the result of colonial rule and

the new colonial African elites, but that African ethnic consciousness existed prior to this time. Because ordinary members of these ethnic groups had legitimate interests in molding and transforming these identities, they played crucial roles in these twin processes. The interaction of the Kalanga and Ndebele fed the development of complex ethnic, regional, cultural, and sub-nationalist identities. By examining the complexities of identities in this region, Msindo uncovers hidden, alternative and unofficial histories; contested claims to land and civic authority; the politics of language; the struggles of communities defined as underdogs, and the different ways by which the dominant Ndebele have dealt with their regional others, the Kalanga. The book ultimately demonstrates the ways in which debates around ethnicity and other identities in Zimbabwe – and in Matabeleland in particular – relate to wider issues in both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present. ENOCENT MSINDO is Senior Lecturer in History at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. $99.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 58046 418 5 8 b/w illus.; 374pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Foundations of an African CivilisationAksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC – AD 1300DAVID W. PHILLIPSON

This book focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia’s past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full.DAVID W. PHILLIPSON is an Emeritus Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and an Hon. Professor, University College, London.Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa

$70.00/£40.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84701 041 4 52 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Eastern Africa Series

Front page image: The cover image shows Nicolas Slonimsky and his wife Dorothy Adlow. Slonimsky’s letters to his wife are collected in Dear Dorothy (see p.19), edited by their daughter, Electra Yourke and published later this year by the University of Rochester Press.

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The Freetown BondA Life under Two FlagsELDRED DUROSIMI JONES with MARJORIE JONES

Eldred Durosimi Jones is known internationally as being central to the establishment of the study of African writing in the new universities of Africa, Britain and North America. Born in 1925, this account of his early years gives a vivid picture of growing up in Freetown in the latter days of British colonialism. He was an exceptional young man who was able to take advantage of the unusual style of this city-state. After studying at Oxford, Eldred Jones committed himself to his own country and it was appropriate that for over thirty years he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Fourah Bay College in Freetown, which had been set up in 1827 and was the first university college in Africa south of the Sahara. He lost his sight quite young and this book, like all his later written work, has been brought to the page by his wife Marjorie Jones. Her gift for story-telling about all the happenings of their lives as Sierra Leone was gripped by civil war has added to this highly individual book.$50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84701 055 1 192pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB

From the Pit to the MarketPolitics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra LeoneDIANE FROST

Diamonds have played an important role in the political economy of Sierra Leone, as was highlighted by the use of ‘conflict’ or ‘blood’ diamonds in the decade-long civil war. The diamond trade in Sierra Leone has also been subject to exploitation by global business interests, a form of corporate neo-colonialist predation that continues today and which has curbed the country’s growth, while recent newspaper headlines also demonstrate the currency of rough diamonds. Sierra Leone’s diamonds have been used to finance factions in Lebanon’s civil war, criminal networks in the US and Russia, and al-Qaeda. The marginalization and exclusion of Sierra Leone, this book argues, mean that it, and other such resource-rich nations, remain reliant on aid.DIANE FROST is Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool$34.95/£19.99 November 2012 978 1 84701 060 5 7 b/w illus.; 192pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB African Issues

Growing up with HIV in Zimbabwe‘One day this will all be over’ROSS PARSONS

The study explores the lives of children growing up HIV positive in the eastern Zimbabwean town of Mutare at a time of severe crisis in the

state, marked by impoverishment, organized violence and mass death. This ethnography grew out of a psychotherapeutic engagement with a group of children living with HIV. Against patrilineal norms, much daily caring occurs in mothers’ families. Clinics continue to offer partial western medical care despite daunting resource constraints. Anti-retrovirals and other basic medicines are available but may exacerbate domestic discord and fail to meet more obvious physical symptoms. Children and their families appear to prefer spiritual alternatives to medical care, perhaps partly as a result of the severe limitations placed on the latter. A wide variety of religious practices, primarily Christian in a plethora of forms, flourish in the context. Dying may come to be seen by children as preferable to continued struggle against severe adversity. Child deaths are deeply imbued with religious practice and given voice through religious idioms.Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia)

$70.00/£40.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84701 048 3 8 b/w illus.; 192pp, 21 x 13.5, HB

A History of Malawi1859-1966JOHN MCCRACKEN

This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it focuses mainly on the colonial period, seeking to present it within the context of the pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingstone, followed by the pioneer Scottish Presbyterian missionaries and including soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians, played an influential part in shaping Malawi. But even more important is the story of how Malawian people responded to the intrusion of colonialism and imperialism and the role they played in the dissolution of the colonial state. There is much here on resistance to colonial occupation and on the growth of a powerful popular nationalism. But space is also given to less mainstream activities: the creation of dance societies, the eruption of witchcraft eradication movements and the emergence of football as a popular national sport. In particular, the book seeks to demonstrate the interrelationship between environmental and economic change and the impact these forces had on a poverty-stricken yet resilient Malawian peasantry.JOHN MCCRACKEN is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Stirling University. He was awarded ASAUK’s Distinguished Africanist Award in 2008.$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84701 050 6 10 b/w illus.; 526pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

InterconnectionsGender and Race in American HistoryCAROL FAULKNER and ALISON M. PARKER

This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary scholarship by African American women and gender historians and feminist scholars, attempting to bridge the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It reveals the interdependent construction of racial and gender identity in individuals’ lived experiences in specific historical contexts, such as westward expansion, civil rights movements, or economic depression as well as national and transnational debates over marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of these essays consider multiple aspects of identity, including sexuality, class, religion, and nationality, among others, but the volume emphasizes gender and race – the focus of our new book series – as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.$75.00/£40.00(s) October 2012 978 1 58046 421 5 7 b/w illus.; 350pp, 9 x 6, HB Gender and Race in American History

Liberation Movements in PowerParty and State in Southern AfricaRO GER SOUTHALL

This book examines the post-colonial development of three National Liberation Movements in southern Africa – the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) in Namibia and the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa – and analyses what the variations in their regimes imply for democracy. In particular, it pursues this issue in relation to the level of capitalist development (and the relative balance of power between state and business) and the level of organisation of working-class and poor people’s organisations such as trade unions and social movements. Located within the wider context of post-colonial nationalist experience in Africa and Asia (with particular reference to Kenya, which shares a colonial history of settler domination), thus making the book essential reading for policy-makers and practitioners as well as those in development studies and colonial politics.ROGER SOUTHALL is Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Sociology, Wits University and has published widely on African affairs. $70.00/£40.00(s) November 2012 978 9 11000 106 0 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB African Issues


AFRICAN STUdIeS / ARCHAeOLOGy

Radio in AfricaPublics, Cultures, CommunitiesEdited by LIZ GUNNER , DINA LIGAGA and DUMISANI MOYO

Contributors investigate the multiple roles of radio in the lives of African listeners across the continent. Some essays turn to the history of radio and its part in culture and politics. Others show how radio throws up new tensions, yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics. A number of essays look at radio’s current role in creating listening communities that radically shift the nature of the public sphere. Yet others cover radio’s central role in the emergence of informed publics in fragile national spaces, or in failed states. The book also highlights radio’s links to the new media, its role in resistance to oppressive regimes, and points in several cases to the importance of African languages in building modern communities that embrace both local and global knowledge.Wits University Press: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe & Swaziland

$80.00/£45.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84701 061 2 336pp, 23.5 x 15.5, HB

Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of AfricaEdited by KIDANE MENGISTEAB and REDIE BEREKETEAB

The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated crises: various inter-state wars, civil wars, and inter-communal conflicts; an economic crisis manifested in widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and famines; and environmental degradation that is ravaging the region. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA. They identify those factors that can foster integration, such as the proper management of equitable citizenship rights, as well as examining those that impede it, including the region’s largely ineffective integration scheme, IGAD, and explore how the former can be strengthened and the latter transformed; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region’s economy.$50.00/£30.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84701 058 2 240pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Eastern Africa series

South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of SilicosisJO CK MCCULLO CH

South Africa’s gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation.JOCK MCCULLOCH was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include Asbestos Blues.$34.95/£19.99 October 2012 978 1 84701 059 9 10 b/w illus.; 192pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB African Issues

Thomas PringleSouth African pioneer, poet and abolitionistRAND OLPH VIGNE

Honoured in South Africa as the ‘father of South African poetry’, for achieving a free press and as a fighter for the democratic rights of the Cape Colony settlers, in Scotland as the founding editor of Blackwood’s Magazine and a key Enlightenment figure, and in England as instrumental in bringing in abolition, Thomas Pringle has not yet had the attention he deserves. This biography reveals the important part he played in the literary and political world across two continents, and in championing the Khoisan and increasingly dispossessed Nguni.RANDOLPH VIGNE is a South African publisher, writer and activist. Active in South African Liberal Party politics he went into exile in 1964 after co-founding the African Resistance Movement.$80.00/£45.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84701 052 0 10 b/w illus.; 236pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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N E W I N PA PE R BAC K

Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the MilitaryEdited by LAURIE RUSH

Drawing on major contributions from seven armed forces, amongst others, this book aims to set out the obligations to protect cultural heritage under international Conventions; provide a series of case studies of current military practice; and outline the current efforts to enhance this. Overall, it offers examples, anecdotes, and lessons learned that can be used for consideration in planning future efforts for global archaeological stewardship.Offers a snapshot of recent efforts to educate and train troops to recognize, protect and preserve cultural heritage during both armed deployments and peacetime. [Its] case studies offer good examples. TLS

$29.95/£16.99 August 2012 978 1 84383 752 7 39 b/w illus.; 240pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Heritage Matters

Medieval LifeArchaeology and the Life CourseROBERTA GILCHRIST

The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived – how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material practices of medieval life, death and the afterlife. Previous historical studies of the medieval “lifecycle” begin with birth and end with death. Here, in contrast, the concept of life course theory is developed for the first time in a detailed archaeological case study. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. A wide range of sources is critically employed: osteology, costume, material culture, iconography and evidence excavated from houses, churches and cemeteries in the medieval English town and countryside. Medieval Life reveals the intimate and everyday relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.ROBERTA GILCHRIST is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.$50.00/£30.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 722 0 18 colour illus.; 36 b/w illus.; 360pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HBwww

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ART & ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and InterpretationEssays for Eric FernieEdited by JILL A. FRANKLIN, T. A. HESLOP and CHRISTINE STEVENSON

Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory, and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. But the ways in which these effects are brought about is something which we are only beginning to understand. The aim of this book is to begin to address that gap, to start a debate about the ways in which architecture is written about with a view to raising levels of intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and practice of architectural history. Taking as their point of departure the ways in which architecture has been, is, and can be interpreted, the editors’ substantial Introduction provides an historiographical framework for, and draw out the themes and ideas presented in, individual contributors’ essays. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 781 7 177 b/w illus.; 400pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

