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Late merovingian france
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships.
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The jews in western europe, 1400–1600
Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period.
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The law of international organisations
Substantially updated for its third edition, this book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to inter-governmental organisations, with a focus on the UN and its associated bodies.
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The roman actor
Edition of Philip Massinger's most renowned play, part of the inestimable Revels Plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama
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Shakespeare's cinema of love
Shakespeare's cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing arguments are made for the links between his comedies of love and genres such as 'screwball' comedy, musicals, romantic comedy and tragic love films.
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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
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André téchiné
The first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, locating André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, contemporary globialisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman,...
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Network neutrality
This book explains net neutrality battles in Europe, the United States and in developing countries such as India. He explains its history, engineering, policy challenge, legislation and regulation, dividing it into its negative/'lite' and positive/'heavy' elements: Specialized Services for video ...
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The united states, the soviet union and the arab-israeli conflict, 1948–67
This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the region and the two superpowers.
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The tamer tamed; or, the woman’s prize
This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatric...
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Monasticism in late medieval england, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.
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Luc besson
Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.
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The revenger's tragedy
This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of th...
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The world of el cid
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Díaz, better r...
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Clive barker
A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (...
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Diane kurys
This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.
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Soledades. galerías. otros poemas
Presents an alternative reading of this seminal collection of poems, in English for the first time.
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The lives of thomas becket
This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. It provides a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the events.
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Bound together
This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.
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Poetaster
Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands so skilful...
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Non-western responses to terrorism
This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.
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Marcel pagnol
First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director.
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Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the cou...
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History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Agnes varda
The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of important themes across her work.
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Interventions
This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in liter...
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The shoemaker's holiday
Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic,...
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Beginning postmodernism
This second edition of Beginning postmodernism offers clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects.
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Robert bresson
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his litt...
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Huerto cerrado by alfredo bryce echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world.
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Bauman and contemporary sociology
This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagem...
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El castigo sin venganza
An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega’s best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student.
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Confronting crisis in the carolingian empire
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by...
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La casa de bernarda alba
La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de...
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Bodas de sangre
Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism c...
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Nudge, nudge, think, think
This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a se...
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Spanish contemporary poetry
A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem.
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Anne clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All t...
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Ideal homes
Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the hi...
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Artículos de costumbres
A collection of satirical articles by the influential nineteenth-century Spanish journalist Mariano José de Larra.
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Mother bombie
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their m...
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She-wolf
She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
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Affective medievalism
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
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A trick to catch the old one
First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature
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Jacques rivette
A complete survey – the first in English – of Jacques Rivette’s sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day.
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Jean-luc godard
This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema. Drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950.
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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
This is the first comprehensive critical edition of Pablo Neruda’s internationally renowned and widely studies collection of poems Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada to appear in English.
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Stacking the coffins
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life – culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life.
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Critical theory and epistemology
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Adjusting the contrast
This volume looks at a range of texts and practices thataddress race and its relationship with television. It explores televisionpolicy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racialdiversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more.
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