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A supplement of the faery queene
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles.
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A history of english spelling
This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon’ adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. It shows the respective influences on modern usage of native French and Latin orthographies and attempts a definition of the manner in which spelling stabilised. A fi...
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Local government today
The fourth edition of Local government today is currently the most up-to-date textbook on local government in Britain. It analyses the structure and role of local government in the light of the most recent changes to the system.
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Surrealist sabotage and the war on work
Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism’s critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980. Topics such as automatism, artworks across media, radical publications and social interventions are examined in relation to the movement’s ongoin...
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British asian fiction
This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Moni...
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Literature in contexts
This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘broad’ contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to ...
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Reading ireland
An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland
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Interrogation, intelligence and security
Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the ‘five techniques’. Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use such controversial methods in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and internal security contexts.
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Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a british world, 1860–1911
Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire.
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Gender, artwork and the global imperative
A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s.
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The face of the city
This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-cl...
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The cult of the duce
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwa...
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Impostures in early modern england
Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives and other official records to chronicles, newspapers, ballads, pamphlets and autobiographical writings.
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Creating the opium war
This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840.
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News and rumour in jacobean england
Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign.
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Old fortunatus
Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition mak...
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Married to the empire
Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism
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Academic ambassadors, pacific allies
This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change.
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Bog bodies
Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog...
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Ngugi wa thiong'o
Patrick William’s lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi’s writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and po...
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Integration in ireland
This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges.
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Towards a just europe
This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe.
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Race and empire
The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century.
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Reforming food in post-famine ireland
The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence
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Industrial enlightenment
This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is he...
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Colonial caring
The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa
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Smart pickings
The new edition of a thought- and discussion-provoking picture book for encouraging primary school children to investigate science and learn more about STEM careers.
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Passport island
This book shows how instead of an isolated case, the Cyprus Papers are a new version of the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers: the global trade in passports is the continuation of offshore financial processes by other means.
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 100/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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Sport and technology
How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption. Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performan...
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Three renaissance travel plays
This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial exp...
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The new aestheticism
The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.
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Media semiotics
Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this s...
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Critical theory and human rights
This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that t...
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From integration to integrity
This book explores how the European Commission has addressed criticism of its administrative ethics since 1999.
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Political ethics in illiberal regimes
This book explores how and why citizens come to terms with living in illiberal regimes and offers a new, liberal realist approach to political ethics.
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We are no longer in france
Recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement
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Beginning shakespeare
Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map ...
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Christmas in nineteenth-century england
The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Operation demetrius and its aftermath
Provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. Drawing on archival sources the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction of internment are considered and in doing so accepted narratives regarding the measure are challen...
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The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucrac...
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A history of international relations theory
Introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day
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The unimagined community
The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle betwee...
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Counter-terror by proxy
Counter-terror by proxy exposes the motives, form and rationale of extrajudicial military force that was violently deployed by the Spanish government against Basque separatists during the 1980s. It offers a comprehensive understanding of a dark side of recent Spanish history and analyses the wide...
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Kids and branding in a digital world
How do kids become engaged with brands? Does their relationship with them change throughout their life? Providing a detailed analysis of kids and branding, the author considers specific models of cognitive development throughout childhood.
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The irish amateur military tradition in the british army, 1854–1992
This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society.
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Michael reeves
Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General.
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Modern european cinema and love
Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.
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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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Policing the peace in northern ireland
This book examines the way in which the issue of crime, and the response of the authorities to it, became central to the peace process in Northern Ieland after 1998.
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Museums and empire
Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Ringbearers
A focused analytical and investigative study of the game The Lord of the Rings Online from a range of cultural and design perspectives written by well-known experts in their fields. The essays collected here make an important contribution to the development of contemporary Game Studies, as well a...
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Music and the sociological gaze
At a time when the ‘social’ analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and ...
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The political writings of eva gore-booth
A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist. The volume includes a fascinating array of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to key aspects of Irish and British events of the early twentieth century.
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Useful art
This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of ‘Useful Art’ is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of ...
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A sense of place
This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broad...
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 97/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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European politics today
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the political system and processes of western Europe. Demonstrates clearly that political decisions are made in the context of specific historical developments, geographical constraints and social demands. Fully updated to take account of the recent French...
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The age of obama
As the world marvelled at a black family moving into the White House, arguments raged over whether America’s race relations had truly been transformed. This book looks at the hard facts of life for minorities on both side of the Atlantic, providing an illuminating comparative picture of diversity.
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Republican learning
Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates
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Narration in nineteenth-century french short fiction
Focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s.
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Pauper policies
A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars
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Tadeusz kowalik and poland's return to capitalism through socialism
This book covers the intellectual and political life of Tadeusz Kowalik within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a group of left-wing intellectuals, the Polish School; he participated in events such as the shipyard strikes in 1980 before becoming a vehement opponent of Pol...
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Theatre, education and the making of meanings
The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre a...
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Eternal light and earthly concerns
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
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The italian resistance
Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Viganò.. A unique selection - no competing Italian edition.
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Transport and the industrial city
Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester th...
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Globalized urban precarity in berlin and abidjan
The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a ...
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Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms?
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The twelfth-century renaissance
This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period. . . .
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The diplomacy of decolonisation
The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.
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Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
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My voice: ike alterman
Ike Alterman's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Ike was born in Poland in 1928, survived forced labour camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, and went on to live in Manchester and...
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University engagement and environmental sustainability
Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability
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The women's liberation movement in scotland
The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland
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Mary and philip
This book presents a new interpretation of the co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II. It reclaims Mary as a great Catholic queen and fleshes out Philip’s contributions as king, exposing the sectarian historiography that has cast their reign in a negative light. An important corrective for the histo...
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The english constitution
This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...
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Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the republic of letters
This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters. The essays include historical, theological, and literary topics and all focus on different means of communication of individuals between other intell...
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Mainstreaming co-operation
This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-opera...
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Algernon charles swinburne
Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.
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We all die at the end
As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
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The sea and international relations
This path-breaking collection opens up the conversation about the sea and International Relations and probes the value of analyzing the sea in terms of International Relations.
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The english republican tradition and eighteenth-century france
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by English republican ideas in eighteenth-century French moral and political thought
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Power, luck and freedom
Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.
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The annals of st-bertin
A richly-annotated translation of the main source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century, covering the years 830 to 882
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My voice: werner lachs
Werner's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Werner Lachs was born in Cologne and escaped to England thanks to an unknown intervention by a spy named Frank Foley. In later life, h...
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Love and anti-judaism in medieval english romance
This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.
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Reading robin hood
Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.
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