The highly regarded scholar of Romanesque sculpture in Italy, Glass breaks from the long-standing focus in the art history of Italy on names and styles to give precedence instead to the specifics of c
The just war tradition usually refers to the body of ideas concerning the justification for going to war and the justness of kinds of warfare that has been developed in the Christian West, but of cour
Through analyzing the implementation of a series of European Court of Justice rulings in the key member states of Germany, France and the UK, The End of Territoriality brings the high impact issue of
Whitford (United Theological Seminary, US) investigates how passages from Genesis came to be used to blame Africans for the slavery that Europeans were subjecting them to, and how and why there are st
Mario Carranza studies in depth the linkages between Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations and the International Nuclear Order. He critically analyzes the de facto recognition by the United States of India
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815a€“1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation
Edited by Ye (African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya), Sankoh (INDEPTH Network, Ghana), Kouyate (Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Burkina Faso) and Sauerbor
The eighteenth century saw the rise of an affluent middle class in Europe. Heretofore, most studies have focused on France, England and America. North (modern history, Ernst Moritz Arndt University) c
Kraft (English, U. of Georgia, US) began by investigating what women writers of the Restoration and 18th century in England say about female heterosexual desire. Her study kept sprouting new branches
The essays in this volume in honour of Martin Brett address issues relating to the compilation and transmission of canon law collections, the role of bishops in their dissemination, as well as the int
This book studies how doctors responded to a€“ and helped shape a€“ deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-rangin
With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity, class and sexuality, this book provides a much need
Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of basso
Revising his doctoral dissertation in history at Trinity College, Dublin, where he teaches today, Healy discusses Hugh's account of the conflict between Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073-85) and Henry IV of G
Kippen (music, U. of Toronto, Canada) provides a translation of the Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati, a manual of drum playing in North Indian music from 1903, and also considers its ideas (and the late
Dorato (U. of Rome) finds the universe to be orderly, defined by laws of nature which are immutable and essential not only to the workings of our world but our understanding of it. However, he also fi
This book, which is the first comprehensive analysis of financial integration and regulation in Africa, fills a huge gap in the literature on financial regulation and constitutes an invaluable source
Seventy-seven letters from an upper-class English woman to her paramour offer a window in to a courtship that, the editor argues, are marked by the intelligence of the writer and her insistence of bei
In 1105, six years after the first crusaders from Europe conquered Jerusalem, a Damascene Muslim jurisprudent named a€?Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) publicly dictated an extended call to the milit
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned
Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields.
Could the vitality of embodied experience create a foundation for a new form of revolutionary authority? The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde movem
Global commons are domains that fall outside the direct jurisdiction of sovereign states - the high seas, air, space, and most recently man-made cyberspace - and thus should be usable by anyone. These
The 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the Occupy Wall Street movement all share a number of distinctive traits; they made extensive use of social networking and were
This collection of a dozen essays is instigated by the work of political geographer Kevin Cox. Cox focuses on the intersection of state policy and urban politics, concepts of territory and space, the
Stanford (humanities, classics, and comparative literature; Brigham Young U.) introduces Strasbourg's Archives Municipaux Oeuvre Notre-Dame 1, to a wider scholarly audience and contextualizes it withi
Loud (medieval Italian history, University of Leeds) has provided a wonderful addition to the Ashgate series of Crusade texts in translation. The Third Crusade is often discussed only in terms of Rich
Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past ten years and scholars have increasingly realized that their bold and often unorthodox works chall
Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the "German Faust Book" (1587) and its English translation (1592), this book argues that these works transformed a simple rogue's tale i
Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (1756-1829) was born in Germany and lived from 1782 at St James's Palace, London, where he was organist and schoolmaster of His Majesty's German Chapel. He was o
Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cult
In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census
An important and critical re-evaluation of the Galerie Espagnole, this book presents new interpretations of the special collection of Spanish (or purportedly Spanish) paintings formed under Louis-Phil
Throughout human history, scholars, statesmen and military leaders have attempted to define what constitutes the legitimate use of armed force by one community against another. Moreover, if force is t
How did a musical form restricted by studios and distributors to African American artists and markets from the 1920s to the 1950s land within earshot of 1960s British teens? Schwartz (historical music
In the latest addition to Ashgate's Studies in Labour History Honeyman (history, Leeds) focuses on the lives and fate of children sent by their parishes to work in textiles mills. The children were ap
Once described as 'England's Apollo' James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1674a€“1744) was an outstanding patron of the arts during the first half of the eighteenth century. Having acquired great wea
Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial configurations. In many ways, their enduring success and vitality lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange of econom
Hoare (emeritus theoretical physics, U. of London) is not satisfied with merely recounting the technical innovation and occasional virtuosity in the effort to measure humans' home planet. Rather he de