The Collected Letters of Jane MorrisEdited by JAN MARSH and FRANK C. SHARP

Jane Morris (1839-1914) was a famous Pre-Raphaelite model, wife of William Morris and one of the Victorian age’s most enigmatic figures. Her long love affair with Dante Gabriel Rossetti has become the stuff of legend. The greater fame of husband and lovers caused her to be overlooked, but she has always aroused historical interest and partisan debate. The editors of this volume have discovered more than 500 letters from Jane to many and diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and reveal the range of her interests and opinions. $165.00/£95.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 676 6 8 colour illus.; 24 b/w illus.; 512pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850IAN WAITES

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, much of England’s common land was eradicated by the processes of parliamentary enclosure. However, despite the fact that the landscape was frequently viewed as unproductive, outmoded and unsightly, many British landscape painters of the time – including Constable, Gainsborough and Turner – resolutely continued to depict it. This book is the first full study of how they did so, using evidence drawn not only from art-historical picture analysis, but from contemporary poems and novels, and pamphlets, essays and reports that advanced the rhetoric of both agricultural improvement and new theories on landscape aesthetics. Recasting common land as a recurrent facet of English culture in the modern period, the numerous paintings, drawings and prints featured in this book give the reader a comprehensive and evocative sense of what this now almost wholly lost landscape looked like in its hey-day.IAN WAITES is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln.$90.00/£50.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 761 9 30 colour illus.; 42 b/w illus.; 216pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB Garden and Landscape History


Medieval Church Window Tracery in EnglandSTEPHEN HART

A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period.A perceptive, informative, beautifully written, and well-illustrated study of the topic. SO CIET Y OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS NEWSLET TER

In a methodical, clear and notably well-illustrated fashion (there are good plates of some 300 windows) it traces the evolution of tracery through the Lancet, Geometric, Curvilinear and Perpendicular styles. BRITISH ARCHAEOLO GY

The varieties of such stonework are splendidly analysed and illustrated. DAILY TELEGRAPH (Christopher Howse)

$34.95/£19.99 July 2012 978 1 84383 760 2 20 colour illus.; 258 b/w illus.; 184pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB

FILM

A New History of German CinemaEdited by JENNIFER M. KAPCZYNSKI and MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON

This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Each of the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German-language film history, pursuing its relationship with its social, political, and aesthetic moment. While the essays offer ample temporal and topical spread, this book emphasizes the juxtaposition of famous and unknown stories and attention to a wide range of cinematic events. Brief section introductions provide a larger historical and film-historical framework that illuminates the essays within it, offering both students and the casual reader a “setting” for the individual texts and figures under investigation. Cross-references to other essays in the book are included at the close of each entry, encouraging readers not only to pursue familiar trajectories in the development of German film, but also to trace particular figures and motifs across genres and historical periods. Together, the contributions offer a new view of the multiple, intersecting narratives that make up German national cinema. The constellation that is thus established challenges unidirectional narratives of German film history and charts new ways of thinking about film historiography more broadly.$115.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 490 5 54 b/w illus.; 652pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual


Visualizing the HolocaustDocuments, Aesthetics, MemoryEdited by DAVID BATHRICK et al

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.Has the feel of an intense seminar. . . . What emerges from these essays is a fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes. JOURNAL FOR GENO CIDE STUDIES

Innovative approaches to one of the most difficult issues in German film and visual culture. H-NET REVIEWS

An excellent collection of essays which, without exception, are informative, well researched, reasonably argued, and lucidly written. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

$39.95/£19.99(s) July 2012 978 1 57113 542 1 26 b/w illus.; 346pp, 9 x 6 Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity in Imperial SpainLUCIA BINOT TI

This innovative study examines the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. These mechanisms served to delineate a national tradition that addressed the needs of a changing society and gave a “Spanish” physiognomy to the Italian experience, which ultimately led to the Golden Age. Binotti first describes the conditions imposed on book production by both the expectations of an elite audience and the limitations of the printing market while outlining the process of the creation of an expressive poetic language and the quest for literary models. She then looks at Ambrosio de Morales’ chronicles and Bernardo de Aldrete’s Del Origen, showing how a cultural discourse founded on foreign scholarship paved the way for the establishment of innovative-and autochtonous-methods of historical and scientific analysis in the early seventeenth-century.LUCIA BINOTTI is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 85566 245 2 19 b/w illus.; 176pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

The Novels of Josefina AldecoaWomen, Society and Cultural Memory in Contemporary SpainNUALA KENNY

Josefina Aldecoa, in her treatment of themes such as a woman’s place in society under and after dictatorship, mother-daughter relationships, war, and memory, confirmed her unique role as a contemporary novelist concerned with women’s identity in Spain and as a writer of the mid-century generation (‘los niños de la guerra’). The first volume of her trilogy, Historia de una maestra, was one of the earliest narratives of historical memory to be produced in Spain. In this sense, Aldecoa’s work anticipated new developments in gender studies, such as the intersection of feminist concerns and cultural memory. This book offers a comprehensive examination of Aldecoa’s trajectory as a novelist, from La enredadera to Hermanas, centring on her primary preoccupations of gender and memory, arguing that Aldecoa’s fiction offers a new, more complex understanding of women’s identity than previously understood. NUALA KENNY teaches Spanish at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland. $95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 85566 244 5 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

Painting, Literature, and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940-2005 Of Border Guards, Nomads and WomenDEB ORAH MARTIN

Women artists, writers and filmmakers in Colombia have consistently foregrounded the relationship between gender and the often violent processes which have marked the country’s history over the past century. This book explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine culture in Colombia, hitherto unstudied in English-language criticism, through an examination of the work of ground-breaking artist Débora Arango, best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, and three generations of documentary filmmakers. The book’s approach – comparing art, literature and film – reveals a resistive trajectory in dialogue with dominant tendencies in Colombian feminist theory, itself the product of an intellectual sphere conditioned by the need to think about political violence.DEBORAH MARTIN is a Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Bath.$95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 85566 242 1 12 colour illus.; 170pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

Writing and Heritage in Contemporary SpainThe Imaginary Museum of LiteratureSTUART DAVIS

This is an innovative exploration of cultural heritage and the literary traditions that shape the contemporary literary scene in Spain. Following introductory explorations of the development of museums and the literary canon, each chapter begins with a “visit” to a Spanish museum, establishing the framework for the subsequent discussion of critical practices and texts. Case studies include examination of the palimpsest and unconscious influence of canonical cores; the response to masculine traditions of poetry and art; counter-culture of the 1990s; and the ethical concerns of postmemory writing.STUART DAVIS is a Lecturer in Spanish, Girton College, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge.$95.00/£55.00(s) October 2012 978 1 85566 243 8 170pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías

HISTORY OF RELIGION

International Religious NetworksEdited by JEREMY GREGORY and HUGH MCLEOD

The international religious networks explored here range from early medieval saints’ cults to twentieth-century ecumenical networks and friendships. Networks could be of ideas or of people or (most commonly) both. The essays in this volume demonstrate that international religious networks are a varied and complex category for historical analysis. Given this rich variety, both in the nature and the types of international religious networks covered, we might ask: how far has religion, both in terms of the ideas it creates and in terms of its practitioners and adherents, been especially good at forming international networks? If so, what is it about religion that gives it such leverage and such an ability to transcend national and regional boundaries and divides? These are questions which may have some relevance for our understanding of the networks sustained by different religious faiths at the present time, as well as for understanding the strains in keeping international religious networks intact.$70.00/£40.00(s) September 2012 978 0 95468 100 5 256pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Studies in Church History: Subsidia Ecclesiastical History Society

Religion and the Demographic RevolutionWomen and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960sCALLUM G. BROWN

In the 1960s Christian religious practice and identity declined rapidly and women’s lives were transformed, spawning a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors.Canada, Ireland, UK and USA represent different stages of secularisation for the book’s study. Using statistical evidence from government censuses, Brown demonstrates how secularisation was deeply linked to demographic change. Starting with the distinctive features of the 1960s, the book quantifies secularisation’s scale, timing and character in each nation. Then, the intense links of women’s sexual revolution to religious decline and their changing patterns of marriage, coupling and birthing are explored. Finally the secularising consequences of economic change, higher education and women’s expanding work roles are examined. Connecting religious history with the history of population, this volume unveils how the historian and sociologist need to engage with the demographic enormity of the decline of Christendom.CALLUM G. BROWN is Professor of Religious and Cultural History at the University of Dundee.$95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 792 3 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

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HISTORy OF MedICINe & SCIeNCe / HISTORy: eARLy MOdeRN

HISTORY OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE

Bacteriology in British IndiaLaboratory Medicine and the TropicsPRATIK CHAKRABARTI

This is the first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluence of colonial medical practices, institutionalization, and social movements. Bacteriology was established in India through a complex process of conflict and alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. This led to divergences and tensions within bacteriology as practiced in Europe and the tropical colonies: in ideas of climate and potency of vaccines, in laboratory methods, in the ethical principles of experimentations, and in the discourses of racial immunity and endemicity of diseases. The book describes how India became a vast experimental field for bacteriology. By investigating a vast array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and literary sources, the book links colonial medical research with issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and attitudes towards tropical climate and wildlife. It contributes to a wide field of scholarship like imperial and South Asian history, history of science and medicine, sociology of science, and cultural history.PRATIK CHAKRABARTI is senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent, UK.$90.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 58046 408 6 16 b/w illus.; 358pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in ChinaXIAOPING FANG

Barefoot doctors were established at the height of the Cultural Revolution as a way to bring effective, low-cost care to rural communities. This book is the first comprehensive study to reach beyond the nostalgic view of barefoot doctors that dominates present scholarship on public health in China. Author Xiaoping Fang provides evidence drawn from local archives and personal interviews with patients and doctors, contextualizing it within the broader history of medicine in revolutionary and post-reform China. His data demonstrates that the key impact of the barefoot doctor program was its introduction of modern Western medicine into villages that were hitherto dominated by traditional Chinese medicine. This book ultimately offers a powerful and carefully contextualized critique of conventional views on the role of barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact, both in rural areas and in China as a whole, while making theoretical contributions to the Chinese social historiography of medicine. XIAOPING FANG is a research fellow in the China Research Centre of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 433 8 8 b/w illus.; 318pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

Beriberi in Modern JapanThe Making of a National DiseaseALEX ANDER R . BAY

This is first a story about Japanese modernization, examining the transition between Edo and Meiji era medical practices, and revealing how western science functioned within the “civilization and enlightenment” enterprise of nation-building. Second, this book considers the history of science and medicine in Japan; the story of this disease exemplifies the rise of scientific medicine and the shift from the clinic to the laboratory. The beriberi debate ended in 1926, but the competition over controlling the direction of beriberi prevention at the national level continued into the Showa era (1926-1989). Ultimately, the history of this debate is about more than the march towards the inevitable discovery of “the beriberi vitamin” – that is vitamin B1 or thiamine – but rather about the history of science, medicine, and power in modern Japan. ALEXANDER BAY is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.$95.00/£60.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 427 7 294pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

HISTORY: EARLY MODERN

Caroline CasuistryThe Cases of Conscience of Fr Thomas Southwell, SJEdited by PETER HOLMES

How did English Catholics come to terms with living in an alien state? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience, was an important aspect of the education of English Catholic missionary priests. A number of the manuals used in that training have survived, largely in manuscript versions only. This volume contains discussions and debates dating from the reign of Charles I. Their author was Thomas Southwell, a professor at the English Jesuit College in Liège, a respected scholar and teacher. He focuses on the problems facing Catholic priests and laymen under persecution in England. In addition, there are cases here about witchcraft, astrology, dueling, usury, monopolies and bills of exchange. An important section contains over sixty cases dealing with betrothal and marriage, both from the point of view of English Catholics and in more general terms. The documents are accompanied by a full critical introduction, setting them in context, and elucidatory notes.$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2012 978 0 90283 227 5 1 b/w illus.; 336pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Catholic Record Society: Records Series

The Culture of ControversyReligious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714ALASDAIR RAFFE

Through its detailed and innovative examination of the arguments raging between and within Scotland’s main religious groups, the presbyterians and episcopalians, over such issues as Church government, state oaths and nonconformity, The Culture of Controversy reveals hitherto unexamined debates about religious enthusiasm, worship and clerical hypocrisy. It also illustrates the changing nature of the fault line between the two groups and contextualises the emerging issues of religious toleration and articulate irreligion. Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Scotland and will be particularly valuable to all those with an interest in early modern British history.ALASDAIR RAFFE is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.$95.00/£55.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 729 9 4 b/w illus.; 292pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720BRODIE WADDELL

The English economy underwent profound changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, yet the worldly affairs of ordinary people continued to be shaped as much by popular ideals and moral codes as by material conditions. This book explores the economic implications of many of the key concepts, including Christian stewardship, divine providence, patriarchal power, paternal duty, local community, and collective identity. Waddell draws on hundreds of contemporary texts – ranging from ballads and pamphlets to pauper petitions and guild regulations – to show that such ideas pervaded every aspect of social and economic relations during this key period. By exploiting this wide variety of sources, he ultimately demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of early modern ‘moral economies’. BRODIE WADDELL is Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of History, Unversity of Cambridge.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 779 4 8 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History


HISTORy: eARLy MOdeRN / LOCAL / MARITIMe

The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIIIEdited by MARIA HAYWARD

By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnishings, was well established. This volume provides an edition and calendar of the accounts for 1498-99 and 1510-11, as well as the section of the 1544 account relating to Henry VIII’s campaign in France. In addition there are two appendices listing the recipients of livery in the extant Great Wardrobe accounts and warrants and an extensive glossary. The Introduction to the edited texts discusses the patterns of supply to the Great Wardrobe and assesses the significance of a small but influential group of Italian merchants who traded alongside the Londoners. $45.00/£25.00(s) July 2012 978 0 90095 252 4 362pp, 24.4 x 15, HB London Record Society

Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602Edited by ALAN CROSSLEY

Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices – and in huge numbers, as the material in this volume demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite exceptional. The data is discussed in an Introduction which re-examines the apprenticeship system on the basis of the unusually plentiful statistics, throwing new light on such matters as length of service, payment of premiums, and the rates of career failure and success. ALAN CROSSLEY is a member of the modern history faculty, University of Oxford.$80.00/£45.00(s) October 2012 978 0 90410 725 8 1 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Oxford Historical Society New Series

HISTORY: LO CAL

A History of the County of OxfordXVII: Broadwell, Langford, and Kelmscott: Bampton Hundred, Part 4Edited by SIMON TOWNLEY

Located on Oxfordshire’s western fringe between the rivers Leach and Thames, the nine rural settlements covered in this volume are typical Cotswold villages, with their limestone-built farmhouses, their former open fields, and their extensive former sheep pastures. All belonged to a sizeable late Anglo-Saxon estate whose break-up gave rise to the later parish structure: Langford church, with its celebrated late eleventh-century tower, may have begun as a small minster. Excavations at Radcot have revealed much about the settlement’s early character, including the discovery of a twelfth-century castle. The area as a whole is predominantly agricultural, though milling, malting and quarrying have all been significant. Woodland at Bradwell Grove was important from the middle ages. In later years the villages developed in diverse ways, displaying contrasting closed and open characteristics.$165.00/£95.00(s) July 2012 978 1 90435 640 0 16 colour illus.; 54 b/w illus.; 504pp, 30.5 x 20.8, HB Victoria County History

The Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton1526/7-1546/7Edited by BARBARA TEARLE

Religious guilds or fraternities proliferated throughout England until their dissolution in the late 1540s, yet remarkably few of their records have survived. Amongst the survivals are the last twenty-one years of the accounts of the Luton guild of the Holy Trinity, hitherto unpublished in full. The guild was prosperous, well-connected and active and its accounts provide an insight into daily life in mid-sixteenth-century south Bedfordshire and the surrounding area. The book contains a complete transcription of the accounts and an introduction presenting an overview of the guild’s activities.$45.00/£25.00(s) August 2012 978 0 85155 078 7 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society Bedfordshire Historical Record Society

The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor’s HeadThe Practice of the Law in Lincolnshire, 1787-1838. Part I: The Justice Books of Thomas Dixon of Riby, 1787-1798; Part II: Papers in the Case of Thorold v. Catton, 1830-1838Edited by B. R . DAVEY and R . C. WHEELER

The rare survival of the justicing notebooks of Thomas Dixon of Riby, as a working farmer an unusual recruit to the magistrates’ bench, make it possible to draw a vivid picture of 18th century justice. The only Lincolnshire magistrate to leave records of his work “out of sessions”, his books provide an illuminating glimpse of the justice system in operation at its lowest level, where stealers of ducks and absconding servants were brought before a country justice. The second part of the volume presents papers from an arbitration of 1838 between the licensee of a remote beer house and the son of the local squire, with the former pressing the latter for repayment of a debt. $50.00/£30.00(s) October 2012 978 0 90150 394 7 12 b/w illus.; 176pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Lincoln Record Society

HISTORY: MARITIME

The Administration of Merchant Seafaring, 1815-1914RICHARD GORSKI

The seafaring workforce in the nineteenth century was large, subject to unique forms of supervision and scrutiny, and had to cope with a changing world, with the laws regulating life at sea changing in consequence, though often belatedly. Almost every aspect of seafaring life generated paperwork, which enabled government to analyse and interpret trends in shipping, employment and the character of the seagoing workforce, and thereby to inform policy-making and to reform regulations. This book analyses the activities of the Board of Trade and its specialist merchant shipping departments in order to reconstruct and evaluate the mechanisms put in place to regulate merchant seafaring. In addition, it draws together a very extensive literature and makes significant original contributions to the fields of maritime history, labour history and the history of Victorian government. It also shows how shipping, an inherently international industry, increasingly recruited foreign labour over the period, and how government worked to ensure that laws and regulations were compatible with those of other nations or codified internationally.RICHARD GORSKI is Assistant Director of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. $95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 9 10011 212 7 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB




HISTORy: MARITIMe / MedIevAL

British Naval Captains of the Seven Years’ WarThe View from the QuarterdeckA.B. MCLEOD

This book, based on extensive original research analysing every letter written by the cohort of men who were promoted to the rank of captain in 1757 at the start of the Seven Years’ War, provides a detailed overview of the experiences of these captains. It covers not just important events, but also everyday matters, such as the manning of the ship, the duties of captains towards their “people”, and the steps captains took to ensure the effectiveness and health of their crews. It outlines the careers of captains before their promotion, discusses how they were selected for promotion, and examines the opportunities for making reputations and fortunes through action in battle or against privateers. It shows how the Admiralty exercised control over captains, and demonstrates that although connections and interest assisted greatly with promotion, allegations of “corruption” are misplaced – the navy in this period was highly effective: an extremely complex and efficient bureaucracy, exerting tight control over every aspect of the lives of the officers and men who served, with merit being most definitely rewarded.$115.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 751 0 11 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Transformation of British Naval StrategySeapower and Supply in Northern Europe, 1808-1812JAMES DAVEY

By 1808 the British navy was adept at fighting battles, blockading and convoying, but less sure of its ability to sustain naval forces operating at a distance from Britain or an overseas naval base. This book shows how during the period 1808-1812 wide-ranging reforms in naval administration were implemented which established a highly-effective logistical system, transforming an ineffective supply system into one which successfully enabled a fleet to remain on station for as long as was required, unfettered by concerns over supplies. The book also discusses how this new supply system successfully transformed naval operations, showing how it enabled a fleet in the Baltic to protect British trade, securing vital resources, and weaken the economies of Denmark and Russia, eventually forcing them out of Napoleon’s Coalition, and also how the new system enabled squadrons in the North Sea to contain the new fleet that Napoleon was building in Antwerp. Overall, by focusing on the relationship between logistics and naval operations in an actual theatre the author shows how the logistical reforms amounted to a very significant strategic transformation.JAMES DAVEY is a Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum, and a Visiting

Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches British naval history.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 748 0 3 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

A Tudor Fighting ShipThe Alderney WreckDAVID LOADES

The Alderney wreck is the only Tudor warship to have been located so far, apart from the Mary Rose, and the only one to date from the second half of the sixteenth century. This is therefore a very important archaeological site. The ship is thought to have been a privately owned man-of-war which sank off Alderney in November 1592, carrying men, weapons and despatches from the Low Countries to the English expedition in Brittany. Her remains are on a reef close to the harbour entrance in Alderney, and diving has gone on for fifteen years. This book provides an overview of what has been found and what has been learned from the finds. It also provides contextual information about the navy to which the ship belonged and about the wars in which she was participating. The book includes contributions by Mensun Bound, a marine archaeologist of vast experience and renown, and Mike Corfield, a conservator of great skill and experience.DAVID LOADES is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wales, Bangor and author of over 20 books.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 9 10011 587 8 70 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

HISTORY: MEDIEVAL


Alfred’s Wars Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking AgeRYAN LAVELLE

The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great’s reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages, and new introductions by the present author. It looks at every aspect of the topic, from land and sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from fortifications and the battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so doing, it highlights the significance of warfare and its organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon state, and the multitude of ways in which it was recorded and remembered.$34.95/£19.99 July 2012 978 1 84383 739 8 13 b/w illus.; 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Warfare in History

Anglo-Norman Studies 34Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011Edited by DAVID BATES

The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra’s treatment of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England, the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as theologian.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 735 0 25 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Norman Studies


The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine MonasteriesJULIAN M. LUXFORD

Analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries has much to reveal about both monastic life and material culture of the time.Contributes importantly to the ongoing debates about the Reformation and the medieval heritage of monasticism, and the contribution of the abbeys to taste and fashion in wider material culture. LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY B O OK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2007

A rewarding read. [The author] has shone a bright light on late medieval Benedictine monasticism and persuasively argued for its strength and integrity. [...] He has created a new standard, transforming the way in which such studies must be conducted in the future. THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

$34.95/£19.99 September 2012 978 1 84383 759 6 46 b/w illus.; 346pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

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HISTORy: MedIevAL

Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (1216-1248) IV: 1243-1248Edited by DAVID CARPENTER , PAUL DRYBURGH and BETH HARTLAND

The years covered in this volume were ones of momentous political significance, witnessing strident criticisms of the king’s policies in parliament (the name now appearing for the first time), and the drawing up in 1244 of an abortive “Paper Constitution” which foreshadowed the revolutionary reforms of 1258. The rolls throw light on the policies which provoked this opposition, while also revealing much about the personality of the king, one entry recording the joke Henry played on his clerk, Peter the Poitevin, on the voyage home from Gascony in 1243.Hard to fault in both their purpose and execution [...] they fill a significant gap in both the published records of the period. ARCHIVES

$170.00/£100.00(s) December 2012 978 1 84383 568 4 ca.700pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Contact and Exchange in Later Medieval EuropeEssays in Honour of Malcolm ValeEdited by HANNAH SKODA et al

The processes by which ideas, objects, texts and political thought and experience moved across boundaries in the Middle Ages form the focus of this book, which also seeks to reassess the nature of the boundaries themselves; it thus appropriately reflects a major theme of Dr Malcolm Vale’s work, which the essays collected here honour. They suggest ways of breaking down established historiographical paradigms of Europe as a set of distinct polities, achieving a more nuanced picture in which people and objects were constantly moving, and challenging previous conceptions of units and borders. Overall, the essays bear witness to the constant interplay and interconnections throughout medieval Europe and beyond. $99.00/£60.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 738 1 5 b/w illus.; 302pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

English Monastic Litanies of the Saints after 1100Volume I: Abbotsbury – PeterboroughEdited by NIGEL J. MORGAN

The litanies of the monastic orders in England, above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories. However, although many of the calendars of the Benedictines have been published, litanies are more rare, and the majority of those within this volume are presented as text editions for the first time. The majority of the texts are Benedictine, but the few surviving litanies from the other monastic orders, Carthusians, Cistercians and Cluniacs, are included, and also those of the Order of Fontevrault. This is the first of two volumes and covers the abbeys and priories from Abbotsbury to Peterborough. $75.00/£35.00(s) July 2012 978 1 90749 726 1 214pp, 29.7 x 21, HB Henry Bradshaw Society

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle AgesELIZABETH MAKOWSKI

In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other “men of law” who actually conducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown, following the increased professionalism of legal practitioners during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been fully investigated. This book aims to address the gap. It relates the nuns of such important houses as Dartford, Bruisyard and Syon to the legal profession; and looks at representative cases from both ecclesiastical and royal courts that illustrate the work of lawyers on behalf of these clients.ELIZABETH MAKOWSKI is Ingram Professor of History, Texas State University.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 786 2 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval EnglandTime and TopographyTOM WILLIAMSON

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England’s character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. However, discussions and debates about settlement and landscape in early medieval England seldom pay any real

attention to the natural environment. In this controversial study the author argues that most aspects of regional variation in early England, ranging from patterns of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlement, through the tenurial differences between the east and west of the country, to important contrasts in medieval settlement patterns and field systems, are largely the consequence of topography, geology, soils and climate. Examining many aspects of social organisation, farming and landscape, this radical book will be essential reading for all those interested in the history, archaeology and environment of England in the early middle ages, and in the roots of regional culture.TOM WILLIAMSON is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia.$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 737 4 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Anglo-Saxon History

The Fifteenth Century XIEdited by LINDA CLARK

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

$90.00/£60.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 757 2 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB The Fifteenth Century

Guide to the Muniments of Westminster AbbeyRICHARD MORTIMER

The Muniments of Westminster Abbey constitute the archives of the iconic church that has been at the heart of public life in England since the middle ages. As well as coronations, royal events and the burials of the great and famous, the archive comprises the records of one of England’s most important medieval monasteries and one of the wealthiest cathedral-style collegiate churches refounded in the Reformation period. The long, continuous history of Westminster Abbey has led to an exceptionally undisturbed archive, stretching from the tenth century to the present day and incorporating estate papers, accounts, court rolls, wills, personal papers, maps and plans as well as many surprises. This book is the first full published overview of this major archive, comprising a history of record-keeping, an analysis of the main subjects covered, and summaries of the principal series.Dr RICHARD MORTIMER was until his retirement Keeper of the Muniments, Westminster Abbey.$45.00/£25.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 743 5 1 b/w illus.; 100pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Westminster Abbey Record Serieswww



HISTORy: MedIevAL


Jews in Medieval BritainHistorical, Literary and Archaeological PerspectivesEdited by PATRICIA SKINNER

Accounts of specific communities and themes build to a comprehensive picture of Jews in England C11 – C13.As a review of the current state of scholarship, this collection combines concision with expertise. It covers a great deal of ground with commendable zest. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

A useful collection of essays which clearly adds to our understanding of Jewish life in medieval Britain. HISTORY

A welcome sight...it proves that medieval Jewish history is finally gaining the recognition it deserves. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

$34.95/£19.99 July 2012 978 1 84383 733 6 187pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Journal of Medieval Military HistoryVolume XEdited by CLIFFORD J. RO GERS et al

The tenth anniversary of the Journal includes pieces by some of the most distinguished scholars of military history, including an analysis of tenth-century Ottonian warfare on the eastern frontier of the Empire by David and Bernard Bachrach. As ever, the contributions cover a wide span both chronologically and geographically $80.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 747 3 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Journal of Medieval Military History

Journal of Medieval Military History: vols I-X [set]$495.00/£295.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 753 4 Journal of Medieval Military History

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8Edited by ROBIN NETHERTON and GALE R . OWEN-CRO CKER

This volume continues the series’ tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally,

uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart’s Roman de la Rose.$50.00/£30.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 736 7 24 b/w illus.; 172pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Medieval PetsKATHLEEN F. WALKER-MEIKLE

Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed – but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners. It offers a full survey of pets and pet-keeping: how they were acquired, kept, fed, exercised, and displayed; it looks at the problems pets could cause, and finally, how they were mourned. It also examines the representation of pets and their owners in art and literature; the many charming illustrations offer further evidence for the bonds between humans and their pets, then as now.Dr KATHLEEN WALKER-MEIKLE is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of York, working on animals and medieval medicine. $45.00/£25.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 758 9 10 b/w illus.; 196pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504

Nobody involved in any aspect of medieval research can afford to do without this publication. HISTORY

A major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval English history, and to the study of the English constitution. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords, and, somewhat later, the commons.This edition – first published in 2005 – reproduces the rolls in their entirety, together with a few individual items published since 1783, as well as a substantial amount of material never previously published; it is complemented by a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English). It also includes an introduction to every parliament known to have been held by an English king (or in his name) between 1275 and 1504, whether or not the roll for that parliament survives. Where appropriate, appendices of supplementary material are also provided, and there is a General Introduction to the rolls.We are pleased to make this valuable resource available as individual volumes for the researcher or student. See our website for more details: www.boydellandbrewer.com/prme.asp

Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century EnglandFrom Lydgate to MaloryCATHERINE NALL

Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the Middle Ages, Vegetius’ De re militari, it highlights the importance of considering the activities of a range of fifteenth-century readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military culture. It shows how England’s wars in France and at home, and the wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only shaped readers’ responses to their texts but also gave rise to the production of one of the most elaborate, rich and under-recognised pieces of verse of the Wars of the Roses in the form of Knyghthode and Bataile. It also indicates how the structure, language and meaning of canonical texts, including those by Lydgate and Malory, were determined by the military culture of the period.CATHERINE NALL is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London$90.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84384 324 5 198pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Short Scottish Prose ChroniclesEdited by DAN EMBREE et al

The seven chronicles edited here record Scottish history as it circulated in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century in abbreviated and mostly vernacular texts, intended for a broad audience. They build their version of medieval events on Scotland’s foundation myths and exhibit a distinct anti-English bias. They thus present an alternative and distinctly “Scottish” view of “history”. The chronicles are presented here with comprehensive notes and glossaries. They are: La Vraie Cronicque d’Escoce, The Scottis Originale, The Chronicle of the Scots, The Ynglis Chronicle, Nomina Omnium Regum Scotorum, The Brevis Chronica, The St Andrews Chronicle.$99.00/£60.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 745 9 10 b/w illus.; 404pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Medieval Chronicles

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HISTORy: MedIevAL / MOdeRN

Sin in Medieval and Early Modern CultureThe Tradition of the Seven Deadly SinsEdited by RICHARD G. NEWHAUSER and SUSAN J. RIDYARD

The tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins played a considerable role in Western Culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The first part of the book addresses such topics as the problem of acedia in Carolingian monasticism; the development of medieval thought on arrogance; the blending of tradition and innovation in Aquinas’ conceptualization of the sins; the treatment of sin in the pastoral contexts of the early Middle English Vices and Virtues and a fifteenth-century sermon from England; the political uses of the deadly sins in the court sermons of Jean Gerson; and the continuing usefulness of the tradition in early modern England. In the second part, the role of the tradition in cultural works is considered. Essays look at representations of the sins in French music of the thirteenth through to the fifteenth century; in Dante’s Purgatorio; in a work by Michel Beheim in pre-Reformation Germany; and in a 1533 play by the German Lutheran writer Hans Sachs. New interpretations are offered of Gower’s “Tale of Constance” and Bosch’s Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins. $99.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 90315 341 3 8 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

Warfare in Tenth-Century GermanyDAVID S. BACHRACH

Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the shores of the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Adriatic and Mediterranean in the south. In the course of scores of military operations, accompanied by diligent diplomatic efforts, Henry and Otto recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe.This book shows how Henry I and Otto I achieved this remarkable feat, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, training, morale, tactics, and strategy of Ottonian armies over a long half century. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including exceptionally important information developed through archaeological excavations, it demonstrates that the Ottonian kings commanded very large armies in military operations that focused primarily on the capture of fortifications, including many fortress cities of Roman origin. This long-term military success shows that Henry I and Otto I, building upon the inheritance of their Carolingian predecessors, and ultimately that of the late Roman empire, possessed an extensive and well-organized administration, and indeed, bureaucracy, which mobilized the resources that were necessary for the successful conduct of war.

