Spring 2011

FORTHCOMING
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A F R IC A N S T U DI E S
African Police and Soldiers in
Colonial Zimbabwe (1923–80)
TIMOTHY STAPLETON
Making use of archival documents, period
newspapers, and oral interviews, African
Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe examines
the ambiguous experience of black security
personnel, police, and soldiers in white-ruled
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from
1923 through independence and majority
rule in 1980. Across the continent, European
colonial rule could not have been maintained
without African participation in the police
and army. In Southern Rhodesia, lack of white
manpower meant that despite fear of mutiny,
blacks played an increasingly prominent role
in law enforcement and military operations,
and from World War II constituted a strong
majority within the regular security forces.
Timothy Stapleton is professor of history at
Trent University in Ontario.
$90.00/£50.00 Due June 2011
9781580463805
20 b/w illus.; 333pp
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night
Prison Memoir
JACK MAPANJE
“A moving account of a poet’s imprisonment by the
state, his struggle to probe the hidden motives for this
arrest, and his attempt to provide an unforgettable
record of the architecture of imprisonment and the
perpetual struggle between the forces of truth and those
of naked power.” - S imon Gikandi, Professor
English, Princeton Universit y
Jack Mapanje is a poet and linguist and was
head of the English Department, Chancellor
College, University of Malawi when he was
arrested and detained without charge or trial
in 1987. After an international campaign,
which included his being promoted as one
of Amnesty International’s ‘Prisoners of
Conscience’, he was released in 1991.
$45.00/£25.00 Due February 2011
9781847010315
240pp, HB
Front page image: Josep Renau, ‘Las Arenas
Swimming Pool.’ By permission of the Fundació
Josep Renau. This is an illustration included in A
Companion to Catalan Culture, edited by Dominic
Keown (see p.5)
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From Revolution to Rights
in South Africa
Social Movements, NGOs and
Popular Politics After Apartheid
STEVEN L. ROBINS
“In this magnificent book, unearthing case studies from academic
journals, Robins examines rights-based social movements and
the resurgence of the ‘traditional’ in communal identity politics.
Highly recommended.” - CHOICE
“This illuminating post-apartheid ethnography
deserves close study by anyone concerned with
popular politics in the globalising South. Robins freely
intersperses high-level social theory with carefully
selected case studies and vignettes.”
- TIMES HIG HER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
Southern Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (PB)
$34.95/£17.99 Due December 2010
9781847012012
208pp, PB
Germany’s Genocide of the Herero
Why Kaiser Wilhelm II Gave the Order
JEREMY SARKIN
Questions relating to human rights are very
much in the news, yet genocides in Africa,
especially those that occurred during colonial
times, are understudied. The history of the
Herero genocide has been examined by very
few writers and almost no-one from Africa.
Sarkin’s book deals with the issues from an
entirely different point of view, provides
new information not included in the existing
literature, and proposes understandings from
an alternative position.
Jeremy Sarkin is Chairperson-Rapporteur
of the United Nations Working Group on
Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and is
also an Attorney of the High Court of South
Africa and of the State of New York.
South Africa: University of Cape Town Press/Juta
$75.00/£45.00(s) Due March 2011
9781847010322
264pp, HB
Ira Aldridge’s Early Eears, 1807–33
BERNTH LINDFORS
Ira Aldridge’s Early Years, 1807–1833 is a detailed,
carefully-researched biography of this black
classical actor covering the first forty-five
years of his life (1807–1852), when he rose
from an impoverished childhood in New York
City to a successful career as one of the most
celebrated thespians on the British stage. He
gradually gained a reputation throughout the
United Kingdom, attracting large crowds and
winning accolades not only as an interpreter
of black roles but also eventually as an actor
of classic white Shakespearean parts-Shylock,
Macbeth, Richard III, even Iago. Aldridge, as
a very visible black man in a white world at
a time when the relationship between whites
and blacks was being redefined, was sometimes
subjected to blatant racial harassment and
discrimination; he nonetheless managed to
survive and even thrive in an environment in
which he always was regarded as an outsider.
Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of English
and African Literatures, University of Texas at
Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius
(University of Rochester Press, 2007).
$85.00/£50.00(s) Due June 2011
9781580463812
12 b/w illus.; 422pp
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Men in African Film and Fiction
Edited by LAHOUCINE OUZGANE
Through their analysis of the depictions
in film and literature of masculinities in
colonial, independent and post-independent
Africa, the contributors open some key
African texts to a more obviously politicized
set of meanings. Collectively, the essays
provide space for rethinking current theory
on gender and masculinity: how only some
of the most popular theories in masculinity
studies in the West hold true in African
contexts; how Western masculinities react with
indigenous masculinities on the continent;
how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem
to reside more on a continuum of cultural
practices than on absolutely opposite planes;
and how generation often functions as a more
potent metaphor than gender.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due February 2011
9781847015211
224pp, HB

Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World
JOHN ILIFFE
Olusegun Obasanjo has been the most
important and controversial figure in Nigeria’s
first 50 years of independence and the most
powerful African of his time. John Iliffe
examines Olusegun Obasanjo’s complex
personality and the extreme controversy he
arouses among Nigerians, and illustrates the
immense demands made on a leader of a state
like Nigeria.
The author has used mainly published sources,
especially Nigerian newspapers and political
memoirs, as well as recently released FCO
documents in Britain.
John Iliffe is a Fellow of St John’s College,
Cambridge. He retired as Professor of African
History at Cambridge in 2006 and has
published widely on African history.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due January 2011
9781847010278
320pp, HB
N e w E dition
The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars
Comprehensive Peace or Temporary Truce?
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON
Sudan’s post-independence history has been
dominated by political and civil strife. Most
commentators have attributed the country’s
recurring civil war either to an age-old racial
divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent
colonially constructed inequalities. This book
attempts a more complex analysis, briefly
examining the historical, political, economic and
social factors which have contributed to periodic
outbreaks of violence between the state and its
peripheries, and assessing the prospects for a
lasting peace.
Douglas H. Johnson is an independent scholar
and former international expert on the Abyei
Boundaries Commission
$29.95/£16.99 Due June 2011
9781847010292
256pp, PB
African Issues
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african studies
The Sudan Handbook War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution
Edited by JOHN RYLE ET AL. Challenging neo-colonialism,
The Rift Valley Institute Sudan Handbook, based on settler and international capital
the RVI’s successful Sudan Field Course, is an ZVAKANYORWA WILBERT SADOMBA
authoritative and accessible introduction to Traces the roots of Zimbabwe’s well known,
Sudan, vividly written and edited by leading but little analysed, revolution of 2000 to the
Sudanese and international specialists. The 1970s guerrilla war, revealing the foundational
handbook offers a concise introduction to philosophies, cosmologies and experiences that
all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad are manifest in the War Veterans-led revolution.
historical account of the development of the
Sudanese state. It consists of eighteen self- The book is a bold account of an ongoing
contained, cross-referenced chapters, covering bottom-up struggle against neo-colonialism,
settler economy and international capital. It
essential topics in the geography, history,
sociology, culture and politics of the country, traces the unfolding events of Zimbabwe’s war of
liberation, revealing little-known facts that help
written by outstanding Sudanese scholars and
recognized international experts. It includes to explain the complexity of current politics,
numerous purpose-drawn maps and diagrams, ideology and class conflicts.
glossaries of key terms, capsule biographies of Based on grounded empirical research this
key figures, a chronology and a bibliography. scholarly analysis differs significantly from the
standard journalistic accounts of this topic. The
$34.95/£19.99 Due May 2011
book illustrates that the popular land occupations
9781847010308
224pp, PB of 2000 were part of a much wider current
under the surface that reconfigured industry,
mining, finance, commerce and trade. War
Veterans led a revolution that challenged the state,
ruling ZANU PF, the MDC, President Robert
N e w in Paper bac k Mugabe, settler and international capital.
Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba is a Lecturer in
Turning Points in African Democracy the Dept. of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe
Edited by ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA &
LINDSAY WHITFIELD Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
The editors have chosen eleven key countries
$70.00/£40.00(s) Due January 2011
to provide enlightening comparisons and
978 1 84701 025 4
contrasts to stimulate discussion among 8 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
students. They have brought together a team
of scholars who are actively working in the
changing Africa of today. Each chapter is
structured around a framing event which
defines the experience of democratisation.
The editors have provided an overview of
the turning points in African politics. They
engage with debates on how to study and
evaluate democracy in Africa, such as the
limits of elections. They identify four major
themes with which to examine similarities and
divergences as well as to explain change and
continuity in what happened in the past.
