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        Medieval history
        March 2017

        Religious Franks

        Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong

        by Edited by Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude

        This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and dissent, ideas of correction and discipline, the power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power, and the diverse ways in which power was institutionalised and employed by lay and ecclesiastical authorities. As such, this volume offers a uniquely comprehensive and valuable contribution to the field of medieval history, in particular the study of the Frankish world in the eighth and ninth centuries.

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        History of medicine
        July 2017

        Conserving health in early modern culture

        Bodies and environments in Italy and England

        by Series edited by Dr David Cantor. Edited by Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey. Contributions by Leah Astbury, Hannah Newton.

        Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.

      • Trusted Partner
        History of medicine
        July 2017

        Conserving health in early modern culture

        Bodies and environments in Italy and England

        by Series edited by Dr David Cantor. Edited by Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey. Contributions by Leah Astbury, Hannah Newton.

        Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Introduction Part 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers 1. Theorising and practicing nobility 2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts Part II: Conversos and the threat of sameness 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses 4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts Part III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference 5. Imagining the Morisco problem 6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts Conclusion Bibliography Index ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97

        by Mark Hampton, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony's return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism. This book will be essential reading for historians of Hong Kong, British decolonisation, and Britain's culture of declinism. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

        In the early modern period, the term 'enthusiasm' was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents of the Enlightenment used it more widely against Paracelsian chemists, experimental philosophers, religious dissenters and divines, astrologers or anyone claiming superior knowledge. But who exactly were these enthusiasts? What did they believe in and what impact did they have on their contemporaries? This book concentrates on the notorious case of the French Prophets as the epitome of religious enthusiasm in early Enlightenment England. Based on new archival research, it retraces the formation, development and evolution of their movement and sheds new light on key contemporary issues such as millenarianism, censorship and the press, blasphemy, dissent and toleration, and madness. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards' anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for 'pure' Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society - and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Beyond the metropolis

        The changing image of urban Britain, 1780–1880

        by Katy Layton-Jones

        Dark satanic mills, cobbled streets and cholera have become common shorthand for the nineteenth-century British town. Over the past century historical reality has merged seamlessly with mythology, literature and caricature to create a dramatic but utterly misleading representation of the urban past. Drawing on pictorial and ephemeral sources that shaped the popular image of British towns, Beyond the metropolis revises our understanding of urbanisation, its representation and interpretation throughout the long nineteenth century. In contrast to myriad publications that address London exclusively, this book examines images that reflect the growing political, social and cultural significance of British provincial towns in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Covering locations from Bristol to Leeds, Glasgow to Birmingham and Manchester to Swansea, it employs hitherto unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to reveal a complex and compelling new narrative of British urbanisation. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2015

        Ideas of monarchical reform

        Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay

        by Andrew Mansfield, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the political theory in the two countries and the exchange between them. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Britain and France were on divergent political paths. Yet in the first three decades of that century, the growing impetus of mixed government in Britain influenced the political theory of its long-standing enemy. Shaped by experiences and ideologies of the seventeenth century, thinkers in both states exhibited a desire to produce great change by integrating past wisdom with modern knowledge. A Scottish Jacobite émigré living in Paris, Ramsay employed a synthesis of British and French principles to promote a Stuart restoration to the British throne that would place Britain at the centre of a co-operative Europe. Mansfield reveals that Ramsay was an important intellectual conduit for the two countries, whose contribution to the history of political thought has been greatly under appreciated. Including extensive analysis of the period between the 1660s and 1730s in Britain and France, this book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in political, religious, intellectual, and cultural history, as well as the early Enlightenment. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2016

        Women of letters

        Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England

        by Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Leonie Hannan

        Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in order to rediscover women's lives and minds. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth

        The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611)

        by Felicity Stout, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Introduction Part 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers 1. Theorising and practicing nobility 2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts Part II: Conversos and the threat of sameness 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses 4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts Part III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference 5. Imagining the Morisco problem 6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts Conclusion Bibliography Index ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2016

        Beyond the metropolis

        The changing image of urban Britain, 1780–1880

        by Katy Layton-Jones

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        The cult of the Duce

        Mussolini and the Italians

        by Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan, Giuliana Pieri

        The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction that Mussolini was an exceptional individual first became dogma among Fascists and then was communicated to the people at large. Intellectuals and artists helped fashion the idea of him as a new Caesar while the modern media of press, photography, cinema and radio aggrandised his every public act. The book considers the way in which Italians experienced the personality cult and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period. Academics and students with interests in Italian and European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to an understanding of Fascism, Italian society and culture, and modern political leadership. Among the contributions is an Afterword by Mussolini's leading biographer, R.J.B. Bosworth. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth

        The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611)

        by Felicity Stout, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

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