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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2021Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
by Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2023Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
by Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.
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Agriculture & related industriesNovember 2002Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour
Constraints and Community Responses
by Edited by Jill L Findeis, Ann Vandeman, Janelle Larson, Jack Runyan
Hired seasonal labour forms a significant part of the agricultural workforce in many countries. Key topics covered in this book include: changes in the hired farm workforce; area studies, and community impacts and responses; and the need for community services.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2023Marian maternity in late-medieval England
by Mary Beth Long
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2024Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
by Carolyne Larrington
Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature - in particular secular literature - as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences - those who read them or hear them read or performed?
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February 2009Sprache, Lügen und Moral
Geschichtenerzählen in Wissenschaft und Literatur
by Margery Arent Safir, Rita Seuß, Thomas Wollermann
Was passiert bei der Übertragung mathematischer Formeln in die unscharfe Welt der Wörter? Wer wird angesprochen, und welche Absichten werden verfolgt? Wie kann man wahr und falsch unterscheiden? Roald Hoffmann spricht von der Aufrichtigkeit, die der Forscher dem singulären Gegenstand entgegenzubringen hat, und davon, daß Darstellen und Erzählen, daß »Übersetzen« zur Grundausstattung der menschlichen Welt gehören. Wäre daher die Bevorzugung des Einfachen gegenüber dem Komplexen eine Lüge? Jean-Michel Rabaté hält »wahren« Lügen zugute, daß sie Gefühle zur Wahrheit überlisten können. Evelyn Fox Keller stellt fest, daß auch die Wissenschaft voller Metaphern ist: Die Bezeichnungen Atom, Gen, Organismus sind metaphorische Notlösungen. Aber sprachliche Ungenauigkeit und Assoziationen können durchaus zum wissenschaftlichen Erkennen beitragen. Mieke Bal fragt, ob vielleicht Fiktion Fakten überhaupt erst greifbar macht, und untersucht die Ethik des Geschichtenerzählens. Alle Autoren, die ganz unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen angehören, stellen die grundsätzliche Frage nach dem unvermeidlichen, notwendigen Zusammenhang von Sprache – wissenschaftlicher wie literarischer –, Lüge und Moral. »Die interessantesten wissenschaftlichen Fragen überschreiten heute die Grenzen der traditionellen wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften. Ein Paläontologe verfügt eben nicht automatisch über Kenntnisse der Relativitätstheorie oder der Thermodynamik. Jeder interdisziplinäre Dialog muß die Sprache aus einem Kontext herauslösen und auf einen anderen übertragen. Beim Transport gehen oft Dinge verloren, sie zerbrechen, wie geschickt und vorsichtig die Möbelpacker auch immer sein mögen.«
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2012Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Passengers, pilots, publicity
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature. ;
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July 2000Die schönen Seiten der Angst
Das Lesebuch des Nervenkitzels
by Dahl, Roald; Kerr, Philip; Bloch, Robert; O'Farrell, William; Blettenberg, Detlef; Rendell, Ruth; Murphy, Elliott; Finn Brown, Margery; Hammesfahr, Petra; Ellison, Harlan; Boileau, Pierre; Narcejac, Thomas; Revesz, Etta; Collier, John; Klugmann, Norbert; Lansdale, Joe R.; Willard, Fred / Herausgegeben von Hämmerling, Wolfram; Deutsch Wellmann, Hans-Heinrich; Deutsch Eickhoff, Fried; Deutsch Wittek, Monika; Deutsch Hugo, Nils-Henning von; Deutsch Bezzenberger, Ilse; Deutsch Brack, Robert; Deutsch Scheck, Denis; Deutsch Weiss, Stefanie; Deutsch Tanner, Ute; Deutsch Rademacher, Susanna; Deutsch Helbling, Brigitte
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Crime & mysteryMarch 2009The Adventures of Margery Allingham
by Julia Jones
Authoritative biography of much loved and well-remembered 'Golden Age' crime writer. Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was one ot the UK 'Queens of Crime' together with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. She was extremely popular in the US as well as the UK and her novels were translated into several European languages. She died in 1966 and there were two continuation novels immediately after her death, featuring her detective Albert Campion and a further three have recently been published testifying (we think) to a renaissance in her popularity. This biography is a revised and updated edition of Margery Allingham: a Biography published by Heinemann in 1991 under the name Julia Thorogood. It was written with full cooperation of the author's sister and the new edition includes significant new material. Reviews of both editions have been excellent. Julia Jones has talked about The Adventurres of Margery Allingham at the Bouchercon 2009 and Crimefest 2014 as well as other, less specialist festivals.
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Autobiography: generalMarch 2011The Oaken Heart
The Story of an English Village at War
by Margery Allingham
Enduringly popular WW2 memoir written during 1940 and first published in 1941. Golden Duck edition praised in its own right for the quality of the editing and the wealth of additional material included.
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Biography: literaryOctober 2012Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory
The Working Life of Herbert Allingham - 1867-1836
by Julia Jones
Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory is probably one for the academic market as it's the outcome of a PhD thesis and several years funded-research into a unique archive now deposited with the Unversity of Westminster. It is however written in a style that is completely accessible to the general reader and was praised by reviewers in a range of publications such as the TLS, History Today, The Oldie, the Church Times and The Literary Review. Herbert Allingham was the father of detective novelist Margery Allingham but he was also a dedicated writer of serial fiction for the cheapest papers in the Great Age of Print. Allingham was writing for the newly literate but he never patronised or wrote-down to this audience. Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory is a social history, a contributionto the history of reading and a portrait of an intelligent, conscientious, attractive fiction producer. Allingham wrote millions of words and entertained millions of people but he was almost always anonymous and was never published in book form. He would have been forgotten like so many of his peers had his daughters, Margery and Joyce, not loved and admired him sufficently to preserve his diaries, account books, letters from editors and file copies of the ephemeral story papers in which his work was published. Julia Jones inherited this archive and her PhD research was fully-funded by the Arts and Humanities research Council. The thesis (Family Fictions 2006) has been completely rewritten for this attractively presented biography which uses a large number of rare illustrations from the penny papers where Allingham's stories appeared. Professor Jenny Hartley called it "an important contribition to book history."