$34.95/£17.99 Due November 2010
9781847013163
255pp, PB
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A rcha eology / A rt / He rald ry & Genealogy
A RC HA E OL O G Y
Cultural Heritage, Ethics & the Military
Edited by PETER G . STONE
The roles played by a number of archaeologists in
assisting the military to identify cultural heritage
sites prior to and after the 2003 conflict in Iraq
have been questioned and criticised by some
experts in the field, as lending a legitimacy to the
invasion. This event has therefore served to focus
on the broader issue of whether archaeologists
and other cultural heritage experts should ever
work with the military, and, if so, under what
guidelines and strictures. The essays in this book,
drawn from a series of international conferences
and seminars on the debate, provide an historical
background to the ethical issues facing cultural
heritage experts, and contextualise them within
a broader discussion of humanitarian work and
non-government organisations’ relations with
the military. They aim to stimulate, focus and
develop a hotly contested issue with a suggested
framework for future collaboration.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due May 2011
978 1 84383 538 7
234pp, HB, Heritage Matters
Roman Warships
MICHAEL PITASSI
The Roman Imperial Navy was the most
powerful maritime force ever to have existed,
prior to the European naval development of
relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy
huge fleets and dominate the seas around western
Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, as
well as the great rivers that formed a large part
of the eastern boundary of the Roman world.
It secured the trade routes and maintained the
communications that allowed the Roman Empire
to exist. It brought previously untouchable
and unreachable enemies to battle and enabled
the expansion of Imperial power into areas
thought hitherto inaccessible. Drawing upon
archaeological evidence, documentary accounts
and visual representations, this book seeks to
chart the development and evolution of the
Roman warship over eight centuries of naval
activity, showing how ships were evolved to meet
the circumstances of the different areas in which
they had to operate, the different functions they
needed to fulfil, and the changing nature of their
enemies.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due February 2011
978 1 84383 610 0
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The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
CATHERINE E. KARKOV
Two particular perspectives inform this
wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of
the art produced in England, or by English
artists, between ca. 600 and ca. 1100, in a
variety of media, manuscripts, stone and
wooden sculpture, ivory carving, textiles, and
architecture. Firstly, from a post-colonial angle,
it examines the way art can both create and
narrate national and cultural identity over the
centuries during which England was coming
into being, moving from Romano-Britain to
Anglo-Saxon England to Anglo-Scandinavian
England to Anglo-Norman England. Secondly,
it treats Anglo-Saxon art as works of art,
works that have both an aesthetic and an
emotional value, rather than as simply passive
historical or archaeological objects. This
double focus on art as an aesthetic vehicle
and art as an active political force allows us
to ask questions not only about what makes
something a work of art, but what makes it
endure as such, as well as questions about the
work that art does in the creation of peoples,
cultures, nations and histories.
Professor Catherine Karkov teachesin the
School of Fine Art, University of Leeds.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due June 2011
9781843836285
8 colour plates, 80 b/w illus.; 440pp, HB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
N e w in Paper bac k
Medieval Wall Paintings in
English and Welsh Churches
ROGER ROSEWELL
Praise for the hardback edition:
“Rosewell has done a service to readers, learned and
unlearned, by gathering these examples together.” - TLS
“A well-written and handsomely presented book,
certain to appeal to a wide readership. [...] The great
strength of the book is in its wonderful colour pictures:
of both familiar and unexpected subjects, and usually
of higher quality than published before.”
- BB C HI STORY MAGAZINE
“A long-awaited and very comprehensive survey that
will be of major interest to all those interested in
exploring ancient parish churches.” - COUNTRY LIFE
Highly Commended in the Best Archaeological Book
category of the 2008 British Archaeological Awards.
$34.95/£19.99 Due March 2011
9781843834847
255 colour illus.; 6 b/w illus.; 380pp, PB
H E R A L DRY & G E N E A L O G Y
P re v io usly ann o unced
Burke’s Peerage–Royal Families of Europe
WILLIAM BORTRICK
Royal Families of Europe is the first volume on
royal genealogy to be published by Burke’s
in over thirty years. It is written by William
Bortrick, Burke’s Royal Editor.
Royal Families of Europe is a comprehensive
dictionary of the European Royal Families,
reigning and non-reigning. The volume features
individual entries for over 50 Royal Houses,
which have reigned in Europe since the
eighteenth century. It is also the first Burke’s
publication to feature the newly announced
editorial policy of listing offspring in order
of birth rather than giving precedence to male
children.
William Bortrick is a director and trustee
of the Society of Genealogists, Foundation
for Medieval Genealogy, and Association of
Genealogists and Researchers in Archives.
$220.00/£125.00 Due April 2011
9780850110838
600pp, 26 x 18, HB
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H I SPA N IC S T U DI E S
A Companion to Catalan Culture
Edited by DOMINIC KEOWN
Written by an international team of scholars
and focussing primarily on the modern
age, this monograph privileges not only
conventional areas such as history, music,
language, literature and the arts, but also
popular experience, with sections on sport,
cinema, festivals and cuisine.
DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the
University of Cambridge.
CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert
Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson,
Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-
Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i
Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell.
$95.00/£55.00(s) Due March 2011
9781855662278
7 colour illus.; 7 b/w illus.; 260pp, HB
A Companion to Spanish
Women’s Studies
Edited by XON DE ROS &
GERALDINE HAZBUN
Intended for both undergraduate and
postgraduate students, as well as general readers
interested in the study of gender and culture
within the area of peninsular Hispanism, this
volume aims to present an overview of the issues
and critical debates in the field of Women’s
Studies, including original essays by pioneering
scholars as well as by younger specialists from
Spain, Latin-America, Britain and the United
States. New pathfinding models of theoretical
analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of
the historical foundations of women’s studies. The
volume is divided into two sections: the first up
to and including the early modern period and the
second from the eighteenth century to the present,
covering literature, the visual arts, cinema, and
social and cultural history. Each chapter explores
a concept/ approach/ aspect within feminist
theory (identity and representation, masquerade,
cultural agency, strategies of resistance, discipline
and the body, poetics of domesticity, motherhood,
everyday life etc.) while discussing either the work
of women or the representation of women and
each essay is followed by suggestions for further
reading.
$115.00/£65.00(s) Due March 2011
9781855662247
9 colour illus.; 12 b/w illus.; 360pp, HB
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Actividad teatral en la region
de Toledo, 1612-1630
estudio y documentos
CHARLES DAVIS
Este volumen es una edición de un millar
de documentos inéditos provenientes de los
protocolos notariales de Toledo, con estudio
preliminar. Tal como sugiere el título, es una
obra de carácter similar a los tomos 35-36 de
la serie Fuentes para la Historia del Teatro en
España, Actividad teatral en la región de Madrid según
los protocolos de Juan García de Albertos, publicados
en 2003. Está pensado como el primero de dos
volúmenes de la misma fuente, de los que el
segundo abarcará los años 1631-1670.
Charles Davis es
Honorary Research Fellow de
Queen Mary, Universidad de Londres.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due May 2011
9781855662193
400pp, PB
Fuentes para la historia del Teatro en Espana
Libro de Fortuna y Prudencia
BERNAT METGE
Edited and translated by DAVID BARNETT
Written around 1381 by Bernat Metge, the
most important Catalan writer of the fourteenth
century, the Libro de Fortuna y Prudencia is a fantasy
in verse, drawing on learned sources, principally
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Early one
morning, Bernat, the protagonist and narrator,
decides to alleviate his sorrows by strolling
around the harbour of Barcelona. He meets
an old man, apparently a beggar, who tricks
him into getting into a boat which, despite the
absence of sails and oars, conveys him to an
island where the goddess Fortuna appears to
him. In a heated discussion, Bernat blames her
for all his misfortunes. His next meeting is with
Prudencia who is accompanied by seven maidens
representing the liberal arts. Prudencia is able to
lessen his despair, and exhorts him to trust in
providence and renounce material possessions.
When she considers him cured, she and the
maidens send him sailing back to Barcelona.
David Barnett, whose doctorate is from Queen
Mary, University of London, continues to
be involved in research on medieval Catalan
literature.
$29.95/£16.99(s) Due June 2011
9781855662285
224pp, PB
Textos
Hispanic Studi es
Mujeres épicas españolas
silencios, olvidos e ideología
MARJORIE RATCLIFFE
Desde tiempos medievales hasta el presente,
los autores que estudiamos glorifican a los
personajes masculinos sin manchar la fama del
héroe o criticar al monarca. La enorme mayoría
de los textos restan valor a la contribución de
las figuras femeninas como agentes de cambio,
o las usan como chivos expiatorios de crímenes
masculinos.
