Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938
A biography of a seminal figure in the fight against tuberculosis and other public health diseases.

Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938 (paperback edition)
A biography of a seminal figure in the fight against tuberculosis and other public health diseases.

Wagner and Venice
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.

Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces:
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
An exploration of how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm and other cities of the region.

Wagner's Meistersinger
A volume of collected essays which engage Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the perspective of both active performers and academics in a wide range of disciplines.

Wagner's Meistersinger (paperback edition)
A volume of collected essays which engage Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the perspective of both active performers and academics in a wide range of disciplines.

Wales in the Reign of James I
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History
Notable foray into the Wales of the first of the Stuart rulers. WELSH HISTORY REVIEW This study throws fresh light on a neglected period and examines important aspects of Welsh history between 1603 and 1625.

Walking the Tightrope
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Feminist account of the chief writings of Therese Huber, the important 19th-c. German author.

The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

"Wanderjahre of a Revolutionist" and Other Essays on American Music
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Selected autobiographical and critical essays by the important early 20c American composer/campaigner Arthur Farwell: a major narrative of American musical life c.1900.

War and Combat, 1150-1270: the Evidence from Old French Literature
An investigation of the depiction of warfare in contemporary writings, in both fictional narratives and factual accounts.

War and Ethnicity
Series: Studies on the Nature of War
A valuable collection of articles, which should be widely read. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE Studies on war and violence in Bosnia, Somalia and other regions, their effect on ethnic minorities, and the intervention of political and other agencies.

War and Ethnicity (paperback edition)
Series: Studies on the Nature of War
A valuable collection of articles, which should be widely read. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE Studies on war and violence in Bosnia, Somalia and other regions, their effect on ethnic minorities, and the intervention of political and other agencies.

War and Games
Series: Studies on the Nature of War
These comparative studies focus on the relationship between war and games in an effort to achieve an understanding of the phenomenon of war, in order ultimately to avoid it.

War and Government in the Middle Ages

War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century
Series: Warfare in History
Evidence for the identity and careers of soldiers (usually neglected by scholars in favour of tactics or hardware) in two campaigns of the Hundred Years War.

War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Series: Warfare in History
The role and characteristics of armed force at sea in western Europe and the Mediterranean prior to 1650.

War Cruel and Sharp
Series: Warfare in History
A close study of the military and political strategies of Edward III and the Black Prince, whose great victories had by 1360 made England the foremost martial nation of Europe.

War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150-1500
A plethora of the most important aspects of late medieval England are covered here, with a focus on Edward I.

War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Relations between town and crown in late medieval England examined through two of its most important towns, Bristol and York.

Wardens' Accounts and Court Minute Books of the Goldsmiths' Mistery of London, 1334-1446
The two earliest Goldsmiths' record books reveal details of working practices, financial accounts, apprentices, civic events such as pageants, misdeeds broght before the wardens, and much else besides.

Warfare in Medieval Brabant, 1356-1406
Series: Warfare in History
An account of the causes, combatants and course of events in the successive conflicts which troubled the duchy for half a century.

Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings 1066-1135 (paperback edition)
An interwoven study in many ways refreshing and original... A good book, the first major product of one of the more vital debates in recent early medieval scholarship. HISTORY A major re-statement of the nature of Anglo-Norman warfare, with special emphasis on the role of the familia regis, the King's military household.

The Wars of Alexander
Series: Early English Text Society Supplementary Series

The Wars of Alexander (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Wars of Edward III
Series: Warfare in History
Contemporary documents and classic studies follow Edward's fortunes on the battlefield, from failure against the Scots to major military successes in France.

Warwickshire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds
Without such handbook guides to the Anglo-Saxon countryside we should make far slower progress in understanding the people who inhabited it... Dr Hooke and her publisher are to be congratulated for making so much data available. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wasperton
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
The newest research on a major Anglo-Saxon site paints a vivid picture of the beginnings of England.

The Way to Eden
A German novelist views small-town America with fresh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read.

The Way we Listen Now and Other Writings
Series: Poetics of Music
Selection from the musical writing of Bayan Northcott, one of the foremost musical critics of our time.

The Way we Listen Now and Other Writings on Music (paperback edition)
Series: Poetics of Music
Selection from the musical writing of Bayan Northcott, one of the foremost musical critics of our time.

Wealth Kinship Culture - Out of print

Weibliche Muse - Out of print

Weimar Correspondence
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Edition of the correspondence of Friedrich Tieck, the 19th-century German sculptor, giving personal accounts of Schlegel, de Staël, and the Goethe circle.

Wellsprings Lit. Creation - Out of print

Welsh Castles
History of and gazetteer to all surviving Welsh castles - the majority 13c - arranged by county, with full OS details.

The Welsh Saints: A Study in Patterned Lives (paperback edition)

West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807.

Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII
An account of the history, architecture and monuments of the chapel, the final, exquisite flowering of the gothic style.

The Westminster Missal
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
Missal text with notes and commentary: a fundamental tool for the study of both insular and continental medieval mass-books.

The Wheatley Manuscript Middle English verse and prose in BM MS Add 39574 (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

When Heimat Meets Hollywood
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Contemporary connections between German directors and Hollywood and their implications for German, American, and transnational film.

When Men and Women Mattered
A study of changes in gender relations among the Owan people of Southern Nigeria over a period of five hundred years.

White Ink
Series: Monografías A
Essays on motifs employed in women's novels from Spain and Latin America between 1936 and the present.

Who was St Patrick? (paperback edition)
The classic study of the saint's life, presented with new introduction and bibliography.

Whom the Gods Love

Whom the Gods Love (paperback edition)
The first study of the life and music of the composer George Butterworth [1885-1916], including some of his own writings on music.

Wild Stage: Literary Cabarets - Out of print

Wilhelm Lehmann 1 - Out of print

Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Calling
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The original version of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship in its first modern English translation.

Wilhelmine and The Life and Opinions of Master Sebaldus Nothanker
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Two novels about the same couple illustrate rococo style in German literature of the late 18th century.

Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing (1842)
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music
Ian Johnson's evaluation of Alwyn's film music places his achievement in the context of wider movements within the film industry.

William Camden
A comprehensive analysis of the life of William Camden (1581-1623), historian, herald, and leading literary figure of the Elizabethan period and of the context in which he lived.

William Caxton
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686
New survey of the work and influence of William Dugdale, the seventeenth-century antiquarian.

Vision of Piers Plowman I Text A
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Langland
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Langland
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Langland
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Langland; Vision of Piers Plowman IV Ptii (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Langland Parallel Extracts from 45 MSS of Piers Plowman
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Lauder (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Lauder
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Morris's Utopia of Strangers
Series: English Association Studies
William Morris's conception of hospitality as a form of political tolerance is surveyed within the context of Victorian medievalism.

William Nevill (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William of Malmesbury (paperback edition)
William was a historian, biblical commentator, biographer and classicist; his intellectual achievement is studied here.

William Roper
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

William Stukeley
Stukeley's antiquarian researches, particularly into the great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, were the first to reveal their great antiquity. Friend of Newton, his life embodies the classic Enlightenment confrontation between science and religion.

William Walton: Muse of Fire
This acclaimed biography draws on first-hand accounts, including new material on Walton's circle of the 20s and 30s; the composer's work in film a particular focus.

William Waynflete - Out of print

Willkommen und Abschied
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Chronicles the first 35 years of the oldest program of its kind in the US, with biographical information on and creative contributions from the participants.

Wills and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics &c. of the Northern Counties of England from the Eleventh Century Downwards. Part I.
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part II.
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part III.
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part IV.
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Suffolk wills of ordinary inhabitants illustrate all aspects of the social conditions of the time.

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1630-1635
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Wills of nearly 900 people, rich in detail, both personal and specific, as in old place names and geographical references.

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1636-1638
Series: Suffolk Records Society
17c wills revealing the details and preoccupations of past lives.

Wills of Suffolk 1620-24 - Out of print

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-6
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Wills of early Stuart England provide fascinating local and domestic detail.

The Winchcombe Sacramentary: Orleans, Bibliotheque municipale, 127 [105]
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
Earliest surviving English sacramentary containing English and continental liturgical rite.

The Winchester Malory
Series: Early English Text Society Supplementary Series

The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society
The accounts of one of the great estates of medieval England, from 1209. A remarkable survival, they supply detailed evidence on a range of issues.

Wind Ensemble and Repertoire - Out of print

Window on Congress
An analysis of the congressional career of Barber B. Conable, Jr., one of the most-respected legislators of modern times.

Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation
Series: Arthurian Studies
Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance.

Wohunge of Ure Lauerd [pe and other pieces
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Wolfgang Hildesheimer and His Critics
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
An analysis of the critical response to the works of Wolfgang Hildesheimer, one of the most important German writers - of plays, short stories, travelogues, biographies and longer fiction - to emerge from the postwar period.

Wolfram's Willehalm
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays on Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'other' work, the neglected epic Willehalm.

Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages
The complex attitude to the wolf in the middle ages re-evaluated, bringing together historical and other evidence.

Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A study of the discourse of gender in 16th-century German popular literature.

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages (paperback edition)
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.

Women, Art and Patronage from Henry III to Edward III
Women as patrons of the arts: their social status, the sources of their wealth and their motives, together with an examination of the various artefacts which they commissioned.

Women and Death
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.

Women and German Drama
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Explores the traditional bias against women's drama and asks to what extent women playwrights have been able to overcome it.

Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist
Series: Monografías A
This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932).

Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.

Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A balanced study of gender in Novalis as expressed in his literary, political, and scientific writings and in his letters.

Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative
Series: Warfare in History
Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear.

Women in Business, 1700-1850
A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.

Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect
Women Waldensians have been almost written out of studies of the heretical sect, but are here shown to have played a full role within it, regardless of gender.

Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.

Women in the Viking Age (paperback edition)
Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Women in Weimar Fashion
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.

Women of Letters
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Nineteenth-century German women authors explore and extend the genre of books-written-as-letters.

Women of Quality
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change.

Women of the Gilte Legende
Series: Library of Medieval Women
The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.

Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First comparative study of an unlikely group of authors: 18th-century women peasants.

Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
A study of one of the most influential women of her day has much to reveal about the developments which shaped the English Reformation.

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose (paperback edition)
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England.

Women Television Producers
Interviews and discussions with a representative group of female television producers, looking at how each of them entered the business, how they advanced, and what obstacles they encountered and overcame.

Women, the Book, and the Godly Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993
Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources.

Women, the Book, and the Worldly
Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

Women, Work and Wages in England, 1600-1850
Women's employment was significant both for its contribution to industrialisation and to family economies; its range and the rewards are explored.

Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Legislation to protect women is explored in the context of contemporary ideas on women's work, popular journalism and the advance of scientific knowledge.

Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England
Series: Library of Medieval Women
English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay.

Wood's History of the City of Oxford vol. I The City and Suburbs
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Wood's History of the City of Oxford vol. II Churches and Religious Houses
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Wood's History of the City of Oxford vol. III
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Woodforde at Oxford
Series: Oxford Historical Society Second Series

Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire
Series: Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series
Insight into the economic and social conditions of West Yorkshire, especially pertaining to the region's woollen and worsted industries,

Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds
Series: Studies in Anglo-Saxon History

Word and Work in the Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez
Series: Monografías A

The Word of a Prince (paperback edition)
She gives the general reader fresh access to Elizabeth's mind and ideas, her wit, verve, eloquence, circumlocution, and formidable learning. OBSERVER

Words For Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday

Words About Mozart
Published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, these eleven essays look at compositional and performance matters, consider new archival research and provide an overview of work since the bicentenary in 1991.

Words Names and History - Out of print

Wordsworth and the Critics
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.

The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History
Essays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work of Jacques Le Goff.

The Work of Work Servitude, Slavery and Labor in Medieval England
Essays on labour, servitude and slavery refocus attention on the mundane working world of the middle ages.

The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel.

Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South
Timely essays addressing the people who were slaves rather than the institution that was slavery.

Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (paperback edition)
Slaves had, sometimes, the opportunity to produce their own goods. These studies demonstrate the importance of that economy in reinforcing family ties and preparation for freedom.

The Works of Allan Ramsay
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

The Works of Allan Ramsay
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

The Works of Allan Ramsay
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

The Works of Bishop Butler
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
The complete works of Joseph Butler, newly edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and an analytic index.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and `The Kingis Quair'
The last of the great Chaucerian manuscript anthologies (and the most fragile) now available as a working facsimile. Additional Scottish literary/historical interest.

Works of Sir David Lyndesay
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Works of John Metham (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Works of a Lollard Preacher
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Works of Thomas Traherne [complete set]
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne

The Works of Thomas Traherne I
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
First volume in what will be the definitive edition of the complete works of Thomas Traherne, containing previously unpublished material.

The Works of Thomas Traherne II
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
Traherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET

The Works of Thomas Traherne III
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
Traherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET

World Orders of Knighthood and Merit
With contributions from many of the world's leading authorities, this is the most important work ever produced on World Orders of Knighthood & Merit and will remain the definitive guide for years to come.

The World of Chaucer (paperback edition)
Derek Brewer brought Chaucer and his world clearly to view, in a way never previously achieved, in the first edition of this book - now reissued with numerous colour and black and white illustrations to mark the six hundredth anniversary of his death.

The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine
A revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political, social, cultural and religious world in which she lived.

The World of John of Salisbury (paperback edition)
Series: Studies in Church History: Subsidia

The World of Orderic Vitalis (paperback edition)
`A wise, learned, gracefully written account of the Anglo-Norman world and its most remarkable chronicler.' SPECULUM

The World of the Medieval Shipmaster
A comprehensive picture of the life and responsibilities of an English medieval shipmaster.

The World of the Stonors
First full-length survey of the Stonors, an important gentry family during the middle ages, exploring the wide connections they fostered.

The Worlds of the East India Company
Historians explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company in many different spheres, but especially on the Indian subcontinent.

The Worlds of the East India Company (paperback edition)
The first multi-disciplinary history of the English East India Company, one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed.

Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945.

Writing African History
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history.

Writing African History
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history.

Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Approaches to the use of writing in Anglo-Saxon England - as depicted in manuscripts, textiles, stones and metalwork.

Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature
Series: Essays and Studies
Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres.

Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals.

Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa (paperback edition)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals.

Writing Home
Series: English Association Studies
The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day.

Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250
A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives.

Writing the New Berlin
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.

Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare
Essays consider the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature.

The Writings of Margaret of Oingt (paperback edition)
Series: Library of Medieval Women

The Writings of John Evelyn
First modern collection of Evelyn's works; includes Sylva and Kalendarium Hortense.

The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena (paperback edition)
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun.

Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
First edition of important but problematic Anglo-Saxon text, with much to say about how later Anglo-Saxon writers used earlier materials.

Wulfstan's Canons of Edgar
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Wunderkind
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
A detailed critical history of McCullers's reputation and the social crosscurrents that shaped it.

Wynnere and Wastoure
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series