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  | | György Ligeti Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds by Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, Boydell Press Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-550-9, ISBN: 1-84383-550-9 "Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds - based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who re ..." |
 | | Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Della Hooke, Dr. Michael Bintley, Michael Bintley, Eric Lacey, John Baker, Michael Dj Bintley, Marijane Osborn, Richard North, Boydell Press Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2019 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-369-0, ISBN: 1-78327-369-0 "For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half ..." |
 | | The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930 (Music in Society and Culture) by Christina Bashford, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Professor Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Boydell Press Hardcover, 343 Pages, Published 2016 by Boydell Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-065-1, ISBN: 1-78327-065-9 "Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930, is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's ..." |
 | | Music at German Courts, 1715-1760(Reprint) Changing Artistic Priorities by Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul, Janice B. Stockigt, Boydell Press Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-058-3, ISBN: 1-78327-058-6 "What was musical life at German courts really like during 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 (ranging from kingdoms to pri ..." |
 | | Journal of Medieval Military History Volume XIII by John France, Kelly Devries, Clifford J. Rogers, Boydell Press Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-057-6, ISBN: 1-78327-057-8 "Warfare on the periphery of Europe and across cultural boundaries is a particular focus of this volume. One article, on Castilian seapower, treats the melding of northern and southern naval traditions; another clarifies the military roles of the Ayyubid and Mamluk miners and stoneworkers in siege warfare; a third emphasizes cultural considerations in an Icelandic conflict; a fourth looks at how an Iberian prelate navigated the line betw ..." |
 | | Accompanied Voices Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt by John Greening, Boydell Press Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-015-6, ISBN: 1-78327-015-2 "Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, and a moving commentary by one set of practising artists on the work of another. There have been several anthologies of 'music poems', but never one which follows the story of western music through from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. This is in effect a c ..." |
 | | Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11 by Robin Netherton, Boydell Press, Monica L. Wright Hardcover, 203 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-002-6, ISBN: 1-78327-002-0 "The second decade of this acclaimed and popular series begins with a volume that will be essential reading for historians and re-enactors alike. Two papers consider cloth manufacture in the early medieval period: Ingvild Øye examines the graves of prosperous Viking Age women from Western Norway which contained both textile-making tools and the remains of cloth, considering the relationship between the two. Karen Nicholson compliments th ..." |
 | | East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages(Reprint) by David Bates, Robert Liddiard, Professor David Bates, Boydell Press Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-036-1, ISBN: 1-78327-036-5 "East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed much of its character and identity to its place in a much wider ""North Sea World"" that stretched from the English Channel to Iceland, the Baltic and beyond. Relations between East Anglia and its maritime neighbours have for the most part been peaceful, involving migration and commercial, artistic, architectural and religious exchanges, but ha ..." |
 | | Crises in Economic and Social History A Comparative Perspective (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History) by A. T. Brown, Andy Burn, Rob Doherty, Boydell Press Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-042-2, ISBN: 1-78327-042-X "This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the bounda ..." |
 | | Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Boydell Press Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-008-8, ISBN: 1-78327-008-X "For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half ..." |
 | | Remaking English Society (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History) by Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, John Walter, Boydell Press Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-017-0, ISBN: 1-78327-017-9 "A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on relat ..." |
 | | The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy(Reprint) The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History) by Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor, Boydell Press Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-044-6, ISBN: 1-78327-044-6 "There has been an explosion of interest in the 'Glorious' Revolution in recent years. Long regarded as the lesser of Britain's seventeenth-century revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of mid-century, it is now coming to be seen as a major transformative episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new light on the final crisis of the Stu ..." |
 | | Magna Carta and the England of King John(Reprint) by Janet S. Loengard, Boydell Press Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-054-5, ISBN: 1-78327-054-3 "Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and has long been the subject of constitutional and political historical writing. This volume has a different focus: what was the social, economic, legal, and religious background to the Charter - what was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? Studies here analyse earlier Angevin r ..." |
 | | Charles Mackerras(1st Edition) by Nigel Simeone, John Tyrrell, Boydell Press Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-966-8, ISBN: 1-84383-966-0 "By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 84, Sir Charles Mackerras had achieved widespread recognition, recorded extensively and developed into a conductor of major international significance. In addition to areas in which he already had forged a distinctive profile (Janácek, Mozart, Handel, Sullivan) he revisited - and rethought - much of the standard repertoire. The last thirty years were particularly momentous in the coming to ..." |
 | | Displaced Heritage Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss (Heritage Matters) by Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, Dr. Ian Convery, Boydell Press Hardcover, 359 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-963-7, ISBN: 1-84383-963-6 "The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from ..." |
 | | Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain A Multilingual Sourcebook (Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles) by Louise M. Sylvester, Mark C. Chambers, Boydell Press Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-932-3, ISBN: 1-84383-932-6 "Texts (with modern English translation) offering insights into the place of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the restoration of livery, for example, or pr ..." |
 | | Edgar, King of the English, 959-975(Reprint) New Interpretations (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Donald Scragg, Boydell Press, D. G. Scragg Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-928-6, ISBN: 1-84383-928-8 "King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as ""the Pacific"" or""the Peaceable"" because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the growth of monastic p ..." |
 | | Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (Heritage Matters) by Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis, Gerard Corsane, Boydell Press Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-974-3, ISBN: 1-84383-974-1 "Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding efforts, ownership, protective legal framework ..." |
 | | Making Sense of Place Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Heritage Matters) by Dr. Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, Boydell Press, David Ludden Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-899-9, ISBN: 1-84383-899-0 "The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our relationship with the world and with each ..." |
 | | Museums and Biographies(Reprint) Stories, Objects, Identities (Heritage Matters) by Kate Hill, Boydell Press Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2014 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-961-3, ISBN: 1-84383-961-X "Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual biography and museum history, problematising ..." |
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