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Using the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as the key to thematic continuity, this book reads Pearl, Cleanness,...  Read More >>

George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition...  Read More >>

Exploring the divergent aspects of the rule of neoliberalism in Turkey since 1980s, each chapter in this book highlights...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

This collection ranges far and wide - from early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation...  Read More >>

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities. In spite of the importance...  Read More >>

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets,...  Read More >>

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval...  Read More >>

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion...  Read More >>

The twenty-five essays in this volume - four of which are published here for the first time - represent the work...  Read More >>

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt...  Read More >>

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness...  Read More >>

This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations...  Read More >>

This new publication, a sister volume to the highly-acclaimed Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, provides...  Read More >>

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding...  Read More >>

Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, this volume provides an intriguing perspective...  Read More >>

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,...  Read More >>

This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom of the Carthusians of the London Charterhouse during the reign...  Read More >>

Robert Boyle’s role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged,...  Read More >>

Following on from Jeremy Black’s previous studies on eighteenth-century foreign policy, Politics and Foreign Policy...  Read More >>

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophic pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503, was the first extensive...  Read More >>

Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value....  Read More >>

Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the...  Read More >>

The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded...  Read More >>

This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its...  Read More >>