DAVID S. BACHRACH is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 762 6 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Warfare in History

HISTORY: MODERN

The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730Religion, Identity and PatriotismDAVID HAY TON

The defeat of the Jacobite force in 1690-91 confirmed in power in Ireland a protestant landed class predominantly of English descent who had a monopoly of public office. This ruling class, however, had settled in Ireland in different ways over a long period and had differing degrees of attachment to England. Moreover, as the eighteenth century progressed, and the “patriot movement” argued for constitutional equality with Great Britain, this Anglo-Irish ruling class came to see itself as predominantly Irish, with its own distinctive notion of “Irishness”. This book examines the political culture of the Anglo-Irish. It considers changing views of identity, provides detailed case studies of different kinds of Anglo-Irish families, discusses the nature of Anglo-Irish “patriotism”, in a context of limited legislative autonomy and the strategic demands of the emerging British empire, and considers issues of social reform and “improvement”, showing how these enthusiasms arose from, and maintained an intimate connexion with, the evangelical Protestantism which was another defining feature of the political culture of the period.DAVID HAYTON is Professor of Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen’s University, Belfast$115.00/£65.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 746 6 1 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Irish Historical Monographs

The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858PENELOPE CARSON

This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company’s early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. The story of how the Company dealt with the fact that it was a Christian Company, trying to be equitable to the different faiths it found in India, has resonances for Britain today as it attempts to accommodate the religions of all its peoples within the Christian heritage and structure of the state.$115.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 732 9 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Worlds of the East India Company

The Legend of Spring-Heeled JackVictorian Urban Folklore and Popular CulturesKARL BELL

This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of ‘penny dreadful’ stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, theatrical posters, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures and will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English folklore, literature or history. KARL BELL is Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.$95.00/£55.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 787 9 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808)Volume II: 1789-1808Edited by G.M. DITCHFIELD

The letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) illuminate the career and opinions of one of the most prominent and controversial clergymen of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The second and final volume of this edition covers the period from the regency crisis and the early stages of the French Revolution to Lindsey’s death nineteen years later, at the height of the Napoleonic War. From his vantage point in London, Lindsey was a well-informed and well connected observer of the responses in Britain to the French Revolution and the war of the 1790s, and he provides a lucid commentary on the political, literary and theological scene. As with volume I, the letters are fully annotated and are accompanied by a full contextual introduction.$170.00/£100.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 742 8 740pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Church of England Record Society


HISTORy: MOdeRN / LITeRATURe: BRITISH & AMeRICAN

The Local Church and Generational Change in Birmingham, 1945-2000IAN JONES

The ongoing debate about secularisation and religious change in twentieth-century Britain has paid little attention to the experience of those who swam against the cultural tide and continued to attend church. This study, based on extensive original archive and oral history research, redresses this imbalance with an exploration of church-based Christianity in post-war Birmingham, examining how churchgoers interpreted and responded to the changes that they saw in family, congregation, neighbourhood and wider society. One important theme is the significance of age and generational identity to patterns of religiosity amidst profound change in attitudes to youth, age and parenting and growing evidence of a widening “generation gap” in Christian belief and practice. In addition to offering a new and distinctive perspective on the changing religious identity of late twentieth-century English society, the book also provides a rare case-study in the significance of age and generation in the social and cultural history of modern Britain.IAN JONES is the Director of the Saltley Trust, Birmingham$80.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 0 86193 317 4 3 b/w illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

Museums and BiographiesStories, Objects, IdentitiesEdited by KATE HILL

Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography – of individuals, objects and institutions – in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. These articles offer new ways of thinking about museums and museum history, exploring how biography in and of the museum enriches museum stories by stressing the inter-related nature of lives of people, objects and institutions as part of a dense web of relationships. Through their widely ranging research, the contributors demonstrate the value of thinking about the stories told in and by museums, and the relationships which make up museums; and suggest new ways of undertaking and understanding museum biographies.$99.00/£60.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 727 5 49 b/w illus.; 338pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB Heritage Matters

The Religious Census of 1851: Northumberland and County DurhamEdited by ALAN MUNDEN

In 1851, for the only time in British history, a count of those attending any place of religious worship was held alongside the usual decenial census of population. This volume is an edition of the census for the counties of Northumberland and Durham, together with some outlying parts of the diocese of Durham now in modern-day Cumbria and North Yorkshire. An introduction sets the census in context, as well as highlighting some surprises, such as the number of Mormon churches in the North-East by this time, or the returns signed off by women, or even the Church of England clergyman too drunk to complete the return. A detailed description of each place of worship follows, showing for instance the numbers who attended the various churches, the age of the church, its endowment if any, together with comments from those who completed the form. The census returns are supplemented with additional information by the editor, and also by a list of those places of worship overlooked by the census.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 0 85444 071 9 3 b/w illus.; 400pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Surtees Society

Sport, History, and HeritageStudies in Public RepresentationEdited by JEFFREY HILL et al

Sport is an integral part of British and UK culture, but although its importance has been recognised in academic history, in the related field of heritage it has yet to be fully explored. The essays in this volume look at sports history as manifested in academic enquiry, museum exhibition and heritage sites. They deal among other things with the public representation of sport and why it matters; its impact on public spheres; the direction of sports heritage studies and what they should be attempting to achieve; the role of museums in public history; and the role of place, memory and meaning in the historic sports landscape. $95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 788 6 50 b/w illus.; 272pp, 24 x 17.2, HB Heritage Matters

Wartime in West SuffolkThe Diary of Winifred Challis, 1942-1943Edited by ROBERT MALCOLMSON and PETER SEARBY

Winifred Challis (1896-1990) spent most of her life in West Suffolk. During the Second World War she was one of nearly 500 people who kept a diary for the social research organization, Mass Observation. From November 1942 she wrote at length about her everyday life, her feelings, and the social and political attitudes of both herself and others. Winifred was a close observer of the world around her, a free thinker, and an accomplished and penetrating writer, with a questioning mind and a quick wit. She immersed herself in her diary-writing, producing on some days at least a couple of thousand words of perceptive commentary on the wartime scene – rationing, shortages, the often bleak texture of daily life, but with various moments of satisfaction and pleasure. Her diaries provide an unusual and fascinating record of a critical period of Suffolk’s history.$60.00/£35.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 702 2 8 b/w illus.; 212pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Suffolk Records Society

LITER ATURE: BRITISH & AMERICAN

Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and CultureJAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN

In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Milton, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others – yet the nature of this compassion was also fiercely contested.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 330 6 15 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Renaissance Literaturewww



LITeRATURe: BRITISH & AMeRICAN / GeRMAN

The PhanaticksARCHIBALD PITCAIRNE Edited by JOHN MACQUEEN

Written at the very end of the seventeenth century, The Phanaticks satirises in dramatic form contemporary political and religious affairs, presenting some well-known figures in the thinnest of disguises. Overtly a comedy about two young women opposed by such forces as the Governer of Edinburgh Castle (Lord Huffy), it is an excoriating attack on the hypocrisy and political chicanery of Scottish religious sects, alongside its romance and sexual innuendo. The author, Archibald Pitcairne, was a celebrated physician and wit; this work demonstrates his talent for controversy. Indeed, so provocative was it deemed that despite being printed in 1722 and 1752, there is no record of any contemporary performance. This first modern edition is based on an early manuscript, with corrections possibly in Pitcairne’s own hand; it is presented with full contextual and historical notes.$60.00/£35.00(s) September 2012 978 1 89797 635 7 288pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

Renaissance Papers 2011Edited by ANDREW SHIFFLET T and EDWARD GIESKES

The 2011 volume of Renaissance Papers opens with three essays focused on Shakespeare, then turns to links between Renaissance drama and the wider culture, with essays on Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris, “overflowing” emotion in generically experimental plays of the first decade of the seventeenth century, and the “birdliming” of characters in Bartholomew Fair and Othello. Next come essays devoted to a trio of lyric poets: Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville and George Herbert. The volume closes with essays showcasing a range of interests in the history of ideas.$55.00/£30.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 527 8 160pp, 8.5 x 5.5, HB Renaissance Papers

Analog Fictions for the Digital AgeLiterary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000JULIA BREITBACH

Both realist, post-postmodernist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the legacy of analog photography in its recent digital incarnation depend on an aesthetics of trust and a sense of contingent referentiality. Julia Breitbach’s innovative study demonstrates how current photographic discourse may be used as an illuminating critical idiom for the analysis of recent forms of literary realism, thus proposing a photographic hermeneutics for the study of literature. Along with a thorough critical investigation of both fields, Breitbach offers a pioneering theoretical exploration of analog and digital

photography based on recent “thing theory,” which she then applies to in-depth analyses of realist aesthetics in selected post-millennial novels by Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Ali Smith, yielding fresh perspectives on the remediation between photography and literature in the twenty-first century. An original contribution to the study of contemporary Anglophone literatures with an interdisciplinary appeal, this study will be of interest especially to scholars and students in Anglophone literary studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and media studies.JULIA BREITBACH is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Constance, Germany.$75.00/£40.00(s) December 2012 978 1 57113 540 7 226pp, 9 x 6, HB European Studies in North American Literature and Culture

Dickens and ModernityEdited by JULIET JOHN

Dickens has become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. Yet what is the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to Dickens – Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs commerce – are false. A specially commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of Dickens. $50.00/£30.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84384 326 9 4 b/w illus.; 208pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Essays and Studies

Thomas KingWorks and ImpactEdited by EVA GRUBER

Thomas King is one of North America’s foremost Native writers, best known for his novels, including Green Grass, Running Water, for the DreadfulWater mysteries, and for collections of short stories such as One Good Story, That One and A Short History of Indians in Canada. But King is also a poet, a literary and cultural critic, and a noted filmmaker, photographer, and scriptwriter and performer for radio. Thomas King: Works and Impact provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of all major aspects of King’s oeuvre as well as its reception and influence. It brings together expert scholars to discuss King’s role in and impact on Native literature and its

processes of canonization and to offer in-depth analyses of his multifaceted body of work. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, English, and Native American studies, and to King aficionados.$90.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 1 57113 435 6 5 b/w illus.; 360pp, 9 x 6, HB European Studies in North American Literature and Culture

The Works of Thomas Traherne VCenturies of Meditations and Select MeditationsEdited by JAN ROSS

The Works of Thomas Traherne brings together for the first time all Traherne’s extant works, including his notebooks, in a definitive, printed edition. The six works in this volume are taken from two manuscripts. The first, held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Eng. th. e. 50), contains Centuries of Meditations; the other, held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (Osborn MS b. 308), is comprised of three works by Traherne, Select Meditations and two brief untitled treatises, “Being a Lover of the world” and “The best principle whereby a man can Steer his course”. $130.00/£75.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84384 327 6 6 b/w illus.; 464pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Works of Thomas Traherne

LITER ATURE: GERMAN

Edinburgh German Yearbook 6Sadness in Modern German-Language Literature and CultureEdited by MARY COSGROVE and ANNA RICHARDS

The focus of the sixth volume of the Yearbook, sadness, is a broad term denoting a universal human affect which is expressed differently in specific historical epochs. This volume investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness in German-language literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present, where it has fallen from the earlier grandiose heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Along with essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Jenny Erpenbeck and Julia Schoch.$75.00/£40.00(s) October 2012 978 1 57113 528 5 256pp, 9 x 6, HB Edinburgh German Yearbook


LITeRATURe: GeRMAN

Fictions from an Orphan StateLiterary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and HitlerANDREW BARKER

Spanning the two momentous decades between the fall of the empire in 1918 and the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, this book explores work by canonical writers such as Schnitzler, Kraus, Roth, and Werfel and by now-forgotten figures such as the pacifist Andreas Latzko, the arch-Nazi Bruno Brehm, and the fervently Jewish Soma Morgenstern. Also taken into account are Ernst Weiss’s “Hitler” novel Der Augenzeuge and 1930s works about First Republic Austria by the German Communist writers Anna Seghers and Friedrich Wolf. Andrew Barker’s book paints a varied and vivid picture of one of the most challenging and underresearched periods in twentieth-century cultural history.ANDREW BARKER is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.$75.00/£40.00(s) August 2012 978 1 57113 531 5 200pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEdited by CHARLOT TE WO ODFORD and BENEDICT SCHOFIELD

The late nineteenth century saw German unification, industrialization, and radical changes in science and philosophy; it was also a crucial period for the development of German fiction, with the rise of the mass market and hence the German bestseller. This volume investigates bestselling fiction of the period from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann in its material and social contexts, treating conditions of publication and reception alongside aesthetic questions. It offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on works read soon after publication by hundreds of thousands. Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of publishers and the marketplace; this volume sheds light on those changing expectations and writers’ attempts to find freedom and be innovative within those limits.$80.00/£45.00(s) July 2012 978 1 57113 487 5 11 b/w illus.; 292pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German CultureTextscapes, Filmscapes, SoundscapesMARIA STEHLE

Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has left the Nazi past and Cold War division behind and entered the new millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation. Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions between such views and the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism, provincialism, and fear of the perceived Other. Maria Stehle illuminates these tensions and transformations by following the metaphor of the ghetto in literary works from the 1990s by Feridun Zaimoglu, in German ghettocentric films from the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century, and in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods. In their representations of ghettos, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and performers redefine and challenge provincialism and nationalism and employ transcultural frameworks for their diverging political agendas. By contextualizing these discussions within social and political developments, this study illuminates the complexities that define Germany today for scholars and students across the disciplines of German, European, cultural, urban, and media studies.MARIA STEHLE is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.$75.00/£40.00(s) November 2012 978 1 57113 544 5 6 b/w illus.; 238pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

HouseboundSelfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German FictionMONIKA SHAFI

A host of contemporary German narratives featuring houses highlight the relationship between selfhood and domestic space. Beginning with a historical and theoretical overview of the house in German literature, Housebound analyzes the shelters – often highly ambivalent spaces – that writers such as Katharina Hacker, Arno Geiger, Walter Kappacher, Monika Maron, Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Barbara Honigmann, and Emine Sevgi özdamar build in their texts and what these reveal about contemporary selfhood in Germany and its relationship to the social world. The concluding comparative analysis of Katharina Hacker’s Die Habenichtse and the English novelist Ian McEwan’s Saturday reveals these developments in another national literature and makes a case for the global appeal of the domestic as a major site of identity politics.MONIKA SHAFI is the Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware. $75.00/£40.00(s) October 2012 978 1 57113 524 7 232pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Literary Studies and the Pursuits of ReadingEdited by ERIC D OWNING et al

Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory on reading, emotion, and affect alongside historical investigations into cultural practices of reading as they have changed over time. Topics addressed include ancient practices of magic reading; Christian conversionary reading; the emergence of silent reading in the Middle Ages; Renaissance ekphrastic reading; homeopathy, reading and Romanticism; and German-Jewish reading cultures in the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, German Studies, comparative literature, and European history.$75.00/£40.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 431 8 192pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Luise Gottsched the TranslatorHILARY BROWN

Critics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched (1713-62), Germany’s first prominent woman of letters, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation, which encompassed over fifty volumes and an extraordinary range, from drama and poetry to philosophy, history, archeology, even theoretical physics. This first comprehensive overview of Gottsched’s translations places them in the context of eighteenth-century intellectual, literary, and cultural history, showing that they were part of an ambitious, progressive program undertaken with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment. Including chapters on all the main subject areas and genres from which Gottsched translated, it also explores the relationship between her translations and her original works, demonstrating that translation was central to her oeuvre. A bibliography of Gottsched’s translations and source texts concludes the volume. HILARY BROWN is Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.$85.00/£55.00(s) July 2012 978 1 57113 510 0 7 b/w illus.; 260pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culturewww



LITeRATURe: GeRMAN / MedIevAL

MetamimesisImitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German RomanticismMAT TIAS PIRHOLT

Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship construes Early German Romanticism’s refutation of mimeticism as its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics’ conception of art as the very negation of the ideal of imitation. In this view, the Romantics saw art as production: imaginative, musical, transcendent. Mattias Pirholt’s book not only problematizes this view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe’s great pre-Romantic novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Among the novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde, Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen, and Clemens Brentano’s Godwi, seen to signal the end of Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the novels that came before it.MATTIAS PIRHOLT is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.$85.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 57113 534 6 1 b/w illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of HoursA New Translation with CommentaryRAINER MARIA RILKE Translated by SUSAN RANSON Ed. and int. by BEN HUTCHINSON

A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke’s luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary.Whether we see this collection of poems as an example of personal devotional musing or read it as the “seed of Rilke’s subsequent development,” it is well worth our attention. This is a lively and insightful work of criticism, scholarship, and creative translation. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

One of the pillars of 20th-century poetry, Rilke (1875-1926) was born in Prague, spent his life in Paris, Russia, and Germany, and died and was buried in Switzerland. In his thorough introduction, Hutchinson ... casts these poems in a new light, adding depth to them as presented in previous editions. CHOICE

The whole collection is newly translated here in fine, faithful versions by Susan Ranson, who captures the sonorities of the verse with apparent ease and

handles the difficulties of Rilke’s over-fondness for rhyme very judiciously. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

$29.95/£17.99(s) July 2012 978 1 57113 543 8 284pp, 9 x 6 Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Violent Women in PrintRepresentations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970sCLARE BIELBY

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger’s 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrate, West Germany’s terrorist period of the 1970s is still a fascinating – and troubling – subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof ’s life suggests that the combination of women and violence is still threatening. The present study returns to the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s and raises questions about the continuing preoccupation with this period. Looking at publications from the right-wing Bild to the liberal Der Spiegel – it explores how violent women – not only terrorists but also others such as the convicted murderer and media femme fatale Vera Brühne – were represented in text and image. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective.CLARE BIELBY is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2012 978 1 57113 530 8 35 b/w illus.; 224pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

LITER ATURE: MEDIEVAL

Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to SpenserMARCO NIEVERGELT

The literary motif of the “allegorical knightly quest” appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser’s Faerie Queene but including important, lesser-known works such as Stephen Bateman’s Travayled Pylgrime and William Goodyear’s Voyage of the Wandering Knight, the author argues that the tradition begins with the French writer Guillaume Deguileville. His seminal Pèlerinage de la vie humaine was composed c.1331-1355; it was widely adapted, translated, rewritten and printed over the next centuries. Dr Nievergelt goes on to demonstrate how this essentially “medieval” literary form could be adapted to articulate reflections on changing patterns of identity,

society and religion during the early modern period; and how it becomes a vehicle of self-exploration and self-fashioning during a period of profound cultural crisis. $90.00/£50.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84384 328 3 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary CultureAuthorship and Authority in a Female CommunityEdited by JENNIFER N. BROWN and D ONNA ALFANO BUSSELL

Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women’s education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books. The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging exanination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women’s texts.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 90315 343 7 1 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and MarriageCATHY HUME

Chaucer’s preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and advice literature for women to shed new light on the competing cultures of love and marriage that troubled both Chaucer himself and his contemporaries. Beginning with a concise summary of the history of marriage in fourteenth-century England, and making use of recent research in social history, the volume goes on to analyse letter collections and advice books in order to reconstruct late medieval ideology and practice. Among other elements, the author discusses the flirtatiousness of court culture, the anti-love discourse of advice literature, courtship conventions, rival models of marriage among the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, and the pathos of arranged marriages.$95.00/£55.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84384 321 4 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures


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Cognitive Approaches to Old English PoetryANTONINA HARBUS

Cognitive approaches to literature offer new and exciting ways of interpreting literature and mentalities, by bringing ideas and methodologies from Cognitive Science into the analysis of literature and culture. While these approaches are of particular value in relation to understanding the texts of remote societies, they have to date made very little impact on Anglo-Saxon Studies. This book therefore acts as a pioneer, demonstrating in practice its application to a range of key vernacular poetic texts, including Beowulf, The Wanderer, and poems from the Exeter Book. Adapting key ideas from three related fields – Cognitive Literary/Cultural Studies, Cognitive Poetics, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory – in conjunction with more familiar models, allows several new ways of thinking about Old English literature to emerge. It permits a systematic means of examining and accounting for the conceptual structures that underpin Anglo-Saxon poetics, as well as fuller explorations, at the level of mental processing, of the workings of literary language in context. The result is a set of approaches to interpreting Anglo-Saxon textuality, through detailed studies of the concepts, mental schemas, and associative logic implied in and triggered by the evocative language and meaning structures of surviving works.ANTONINA HARBUS is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.$85.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84384 325 2 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Sir Thomas Malory: The Morte DarthurEdited by P.J.C. FIELD

Malory completed his Morte Darthur before March 1470. The manuscript is lost, but the two most important surviving witnesses to its text were both produced shortly afterwards: Caxton’s edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed around 1480 but lost until 1934. All major modern scholarly editions have favoured one of these to the point of preserving corrigible error. The present edition is based on the Winchester manuscript, but treats it merely as the most important single piece of evidence for what Malory intended, and the default text unless other readings are more probable.$260.00/£150.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 314 6 24.4 x 17.2, HB Arthurian Studies

John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century EnglandDAVID R . CARLSON

John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower’s English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, Gower was not the only medieval writer to be so employed in serving a monarchy’s goals. Professor Carlson also argues that Gower’s late poetry is the apotheosis of the fourteenth-century tradition of state-official writing which lay at the origin of the literary Renaissance in Ricardian and Lancastrian England.DAVID CARLSON is Professor in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.$95.00/£55.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84384 315 3 250pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Publications of the John Gower Society

