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Bingham uses the popular press to explore the attitudes and identities of inter-war Britain, and in particular the reshaping of femininity and masculinity. He provides a fresh insight into a period when women and men were coming to terms with rapid social change, and deepens our understanding of the development of the modern media.

Provides an interpretation of the medieval theological controversy over the poverty of Christ, popularized by Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", important for intellectual, political, and legal history. This book focuses on the early fourteenth-century cardinal, Bertrand de la Tour.

The Theatre of Nation is a study of the development of the theatre movement and its relationship to political change in Ireland during the pre-revolutionary period. Ben Levitas traces the connections between Irish drama and Irish politics, and concludes that Ireland's theatre had a pivotal role to play in the controversies of its time and in the coming revolution.

When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters - or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows is that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St Augustine to St Benedict and Gregory the Great.

The first detailed scholarly study of this evocative period in Irish history, Cromwellian Ireland is now reissued in paperback with a new historiographical essay.

The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is explored in this study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on three renowned monasteries throughout this period of monastic reform in Europe.

This is the first scholarly study of the political role of the Order of the Garter during the late middle ages. Hugh Collins's examination of the Garter's pragmatic considerations and knightly ideas reveals the extent to which political society in the late middle ages founded its ambitions and aspirations on the cult of chivalry.

This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England, and deals with questions of civic pride and the creation of urban identity. Urban history and antiquarian scholarship were popular pursuits amongst polite society, and their study offers a unique insight into the cultural history of the period.

This work contains the results of an investigation of naming practices in early modern England. It sets out to show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be given these names, why they were named after parents, siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming patterns.

Michael Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted Jews in late Victorian Britain, following their successful campaign for equal rights. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.

Katrina Navickas provides a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire in this period. She offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, explaining how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part.

Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study.

The Macedonian Question-the struggle over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities-is one of the most intractable issues in Balkan history. Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the problem, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split.

The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.

This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century English confessor's manual. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.

A study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than an administrative centre). The text seeks to open up a range of insights about monasticism and religious life for women in the Middle Ages.

This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his buildings are famous, until now he has been little known. Yet his work illuminates a whole society as well as an individual.

This work examines one of Europe's largest Protestant communities - in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society.

This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as as means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.

During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. This book re-examines common perceptions of an antagonism between Labour policies and rural Britain in a study of politics and culture in the early twentieth century.

This is a detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period 1850 to 1930. The author gives a picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity.

This scholarly study of six prominent theorists of the late nineteenth century - Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L.T. Hobhouse, J.A. Hobson, and Ramsay MacDonald - explores the ways in which the notion of the state was invoked in political discourse, and analyses the varying conceptualizations found in their work.

This is a study of gender and power in Victorian Britain. It is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the nineteenth century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court.

This is a study of the role of various regions in the development of modern nations in Latin America. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the work examines the significance of such factors as agriculture and livestock, foreign migrants, regionalism, and local and national politics.

A full scholarly study of British anticolonialism. The text evaluates the changing ways in which, arising out of the experience of Empire and decolonization, more general ideas about imperialism, nationalism, and underdevelopment were developed during the years 1918-1964.

This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The author argues that it was Arminianism, not the rise of puritanism, that was a major cause of the war,

An account of a neglected aspect of the history of the 19th-century Church of England: the reform of its diocesan structure. It illustrates how one of the most important institutions of Victorian England responded at a regional level to the pastoral challenge of a rapidly changing society.

In the Middle Ages, the March between England and Wales was a contested frontier zone, a 'land of war'. Brock Holden examines how the English aristocracy of this borderland organised themselves and their followers - politically, socially, economically and militarily - in order to survive against the increasing power of their Welsh opponents.

This work is intended for scholars and students of early modern England, especially those interested in the history of the press, in bibliography, and in cultural change. It concerns Benjamin Collins and his involvement with the newspaper trade in the 18th century.