Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer.

New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.

The first thorough study in English of the reception of Doeblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Doeblin scholars.

A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.

A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present.

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism.

The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.

Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.

First translation into English of the medieval German Leben der Graefen Iolanda, making it accessible to a wider audience.

An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century.

A publication of the Goethe Society of North America, carrying Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries); extensive book review section.

First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Reformation Church.

Archdeacons were the most senior officers in the secular church after the archbishops and bishops, and played a crucial role in diocesan administration. This book brings together for the first time the 285 surviving acta of English archdeacons in the twelfth century, representing forty-five of the fifty-one medieval archdeaconries of the English church; also included are twenty-one acta of vice-archdeacons, the main deputies of archdeacons at this time. These documents reveal archdeacons at work in various aspects of their responsibilities, such as presiding in archdeacons' synods or rural chapters, settling disputes, holding inquiries, and dealing with appointments to parish churches; they shed new light on the business and diplomatic of archdeacons' acta, the personnel of their households and staff, and the part archdeacons and their deputies played in the ecclesiastical and temporal affairs of the twelfth century.

Impressive...a significant contribution to the ecclesiastical history of Exeter and the English thirteenth century. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Third and final volume of early Exeter episcopal register; Introduction in Vol. I.