John Lydgate and the Poetics of FameMARY C. FLANNERY

“Fame” is identified here as the key to Lydgate’s authorial self-fashioning in Chaucer’s wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame within the literary, cultural and political landscape of late-medieval England, indicating how he diverges from Chaucer’s treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident model of authorship, according to which poets are the natural makers and recipients of fame. The ways in which Lydgate draws on fourteenth-century poetry are discussed, the advisory tradition, and the laureate ideology borne out of trecento Italy; she shows that he deploys them to play upon reader anxieties in his short poems on dangerous speech, while depicting poets as the ultimate arbiters of fame in his longer poems and dramatic works.MARY C. FLANNERY is Lecturer in Medieval English, Queen Mary University of London.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 331 3 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Performance and the Middle English RomanceLINDA MARIE ZAERR

Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves.LINDA MARIE ZAERR is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84384 323 8 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval Romance

Rethinking Medieval TranslationEthics, Politics, TheoryEdited by EMMA CAMPBELL and ROBERT MILLS

Medieval notions of translatio raise issues that have since been debated in contemporary translation studies concerning the translator’s role as interpreter or author; the ability of translation to reinforce or unsettle linguistic or political dominance; and translation’s capacity for establishing cultural contact, or participating in cultural appropriation or effacement. This collection puts these ethical and political issues centre stage, asking whether questions currently being posed by theorists of translation need rethinking or revising when brought into dialogue with medieval examples. Contributors explore translation – as a practice, a necessity, an impossibility and a multi-media form – through multiple perspectives on language, theory, dissemination and cultural transmission. Exploring texts, authors, languages and genres not often brought together in a single volume, individual essays focus on topics such as the politics of multilingualism, the role of translation in conflict situations, the translator’s invisibility, hospitality, untranslatability and the limits of translation as a category.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 329 0 16 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBwww

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Runes: a HandbookMICHAEL P. BARNES

A comprehensive guide to runes and runology, covering all aspects of the subject. It begins by discussing the origin of runes, their development in Europe (especially Scandinavia) and in Anglo-Saxon England, and the demise of traditional runic writing at the end of the Middle Ages. It then moves on to look at the different types of runic inscription and their context; cryptic runes; rune names; the use of runes in the post-Reformation era; the practicalities of how runic inscriptions were made and where they are to be found; and how runologists read and interpret inscriptions, together with a history of runology. A glossary of technical terms and essential information on speech sounds are also provided, while the numerous illustrations shed further light on the subject. MICHAEL P. BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Philology, University College London.$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 778 7 40 b/w illus.; 288pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600MERRIDEE L. BAILEY

The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. The author examines how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the period for parents, teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family reading networks into the context of debates on the history of childhood, and the history of the book. MERRIDEE L. BAILEY is a lecturer at the Department of History, Australia National University.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 1 90315 342 0 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

Studies in Medievalism XXICorporate MedievalismEdited by KARL FUGELSO

Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book, contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing specific case studies with broader investigations of the discipline’s motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley’s racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston’s Sir Gawain and the treatment of women in medievalist film. The book also includes a spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the topic neomedievalism.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84384 322 1 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medievalism

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The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicA Social and Cultural HistoryDAVID C.H. WRIGHT

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music has influenced the musical lives and tastes of millions of people since it conducted its first exams in 1890. This ground-breaking history explores how the ABRSM became such a formative influence and looks at some of the consequences resulting from its pre-eminent position in British musical life. Particular emphasis is given to how free the ABRSM has been to impose its musical view and to what extent its exams respond to the circumstances and musical preferences of its customers. The book’s exploration of how the ABRSM has negotiated music’s changing social, educational and cultural landscape casts fresh light on the challenges facing music education today. David Wright’s comprehensive history of the ABRSM, covering the entire period from 1890 to the present day, sets the institution and its work firmly within its historical and cultural context. The ABRSM’s exams were exported all across the Empire, and this study shows how both exams and examiners made a telling cultural contribution to the idea of the ‘British World’. $90.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 734 3 10 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

British Music and Literary ContextArtistic Connections in the Long Nineteenth CenturyMICHAEL ALLIS

This book refutes the notion that British composers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century lacked literary credentials, showing that they instead displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. It explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a ‘way in’ to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical ‘readings’ of those texts.MICHAEL ALLIS is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music, University of Leeds$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 730 5 1 b/w illus.; 318pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Music in Britain, 1600-1900

Britten in PicturesEdited by LUCY WALKER et al

Benjamin Britten was one of the most important cultural figures in England in the twentieth century. Internationally renowned as a composer, performer, and founder of the Aldeburgh Festival and English Opera Group, he had a career spanning nearly five decades, producing a series of works such as Peter Grimes and the War Requiem. Britten in Pictures celebrates the many facets of Britten’s life in a major new photographic treatment timed to coincide with the composer’s centenary in 2013. Using the wealth of images housed in the collections of The Britten-Pears Foundation at Aldeburgh, the book charts the curve of Britten’s life, using a selection of rare and previously unpublished images to reveal him anew in all phases of his career, catching a multitude of informal glimpses of the man ‘behind the scenes’ at work and play as well as in more familiar formal settings. The result is a new and often surprising portrait of this major musical genius. Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation.

$34.95/£19.99 September 2012 978 1 84383 749 7 80 colour illus.; 320 b/w illus.; 288pp, 22 x 22, PB




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Making MusiciansA Personal History of the Britten-Pears SchoolMOIRA BENNET T

Moira Bennett worked at the Britten-Pears School in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. She charts its forty-year history, embodying its founders’ initial vision of a bridge between conservatory and career for gifted young musicians, from ad hoc classes in a grainstore at Snape, to an annual calendar of non-stop courses for singers, string players and ensembles in its own building and fully staged operas in the Maltings, to its current incarnation as the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Some of the most eminent teachers from Europe, the United States and beyond have come to teach at Snape. These include founder-director Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, Galina Vishnevskaya, Jacqueline du Pré, Mitsuko Uchida, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ton Koopman, and members of the Amadeus Quartet. This authoritative and anecdotal historical survey of the work of the School is generously illustrated and studded with quotations from many faculty members and former students.$24.95/£14.99 May 2012 978 0 95716 720 9 120 b/w illus.; 224pp, 17 x 24, PB Bittern Press

A Dance of Polar OppositesThe Continuing Transformation of Our Musical LanguageGEORGE RO CHBERG Edited by JEREMY GILL

In this book, the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some three hundred years. He describes how the asymmetrical tonal language of the late eighteenth century – the era of Haydn and Mozart – evolved, through the gradual incursion of symmetry, into a system based on the juxtaposition of tonal and atonal, asymmetrical and symmetrical-as seen in notable composers such as Webern, Prokofiev, and Rochberg himself. GEORGE ROCHBERG (1918-2005) was one of the most respected composers and writers about music in the second half of the twentieth century. His writings include The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer’s View of Twentieth-Century Music (which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award); the memoir Five Lines, Four Spaces; and a volume of letters.$75.00/£50.00(s) July 2012 978 1 58046 413 0 1 b/w illus.; 186pp, 9 x 6 Eastman Studies in Music

Dear DorothyLetters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy AdlowNICOLAS SLONIMSKY Edited by ELECTRA YOURKE

Among the many achievements of a long life, Nicolas Slonimsky introduced modern music, and American music in particular, to foreign and domestic audiences through conducting, writing, lecturing, and interacting with composers and musicians of all nationalities. From his travels as musical ambassador, he wrote letters to his wife, the art critic Dorothy Adlow, vividly and humorously describing his adventures. Slominsky’s letters are informal and often vivid descriptions of his adventures as a musical ambassador, an observer, and a participant. They provide important new information that will be of interest to scholars and students, yet are written in a lively, humorous style, depicting places, people, the vagaries of travel, and the anxieties of stretching limited funds to cover an ever-expanding itinerary.ELECTRA YOURKE is the daughter of Nicolas Slonimsky and Dorothy Adlow, and editor of several collections of her father’s work, including The Listener’s Companion and the four-volume Writings on Music.$49.95/£30.00 December 2012 978 1 58046 395 9 1 b/w illus.; 299pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Elliott Carter’s “What Next?” Communication, Cooperation, and SeparationGUY CAPUZZO

In 1997, the eminent American composer Elliott Carter teamed with British music critic/librettist Paul Griffiths to create the one-act opera “What Next?” Hailed by the New York Times as “theatrically dynamic” and “poignant,” the opera explores how six people work together to emerge from the wreckage of an accident. Today, “What Next?” enjoys a prominent position in Carter’s celebrated “late late” compositional period. Capuzzo uses the metaphors of communication, cooperation, and separation to trace the dramatic arc of “What Next?” Through an approach that places stage action, words, and music on equal footing, Capuzzo’s readings of four excerpts from the opera reveal the inner workings of Carter and Griffiths’s tragicomedy. GUY CAPUZZO is associate professor of music theory at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro.$75.00/£40.00(s) September 2012 978 1 58046 419 2 222pp, 0 x 0 Eastman Studies in Music

A General Theory of Segmentation and Associative Organization for Music AnalysisD ORA HANNINEN

This book introduces a theory of music analysis – a language and conceptual framework – that analysts can use to delve into aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire from the Baroque to the present. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with a precise language and broad, flexible conceptual framework that they can when formulating and investigating questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory (with copious musical illustrations) is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris.DORA A. HANNINEN is associate professor of music theory at the University of Maryland. She was recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.$99.00/£65.00(s) October 2012 978 1 58046 194 8 600pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

History in Mighty Sounds Musical Constructions of German National Identity, 1848 -1914BARBARA EICHNER

Music played a central role in the self-conception of many Germans between the 1848 Revolution and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be ‘universal’ and thus apolitical, it participated in the historicist project of shaping the nation’s future by calling on the national heritage. A wide variety of musical genres, ranging from pre- and post-Wagnerian opera to popular choruses to symphonic poems, provides for a new perspective on how national identities were constructed, shaped and celebrated in and through music.BARBARA EICHNER is Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University.$95.00/£55.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 754 1 14 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Music in Society and Culturewww

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Lennox Berkeley and FriendsWritings, Letters and InterviewsEdited by PETER DICKINSON

This book is a major source of information about one of the most influential British composers of the mid-twentieth century and the musicians he knew. It also provides details of the musical relationship between Paris and London before, during and after World War II. Berkeley had a ring-side seat when he lived in Paris, studied with Nadia Boulanger, and wrote reviews about musical life there from 1929 to 1934. His unknown letters to her reveal the mesmeric power of this extraordinary woman. Berkeley was an elegant writer and it is fascinating to read his first-hand memories of composers such as Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Britten. The book also contains interviews with Berkeley’s colleagues, friends and family. These include performers such as Julian Bream and Norman Del Mar; composers Nicholas Maw and Malcolm Williamson; the composer’s eldest son Michael, the composer and broadcaster, and Lady Berkeley. Lennox Berkeley knew Britten well and there are many references to him in this collection.PETER DICKINSON is a British composer and pianist. His books include The Music of Lennox Berkeley (2003) and studies of Copland, Cage, Lord Berners and Barber. Dickinson knew Berkeley from 1956 until the composer’s death in 1989 and has written regularly about his music.$90.00/£45.00 October 2012 978 1 84383 785 5 32 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976Volume Six: 1966-1976Edited by PHILIP REED and MERVYN CO OKE

The sixth and final volume of correspondence covers the composer’s last decade. The genesis, composition and premieres of major stage works such as Owen Wingrave, commissioned by BBC Television, and Death in Venice are fully documented, as are the church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son. Important concert works from this period include the powerful Brecht setting, Children’s Crusade, Canticles IV and V (both settings of poetry by T. S. Eliot), Phaedra (for Janet Baker) and the Third String Quartet, with its haunting echoes of Death in Venice. The volume also traces the conversion of Snape Maltings into the Aldeburgh Festival’s principal concert venue, its destruction by fire on the opening night of the 1969 Festival and its miraculous rebuilding in time for the following year’s Festival, as well as major concert tours by Britten and Pears to New York, Canada, South America, Moscow and Leningrad, Australia, and New Zealand. Close attention is paid to Britten’s final years, when his failed heart surgery left him a near invalid. As in previous volumes, Britten’s letters to his life partner and principal interpreter, the tenor

Peter Pears, remain central. Other significant correspondents include the Queen and Queen Mother; librettists William Plomer and Myfanwy Piper; artistic collaborators Frederick Ashton, Colin Graham and John Piper; musicians Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Mstislav Rostropovich; and composers Oliver Knussen, Dmitri Shostakovich and William Walton.Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation.