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Autobiography: generalMarch 2010Cheapjack
The Adventures of a Fortune-Teller. Knocker-Worker and Mounted Pitcher
by Philip Allingham
New edition of unique 1930s fairground memoir which achieved extraordinary success on first publication in both UK and US. Philip Allingham, brother to detective novelist Margery, was a young man uncertain of his direction in life. Setting out from his London office one morning, sporting a top hat and tails, he discovered his vocation as a fortune teller and salesman in the farigrounds and market places of working class England in the Depression era. Cheapjack is of interest to linguists as marking the first printed use of many Romany words. Essentially it is a delightful and completely individual coming-of-age autobiography, told with modesty and humour. This new edition includes many illustrations as well as biographical material and an introduction by Francis Wheen. It has been well reviewed in national newpapers.
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Politics & governmentTribal Government Today
by James J Lopach , Margery Hunter Brown , Richmond L Clow
An account of Fourth World peoples within a First World nation, TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TODAY is a critical analysis of the contemporary progress of Indian tribes toward self-government and economic sufficiency. Focusing on seven reservations in Montana representing the diverse opportunities and problems facing Indian tribes in the West, this book approaches tribal government from the twin perspectives of reservation politics and the legal context within which reservation conflicts must be solved. Unlike previous studies of Indian politics, Tribal Government Today is neither a critique of American Indian policy over the years nor an analysis of federal, state, and tribal jurisdictional ambiguities. The authors -- a political scientist, a lawyer, and a historian -- focus instead on the distinctive political culture that has evolved on each reservation in terms of the reservation settings, governmental structures and procedures, and a particular brand of politics.
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Medicine1994Menopause
The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
by Edited by Isaac Schiff MD , Margery L Gass MD, NCMP
Monthly - 2013 Volume(s) - 18 www.menopausejournal.com Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society publishes important and timely articles in this rapidly expanding area of interest to specialists, general practitioners, nurses, and social workers. It features peer-reviewed, original research papers and review articles related to menopause, hormone therapy, non-hormone and hormone-related aging factors in women, cardiovascular disease in women, osteoporosis, breast cancer and other female cancers, and primary preventive health care for women at menopause and beyond. Menopause is also available as an iPad app in the iTunes App StoreSM. Full-text access via the app is included with your subscription.
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October 2023Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Trials
From the Middle Ages to the Reformation
by Henry Ansgar Kelly
After inquisitorial procedure was introduced at the Fourth Lateran Council in Rome in 1215 (the same year as England’s first Magna Carta), virtually all court trials initiated by bishops and their subordinates were inquisitions. That meant that accusers were no longer needed. Rather, the judges themselves leveled charges against persons when they were publicly suspected of specific offenses—like fornication, or witchcraft, or simony. Secret crimes were off limits, including sins of thought (like holding a heretical belief). Defendants were allowed full defenses if they denied charges. These canonical rules were systematically violated by heresy inquisitors in France and elsewhere, especially by forcing self-incrimination. But in England, due process was generally honored and the rights of defendants preserved, though with notable exceptions. In this book, Henry Ansgar Kelly, a noted forensic historian, describes the reception and application of inquisition in England from the thirteenth century onwards and analyzes all levels of trial proceedings, both minor and major, from accusations of sexual offenses and cheating on tithes to matters of religious dissent. He covers the trials of the Knights Templar early in the fourteenth century and the prosecutions of followers of John Wyclif at the end of the century. He details how the alleged crimes of “criminous clerics” were handled, and demonstrates that the judicial actions concerning Henry VIII’s marriages were inquisitions in which the king himself and his queens were defendants. Trials of Alice Kyteler, Margery Kempe, Eleanor Cobham, and Anne Askew are explained, as are the unjust trials condemning Bishop Reginald Pecock of error and heresy (1457-59) and Richard Hunne for defending English Bibles (1514). He deals with the trials of Lutheran dissidents at the time of Thomas More’s chancellorship, and trials of bishops under Edward VI and Queen Mary, including those against Stephen Gardiner and Thomas Cranmer. Under Queen Elizabeth, Kelly shows, there was a return to the letter of papal canon law (which was not true of the papal curia). In his conclusion he responds to the strictures of Sir John Baker against inquisitorial procedure, and argues that it compares favorably to the common-law trial by jury.
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Children's & YAMay 2017Growing up in Stages: Cognitive Development of Three- and Four- Year Olds
by Susan A. Miller
Preschoolers have a sense of wonder about so many aspects of their world. They enjoy demonstrating their knowledge to others, and they are challenged to use their brains in fascinating new ways every day. Whether they are making clay figures, rolling cars down ramps, experimenting with writing, or exploring nature, they are expanding their mental horizons constantly. Cognitive Development of Three- and Four-Year-Olds will help you understand typical milestones children tend to reach during the preschool years as they develop their ability to think, understand, and solve problems. As you examine classroom scenarios, you will gain insight into various ways young children express their developing cognitive skills and some challenges that tend to occur. You will also learn strategies for supporting and nurturing children's cognitive growth, especially in the following areas: Believing in magical thinking Expressing a sense of curiosity Understanding time concepts Developing spatial awareness Practicing problem solving Exploring creativity through art Developing mathematical thinking Investigating science questions Exploring the writing process Developing emergent reading skills By guiding children to think creatively and critically, you will help them gain confidence and competence.
