Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A challenge to traditional male-centred accounts of the book world in 1820s' Buenos Aires.

Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

A major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval English history, and to the study of the English constitution. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

A full survey of the "Last Things" as treated in a wide range of Old Norse literature.

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English artImages and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book provides a full assessment of the subject. Starting with an examination of the writings of late twelfth-century courtier-clerics, and their new vision of English political life as a heightened religious drama, it argues that visual images were key to the development and expression of medieval English political ideas andarguments. It discusses the vivid pictorial metaphors used in contemporary political treatises, and highlights their interaction with public decorative schemas in English great churches, private devotional imagery, seal iconography, illustrations of English history and a range of other visual sources. Meanwhile, through an exploration of events such as the Thomas Becket conflict, the making of Magna Carta, the Barons' War and the deposition of Edward II, it provides new perspectives on the political role of art, especially in reshaping basic assumptions and expectations about government and political society in medieval England. LAURA SLATER is a Fulford Junior ResearchFellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways.

New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.

The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature, investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film.

New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it.

A catalogue of Middle English texts, largely relating to heraldry and the sciences of the time.

A vivid and accessible reappraisal of the frequently uneasy relationship between the Victorian clergyman and his congregation.

Germany's Schlieffen Plan of the First World War is much talked of but little understood. Translations of primary sources recently available clarify the issues involved.

Index of themes in 12c French Arthurian verse romances from literary themes to everyday motifs.

A period in Rossetti's life characterized by breakdown, disappointment, ill health and mounting problems with creditors and patrons.

Aspects of the political, social, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history of medieval England re-examined.