$80.00/£45.00 November 2012 978 1 84383 725 1 50 b/w illus.; 832pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Selected Letters of Britten


Lionel Tertis The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola JOHN WHITE

Examines the life and work of Lionel Tertis, almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century.In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written biography John White encapsulates this noble man and artist as never before...White’s achievement is to bring not only his subject fully to life but also the times in which he lived via an impressive range of articles, recollections, reviews and letters...magnificent. BB C MUSIC MAGAZINE

White, himself a distinguished violist, has written a highly informed and engaging biography...He offers an abundance of correspondence, articles, personal recollections and tributes; these, complemented by touching photographs, vividly bring to life Tertis’s indomitable, sometimes fearsome, yet lovable character and even physical presence. THE STRAD

Hopefully this book, easily one of the greatest ever written about a violist, will find its way into hundreds of studios and libraries...and put Lionel Tertis’ fascinating life and achievements into proper perspective. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VIOLA SO CIET Y

$29.95/£16.99 November 2012 978 1 84383 790 9 464pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

PaganiniThe ‘Demonic’ VirtuosoMAI KAWABATA

This book considers Paganini’s performance innovations in the light of contemporary attitudes towards music and the supernatural, gender, sexuality, violence, heroism, masculinity, as well conceptions of power. A swirl of cultural factors coalesced in the performer to create that phenomenon of Romanticism, a larger-than- life Gothic villain. Because the mythology surrounding the violinist outlived and outgrew the man to monstrous proportions, so too did the idea of virtuosity inflate out of control, acquiring a potent, overwhelmingly negative aura in the process. An appendix brings together late nineteenth-century British press and literature coverage of Paganini that contributed to the developing myth surrounding the now famous composer and performer.MAI KAWABATA is Lecturer in Music at the University of East Anglia and a professional violinist.$80.00/£45.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 756 5 16 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Pierre CochereauOrganist of Notre-DameANTHONY HAMMOND

This book examines the career of one of the twentieth century’s greatest French organists, Pierre Cochereau (1924-84). Described by his teacher, Marcel Dupré, as “a phenomenon without equal in the history of the contemporary organ,” Pierre Cochereau had a glittering, worldwide career. The book provides a biographical study compiled with the help of Cochereau’s surviving family and friends, from a variety of existing sources and with reference to the previously overlooked archive films in the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, France. $85.00/£55.00(s) September 2012 978 1 58046 405 5 36 b/w illus.; 412pp, 0 x 0 Eastman Studies in Music

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania DutchDANIEL JAY GRIMMINGER

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the only in-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as seen in their music. Through a closer examination of music sources, folk art, and historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches.$85.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 58046 383 6 85 b/w illus.; 262pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music




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Toscanini in BritainCHRISTOPHER DYMENT

During the 1930s Arturo Toscanini conducted many concerts broadcast by the BBC from London’s Queen’s Hall, where he also made some unsurpassed recordings. Drawing on new material in British and American archives, including the BBC and EMI, the author reveals how the most renowned and influential conductor of the twentieth century, notoriously microphone-shy though he was, came to conduct so frequently in London, a tale replete with unexpected twists, turns and ingenious stratagems.CHRISTOPHER DYMENT has written extensively about historic conductors since the 1970s, particularly Felix Weingartner and Arturo Toscanini. $50.00/£30.00 November 2012 978 1 84383 789 3 61 b/w illus.; 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Verdi’s “Il trovatore”The Quintessential Italian MelodramaMARTIN CHUSID

No full-length study has ever been written of Il trovatore, an opera that was Verdi’s most successful in his own day. This book aims to fill that gap, and in the process reviews some old and offers several new perspectives on the opera. Although focusing primarily on the music, the volume also traces the origins of the original play El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It also explores the reception and diffusion of the opera by studying contemporary reviews and letters. Chusid includes a section on some of the more important performers of the opera in the twentieth century (for example, Toscanini and Caruso), as well as a consideration of several of the more unusual contemporary stagings of the work mounted during the final decades of the century. MARTIN CHUSID is professor emeritus of music, New York University, and founding director of American Institute for Verdi Studies.$75.00/£40.00(s) November 2012 978 1 58046 422 2 168pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

Wagner and Venice FictionalizedVariations on a ThemeJOHN W. BARKER

The vast literature about Richard Wagner and his works includes a surprising number of fictional works. Many of these deal with his last years and his death in Venice in 1883 – and even a fabricated eleventh-hour romance. These fictional treatments – many presented here in English for the first time – reveal a striking evolution in the way that Wagner’s character and reputation have been viewed over more than a century. They offer insights into changing contexts in Western intellectual and cultural history. And they make clear how much Wagner’s associations with Venice have become part of the accumulated mythology of “the floating city.”JOHN W. BARKER is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an active music critic and journalist.$75.00/£40.00(s) August 2012 978 1 58046 410 9 18 b/w illus.; 366pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

West End BroadwayThe American Musical in London, 1945-1972ADRIAN WRIGHT

Despite countless books on American musicals, there has never been a book that deals specifically with the history of American musicals produced in London. This book is a history and a re-evaluation not only of the London productions but of the works themselves. Beginning with a brief account on the origins of the Broadway musical and the period of World War II, the book goes on to cover in chronological order every American musical in London’s West End between 1945 and 1972, the ‘Golden Age’ of the American musical. With the end of war, new writers and composers emerged, along with changing attitudes to what musical theatre might be. Works that had proved successes in New York collapsed in London. In London, the works confronted a very different social context, and a strikingly different critical stance. The wider relevance of this history is accentuated as is the fact that these works effectively imported America’s social history into the very different culture of a Britain coping with aftermath of war. Also covered is the changing attitude to sexual behaviour in the American musical in London.ADRIAN WRIGHT is the author of several biographies including The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn (2008) and the novel Maroon (2010). His previous book, A Tanner’s Worth of Tune (2010), told the story of the post-war British musical, and he runs Must Close Saturday Records, a company dedicated to British musical theatre.$45.00/£25.00 November 2012 978 1 84383 791 6 40 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Yoruba Music in the Twentieth CenturyB ODE OMOJOLA

Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional Yoruba genres such as bata and dundun drumming as well as more contemporary genres such as Yoruba popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impact of Christianity and Islam on Yoruba musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yoruba musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, who have continued to draw from indigenous Yoruba musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment. BODE OMOJOLA is Five College Assistant Professor of Music at Mt. Holyoke College.$85.00/£55.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 409 3 28 b/w illus.; 342pp, 9 x 6, PB Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology

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Modern German Thought from Kant to HabermasAn Annotated German-Language ReaderEdited by HENK DE BERG and DUNCAN LARGE

After an introduction charting the remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the eighteenth century, this book offers extracts – in the original German – from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive introductions and annotations in English. All extracts are carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of reason or the history of modern selfhood. The book offers students and scholars of German a complement to linguistic, historical, and literary study by giving them access to the wealth of German-language philosophy. It represents a new way into the work of a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and thus remain of crucial relevance today.THE PHILOSOPHERS: Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas.$85.00/£55.00(s) 978 1 57113 545 2, HB

$34.95/£17.99 978 1 57113 354 0, PB

320pp, 9 x 6, October 2012 Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

PR E V IOu SLY A N NOu NC E D

Modernity and PlatoTwo Paradigms of RationalityARB O GAST SCHMIT T Translated by VISHWA ADLURI

Modernity’s break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato’s idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the “old” concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt’s book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life based on theory and one based on praxis in order to provide a balance sheet of profit and loss. Showing that the Enlightenment did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a different concept of rationality, the book opens one’s view to other forms of rationality and new possibilities of reconciliation with one’s own – that is, Western – history.$99.00/£55.00(s) August 2012 978 1 57113 497 4 640pp, 9.5 x 6.25, HB

POLITICS

The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics P.J. BRENDESE

The phrase politics of memory refers to the ways expressions of political power shape what is available to be remembered, the spaces in which public memory takes shape, who is allowed to recall the past, and the practices, occasions, and timing of remembering and forgetting. The Power of Memory offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory’s ongoing impact on democratic horizons. The cases considered span the democracy of ancient Athens, South Africa’s effort to transition from apartheid by democratizing memory via its landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mexico’s struggle to fortify democratic accountability by persecuting those responsible for the atrocities and disappearances of the “dirty war,” and the unresolved legacy of slavery in U.S. race relations. P.J. BRENDESE is visiting assistant professor of political science at Haverford College.$75.00/£40.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 423 9 308pp, 9 x 6, HB

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal RightsCHRISTINE L. RIDARSKY and MARY M. HUTH

Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights explores the diversity of thought and action in women’s involvement in nineteenth-century U.S. reform movements, especially those to which Anthony dedicated her life: women’s rights, racial equality, and temperance. Activists routinely faced hostility from opponents who did not share their views, but challenges did not always come from the outside. While advocates of particular reforms may have shared common goals, they often differed in opinion on how best to achieve those goals. Thus, activists’ passions for their causes sometimes lead to conflict over tactical and philosophical issues within organized reform movements. Women’s responses to the challenges they faced – both internal and external – were as numerous, complex, and varied as the challenges themselves. The essays in this volume examine some of the challenges and conflicts that confronted female reformers, as well as women’s varied roles in and responses to them.$75.00/£40.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 425 3 3 b/w illus.; 286pp, 9 x 6, HB Gender and Race in American History

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