Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.

A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany.

Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens.Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and Desenganos amorosos [1647], which enjoyed immense popularity in her day. She has recently been reinstated as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. This study examines Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. Drawing on an extensive array of primary and secondary sources, and referring to the ideas of Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous,Raymond and Genette, O'Brien reflects on the interactions of Zayas's women in such relationships as friendship, sisterhood, and motherhood, analyzing these interactions through the collections as a whole, and connecting the novellas with the frame stories, an aspect of Zayas's writing which has often been overlooked by critics. EAVAN O'BRIEN is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

A magisterial, landmark study of the dramatic reorganizations that transformed the Dutch Army into a disciplined force able to successfully withstand the mighty armies of both Philip II's Spain and Louis XIV's France.

Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.

Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte.

A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature.

Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics.

First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant.

The autobiography of an influential medieval Catalan intellectual.

Draws upon unpublished sources and interviews with those who knew him to give a full picture of Roger Quilter's artistic world and musical output.

Studies of Britain in transition from Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy.

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.