January 2012

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Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship John Zumbrunnen Locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship in a democracy. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £35.00 \| US $65.00	May 2012	Politics & Economics	Academic	University Rochester Press
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music A Social & Cultural History David C. H. Wright A comprehensive history of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Aug 2012	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage Cathy Hume Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Sept 2012	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Church and Literature Edited by Peter Clarke and Charlotte Methuen A wide-ranging and impressive collection which illuminates the enduring relationship between the Church and literary creation Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	May 2012	History of Religion	Academic	Ecclesiastical History Society
Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry Anotonina Harbus Offers an entirely new way of interpreting and examining Anglo-Saxon texts, via theories derived from cognitive studies. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Aug 2012	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Contact and Exchange in Later Medieval Europe Essays in Honour of Malcolm Vale Edited by Hannah Skoda, Patrick Lantschner and R.L.J. Shaw The complexity of the interplay and relationships over various borders in medieval Europe is here fully teased out. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Aug 2012	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Culture of Controversy Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714 Alasdair Raffe Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Aug 2012	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
English Monastic Litanies of the Saints after 1100 Volume I: Abbotsbury - Peterborough Edited by Nigel J. Morgan The litanies of the monastic orders in England. Above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £35.00 \| US $75.00	Jul 2012	Medieval History	Academic	Henry Bradshaw Society
Growing Up with HIV in Zimbabwe Ross Parsons Psychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV positive children's lives (and deaths) in Zimbabwe that is sensitive to emotions and their social contexts. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Aug 2011	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) Volume II: 1789-1808 Edited by G.M. Ditchfield Letters of an important clergyman that provide a well-informed and lively commentary upon the religion, politics and society of the time. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £100.00 \| US $170.00	Aug 2011	Modern History	Academic	Church of England Record Society
Literary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and Hitler The State that Nobody Wanted Andrew Barker A varied, vivid view of the literary culture of the often-neglected interwar Austrian republic. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $375.00	Aug 2012	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England From Lydgate to Malory Catherine Nall An investigation into how the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Aug 2012	Medieval History	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Short Prose Scottish Chronicles La Vraie Cronicque d'Escoce, The Scottis Originale, The Chronicle of the Scots, The Ynglis Chronicle, Nomina Omnium Regum Scotorum, The Brevis Chronica, The St Andrews Chronicle Edited by Dan Embree, Edward Donald Kennedy and Kathleen Daly Edition, with facing translation, of chronicles from the late medieval/early modern period, concerning the history of Scotland. They build their version of medieval events on Scotland's foundation myths and exhibit a distinct anti-English bias - indeed, the Scottis Orginale began a type of Scottish anti-Arthurian tradition. They thus present an alternative and distinctly "Scottish" view of "history". Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Jul 2012	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press