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Title Due Date Subject Type Imprint
The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn
Adrian Wright

First extended biography of William Alwyn, setting his works in full context.
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Sep 2008 Music T Boydell Press
Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558
Susan Rose

The first comprehensive history of Calais under English rule, casting new light on the development of its vigorous political and commercial society.
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Sep 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press
Medieval Clothing and Textiles: volumes 1-3 [set]
Edited by Robin Netherton & Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Now available as a specially-priced set, the first three volumes of these wide-ranging volumes cover a range of topics and periods from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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Apr 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press
Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music
John Lucas

Drawing on significant new research, this life of one of Britain's most influential musicians corrects many of the myths surrounding the often controversial Thomas Beecham.
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Sep 2008 Music T Boydell Press
Metal Detecting and Archaeology
Edited by Peter Stone & Suzie Thomas

A groundbreaking examination of one of the most controversial topics within modern archaeology.
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Sep 2008 Archaeology A Boydell Press
The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age
Edited by Nigel Griffin et al

A guide to the interpretation of the Golden-Age ballad.
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Aug 2008
 
Hispanic Studies A Tamesis
The English in the Twelfth Century
John Gillingham

Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians.
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Jun 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press
Renaissance Papers 2007
Edited by Christopher Cobb & M. Thomas Hester

Focuses on the literary implications of 17th-century religion, Shakespeare's Roman plays, and 16th-century poetry.
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Sep 2008 Early Modern History A Camden
House
Mozart's Così fan tutte: A Compositional History
Ian Woodfield

A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.
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Sep 2008 Music A Boydell Press
Images of Kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian Contemporaries
Samantha J. Rayner

The concept of kingship was a major preoccupation for the Ricardian poets, as this full treatment shows.
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Sep 2008 Medieval Literature A D.S. Brewer
The Fifteenth Century VIII: Rule, Redemption and Representations in Late Medieval England and France
Edited by Linda Clark

Important aspects of fifteenth-century England and Europe assessed in this new collection.
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Jul 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press
In the Shadow of Empire: Austrian Experiences of Modernity in the Writings of Musil, Roth, and Bachmann
Malcolm Spencer

The first book to consider together the responses of the great Austrian writers Musil, Roth, and Bachmann to the crisis of modernity.
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Sep 2008 German Literature A Camden House
Composing for Japanese Instruments
Minoru Miki

A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of that country's leading composers.
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Sep 2008 Music A University of
Rochester
Press
Health and Zionism: The Israeli Health Care System, 1948-1960
Shifra Shvarts

An exploration of the major conflicts and historic events that shaped the current Israeli health care system.
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Sep 2008 History of Medicine A University of
Rochester
Press
Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Edited by R.C. Wheeler

Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history.
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Sep 2008 Local History A Lincoln
Record
Society
Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume VI
Edited by Clifford J. Rogers et al

Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of medieval warfare.
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Sep 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press
Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature
Rhiannon Purdie

A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.
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Sep 2008 Medieval Literature A D.S. Brewer
Chartier in Europe
Edited by Emma Cayley & Ashby Kinch

The significance of the works of Alain Chartier in the development of European literature.
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Sep 2008 Medieval Literature A D.S. Brewer
‘The Furie of the Ordnance’: Artillery in the English Civil Wars
Stephen Bull

Shows how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English Civil War.
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Sep 2008 Military History A Boydell Press
The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century
Stephanie D. Vial

Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in eighteenth-century musical notation.
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May 2008 Music A University of
Rochester
Press
Victoria County History of Essex: Volume 1
Edited by H.A. Doubleday

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Jun 2008 Local History A Victoria
County
History
Victoria County History of Essex: Volume 2
Edited by William Page & J. Horace Round

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Jun 2008 Local History A Victoria
County
History
Victoria County History of Essex: Volume 4
Edited by W.R. Powell

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Jun 2008 Local History A Victoria
County
History
The Bury Bible – paperback edition
Edited by R.M. Thomson
These full scale colour plates will come as a revelation to most viewers. Thomson has provided an excellent introduction... both the reproductions and the text do full justice to this hitherto undervalued monument of English art and it is much to be hoped that it will be acquired by librarians as well as by bibliophiles. BURLINGTON MAGAZINE [C.M.Kauffmann]
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Jun 2008 Medieval History A Boydell Press

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