2010_Autumn_Trade_Catalogue

TRADE BOOKS

Autumn 2010

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£30.00, October 2010

978 1 84383 576 9 60 colour & 100 blw illus.: 400pp, HB

Published for the History of Parliament Trust.

Introductory price: £40.00 until 1st January 2011, after which it reverts to £55.00

October 2010

978 1 84383 498 4 11 col., 109 b/w & 5 line illus.; 312pp HB

Honour, Interest and PowerAn Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715Edited by Ruth PalEy & Paul SEawaRd

Unique illustrated history of the House of Lords during the turbulent period between the Restoration and the accession of George I.

Condemned as ‘useless and dangerous’, the house of lords was abolished in the revolution of 1649, shortly after the execution of the King. when it was reinstated, along with the monarchy, as part of the Restoration of 1660, the house entered into one of the most turbulent and dramatic periods in its history.

This highly illustrated book shows their lordships engaging with the central arguments of the day, but also using Parliament to pursue their own projects; as members of an elite intensely conscious of their status and determined to defend their honour against commoners, Irish peers and each other; as a class apart, always active in devising new schemes to increase their wealth and ‘interest’; and as local grandees, to whom local society looked for leadership and protection. From the proud duke of Somerset to the beggarly lord Mohun, from the devious Earl of Oxford to the disgruntled lord lucas, the material here presents an initial impression of the nature of the Restoration house of lords and the men who formed it, showing them in their best moments, when they vigorously defended the law and the constitution, and in their worst, as they obsessively concerned themselves with honour and precedence and indefatigably pursued private interests.

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The Temple Church in LondonHistory, Architecture, ArtEdited by davId PaRK & RObIn GRIFFIth-JOnES

First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War.

Founded as the main church of the Knights templar in England, the temple Church is historically and architecturally one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round nave, modelled on the holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any English building of its period. It also holds one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher wren, and a substantial restoration programme in the early 1840s.

despite its extraordinary importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or critical attention, a gap which is remedied by this volume. It considers the new temple as a whole in the middle ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its foundations in the twelfth century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material available for study: drawings, photographs, and plaster casts

Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, virginia Jansen, Philip lankester, helen nicholson, david Park, Rosemary Sweet, william whyte, Christopher wilson.

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2 www.boydellandbrewer.comCover image: Temple Church choir, interior view to east. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou (Temple Church). From The temple Church in london.

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£19.99, November 2010

978 1 84383 600 1 10 colour & 24 line illus.; 384pp, PB

Navies of RomeMIChaEl PItaSSI

A groundbreaking new chronological study of the role played by the Navy in the successful development of the Roman Empire.

The Roman navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. It secured the trade routes and maintained the communications that allowed the Roman Empire to exist. It brought previously untouchable and unreachable enemies to battle and enabled the expansion of Imperial power into areas thought hitherto inaccessible. without the support of its navy, Rome would have been unable to survive. This work examines the role of naval warfare in the development of Europe’s first great empire and details the many great battles and campaigns that had to be fought.

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Dress in Anglo-Saxon englandGalE R . OwEn-CRO CKER

The definitive work on the clothes, shoes, jewellery and even hairstyles of men and women between the 5th and 11th centuries.

This paperback is an encyclopaedic study of English dress, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art, and also from re-enactors’ experience. It examines archaeological textiles, cloth production and the significance of imported cloth and foreign fashions. dress is discussed as a marker of gender, ethnicity, status and social role - in the context of a pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing, commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and much else - and surviving dress fasteners and accessories are examined with regard to type and to geographical/chronological distribution. There are colour reconstructions of early anglo-Saxon dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are discussed, and there is a glossary of costume and other relevant terms.


Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450GEOFF EGan & FRanCES PRItChaRd £19.99 June 2008, 978 1 84383 351 2, 25 b/w & 106 line illus.; 438pp, PB

knives and ScabbardsJ. COwGIll, M. dE nEERGaaRd & n. GRIFFIthS £19.99 June 2008, 978 1 84383 353 6, 25 b/w & 106 line illus.; 184pp, PB

The Medieval Horse and its equipment, c.1150-c.1450 Edited by JOhn ClaRK£25.00 August 2004, 978 1 84383 097 9, 42 b/w & 90 line illus.; 202pp, HB

The Medieval HouseholdDaily Living c.1150-c.1450GEOFF EGan£30.00 May 2010, 978 1 84383 543 1, 8 colour & 105 b/w illus.; 364pp, HB

Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular badgesbRIan SPEnCER£30.00 May 2010, 978 1 84383 544 8, 332 b/w illus.; 362pp, HB

Shoes and PattensFRanCIS GREw, MaRGREthE dE nEEGaaRd & SuSan MItFORd (illustrations)£19.99 January 2006, 978 1 84383 238 6, 27 b/w & 91 line illus.; 152pp, PB

Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-c.1450ElISabEth CROwFOOt, FRanCES PRItChaRd & Kay StanIland£19.99 February 2006, 978 1 84383 239 3, 16 colour, 132 b/w & 91 line illus.; 252pp, PB

T H e C O M P L e T e M U S e U M O F L O N D O N S e R I e S

£19.99, July 2010

978 1 84383 572 1 12 col., 13 b/w & 238 line illus.; 408pp, PB

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Out of SilenceA Pianist’s YearbookSuSan tOMES

A diary of a year in Susan Tomes’s life as a performer.

Internationally renowned pianist and bestselling author, Susan tomes, presents a diary of her work as a performer. The author demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. we follow her as she prepares for concerts and performs, both as a soloist and as part of a chamber ensemble; we experience the highs and lows of practising and the challenges of live performance, we see her planning masterclasses and interacting with both musicians and audiences. She casts her mind back to her childhood – practicing before school on cold Edinburgh mornings, playing ‘danny boy’ for a relative – and reflects on paintings, dance, books, sport and gardening.

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£19.99, March 2010

978 1 84383 557 8 280pp, HB

Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of benjamin britten, 1913-1976Volume Five: 1958-1965Edited by PhIlIP REEd & MERvyn CO OKE

This fifth volume of Britten’s letters covers a period of intense activity in his life and works.

This volume covers a period during which britten wrote two major operatic works and his choral masterpiece, War Requiem. Correspondents include Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Graves, the Earl of harewood, yehudi Menuhin, dmitri Shostakovich, dietrich Fischer-dieskau, barbara hepworth and duncan Grant, as well as Peter Pears. Central to the period is the composer’s warm friendship with musicians from the Soviet union, and britten and Pears’s visits to Moscow, leningrad and armenia.

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£45.00, October 2010

978 1 84383 591 2 816pp, HB

Alexander Zemlinsky A Lyric SymphonyMaRC d. MOSKOvItz

An exploration of Zemlinsky’s songs, operas, choral works, chamber music and symphonic compositions, following the composer’s search for a distinctly personal sound.

From zemlinsky’s early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places zemlinsky (1871-1942) against the backdrops of vienna, Prague and berlin and illuminates his relationships with figures like Johannes brahms, alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler and arnold Schoenberg. This biography reveals an artist caught up in the music of his time yet unwilling to abandon his 19th century roots

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£25.00, August 2010

978 1 84383 578 3 27 b/w illust.; 408pp, HB


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Gerald Finzi: His Life and MusicdIana MCvEaGh

Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues.

The Finzi that emerges from this critically-acclaimed biography is a multi-faceted and complex character. The author shows how he developed from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with strong views and a myriad of interests: everything from education, pacifism, vegetarianism, to the arts and Crafts movement, the English pastoral tradition, English apple varieties, and the significance of ancestry, friendship and marriage in an artist’s life. She also discusses every work within the narrative of Finzi’s life, and shows what makes his output so outstanding.

£14.99, November 2010

978 1 84383 602 5 25 b/w & 1 line illus.; 352pp, PB


Imogen Holst: A Life in MusicRevised editionEdited by ChRIStOPhER GRO Gan

First paperback edition fully updated to include new insights arising from the discovery of important unseen archival materials.

Imogen holst (1907-1984), the only child of Gustav holst, was a composer and arranger of folksongs, writer on music, conductor, and administrator. She also acted as music assistant to benjamin britten, of whom she became a friend and close associate. This book offers the opportunity for a full assessment of her life and achievements, both in her own words and through assessments by noted scholars. The backbone of the volume is the journal she kept at the start of her working association with britten, from 1952 to 1954, around which is woven a biographical narrative by Christopher Grogan and Rosamund Strode, the latter holst’s successor as britten’s music assistant and one of her closest colleagues and friends

£19.99, October 2010

978 1 84383 599 8 448pp, PB


New Aldeburgh AnthologyCompiled by aRIanE banKES & JOnathan REEKIE

A book for those drawn back to Aldeburgh year after year for the music, writing and arts.

