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Brings to life a fascinating page of history in a scholarly but highly readable account of the "tithe war".

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems

An edited collection that assesses the music of 34 Dutch composers who were persecuted by the Nazis during World War Two.

Brings to life the day-to-day details of staging the premiere of one of the most iconic works of Western classical music.

This volume, containing the general memoranda section, completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming

A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing.

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.

Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas.

Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 40s played in shaping his radical new musical concepts.

A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire.

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulationand resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe.

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural history.

Translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systems

Investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers including those, like William Penn, not previously with this concept.

Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships.

Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles.