This collection features 15 of Cressy's essays published between 1976 and 1996 exploring the interaction of rulers and subjects, and the linkage between the affairs of the kingdom and everyday life.
Bogucka has collected twenty articles, published in English, German, and French between 1973-1999, that deal with subjects of commerce, trade, the social history in towns, and culture and customs in t
Written for European professionals involved in managing library and information staff, the fourth edition of this text has been completely revised and updated to incorporate changes since publication
This book analyses the dichotomy between the goal of social inclusion and the effect of social exclusion through over-indebtedness since 2008 in Europe. Filling a vital gap in the current literature o
This collection includes eleven essays written between 1986 to 1997. They describe the structure and functioning of the patronage system, as well as its political implications (especially as concerns
Augmenting his Ph.D. dissertation for Wolverhampton University (no date noted), Mansfield aspires to reconcile academic research into aspects of labor history with the inherited knowledge of the patri
Ibn Shaddad was 53 and had just performed haj when he was persuaded not to return home to Mosul but to stay in Syria and Palestine in the service of the Sultan Saladin, who was on a rising tide of v
Volume 13 of a collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750, both by women and for and about them. The series provides an extensive collection of the separately published writings reprinted so
Presents 11 original essays and three expanded revisions of essays published between 1976 and 1999. Contributors deal with some of French opera's unfamiliar roots and characteristics, and attempt to i
Twenty-two articles from 1965-96 two published here for the first time by the aptly named Mainstone (the preface's St. Albans sign-off being the only clue to the author's affiliation) include five ge
Intended as a companion and continuation of her earlier collection Armenia between Byzantium and the Sasanians Garsonan continues to emphasize relations between Armenia and Sasanian Persia on its ea
The result of a sustained collaboration encompassing scholars of sociology, social policy, and politics at a number of European universities. Disparate assumptions and approaches underlie the 11 essay
Looks at issues that arise from sharing biotechnology between institutions or countries. Among them are intellectual property rights, the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in agricultu
This book is aimed at those with responsibilities for audit, risk and control - auditors of course - but also finance directors, audit committee members, project accountants, systems designers and oth
The 11 essays in this collection were initially published between 1973 and 1990. Four essays discuss Sheffield, illustrating its industrial and technical associations and achievements, the widening ci
Contains ten essays which resulted from an April 1995 conference sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University. The authors do more than just redeem the Middle Ages as
Discusses the tragic consequences of the voyage of the HMS Bounty in 1790, when 15 men and 12 women intentionally marooned themselves on a small island to create a perfect society. Looks at the role
This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europea€?s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the
"When you're in New York" the sculptor Louise Nevelson once said, "you're in perpetual resurrection." She might have said the same thing about St. Peter's Lutheran
Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan an
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author M
This book addresses womena€?s rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve the problem posed by the perception that there is a
Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For a
Providing a fresh evaluation of Albertia€?s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared e
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into a€?street literaturea€? - that is, the cheap printed broadsides a
Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later c
Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean. The first part of the book discusses t
The Orient was central to the work of Marx and Weber, both figures building their theories around the question of why modernity appeared to emerge only in the West. While Marxa€?s account focused on t
This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of a truly exceptional Byzantine illustrated manuscript. Paris, BibliothA‥que Nationale de France, codex grec 54 is one
With a few exceptions, historiography has paid little attention to the impact of French economic thought during the American Revolution, focusing instead on the Revolutiona€?s links with Britain. This
This book examines the complex and conflicting relationships between LGBT people and our cultural and heritage organisations including libraries, museums and archives. In this unique book established
Value aggregation to goods and services is unbelievably important to the balance of trade of modern nations, yet it receives minute attention by economists and policy-makers alike. In Competitiveness
Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and practices entangled in identity formations. This is par
Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In pa
Wettersten (U. of Mannheim, Germany) seeks to construct a scientific theory of social institutions and rationality that avoids the either extreme of reducing them to parts of a larger holistic rationa
Identifying the current socio-legal situation of Muslims and their legal attitudes from different perspectives, Yilmaz (Oriental and African studies, U. of London) analyzes the conflict between the as
Marshall Sahlins' 1992 article The Economics of Develop-man in the Pacific, which is included here, was the inspiration, but the origins or the project fulfilled here lay in a session of the 1998 meet
The 12 papers collected here, first published in journals or proceedings between 1987 and 2001, are devoted to both specific and broad topics of science and learning in the Ottoman Empire, and as such
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Lovea€?s fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of th
"Garcia de Orta's book, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the main town and capital of the Portuguese empire in the East. A Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestr
