Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

One of the most significant works on Anglican and Women's history to be published in recent years. Includes a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The sixth volume of Rossetti's correspondence covers a particularly energetic period of artistic activity and dealings with patrons, his new agent C.A. Howell, dealers and friends.

Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material.

Text and translation of comic plays sheds light on a fascinating era of theatrical production.

An introduction to the legends of Saints Thais and Pelagia, together with critical editions of the five Castilian redactions.

This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England.This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. In particular, it examines musical funeral elegies and the people related to commemorative tribute - the departed, the composer, potential patrons, and friends and family of the deceased - to determine the place these musical-poetic texts held in a society in which issues of death were discussed regularly, producing a constant, pervasive shadow over everyday life. The composition of these songs reached a peak at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley both composed musical elegies, as did William Byrd, Thomas Campion, John Coprario, and many others. Like the literary genre from which these musical gems emerged, there was wide variety in form, style, length, and vocabulary used. Embedded within them are clear messages regarding the social expectations, patronage traditions, and class hierarchy of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England. En masse, they offer a glimpse into the complex relationship that existed between those who died, those who grieved, and attitudes toward both death and life. K. DAWN GRAPES is Assistant Professor of Music History at Colorado State University.

A new appraisal of the Order of the Hospitallers, showing how they were responsible for the survival of the Christian settlement in the East.

These letters cover all aspects of Warlock's music, and give a vivid glimpse of the early 20th-century musical and artistic world.

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

Una nueva edicion de la primera historia sistematica del teatro en Espana.

Breakdown and attempted suicide, and co-tenancy of Kelmscott Manor with Morris, balanced by usual professional concerns.

A special number devoted to Celtic material.

Essays examining the Langobards, with important conclusions for early medieval Italy.

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Miro no ha sido olvidado, sino que ha influido en la literatura hispanica posterior, en particular la novela de postguerra. ENGLISH VERSION This book shows that Gabriel Miro has been undervalued and how he has influenced Hispanic literature, particularly the novel of the post-Civil War period. Que ha hecho que la obra de Gabriel Miro parezca haberse relegado a un lugar marginal de la historia de la literatura espanola, con cada vez menos lectores? La pregunta no es baladi. Puede que Miro no fuera un escritor de maEn efecto, en concordancia con la estetica de vanguardia, fue un autor dificil. Pero fue una figura clave de la llamada edad de plata. Sus obras, ademas, suscitaron un interes de repercusiones mediaticas, como las polemicas eno a su retrato del clero o la presunta inmoralidad de su prosa y su heterodoxa vision de Cristo. En este libro, se sugieren las razones que han podido llevar a este injusto olvido literario y se muestra que, a pesar de todo, su obra nunca ha dejado de ser relevante, y ha influido en autores de postguerra tan importantes como Camilo Jose Cela y Francisco Umbral, en la obra narrativa de un filologo de tanto prestigio como Antonio Prieto y en otros novelistas como Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Zoido y Adolfo Lizon. Guillermo Lain Corona es profesor de lengua y literatura espanolas en University College London. ENGLISH VERSION Why does it seem that Gabriel Miro has been neglected as a secondary writer in the literary history of Spain, with fewer and fewer readers? Miro might not have had a mass readership, as, according to the aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, he was a difficult writer. However, hisworks attracted the kind of attention that fascinated the media, including the controversies surrounding his portrayals of the clergy, the supposed immorality of his prose and his heterodox view of Christ. This book tackles the reasons for this unfair neglect and shows that, despite it, his work was never completely overlooked. Indeed, Miro influenced relevant writers of the post-Civil War period, such as Camilo Jose Cela and Francisco Umbral, as well as the prose fiction of an important philologist like Antonio Prieto and other novelists such as Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Prieto and Adolfo Lizon. Guillermo Lain Corona is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Language and Literature at University College London.

Un analisis de la obra poetica de Lope de Vega revela como amoldo su propio personaje "e;Lope"e; para adecuarse, generalmente con exito, a los cambios de su entorno.La obra poetica de Lope de Vega se diferencia del resto de la produccion del Siglo de Oro por una insistente singularidad: escenas y figuras de la vida del autor aparecen frecuentemente en sus poemas. La critica y el publico general ha respondido a esta caracteristica desde una perspectiva post-romantica, considerando que Lope escribio con sinceridad e inspiracion biografica, impulsado por su apasionada vida personal. En este libro se analiza lo que los post-romanticos consideran "e;sinceridad"e; como un recurso literario. Lope consigue una apariencia de sinceridad pero, de hecho, reaccionaba a los cambios de su entorno social y literario creando nuevas actitudes "e;biograficas"e;. Ensu poesia amorosa y epica, su conocida vida amorosa le proporciona fama y reconocimiento. En el Isidro, se presenta como el genio defensor de lo castellano y espanol por antonomasia. En las Rimas sacras adopta la retorica religiosa de la epoca para contrarrestar el exito de Gongora en los circulos cortesanos. Finalmente, en las Rimas de Tome de Burguillos repasa ironicamente su carrera poetica desde la perspectiva de uno. Antonio Sanchez Jimenez es profesor de espanol en Miami University, Ohio.

In 1639 the Madrid notary Juan Garcia de Albertos was appointed "Escribano de teatros", and many of his "protocolos" (registers of contracts) from 1634 to 1660 are collected in this volume. They include contracts to perform "autos" and plays in local festivities throughout central Spain.

El papel de las ropas en la construccion de la identidad en neuve autobiografias ficticias e historicas del Siglo de Oro.Este libro examina el significativo papel de las ropas y de los adornos corporales en la construccion de la identidad en nueve autobiografias ficticias e historicas del Siglo de Oro: Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzman de Alfarache, Guiton Onofre, El Buscon, La picara Justina , Vida del soldado espanol Miguel de Castro , Discurso de mi vida de Alonso Contreras, Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez de Catalina de Erauso y Comentarios del desenganado de Duque de Estrada. En estas obras las vestiduras proyectan una compleja vision externa de la personalidad que sustituye la falta de introspeccion y de descripcion del cuerpo caracteristicas de estas narraciones. Este estudio considera la representacion verbal de la ropa como un sitio donde confluyen dialecticamente el sujeto escindido en busca de unidad ficticia y de distincion personal y el individuo enfrentado a las estructuras y discursos que lo configuran. El analisis tiene en cuenta el significado filologico, economico, politico, moral y artistico del vestido en el periodo pero sigue diferentes metodologias,las teorias de Bakhtin, Mulvey, Freud, Lacan y Kristeva, para explicar la subjetividad particular de cada Vida. ENCARNACION JUAREZ ALMENDROS es profesora de espanol en la Universidad de Notre Dame.

Classic essays on English literature, written in the late Professor Derek Brewer's characteristically lively and accessible manner.

Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.