Marjorie Ratcliffees profesora en la
Universidad de Western Ontario.
$95.00/£55.00(s) Due April 2011
9781855662254
224pp, HB
The Life and Times of
Mother Andrea
La vida y costumbres de
la Madre Andrea
Edited by ENRIQUETA ZAFRA &
ANNE J. CRUZ
The anonymous novella Vida y costumbres de
la Madre Andrea (ca 1650, The Life and Times
of Mother Andrea) is a fascinating account
of the life of the owner/administrator
of a Madrid brothel. Probably written by
a Sephardic resident of Amsterdam, and
following the picaresque mode of first person
narrative, it details the amusing experiences
of Mother Andrea, the prostitutes under
her charge, and the varied social types who
make up the brothel’s clients. Emphasizing
the corrupt practices of prostitution and the
controversy over the licensing of brothels
in early modern Spain, the novella proposes
a highly entertaining view of the very life
experiences it purports to condemn. This
bilingual edition, based on the novella’s
only extant text, an eighteenth-century copy
discovered in a Utrecht bookstore in 1950
by the late Hispanist J. A. Van Praag, offers
a thorough introduction that contextualizes
the novella both historically and linguistically.
Its modernized and annotated edition in the
original Spanish with an admirably readable
English translation on facing pages will have
significant impact on the study of Spanish
Peninsular and Sephardic literatures and
cultures
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due April 2011
9781855662261
1 b/w illus.; 208pp, HB
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H istory of re ligion / History: Early M odern
H I S TORY OF R E L IG ION
Conscience, Consciousness
and Ethics in Joseph Butler’s
Philosophy and Ministry
BOB TENNANT
Joseph Butler was one of the eighteenth
century’s most important theologians and he
has continued to be seen as a crucial figure
by both theologians and philosophers in the
two centuries since. This book is a critical
biography of Butler, arguing that his life was
above all a Christian ministry. It is based on a
comprehensive reassessment of his published
work and of the surviving MS and archival
materials. Butler was read in an unbalanced and
unhistorical way not only in the nineteenth-
century Church and academy but also in the
twentieth-century departments of philosophy.
The first five chapters present an account
of his ministry, demonstrating that Butler
developed powerful new thinking not only
about ethics but about the complex of pastoral
and political concepts surrounding “charity”,
as well as the nature of language. The sixth
chapter discusses the uses and applications
of his thought in the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. While familiar ground
is documented in the interest of providing a
rounded account, the chapter concentrates on
developments in evangelicalism and missionary
theology and the projection of the Church
overseas. The final chapter discusses the
twentieth-century secularising of Butler and
the tercentennial scholarly “surge”. It uses
them, and a review of more recent work, to
ground a discussion of what Butler’s methods
may contribute to modern thinking about
ethics, language, the role of the Church and
the religion and science debates.
Bob Tennant is a founder of The British Pulpit
Online project, which aims to create an online
catalogue and database of all printed British
sermons from 1660 to 1901.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843836124
256pp, HB
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Revelation Restored:
The Apocalypse in Later
Seventeenth-Century England
WARREN JOHNSTON
The examination of applications of
prophetic language and interpretation to
explain the events in England from 1660
to 1700 illustrates their continued capacity
to comprehend ecclesiastical and political
developments. Far from having disappeared
from the intellectual landscape, apocalyptic
ideas still held the potential to animate
opinions in the mainstream of political
debate in the later seventeenth century. These
responses were outlets both for demonstrations
of dissent and for endorsements of authorized
powers in response to crises in authority and
efforts at religious settlement.
Warren Johnston is an Assistant Professor at
Algoma University in Ontario, Canada.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due May 2011
9781843836131
12 b/w illus.; 304pp, HB
Studies in Modern British Religious History
War and the Making of
Medieval Monastic Culture
KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH
Monastic culture has generally been seen as set
apart from the medieval battlefield, as ‘those
who prayed’ were set apart from ‘those who
fought’. In this first study of the place of war
within medieval monastic culture, the author
shows the limitations of this division. Through
a wide reading of Latin sermons, letters, and
hagiography, she identifies a monastic language
of war that presented the monk as the archetypal
‘soldier of Christ’ and his life of prayer as a
continuous combat with the devil: indeed,
monks’ claims to supremacy on the spiritual
battlefield grew even louder as Church leaders
extended the title of ‘soldier of Christ’ to lay
knights and crusaders. So, while medieval
monasteries have traditionally been portrayed as
peaceful sanctuaries in a violent world, here the
author demonstrates that monastic identity was
negotiated through real and imaginary encounters
with war, and that the concept of spiritual
warfare informed virtually every aspect of life in
the cloister.
Katherine Allen Smith is Assistant Professor of
History, University of Puget Sound.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843836162
256pp, HB, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
H I S TORY: E A R LY M ODE R N
A Biographical Register of St John’s
College, Oxford, 1555–1660
Edited by ANDREW HEGARTY
This volume comprises a register of all who
were academically of St John’s College, Oxford,
from its foundation in 1555 until 1660,
as well as of a number of men otherwise
associated with it. It includes many figures of
national importance, among them William
Laud, William Juxon, Edmund Campion, and
Bulstrode Whitelocke, scholarly translators of
the Bible, five future earls, and many Members
of Parliament.
$60.00/£35.00(s) Due June 2011
9780904107241
600pp, HB
Oxford Historical Society New Series
N e w Series
Proceedings of the Privy Council
of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582–83
Part 1 Text; Part 2: Appendices,
Bibliography and Indexes
Edited by DAVID J. CRANKSHAW
Under the later Tudors, the Privy Council
governed England on the sovereign’s behalf.
The Elizabethan registers are lost for almost a
third of the reign. The collected Proceedings will
fill the gaps among the registers and within
them. Sources and topics to which they relate
are fully contextualised. This first volume
presents the text of a newly discovered original
Privy Council register. Areas covered are
foreign affairs, religious matters, and social and
economic policy.
$295.00/ £175(s) Due April 2011
9781843836537, two volume set
1088pp, HB
Records of the Churchwardens
of Mildenhall
Collections (1446–1454) and
Accounts (1503–1553)
Edited by JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART
$60.00/£35.00(s) Due June 2011
9780851155784
9 b/w illus.; 256pp, HB
Suffolk Records Society

Thomas More’s Trial by Jury
Edited by HENRY ANSGAR KELLY, LOUIS J.
KARLIN & GERARD B. WEGEMER
In recent times the 1535 trial of Thomas More
has been taken seriously as a carefully prepared
and executed judicial process in which the judges
were amenable to reasonable arguments. The
contributions in this book disagree with this
consensus assembling surviving testimonies to the
trial for a re-examination. The book concludes
with an edition and translation of the pertinent
documents of the trial. An appendix gives a
dramatic reconstruction of the trial in light of
the above analyses.
$95.00/£55.00(s) Due June 2011
9781843836292
256pp, HB
b ritin l o cal H I S TORY
A History of the County of Oxford
XVI: Henley on Thames and its
Environs: Binfield Hundred Part 1
Edited by SIMON TOWNLEY
$165.00/£95.00(s) Due June 2011
9781904356387
60 b/w illus.; 336pp, HB
Victoria County History
A History of the County of Wiltshire
XVIII: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
Edited by VIRGINIA BAINBRIDGE
$190.00/£110.00(s) Due June 2011
9781904356189
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Victoria County History
The Rise of a Victorian Ironopolis
Middlesbrough and Regional
Industrialisation
MINORU YASUMOTO
Middlesbrough’s rise was truly extraordinary, from
almost nothing in 1850 to a great industrial city
within a few decades, its success based on iron and
steel. This book examines Middlesbrough’s rise, and
the causes of its eventual decline.
MINORU YASUMOTO isa Professor in the Faculty
of Economics at Komazawa University, Japan.
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H I S TORY: M E DI E VA L
Cathedrals, Communities and
Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World
Edited by PAUL DALTON, CHARLES INSLEY
& LOUISE J. WILKINSON
Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical
(and physical) landscape of the British Isles
and Normandy in the middle ages; yet, in
comparison with the history of monasteries,
theirs has received significantly less attention.
This volume helps to redress the balance by
examining major themes in their development
between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.
