May 2011

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Title \| Price	Date	Subject	Type	Imprint
Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989 Edited by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty & Linda Shortt Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Dec 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford R.M. Thomson The manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford present an extraordinary variety of items, from humanist texts associated with Erasmus to John Dee's alchemical books and many vernacular MSS. This is the first full catalogue, with a large number of illustrations. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £95.00 \| US $165.00	Nov 2011	Bibliography & Manuscripts	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Fifteenth Century X Parlaiment, Personalities & Power. Papers Presented to Linda S. Clark Edited by Hannes Kleineke This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Foundations of an African Civilisation Aksum & the northern Horn 1000 BC - AD 1300 David W. Phillipson A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Nov 2011	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
Gower's Vulgar Tongue: Ovid, Lay Religion, and English Poetry in the Confessio Amantis T. Matthew N. McCabe Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the porem are presented here. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Nov 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Heinrich von Kleist Writing After Kant Tim Mehigan Kleist viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian thought. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Medieval Quercy Claire Taylor Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the regions. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Dec 2011	Medieval History	Academic	York Medieval Press
The Invention of the Sequel Expanding Prose Fiction in Early Modern Spain William H. Hinrichs This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented the sequel and the narrative genres that the sequel in turn invented. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Nov 2011	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition Shay Loya The first thorough study of Liszt's use of the musical style associated with the Hungarian Roma ("Gypsies") in his renowned Hungarian Rhapsodies and less overtly Hungarian works. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2011	Music	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen The Life & Music of a Norwegian Composer Arvid O. Vollsnes The first English language discussion of the life and music of this twentieth century Norwegian composer. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Nov 2011	Music	Academic	Toccata Press
Manhood Enslaved Bondmen in Eighteenth- & Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Kenneth E. Marshall Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Nov 2011	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
A Poet's Reich Politics & Culture in the George Circle Edited by Melissa S. Lane & Martin A. Ruehl The effects of the George Circle on early-twentieth-century intellectual and political life in Germany. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Slaves of Fortune Sudanese Soldiers & the River War, 1896-1898 Ronald M. Lamothe Exposes the 'blind spot' in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain's empire, through a re-telling of one of the best known episodes in British imperial military history. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Nov 2011	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel 1290 - 1360 Jean Le Bel Translated by Nigel Bryant The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. This is the first English translation of a work written from eyewitness accounts and personal experience. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Sep 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Twenty Years On Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification German Culture Edited by Renate Rechtien & Dennis Tate New essays on the evolution of - and continuing debate about - cultural memory of the former German Democratic Republic. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Dec 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House