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London's Parish Churches
by John Leonard
This is a new edition of John Leonard's popular London's Parish Churches, first published in 1997. With over 200 new colour photographs by the author, it provides both an historical account of churches in the capital from Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the dawn of the twenty-first century and also an invaluable guide to over 120 of the finest parish churches. London contains a high proportion of the greatest post-Reformation churches in the ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.95

Antiquaries & Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present
edited by Megan Aldrich and Robert J. Wallis
This book explores the ever-changing view of the past, from Saxon times to the present day, from the British Isles to modern-day China - how the Middle Ages populated ancient sites with dragons and elves; how people responded to the historic landscape many centuries ago; how the landscapes and buildings of the past came to be interpreted and codified by the great antiquarians William Stukeley and Thomas Rickman. The modern perception and ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95

Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of the Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus
by Matyszak, Philip
From Romulus and Remus and other rulers shrouded in the mist of Rome's foundation legends, through Lucius Iunius Brutus in the 6th century BC to Lepidus and Octavian, this well-illustrated book guides the general reader through 600 years of the Roman Republic. Time charts, photographs of portraits, monuments and sites, maps, reconstructions drawings all complement the narrative which is packed full of information about the Rome that each ruler ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois
by Catherine Crimp
A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-89) and Marcel Proust (1871-1922). But while many commentators have traced their childhood images back to memories of lived experiences, there is more to their mythologies of childhood that waits to be explored. They invite us to move away from familiar ideas ? whether psychological or biographical ? about what a child can represent, ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £45.00

Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden
This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish ...
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Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
by Emma Bond
If Madame Bovary's death in Flaubert's 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of implications for literature dealing with illness. The theorization of a potential unconscious double (capable of expressing the body, and thus also the intimate damage caused by disease) in turn suggested a capacity to subvert or ...
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Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution
by Katherine Astbury
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory ...
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A Quietly Active Community: the History of the Kennet Centre, Newbury
by Lorraine Mepham and Chris Phillpotts
The redevelopment of a site next to the Market Place in the centre of Newbury, Berkshire uncovered the remarkably well-preserved remains of a series of buildings arranged in recognisable burgage plots with accompanying wells, pits, hearths and cellars. The booklet presents a short history, based on archaeological and historical information, of the structural, economic and social development of a block of land in the heart of an historic market ...
Paperback. Price GB £4.95

Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd - 7th Century AD
Edited by Lazaridou Anastasia, with the scholarly support of a distinguished advisory committee from the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University: Peter Brown, Slobodan Curcic, and Dimitri Gondicas.
The vibrant and complex life of the eastern Mediterranean during a time of reinvention and renewal is the subject of the exhibition Transition to Christianity and this accompanying catalogue, which explore a period of extraordinary creativity and reveal new and largely unknown aspects of the Greek world of Late Antiquity.

The exhibition is jointly organized by the Onassis Foundation (USA) and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Byzantine ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.00

Virtual Pilgrimages in the Covent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages
by Kathryn M. Rudy
Walking in Christ's footsteps was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to ...
Paperback. Price GB £97.00