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A History of Histories
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative,... more...
Lord Macaulay's History of England
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 14.95Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England from the Accession of James II was his masterwork and one of the great enduring classics of English historical writing. The first two volumes were published in 1848 and achieved a huge success. They were published in numerous editions both in Great Britain and in the United States. This volume in the... more...
A History of Histories
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableThis unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history... more...
That Noble Science of Politics
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 63.00In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'. more...
London Literature, 1300-1380
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding, with a strongly local focus. Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing and shows how romance, administrative and theological writing underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman. more...
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his poetry, prose and translations. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work, his relationship to Chaucer, and his central role in the developing literary culture of the fifteenth century. more...
Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 36.00This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Though mosts texts of the period denounce sodomy, this book shows how some also endorse it. more...
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