In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book take…Meer informatie
A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on…Meer informatie
The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook…Meer informatie
The Paris Commune in Britain is a book about radical ideas, and the people and places that make them. It is about how ideas are forged, propagated, an…Meer informatie
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.In the last decad…Meer informatie
Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too freque…Meer informatie
Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. This biography reveals the impact that she…Meer informatie
A compelling history of women in seventeenth century espionage, telling the forgotten tales of women from all walks of life who acted as spies in earl…Meer informatie
Insane Acquaintances explores the encounter between modernist art and the British public. Built around case studies of modernist ‘moments’ in the peri…Meer informatie
The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and…Meer informatie
Reeks: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
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Martin Delrio, author of Disquisitiones magicae (Investigations into Magic, 1599-1600) probably never persecuted or met a witchcraft suspect, yet his…Meer informatie
The colonial Jamaican state was immensely wealthy, but it was a society consumed by fear. The White population feared the possibility of enslaved rebe…Meer informatie
The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth century London--and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and s…Meer informatie
Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they? From childhood most of us develop a sense of the myst…Meer informatie
This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As comp…Meer informatie
The book offers a wealth of local examples that explain how ideologies and perceptions of the 'enemy within' shaped the use of repressive emergency po…Meer informatie
From Conflict to Modern Slavery draws on first-hand accounts to consider how conflict can facilitate modern slavery and how a person's vulnerability i…Meer informatie
In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes, an…Meer informatie
This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, arguing…Meer informatie
This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels - exploring their origins, their discovery, and…Meer informatie