Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Pietro Monte's Collectanea
The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the respect...
Museums in China
The Politics of Representation after Mao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number...
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...
Commemorating the Seafarer
Monuments, Memorials and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2009
Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries,...
The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property
Saving the World's Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and built legal cases resulting in high profile repatriations of cultural property. Their actions have...
That Jealous Demon, My Wretched Health
Disease, Death and Composers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing? Much good previous scholarship has been sullied by unsubstantiated views, and many composers' reputations have been unfairly tarnished...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings....
Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Literature, Lore and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in...
Displaced Heritage
Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
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...
by James G. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval...
The Church of England and the Home Front, 1914-1918
Civilians, Soldiers and Religion in Wartime Colchester
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
'In telling the story of the Church and its people in Colchester, a garrison town, Robert Beaken enlivens our understanding of the First World War - not only as a clash of mighty forces, but also at a personal and communal level.' The Very Rev. Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster The Church of England...
Presenting the Romans
Interpreting the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Issues in the public presentation and interpretation of the archaeology of Hadrian's Wall and other frontiers of the Roman Empire are explored and addressed here. A central theme is the need for interpretation to be people-focussed, and for visitors to be engaged through narratives and approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The castles of the late medieval period represent some of the finest medieval monuments in Britain, with an almost infinite capacity to fascinate and draw controversy. They are also a source of considerable academic debate. The contents of this volume represent key works in castle scholarship. Topics...