These include the composition, life, corporate
identity and memory of cathedral communities;
the relationships, sometimes supportive,
sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings
(e.g. King John), aristocracies, and neighbouring
urban and religious communities; the importance
of cathedrals as centres of lordship and
patronage; their role in promoting and utilizing
saints’ cults (e.g. that of St Thomas Becket);
episcopal relations; and the involvement of
cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and
in the settlement of disputes. An introduction
their place in wider ecclesiastical change.
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Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Edward III and the War at Sea
The English Navy, 1327–1377
GRAHAM CUSHWAY
Provides a narrative of the first phases of the
Hundred Years War at sea, including detailed
coverage of the most significant sea battles –
Sluys, Winchelsea, La Rochelle. In addition, it
analyses the evolution of the English navy in
this period, and discusses contemporary naval
tactics and strategy. It shows how Edward III
took a great interest in the navy, how ships were
impressed, and how the navy was structured. It
discusses the doings of individual personalities,
particularly the admirals, who frequently
operated against one another or in direct
contradiction of their mandate to the detriment
of the king’s intentions. It compares the English
navy to the navies of France, Castile and Genoa,
and assesses the overall contribution of Edward
III to the development of the navy.
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Royal H istorical S o ciety
Studies in History
The Royal Historical Society’s series Studies
in History, founded by Sir Geoffrey Elton
in 1975 and re-launched in 1995, has
established itself as one of the leading outlets
for specialist historical monographs. The
series takes a deliberately inclusive approach,
covering all periods from early medieval to the
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We are pleased to make a selection of these
volumes available in paperback for use by
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George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois
Burgundy • Graeme Small
Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England,
1066–1135 • Emma Cownie
Red Flag and Union Jack • Paul Ward
Patterns of Philanthropy • Marrtin Gorsky
Practice of Penance, 900–1050 • Sarah Hamilton
War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English
Towns • Christian D Liddy
The Moravian Church and the Missionary
Awakening in England, 1760–1800
• J C S Mason
Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the
English Reformation • Rory McEntegart
Electoral Reform at Work • Philip Salmon
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793–1873
• Jeremy Burchardt
Social Investigation & Rural England, 1870–1914
• Mark Freeman
Heresy in Medieval France • Claire Taylor
French Revolutionaries and English Republicans
• Rachel Hammersley
Debating England’s Aristocracy in the 1790s
• Amanda Goodrich
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720
• Natasha Glaisyer
Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation
England • Robert Lutton
Gender and Space in Early Modern England
• Amanda Flather
Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish
Union, 1699–1707 • Karin Bowie
Land and Nation in England • Paul Readman
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H istory: Medi e val
In the Steps of the Black Prince
The Road to Poitiers, 1355–1356
PETER HOSKINS
In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to
Bordeaux and embarked on two chevauchées, which
culminated in his decisive victory over King Jean II
of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the
recorded itineraries as his starting point, the author
of this book walked more than 1,300 miles across
France, retracing the routes of the armies in search
of a greater understanding of the Black Prince’s
expedition. He followed the 1355 chevauchées from
Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, and
that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire, to the
battlefield at Poitiers, and back again to Bordeaux.
Drawing on his findings on the ground, a wide
range of documentary sources, and the work
of local historians, many of whom the author
met on his travels, the book provides a unique
perspective on the Black Prince’s chevauchées of 1355
and 1356 and the battle of Poitiers, one of the
greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years
War, demonstrating in particular the impact of the
landscape on the campaigns.
Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force
pilot, now living in France. He combines his
interest in exploration of his adopted country
with his research into the Hundred Years War.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due February 2011
9781843836117
11 b/w illus.; 240pp, HB
Warfare in History
John de Vere, thirteenth earl
of Oxford (1442–1513)
The Foremost Man of the Kingdom’
JAMES ROSS
Earl of Oxford for fifty years, and subject of
six kings of England during the political strife
of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere’s career
included more changes of fortune than almost
any other. He recovered his earldom after
the execution of his father and brother for
treason, but his resistance to Edward IV led to
a decade in prison. He escaped in time to lead
Henry Tudor’s vanguard at Bosworth in 1485
and subsequently enjoyed twenty-five years as
perhaps ‘the foremost man of the kingdom’,
virtually ruling East Anglia for the king.
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King Harold II & the Bayeux Tapestry
Edited by GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER
“A welcome contribution to the range of scholarship on
the Bayeux Tapestry and a much-needed assessment of
Harold’s brief reign in its own right.”
- MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLO G Y
The papers collected here seek to shed new
light on the man and his milieu before and
after the Battle of Hastings. They explore
the long career and the dynastic network
behind Harold Godwinesson’s accession on
the death of King Edward the Confessor in
January 1066 The essays in the second part
of the volume focus on the Bayeux Tapestry,
bringing out the small details which would
have resonated significantly for contemporary
audiences, both Norman and English, to
suggest how they judged Harold and the other
players in the succession drama of 1066.
$29.95/£17.99 Due February 2011
9781843836155
26 b/w illus.; 214pp, PB
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 7
Edited by ROBIN NETHERTON &
GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER
This year’s volume focuses largely on the British
Isles, with papers on dress terms in two major
works of literature, the Welsh Mabinogion
and the Middle English Pearl; a study of a
thirteenth-century royal bride’s trousseau, based
on unpublished documents concerning King
Henry III’s Wardrobe; an investigation into the
‘open surcoat’ referenced in the multilingual
texts of late medieval England; and, based on
customs accounts, a survey of cloth exports from
late medieval London and the merchants who
profited from them. Commercial trading of cloth
is also the subject of a study of fifteenth-century
brokers’ books, revealing details of types, designs,
and regulation of the famous silks from Lucca,
Italy. Another paper focuses on art, reconsidering
the incidence of frilled veils in the Low Countries
and adopting an innovative means of analysis to
question the chronology, geographical diversity,
and social context of this style.
$50.00/£30.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843836254
272pp, HB
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
Norman Naval Power in
the Mediterranean
CHARLES D. STANTON
The rise of Norman naval power in the central
Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries prompted a seminal shift in the
balance of power on the sea. This book details
how they used sea power to accomplish what
the Papacy, the German Empire and the Eastern
Empire could not: the conquest of southern
Italy and Sicily from Islam. The resultant
establishment of an aggressive naval presence
in the middle of the Mediterranean wrested
control of east-west shipping on the sea from
the East, thereby emboldening the West Italian
maritime republics, particularly Genoa and Pisa,
to expand eastward in conjunction with the
Crusades. It was, quite literally, a sea change,
ushering in a new era of western maritime
ascendancy which has persisted into the modern
era.
$95.00/£55.00(s) Due June 2011
9781843836247
16 b/w illus.; 288pp, HB
Warfare in History
Place-names, Language and the
Anglo-Saxon Landscape
Edited by NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM & MARTIN
J. RYAN
The landscape of modern England still bears
the imprint of its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages
and towns, fields, woods and forests, parishes
and shires, all shed light on the enduring impact
of the Anglo-Saxons. The essays in this volume
explore the richness of the interactions between
the Anglo-Saxons and their landscape: how
they understood, described, and exploited the
environments of which they were a part. Ranging
from the earliest settlement period through
to the urban expansion of late Anglo-Saxon
England, this book draws on evidence from
place-names, written sources, and the landscape
itself to provide fresh insights into the topic.
Subjects explored include the history of the
study of place-names and the Anglo-Saxon
landscape; landscapes of particular regions and
the exploitation of particular landscape types; the
mechanisms of the transmission and survival of
written sources; and the problems and potentials
of interdisciplinary research into the Anglo-Saxon
landscape.
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9781843836032
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 H istory: medi eval / mo dern

Richard II and the English
Royal Treasure
JENNY STRATFORD
The remarkable treasure of gold and silver
from England and France which Richard II
had amassed by the end of his reign is for the
first time fully revealed in this richly illustrated
volume. It explores the nature of the objects
themselves, and their provenance, as well as
analysing the implications of the treasure at home
and abroad. Supporting the main text is a new
and very important discovery, a long treasure
roll in French, compiled around the time of the
king’s deposition. In contrast to the inventories
of the Valois kings and princes, a detailed record
of this kind is exceptional for later medieval
England, and the publication in full of the roll
itself (1,206 entries), together with other selected
source materials, and a commentary, aims to
correct the long-standing historiographical bias
which underestimates the magnificence of the
English court during the period.
Jenny Stratford is Senior Research Fellow at
the Institute of Historical Research, London.
