Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

Since the 18th century, Western scholars and musicians have been fascinated by the music of India. Whether in the realms of musicological enquiry, or as an exotic flavour on the stage, or in popular songs, Indian music has been part of the West's consciousness for over two hundred years. Indian Music and the West traces the fascinating history of this complex cultural and musical encounter.

These are the first two of a three-volume commentary on the Odyssey, compiled by an international team of scholars, making the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarship available in paperback. Questions of text, dialect, the poems relation to the Iliad, and the epic tradition in general are discussed by acknowledged experts in the field.

This edition of Aristophanes' comedy is intended for students and scholars. It includes an examination of the comic and dramatic qualities of the play and an introduction to the text covering aspects of the play from historical background to metrical explanations and manuscript tradition.

The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has long been the subject of controversy. In the first book to discuss the problem of the gods across the entire classical literary tradition, rather than in a few individual works, Professor Feeney draws upon the writings of the ancient critics, and looks in detail at the work of the poets themselves.

A study of magic in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. It is a scholarly and challenging book which makes a major contribution to the study of the Christianization of Europe. `both significant and provocative ... a big, beautifully written and wonderfully learned book.' Times Higher Education Supplement.

This edition of the play brings it up to date in terms of the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship in the past 60 years. It reports on manuscripts, papyri and testimonial sources of the text, offering an account of its history and a review of the transmission of the entire Aristophanic corpus.

Marvelous Possessions examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. Greenblatt's innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports reveal how the experience of the marvellous was yoked to the service of colonial appropriation.

The treatment of ethnic and religious minorities by states is a major issue today. This study attempts to explore the response of international law to these questions through detailed analysis of treaty and customary law.

A detailed study of a vital and eventful period of English history, which witnessed the Plague, the Great Fire of London, the naval wars against the Dutch and the transformation of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth into the Restoration monarchy of Charles II.

This translation of the play includes a commentary which deals with textual problems, and wherever possible the editor has sought to explain the text adopted before discussing the reasons for its adoption. There is also an analysis of the lyric metres, and a discussion of the play's subject matter.

This study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government 'Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism challenges conventional distinctions between 'high' and 'low' culture, revealing the links between the political underworld and literary culture, poverty, crime and prophetic religion.

This volume brings together lawyers, accountants, sociologists and economists to explore some central themes of the legal and organizational accountability of the public corporation. The papers offer the first sustained attempt to transcend the institutionalist and contractarian visions which, during the 1980s, became the mainstream perspectives in corporate analysis.

An exploration of an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments of love and friendship, and promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.

In this book R.W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of popular propaganda which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation in Germany. Hailed as a pioneering study of great importance on its original publication in 1981, For the Sake of Simple Folk is now available in paperback for the first time.

This text has been abridged in order to provide students with a more easily approachable and digestible introduction to the subject. The explanations of basic matters have been simplified, and additional examples have been included to illustrate the commoner metres.

Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, Jerrold Northrop Moore presents Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career.

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Verona, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. This detailed study of his life and music has been updated to include new biographical material on the composer's latter years.

Second revised edition with a new introduction and bibliographical essay surveying recent work and new research in this area. This is a book about Medieval Europe's encounter with the wider world between 1000 and 1500, covering the journeys of Marco Polo, the Crusaders, John of Monte Corvino and others.

This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. This volume contains commentaries by J. A. Russo (books xvii-xx), M. Fernandez-Galiano (xxi-xxii), and A. Heubeck (xxiii-xxiv)

A comprehensive account of British economic policy since 1900, covering both macro and micro issues. Offers both a coherent analysis and a clear narrative description of policy-making through the century.

This treatise provides an historical perspective on the political philosophies of Locke and Hume, amongst others, arguing that there are continuities in the development of 17th-and 18th-century political theory which have often gone unrecognized.

This volume contains a series of essays which aims to show how some of the tools of advanced economic theory can usefully contribute to an understanding of how institutions operate. In particular, such techniques can be applied to the study of institutions within poor agrarian economies.

This revised edition of a history of the exploits of the Roman Army contains extensive amendments in the light of recent archaeological research. Included in the work is a bibliography containing material only recently made available.

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.

This is the first general account of Dutch hegemony in trade, shipping, and finance between 1585 and 1740. Professor Israel, the leading historian in this field, uses a wide range of sources to explain why, despite its small size and population, the Dutch Republic functioned as the hub of world trade for nearly two centuries.

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.

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.

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.

The first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years. Volume I starts with the region in the Hellenistic period and goes on to cover the impact of Roman rule.

The present work is written in the belief that the "Odes" are learned poems which demand some knowledge of conventional forms and topics. Each ode is provided with an introduction which sets it against its Greek and Roman literary background.