Boydell Press imprint: 128 books
The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of the...
by John D. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic...
The Myth of the Press Gang
Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted...
by Jayne E.E. Boys
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and...
by Andrew Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book features interviews with leading and upcoming British composers who use the same raw materials but produce classical music that takes very different forms. Uniquely, Andrew Palmer approaches the sometimes baffling world of contemporary music from the point of view of the inquisitive, music-loving...
by Marina Frolova-Walker, Jonathan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The October Revolution of 1917 tore the fabric of Russian musical life: institutions collapsed, and leading composers emigrated or fell into silence. But in 1932, at the outset of the "socialist realist" period, a new Stalinist music culture was emerging. Between these two dates lies a turbulent...
A.E. Housman
Hero of the Hidden Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan...
Cameralism in Practice
State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while...
by Graham Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This book is the most authoritative and up-to-date source of quick reference on the Baroque composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), covering every significant area of his life and creative activity. In particular, the dictionary and work-list provide the reader with easy access to...
Thomas Beecham
An Obsession with Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Thomas Beecham was one of Britain's greatest conductors of orchestral music and opera as well as an entrepreneur and impresario of exceptional energy and brilliant wit. This new life places him - musically, politically and socially - in the troubled times in which he lived and corrects the stories...
Georgian Gothic
Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as...
by Diana McVeagh
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known modern English composers. While he is especially famous as a song-writer, for his sensitive settings of poets such as Hardy and Wordsworth, he also wrote in other genres; notable works include the exquisite cantata Dies Natalis, and his cello concerto. He also...
Lionel Tertis
The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2007
Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) stands in the company of Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Casals, Thibaud and Rubinstein as one of the greatest instrumentalists - and arguably the greatest viola player - of all time. Such composers as Arnold Bax, Holst, and Vaughan Williams all wrote significant works for him; he was...