$130.00/£75.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843833789
8 colour illus.; 32 b/w illus.; 440pp, HB
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
JAMES G . CLARK
The men and women that followed the
sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia
(c.480–c.547) formed the most enduring,
influential, numerous and widespread religious
order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical
practice, and their acquired taste for learning,
served as a model for the medieval church as
a whole: while new orders arose, they took
some of their customs, and their observant and
spiritual outlook, from the Regula Benedicti. The
Benedictines may also be counted among the
founders of medieval Europe. In many regions
of the continent they created, or consolidated,
the first Christian communities; they also
directed the development of their social
organisation, economy, and environment, and
exerted a powerful influence on their emerging
cultural and intellectual trends.
James G. Clark teachesin the Department of
History at the University of Bristol.
The Register of William Melton,
Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, VI
Edited by DAVID ROBINSON
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9780907239734
240pp, HB
Canterbury & York Society
Thirteenth Century England XIII
Proceedings of the Paris
Conference, 2009
Edited by JANET BURTON, FRÉDÉRIQUE
LACHAUD & PHILLIPP SCHOFIELD
$120.00/£70.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843836186
240pp, HB
Thirteenth Century England
Women and Religion in
Late Medieval Norwich
CAROLE HILL
The religious attachments and charitable activity
of women in and around late medieval Norwich
are used here as a case study to consider women
and religion in the period more generally.
Drawing on uniquely rich and varied sources, the
book demonstrates, far more fully and effectively
than studies for other cities have been able to
do, how links with continental Europe enriched
female life. Norwich’s successful status as an
international depot – especially its trade with
the Low Countries and with Germany – became
the vehicle for the transmission of various
cults, artistic expression and books related to
continental female mysticism. Norwich women’s
special attraction to aspects of incarnational piety
is demonstrated by their devotion to the Body of
Christ and to his earthly family, exemplified by
the popular cults of St Anne and her daughter,
the Virgin Mary. The wealth of fifteenth-century
literature, much of local provenance, which
survives highlights both this and other religious
preoccupations of Norwich women. Among
them are, of course, Julian of Norwich and
Margery Kempe, who are here reinterpreted
within the wider context of the religious life of
the medieval city, and of women’s contributions
to it.
H I S TORY: M ODE R N
An Enlightenment Statesman
in Whig Britain
Lord Shelburne in Context,
1737–1805
NIGEL ASTON &
CLARISSA CAMPBELL ORR
Lord Shelburne, prime minister in 1782-83,
was a profoundly important politician, whose
achievements included the negotiation of the
peace with the newly-independent United
States. He was also unusual in being both a
strong supporter of the crown and a man of
the enlightenment, with strong connections
to an international network of reformers,
philosophers and intellectuals, and also an
Anglo-Irishman, one of only a few to hold
ministerial office in Hanoverian Britain.
This book presents a fresh appraisal of this
interesting statesman and the world in which
he lived. It discusses his political career, his
constitutional ideas and the people with whom
he shared these ideas, his family including
the vibrant social and intellectual life centred
on his home at Bowood House, his estates
including those in Ireland and his finances, and
his religious views and connections. Overall,
this new assessment of Shelburne and his
context contributes much to recent approaches
to understanding eighteenth century
aristocracy, gender, Enlightenment, and the
four nations of Britain and her empire.
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Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

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history: modern
Commanders of Dutch East India
Ships in the Eighteenth Century
JAAP BRUIJN
It includes material on the nature of the
voyages undertaken by the Dutch East India
Company’s ships to what is now Indonesia,
on the importance of the trade, on how
commanders’ careers developed, and on
how fortunes were made. “An original and
evocative window onto the lives of men who
bridged the two worlds of eighteenth century
Europe and the Far East.“
- Professor N ichol as Rod g er .
Jaap R Bruijn is
Professor Emeritus of Maritime
History at Leiden University. He is one of the
leading maritime historians in the Netherlands.
$130.00/£75.00(s) Due June 2011
9781843836223
36 b/w illus.; 368pp, HB
Physician to the Fleet
The Life and Times of Thomas
Trotter, 1760–1832
BRIAN VALE & GRIFFITH EDWARDS
Thomas Trotter, after studying medicine at
Edinburgh, began his naval career as a surgeon’s
mate in 1779 and saw continuous service up to
the peace of 1802, rising to become Physician
to the Channel Fleet. He was present at the
great battles of Dogger Bank in 1781 and the
Glorious First of June in 1794. As Physician to
the Channel Fleet, he was a major player in the
conquest of scurvy and the control of typhus and
smallpox in the navy. After the peace he settled in
Newcastle where he produced pioneering work
on alcoholism and neurosis, as a result of which
he is regarded as one of the founders of the
field of addiction studies. This book provides an
intimate account of naval life in the great age of
sail from the perspective of a surgeon, describing
the impact of Enlightenment ideas and new
medical techniques, and showing how improved
health was a crucial factor in making possible the
British fleet’s great victories in this period.
Brian Vale is a maritime historian. Griffith
Edwards, Emeritus Professor at King’s College,
London, is one of the country’s leading experts
on addiction.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due January 2011
9781843836049
14 b/w illus.; 238pp, HB
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St John’s College, Cambridge: A History The Keelmen of Tyneside
Edited by PETER LINEHAN Labour Organisation & Conflict in the
Within a generation of its foundation on North East Coal Industry, 1600–1830
the site of a decayed hospital at the behest JOSEPH FEWSTER
of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England’s queen The book provides much fascinating detail on
mother, the College of St John the Evangelist what the keelmen did - tranporting coal from
had established itself as one of the kingdom’s the upper river to ships at the river’s mouth;
foremost educational establishments. Between and on how they acquired their reputation for
1511 and 1989, the period covered by the roughness and independence.
present volume – St John’s has continued to
provide its fair share of Prime Ministers and Joseph Fewster was until his retirement in
other politicians, bishops, Nobel laureates, 1997 Senior Assistant Keeper in Durham
artists, writers, and sporting heroes, as well as University Library.
to irrigate the rich loam of the nation’s history
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of the quincentenary of the College’s Regions and Regionalism in History
foundation.
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9781843836087
30 colour illus.; 50 b/w illus.; 716pp, HB The Rise of an Early Modern
Shipping Industry
Whitby’s Golden Fleet, 1600–1750
The History of a History
ROSALIN BARKER
Man or, the Twentieth Century The author, making use of Whitby’s large
collection of surviving documents, outlines
Viewed from a Safe Distance. how Whitby’s shipping industry, driven
The Memoirs of Patrick Collinson by commercial considerations, grew and
PATRICK COLLINSON developed from carrier of local products, to
major whaling port and large-scale provider of
The History of a History Man has much to tell about
shipping transport.
the development of the historical profession
and the evolution of the universities in Britain in ROSALIN BARKER is a Fellow of the Maritime
the second half of the twentieth century. What Historical Studies Center at the University of
Collinson offers in this volume, however, is much Hull
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in pre-War Britain dominated by an ardent Regions and Regionalism in History
evangelical religion, of evacuation during the
Blitz, of national service during the Cold War, of
undergraduate life at Cambridge in the 1950s,
of teaching and travelling in the Sudan and
Ethiopia while the British empire collapsed, and
of expatriate life in Australia during the 1970s,
before returning to the University of Kent in
time for the first great funding crisis of post-war
higher education.
Patrick Collinson was Regius Professor
of Modern History in the University of
Cambridge from 1988 to 1996, and he is a
Fellow of Trinity College. He is best known
for The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967).
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LITERATURE: ENG. & AM.
Hemingway and Africa
Edited by MIRIAM B. MANDEL
Africa was a major factor in Hemingway’s
life and work, serving as setting and theme
for two of his best-known stories and
important sections of his novel The Garden
of Eden, and giving rise to a considerable
amount of journalism, book-length accounts
of his two safaris, and a great deal of witty
correspondence. But surprisingly little
scholarship has been devoted to the African
aspects of Hemingway’s oeuvre. This book fills
that empty niche, opening the way for a long-
delayed and multi-faceted conversation on a
neglected aspect of Hemingway’s work.
Miriam B. Mandel is retired as Senior Lecturer
in the Department of English and American
Studies at Tel Aviv University.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due June 2011
9781571134837
12 b/w illus.; 288pp, HB
Jane Austen
Two Centuries of Criticism
LAURENCE M. MAZZENO
Among the most important English novelists,
Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed
not only by academics but by the reading public.
The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing,
especially when one compares it to that of other
nineteenth-century English writers. She was
long neglected by critics, hardly considered a
major figure in English literature until well into
the twentieth century, a hundred years after her
death. But consequently she escaped the reaction
against Victorianism that did so much to hurt
the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold,
and others. How she rose to prominence among
academic critics – and has retained her position
through the constant shifting of academic and
critical trends – is a story worth telling, as it
suggests not only something about Austen’s
artistry but also about how changes in critical
perspective can radically alter a writer’s reputation.
Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of
Alvernia College, Reading, Pennsylvania.
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due May 2011
9781571133946
256pp, HB
Literary Criticism in Perspective
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Marvell’s Ambivalence The Secret Violence of Henry Miller
Religion and the Politics KATY MASUGA
of Imagination in mid- Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of
seventeenth century England fiction, in part due to having been banned for
TAKASHI YOSHINAKA obscenity for nearly thirty years. Alongside
the liberating effect of his explicit treatment
Andrew Marvell’s celebrated poetic ambivalence of sexuality, however, Miller developed a
to the philosophical, political and religious
provocative form of writing that encourages
controversies of mid-seventeenth century England the reader to question language as a stable
is the subject of this book, which includes major
communicative tool and consider the act
new historical readings of his most important of writing as an ongoing mode of creation,
lyrics and political verse, incorporating material
always in motion, perpetually establishing
from hitherto unpublished contemporary itself and creating meaning through that very
manuscripts. It places the poetic imagination
motion. Katy Masuga provides a new reading
of Marvell and his contemporaries – such as of Miller that is alert to the aggressively
John Milton, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley,
and self-consciously writerly form of his
Margaret Cavendish, William Davenant, and work. Critiquing the categorization of
Thomas Fairfax – into the context of the turblent Miller into specific literary genres through
public events of the time; and demonstrates an examination of the small body of critical
Marvell’s hitherto unnoticed connection with the texts on his oeuvre, Masuga draws on Deleuze
liberal, rational and sceptical thinkers associated and Guattari’s concept of a minor literature,
with the Great Tew circle. It also argues that Blanchot’s “infinite curve,” and Bataille’s theory
Marvell’s ‘middle way’ in theology is bound up of puerile language, while also considering
with his ambivalence towards the Calvinist God.
Miller in relation to other writers, including
Takashi Yoshinaka isProfessor of English in Proust, Rilke, and William Carlos Williams.
the Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima She shows how Miller defies conventional
University. modes of writing, subverting language from
within.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due May 2011
9781843842651 Katy Masuga is Adjunct Professor in the
5 b/w illus.; 288pp, HB English Department and the Center for
Studies in Renaissance Literature University Studies and Programs at the
University of Washington, Seattle and Bothell.
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9781571134844
The Ballad Repertoire of Anna 268pp, HB
Gordon, Mrs Brown of Falkland Studies in American Literature and Culture
Edited by SIGRID RIEUWERTS
It is generally acknowledged that no Scottish
ballads are superior in kind to those recited
by Mrs Brown of Falkland (1747-1810). Her
ballads date from an earlier age and contain
the themes and motifs of medieval romance
and folk tale, a world full of kings and
queens, knights and ladies, love and betrayal
and encounters with the otherworld. This
edition provides the texts of all Mrs Brown’s
manuscripts; where a ballad is recorded in
more than one version, it presents the different
recensions in facing page format, enabling
an easy comparison. Music from the original
manuscripts is also given in modern notation.
A full introduction and notes complete the
volume.
Sigrid Rieuwerts teaches at Siegen University.
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9781897976326
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L I T E R AT U R E : G E R M A N
A Poet’s Reich
Politics and Culture in
the George Circle
Edited by MELISSA S . LANE &
MARTIN A. RUEHL
The poet Stefan George (1868-1933) was
one of the most important cultural figures in
modern Germany. His poetry, in its originality
and impact, has been ranked with that of
Goethe, Hoelderlin, or Rilke. Yet George’s
reach extended far beyond the sphere of
literature. During his last three decades, he
attracted a circle of disciples who subscribed
to his homoerotic and aestheticist vision of
life and sought to transform it into reality. The
works and thought of the circle profoundly
affected the intellectual and cultural attitudes
of Germany’s educated middle class from
the beginning of the twentieth century, and
are thus crucial to Germany’s cultural and
intellectual history. The transition from the
aestheticist, cosmopolitan values the circle
embraced in the early 1900s to the more
explicitly political and patriotic views many
of its members espoused during the Weimar
Republic both conditioned and reflected
a momentous transformation in German
thought. The intersection of culture and
politics in the George Circle has received little
attention in English-language scholarship until
now. This volume includes contributions from
major scholars in both English- and German-
speaking countries. Its audience includes
scholars and students of German languages
and literature, German history, and reception
of the classics, among other fields.
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9781571134622
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Enlightened War
German Theories & Cultures of Warfare
from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Edited by ELISABETH KRIMMER & PATRICIA
ANNE SIMPSON
Enlightenment discourse developed during
a period of prolonged European warfare.
Although the Enlightenment is traditionally
identified with the ideals of progress, eternal
peace, reason, and self-determination, it is
marked by its proximity to war. Enlightened
War investigates the multiple and complex
interactions between warfare and Enlightenment
thought, making a case for their ideological
affinity. The essays are interdisciplinary, engaging
with history, art history, philosophy, military
theory, gender studies, and literature and with
historical events and cultural contexts from the
early Enlightenment through German Classicism
and Romanticism.
CONTRIBUTORS: Johannes Birgfeld, David
Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert,
Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud
Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili
Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan.
$85.00/£50.00(s) Due March 2011
9781571134950
300pp, HB
German and European Poetics
after the Holocaust
Crisis and Creativity
Edited by GERT HOFMANN et al
Adorno’s famous dictum that writing poetry
after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted
discourse on poetics, yet has also given rise
to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance.
The essays in this volume discuss postwar
poetics in terms of new poetological directions
and territory rather than merely destruction
of traditions. Embedded in the discourse
triggered by Adorno, they treat the work of
Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg
Bachmann along with other German authors
and concrete poetry. The final section offers
comparative views of the poetics of European
literary figures and a consideration of the
aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah.
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due May 2011
9781571132901
12 b/w illus.; 280pp, 9 x 6, HB
Goethe Yearbook 18
Edited by DANIEL PURDY
A publication of the Goethe Society of North
America: Volume 18 features a special section
on Goethe and Idealism, edited by Elizabeth
Millán and John H. Smith and including essays
on Goethe and Spinoza; Goethe’s notions of
intuition and intuitive judgment; Novalis, Goethe,
and Romantic science; Goethe and Humboldt’s
presentation of nature; Hegel’s Faust; Goethe
contra Hegel on the end of art; Goethean
morphology and Hegelian science; and Goethe
and philosophies of religion. There are also essays
on fraternity in Goethe, Margarete-Ariadne as
Faust’s labyrinth, Schiller’s Geisterseher, and Martin
Walser’s Goethe novel Ein liebender Mann, and
a review essay on recent books on money and
materiality in German culture heads the book
review section.
CONTRIBUTORS: Frederick Amrine, Brady
Bowen, Jeffrey Champlin, Adrian Del Caro,
Stefani Engelstein, Luke Fischer, Gail Hart,
Gunnar Hindrichs, Jens Kruse, Horst Lange,
Elizabeth Millán, Dalia Nassar, John H. Smith.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due January 2011
9781571134912
398pp, HB
Imperial Messages
Orientalism as Self-Critique in
the Habsburg Fin de Siècle
ROBERT LEMON
In recent years a debate has arisen over the
application of postcolonial theory to Austria-
Hungary. Some argue that the empire’s lack of
colonies renders colonialism and postcolonialism
irrelevant, while others cite the quasi-colonial
attitudes of the Viennese elite towards the
“subject peoples” of the empire. This book
applies postcolonial theory to works of
Orientalist fiction by Hofmannsthal, Musil, and
Kafka, all subjects of the empire, challenging
Edward Said’s notion of Orientalism as always
serving European colonialism and arguing instead
that these Habsburg authors employ oriental
motifs not to promulgate Western hegemony, but
to engage in self-reflection and self-critique.
Robert Lemon is Assistant Professor of
German at the University of Oklahoma.
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due June 2011
9781571135001
180pp, HB
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Kaf ka for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by RUTH V. GROSS &
STANLEY CORNGOLD
Franz Kaf ka’s literary career began in the first
decade of the twentieth century and produced
some of the most fascinating and influential
works in all of modern European literature.
Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of
a new century call for a look at the questions
and challenges facing Kaf ka scholarship in the
decades ahead. The new essays making up this
volume, written by leading international Kaf ka
scholars, pursue answers to these questions and
challenges.
CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Beicken, Mark E. Blum,
Iris Bruce, Jacob Burnett, Uta Degner, Doreen
Densky, Katja Garloff, Rolf Goebel, Mark
Harman, Robert Lemon, Roland Reuá, Ritchie
Robertson, Walter Sokel, John Zilcosky, Saskia
Ziolkowski.
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due June 2011
9781571134820
250pp, HB
Nexus 1
Essays in German Jewish Studies
Edited by WILLIAM C. DONAHUE &
MARTHA HELFER
Nexus is the official publication of the biennial
German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke
University, the first ongoing forum in North
America for German Jewish studies. It
publishes innovative research in German Jewish
Studies and serves as a venue for introducing
new directions in the field, analyzing the
development and definition of the field itself,
and considering the place of German Jewish
Studies within the disciplines of both German
Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it
examines issues of pedagogy and programming
at the undergraduate, graduate, and community
levels.
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicola Behrmann, Juliette
Brungs, Katja Garloff, Sander Gilman, Jeffrey
Grossman, Jennifer Hansen, Victoria Lenshyn
and Delene White, Michael Levine, Elizabeth
Loentz, Agnes Mueller, Todd Presner, Lisa
Silverman, David Suchoff.
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due April 2011
9781571135018
220pp, HB
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literature: german / medieval
N e w in Paper bac k
Schiller’s Literary Prose Works
New Translations and Critical Essays
Edited by JEFFREY L. HIGH
“These accessible translations are a valuable addition
to the Schiller corpus available in English, and Francis
Lamport’s consistently lucid Spiritualist stands out
among them.” - MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
“These engaging narratives, the shorter ones even more
than the lengthy ones, merit scholarly attention and a
wide readership.” - CHOICE
$29.95/£17.99 Due February 2011
9781571134967
302pp, PB
L I T E R AT U R E : M E DI E VA L
Fifteenth-Century Studies 36
Edited by BARBARA I. GUSICK &
MATTHEW Z. HEINTZELMAN
Essays within this thirty-sixth volume treat
a wide range of topics: the importance of
manuscript culture as reflected in Cárcel de amor;
the wanderings of René d’Anjou and Olivier
de la Marche as reflected in literary texts; the
art of compiling in Jean de Bueil’s Jouvencel;
a diplomatic transcription of Princeton MS
153 (reception and compilation practices
of the Rose); historical approaches in the
chronicles of Jean le Bel and Jean Froissart; the
Fairfax Sequence in Bodleian MS Fairfax 16;
anticlerical critique in the Croxton Play of the
Sacrament; the Chester cycle of mystery plays;
the conquering Turk in Carnival Nürnberg:
Hans Rosenplüt’s Des Turken Vasnachtspil; and
Tolkien’s eucatastrophe and Malory’s Morte
Darthur. Book reviews conclude the volume
$75.00/£40.00(s) Due March 2011
9781571134752
222pp, HB
Fifteenth-Century Studies
Heroic Saga and Classical
Epic in Medieval Ireland
BRENT MILES
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due April 2011
9781843842644
304pp, HB
Studies in Celtic History
Medieval Latin and Middle
English Literature
Essays in Honour of Jill Mann
Edited by CHRISTOPHER CANNON &
MAURA NOLAN
Jill Mann’s writing, teaching, and scholarship
have transformed our understanding of two
distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English
literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in
this volume seek to honour this achievement by
looking at entirely new aspects of these fields.
Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas
most important in Mann’s own work in the poets
she has been most drawn to. All of the essays
involve close readings of the most careful kind,
taking as their primary method Professor Mann’s
repeated injunction to attend, above all, to the
‘words on the page’.
CONTRIBUTORS: S. Bly Calkin, C. Cannon,
R. Davis, P. Dronke, A. S. G. Edwards, E. B.
Edwards, M. Nolan, P. J. Pattrson, D. Pearsall,
A. Putter, P. Gerhard Schmidt, J. Simpson, B.
Windeatt, N. Zeeman
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due March 2011
9781843842637
2 b/w illus.; 256pp, HB
Medieval Romance,
Medieval Contexts
Edited by RHIANNON PURDIE &
MICHAEL CICHON
The essays in this volume take a representative
selection of English and Scottish romances
from the medieval period and explore some
of their medieval contexts, deepening our
understanding not only of the romances
concerned but also of the specific medieval
contexts that produced or influenced them.
The contexts explored here include traditional
literary features such as genre and rhetorical
technique and literary-cultural questions of
authorship, transmission and readership; but
they also extend to such broader intellectual
and social contexts as medieval understandings
of geography, the physiology of swooning,
or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context
for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall’s
prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal
1965 article on the development of Middle
English romance.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due March 2011
9781843842606
192pp, HB
Studies in Medieval Romance
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lite ratur e: med ie val / music
Perceforest
The Prehistory of King
Arthur’s Britain
Translated by NIGEL BRYANT
Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly
the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian
romances. It dates from the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, and is the subject of rapidly
increasing attention and research. Taking Geoffrey
of Monmouth as his starting-point, and finally
dovetailing his work into the romance tradition
of the Lancelot-Grail, the author of Perceforest draws
on Alexander romances, Roman histories and
medieval travel writing as he gives, for example,
the (distinctly racy) first written version of
the story of the Sleeping Beauty – to create a
remarkable prehistory of King Arthur’s Britain.
Because of its enormous length Nigel Bryant has
provided here a version which gives a full account
of every episode, linking extensive passages of
translation, to make a manageable and highly
readable version of this remarkable and largely
unexplored work.
Nigel Bryant hasworked as a producer
for BBC Radio 3 and as head of drama at
Marlborough College.
$99.00/£60.00(s) Due March 2011
9781843842620
760pp, HB
Arthurian Studies
The York Mystery Cycle:
Performance in the City
Edited by MARGARET ROGERSON
This volume provides a wealth of new insights
into the mystery plays in medieval York and their
modern revival there, utilising both academic
study, and the practical experience of those
who now produce the cycle. The manuscript is
linked to Richard III; the Masons are introduced
as non-guildsmen in an enterprise assumed to
be guild-specific; families, not just male heads
of households, are shown to be important to
the dramatic narrative; and cognitive theory
elucidates performance past and present. Recent
productions are discussed in lively detail by those
directly responsible for them, leading to analyses
of performances in Israel, Spain, and Australia,
not all of them of a predictable kind, to offer
further angles on the medieval dramatic tradition.
$90.00/£50.00(s)April 2011
9781903153352
26 b/w illus.; 224pp, HB
York Medieval Press
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Translating Beowulf:
Modern Versions in English Verse
HUGH MAGENNIS
`A senior scholar writing here at the height of
his powers and bringing experience and insight
to an important topic... the second chapter is
one of the best short, general introductions to
the artistry of the poem I have read... A dizzying
and engaging narrative.’ Dr Chris Jones, Senior
Lecturer in English Poetry, Department of
English, University of St Andrews<BR><BR>
Translations of the Old English poem Beowulf
proliferate, and their number continues to grow.
Focusing on the particularly rich period since
1950, this book presents a critical account of
translations in English verse, setting them in the
contexts both of the larger story of the recovery
and reception of the poem and of perceptions
of it over the past two hundred years, and of
key issues in translation theory. Attention is
also paid to prose translation and to the creative
adaptations of the poem that have been produced
in a variety of media, not least film.
The author looks in particular at four translations
of arguably the most literary and historical
importance: those by Edwin Morgan (1952),
Burton Raffel (1963), Michael Alexander (1973)
and Seamus Heaney (1999). But, from an earlier
period, he also gives a full account of William
Morris’s strange 1898 version.
Hugh Magennis is Professor of Old English
Literature at Queen’s University Belfast.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due February 2011
9781843842613
224pp, HB
M U SIC
Essays on Renaissance Music
in Honour of David Fallows
Bon jour, bon mois, et bonne estrenne
Edited by FABRICE FITCH &
JACOBIJN KIEL
This volume celebrates the work of David
Fallows, one of the most influential scholars in
the field of Medieval and Renaissance music. It
draws together articles by scholars from around
the world, focusing on key topics to which
Fallows has contributed significantly: the life
and works of Guillaume Du Fay and of Josquin
Desprez, archival studies and biography, sacred
and secular music of the late mediaeval and
Renaissance period, and reception history. Studies
include major archival discoveries concerning
the identity of the composer Fremin Caron;
a reconsideration of the authorship of works
within the Josquin canon, notably Mille regretz
and Absalon fili mi; a fresh look at key works
from Dufay’s youth and early maturity; accounts
of newly discovered sources and works; and
an appraisal of David Fallows’ contribution
to the early music performance movement by
Christopher Page, former director of Gothic
Voices. The collection also includes two newly
published compositions dedicated to the
honorand.
