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The long and vibrant history of north-eastern England has left rich material deposits in the form of buildings, works of art, books and other artefacts.
'Interdisciplinarity' has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend.
The excavations at South Witham in Lincolnshire produced the most complete archaeological plan of the preceptory of the Military Orders so far seen in Britain. This monograph presents the final publication of results, beginning with separate chapters dedicated to the three main phases of occupation.
Featuring contributions given at the Archaeology of Reformation conference, this volume includes papers spread across five themes: public worship and iconoclasm, private devotion and material culture, dissolution landscapes and secular power, corporate charity and Reformation, and burial and commemoration.
This book examines the role and function of the notion of the city in Dante's works. It focuses most closely on the ways in which the poet's multifaceted interest in and utilization of the city receive their fullest expression in the Commedia.
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006).
Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature.
In the hundred years since the last major history of English metre was published dramatic changes have occurred in both the way that poets versify in English and the way that scholars analyse verse.
Twenty papers examine the church, town, abbey and medieval manuscripts of Bury St Edmunds. From a British Archaeological Association conference in Bury in 1994. The authors include Oliver Rackham, Richard Gem, Pamela Z. Blum, T. A. Heslop, John Crook, Eric Fernie and Antonia Gransden.
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