Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

`a remarkable book by any account ... Twenty-two leading authorities, British, American, Arab, and Israeli, have assembled what must be virtually all the relevant documentation ... and then assessed them in virtuoso essays that are a monument to their industry and objectivity.'Jewish Chronicle

This is a biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the 20th-century lyric poet, whose works - "the New Poems", the "Duino Elegies", "the Sonnets to Orpheus", and in prose the "Cornet" and the "Malte Laurids Brigge", are of lasting importance to European literature.

This book follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of John Maynard Keynes's thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory, making it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

This is a study of the effects of cross-cultural contact and confrontation on frontier societies, particularly those between England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Castille and Granada, and on the Elbe.

Presents the Nyaya view of philosophy and critically examines it against that of its traditional opponent, the Buddhist version of phenomenalism and idealism. The author argues that Nyaya meets not only traditional Buddhist objections, but also those of modern sense-data representationalists.

One noticeable feature of modern legal systems is the extent to which power is conferred upon government officials and agencies to be exercized at their discretion according to policy considerations, rather than according to precise legal standards. This book is a legal and jurisprudential analysis of discretionary power in modern legal systems.

The Rule of Augustine, very likely the oldest monastic rule with Western origins, provides daily inspiration for more than 150 Christian communities. This study traces the development of Augustine's monastic ideal, largely shaped by Graeco-Roman philosophical and rhetorical influences.

This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking critique of both theological and philosophical attempts over the last 200 years to understand the resurrection, a central tenet of the Christian faith. The author fastens upon vital matters of faith and experience.

These essays, three of which appear for the first time, examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile.

Winner of the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association for 1987.

This comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity charts Anatolian history from the time of Alexander the Great to the heyday of the Byzantine Empire. This particular volume examines the rise of Christianity across the region.

The author's thesis is that the main characteristic of music is to express and evoke emotion and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to express and evoke the same emotions.

Euthyphro; Apology of Socrates; Crito

The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest, but studies have been largely from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This book shows how what has hitherto been seen as peculiar to Britain was in fact characteristic of much of northern Europe. It takes into account major developments in the historiography of witchcraft.

Composed of three connected essays, this volume explores theoretical understanding and human conduct in general, the ideal mode of human relationship, which the author calls "civil association", and the ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state.

This commentary, first published in 1981, has been reissued to take account of recent important publications that have been written on many of the topics covered in the "Athenaion Politeia". A section of addenda surveying this recent work has been added.

This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is stranger than fiction.

This book deals with God's covenant with Israel which the author believes is a theme central to the understanding of the Old Testament. He argues that the debate during the last century has revealed how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of what is distinctive in the faith of Israel.

This is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact in Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Paul Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it.

This study of the Navy during the English Revolution argues that the Commonwealth Navy did not, as is often assumed, stand back from domestic political controversies, but was deeply influenced by the revolutionary circumstances of its origins.

This study presents a liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture, and links it to more familiar views on individual rights and state neutrality. The author argues that liberalism when properly applied permits the legal constraints necessary to protect ethnic minorities.

This is a new paperback edition of Adrian Hollis's commentary on Ovid's love poem which was first published in 1977. The text of the poem is Kenney's Oxford Classical Text, and it is supplemented with a full introduction to the style and historical background to the poem.

A study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation and dynamics, as well as the instruments for which Bach's music was intended. It also includes a discussion of ornamentation.

Marriage, a fundamental institution in human societies, takes varying forms. This study explores the practicalities, the cultural assumptions, and the affective possibilities of marriage during the later Roman Republic and the Principate (c. 100 BC-235 AD).

Barbara Everett brings her extraordinary ability to read closely and her intimate knowledge of the period to an examination of the work of a range of poets from the sixteenth century to the present day. The 12 essays show the way each poet remains an individual while interacting with a particular historical context.

The aim of this guide is to provide the reader with a deeper understanding and enjoyment of such operas as "Don Giovanni" and "Cosi Fan Tutte", not so much through musical analysis as through setting the scene for their composition.

An examination of the mentality of the first half of the 19th century, when catastrophes and personal misfortune were seen as dispensations of divine providence. In the 1850s and 1860s, however, a different attitude developed. at the centre of which was a new way of understanding the Atonement.

This is a study of the maquis in southern France, the resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. From the many fascinating and moving individual stories emerge a sense of place a clearer understanding of the maquisard, and an unsentimental assessment of the role of the maquis in French history.

This book examines the presuppositions of the claims of the Enlightenment, and then shows how the traditional ways of theology can be seen to retain their validity.

Combines an analysis of these ballets with a description of their first productions in imperial Russia. Separate sections of the text are devoted to the music of each ballet, and there is a background chapter on the collaboration between composer and ballet master, and Moscow of the 1860s.