$95.00/£55.00(s) Due May 2011
9781843836193
24 b/w illus.; 300pp, HB
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Hans Keller and Internment
The Development of an
Emigre Musician
ALISON GARNHAM
Edited by CHRISTOPHER WINTLE
This book sets the story of Hans Keller’s
internment and traces its remarkable effects in
the decade following his release as he gradually
found his niche in London life. It includes several
important texts, including that of his famous
broadcast on the Kristallnacht, ‘Vienna 1938’, a
selection of poignant letters from his two camps
and ends with a spirited memoir by Donald
Mitchell of ‘Hans Keller in the Early Years’. It
is a remarkable and elegant contribution to our
understanding both of Keller’s development and
of Britain in the 1940s.
$70.00/£40.00(s)
9780955608773, HB
$29.95/£17.99
9780955608780, PB
224pp, Due March 2011
Plumbago Books
P re v io usly A nn o unced
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen
The Life and Music of a
Norwegian Composer
Arvid O. Vollsnes
Arvid O. Vollsnes’ Ludvig Irgens-Jensen: The Life
and Music of a Norwegian Composer is the first
discussion in English of this profoundly decent
man and his life-enhancing music. A review
of the original Norwegian publication of this
book described it as ‘a gripping biographical
portrait. As well as Irgens-Jensen’s life we get a
broad picture of Norwegian musical life from
the 1920s to his death in 1969’. A CD of
extracts from Irgens-Jensen’s works has been
prepared to accompany the English edition,
providing readers with an introduction to his
highly individual and immediately appealing
sound-world.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due May 2011
9780907689737
400pp, HB
Toccata Press
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Music at German Courts,
1715–1760
Changing Artistic Priorities
Edited by SAMANTHA OWENS, BARBARA M.
REUL & JANICE B. STOCKIGT
What was musical life at German courts really
like during the first six decades of the eighteenth
century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the
Holy Roman Empire’s kaleidoscopic political
landscape? Through a series of individual case
studies contributed by leading scholars from
Germany, Poland, the United States, Canada, and
Australia, this book investigates the realities of
musical life at fifteen German courts of varied
size, religious denomination, and geographical
location. Significant shifts that occurred in the
artistic priorities of each court are presented
through a series of ‘snapshots’– in effect ‘core
sample’ years – which highlight both individual
and shared patterns of development and decline.
What emerges from the wealth of primary source
material examined in this volume is an in-depth
picture of music-making within the daily life
of individual courts, featuring a cast of music
directors, instrumentalists, and vocalists, together
with numerous support staff drawn from across
Europe. Music at German Courts serves to illustrate
the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century
German court music establishments without
losing sight of what these Kapellen had in
common.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due February 2011
978 1 84383 598 1
384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
N e w in Paper bac k
Thomas Beecham
An Obsession with Music
JOHN LUCAS
Drawing upon extensive research, Lucas
presents new material on his early years,
his complicated private life, his father’s
catastrophic attempt to buy a large part of
Covent Garden – which brought the family to
its knees financially – and the orchestras and
opera companies that Beecham founded. New
light is shed on his visits to Nazi Germany
and his view of its leaders, as well as the much
misunderstood and previously unchronicled
years of the Second World War, which he spent
in Australia and America.
$27.95/£14.99 Due February 2011
9781843836261
416pp, PB
music
Three Questions for Sixty-
Five Composers
BÁLINT ANDRÁS VARGA
Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers – a revised
edition of a work previously available only in
Hungarian – gives the spontaneous thoughts
of some of the most famous composers
from around the world about their own
development as composers and their reactions
to the outside world. All statements from
English-speaking composers – such as Milton
Babbitt, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Morton
Feldman, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Gunther
Schuller, Michael Tippett, and Peter Maxwell
Davies – consist of the composers’ own
carefully chosen words. Prominent European,
Latin American, and Japanese composers
include Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Alberto
Ginastera, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Hans Werner
Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti,
Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Krzysztof
Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, and Iannis
Xenakis. Further enriched by drawings in
which composers attempt to indicate visually
what their music sounds like, Three Questions is
a fascinating companion for concertgoers and
serious listeners.
The Hungarian music publisher Bálint András
Varga has spent nearly forty years working
for and with composers. His interviews
with György Kurtág were published by the
University of Rochester Press last year.
$49.95/£25.00 Due May 2011
9781580463799
1 colour illus.; 40 b/w illus.; 360pp
Eastman Studies in Music
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music / philosophy
Unmasking Ravel
New Perspectives on the Music
Edited by PETER KAMINSKY
Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music
combines critical interpretation with musical
analysis. The volume contains essays by some
of the most prominent fin-de-siècle music and
Ravel scholars.
CONTRIBUTORS include prominent scholars
of Ravel’s and fin-de-siècle music: Elliott
Antokoletz, Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun
Heinzelmann, Volker Helbing, Steven
Huebner, Peter Kaminsky, Barbara Kelly, David
Korevaar, Daphne Leong, Michael Puri, and
Lauri Suurpää.
$80.00/£45.00(s) Due May 2011
9781580463379
5 b/w illus.; 264pp, HB
Eastman Studies in Music
Widor
A Life beyond the Toccata
JOHN R. NEAR
John Near presents the life and work of one
of France’s most distinguished musicians in
the most complete biography in any language
of Charles-Marie Widor. He is considered
one of the greatest organists of his time,
a prolific composer in nearly every genre,
professor of organ and composition at the Paris
Conservatory, academician and administrator at
the Institute of France, journalist, conductor,
music editor, scholar, correspondent, inspired
visionary, and man of deep culture. An
appendix constitutes the most complete listing
ever compiled of Widor’s oeuvre. Each work is
dated as accurately as possible and includes the
publisher, plate number, dedicatee, and relevant
commentary. Another appendix lists Widor’s
complete published writings, other than the
scores of press reviews he penned over several
decades. Widor: A Life Beyond the Toccata illuminates
the life and work of one of France’s most
distinguished, yet neglected musicians of the
belle époque.
John Near is William Martin and Mina
Merrill Prindle Professor of Fine Arts and
College Organist at Principia College.
$90.00/£50.00(s) Due February 2011
978 1 58046 369 0
522pp, 6 x 9, HB
Eastman Studies in Music
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P H I L O S OP H Y
Kant and the Concept of Community
Edited by CHARLTON PAYNE &
LUCAS THORPE
The concept of community plays a central role
in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, his practical
philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious
thought. Most notably, Kant introduced
the category of community in his table of
categories in the Critique of Pure Reason;
the community of substances in the third
analogy; the Realm of Ends as an ethical
community; the state and the public sphere as
political communities; the sensus communis
of the Critique of Judgment; and the idea
of the church as a religious community in
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere
Reason. Given Kant’s status as a systematic
philosopher, volume editors Payne and Thorpe
maintain that any examination of the concept
of community in one area of his work can
be understood only in relation to the others.
In this volume, then, scholars from different
disciplines – specializing in various aspects of
and approaches to Kant’s work – offer their
interpretations of Kant on the concept of
community, rounded out by a bibliography of
recent works on community in Kant’s work.
The various essays further illustrate the central
relevance and importance of Kant’s conception
of community to contemporary debates in
various fields.
$29.95/£17.99 Due April 2011
9781580463874
372pp, PB
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Two Paradigms of Rationality
ARBOGAST SCHMITT &
VISHWA ADLURI
Modernity’s break with the Middle Ages is
distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a
world of individual, empirical experience. This
turn was a repudiation of Plato’s idea that
there is a reality of rationality and intellect.
Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer
thought necessary to seriously confront the
“old” concept of rationality that emanates
from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt’s book sets itself
this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the
arguments for a life based on theory and one
based on praxis in order to provide a balance
sheet of profit and loss. Showing that the
Enlightenment did not, as often assumed,
“discover” rationality, but instead a different
concept of rationality, the book opens one’s
view to other forms of rationality and new
possibilities of reconciliation with one’s own –
that is, Western – history.
Modernity and Plato was hailed in its German
edition (2004) as “one of the most important
philosophy books of the past few years,” as
“a book that belongs, without any doubt, in
the great tradition of German philosophy,”
and as “a provocative thesis on the antiquity-
modernity debate.” It is a major contribution
to synthetic philosophy and philosophical
historiography, in English for the first time.
Arbogast Schmitt is Professor of Classical
Greek Literature and Philosophy at the
University of Marburg, Germany.
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9781571134974
488pp, HB
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