taking its inspiration from Ronald blythe’s classic Aldeburgh Anthology, the new volume brings the story up to date and distils the essence of the place. It speaks for and to the present generation, combining young voices with old, those of writers and musicians with poets and artists, of historians with naturalists, and local people. britten and Pears’ aldeburgh Festival lies at the heart of the enterprise. Their legacy is re-examined by musicians such as Ian bostridge and Roger vignoles. Poets such as andrew Motion and Kevin Crossley-holland have all been inspired by aldeburgh’s bright yet haunting atmosphere. George Ewart Evans and w.G. Sebald are among those who respond to the power of the landscape, others to the spell of the sea. The new Anthology contains some of the classic articles from the original.

£14.99, April 2010

978 1 84383 588 2 20 col. & 32 b/w illus.; 376pp, PB

Published in association with Aldeburgh Music.


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Literature and Film in the Third ReichKaRl-hEInz SChOEPS, translated by KathlEEn M. dEll’ORtO

The first comprehensive survey in English of the literature and film of Nazi Germany.

This book is the first survey in English of literature and film in nazi Germany. It treats not only works sympathetic to national Socialism, but also works of the so-called Inner Emigration, of the resistance, and those written in prisons and concentration camps. Schoeps also analyzes nazi cultural policies, fascist histories of literature, and the role of German studies and Germanists in the nazi movement. a major section of the book is devoted to film, then a relatively new medium of communication whose propaganda value was clearly recognized by Goebbels. One of the most interesting areas of research in recent years is the relationship between hitler’s cultural commissars, in particular Goebbels, and the literature and film production of the nazi years.


A Critical History of German FilmStEPhEn bRO CKMann

A historical survey of the greatest and most important examples of German film, from the beginnings to the present.

a history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from the beginnings of German film to the present. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era’s films, the volume is suitable for semester- or year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German cinema.

The films: The Student of Prague - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Last Laugh - Metropolis - The Blue Angel - M - Triumph of the Will - The Great Love - The Murderers are Among Us - Sun Seekers - Trace of Stones - The Legend of Paul and Paula - Solo Sunny - The Bridge - Young Törless - Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Germany in Autumn - The Marriage of Maria Braun - The Tin Drum - Marianne and Juliane - Wings of Desire - Maybe, Maybe Not - Rossini - Run Lola Run - Good Bye Lenin! - Head On - The Lives of Others

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£19.99, November 2010

978 1 57113 468 4 40 b/w illus.; 456pp, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series

£19.99, September 2010

978 1 57113 472 1 14 b/w illus.; 384pp, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series


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Introductory price: £125.00 until 1st June 2011, after which it reverts to £149.00

October 2010

978 0 85011 083 8 600 pp, HB Burke’s Peerage and Gentry Series

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burke’s Peerage – Royal Families of europewIllIaM b ORtRICK

Royal Families of Europe is the first volume on royal genealogy to be published by Burke’s in over thirty years. It is written by William Bortrick, Burke’s Royal Editor.

This unique work is a comprehensive dictionary of the European Royal Families, reigning and non-reigning. The volume features individual entries for over 50 Royal houses, which have reigned in Europe since the eighteenth century. It is also the first burke’s publication to feature the newly announced editorial policy of listing offspring in order of birth rather than giving precedence to male children as was the case previously.

The volume is the definitive up-to-date guide to royal genealogy and will also be of great interest to European historians. Entries comprise a detailed narrative pedigree of the Royal Families, and include arms and portraits of the reigning sovereigns. Royal Families of Europe also includes a searchable PdF on Cd-ROM featuring the full contents of the book.

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A Companion to the Fairy TaleEdited by hIlda EllIS davIdSOn & anna ChaudhRIA discussion of the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation.

£19.99 June 2006, 978 1 84384 081 7, 304pp, PB

A Companion to Chrétien de TroyesEdited by nORRIS J. laCy & JOan taSKER GRIMbERtA fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chrétien’s world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE

£19.99 April 2008, 978 1 84384 161 6, 264pp, PB

A Companion to Magical RealismEdited by StEPhEn M. haRt & wEn-ChIn OuyanGA refreshing new slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

£19.99 March 2010, 978 1 85566 213 1, 304pp, PB

A Companion to the works of Thomas MannEdited by hERbERt lEhnERt & Eva wESSEllSixteen carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity.

£19.99 June 2009, 978 1 57113 405 9, 368pp, PB

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