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The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.

Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.

First translation into English of the medieval German Leben der Graefen Iolanda, making it accessible to a wider audience.

Examination of the critical discourse on the literary movement of 'realism.'

A comprehensive history of critical reactions to Charles Lamb, English critic and essayist. This study proposes that perhaps he is a literary "trickster" who delights in raising just those contradictions of modern life which those who attempt a systematic style of criticism would like to ignore.

An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century.

Essays offering new approaches to the debate on orality and literacy, taking in recent developments in modern electronic media.

Le Guin criticism examined, showing how her reputation as a leading American writer has developed.

New studies looking at Herder's contribution to 18th-century intellectual debate in the light of the modern trend towards interdisciplinarity.

A publication of the Goethe Society of North America, carrying Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries); extensive book review section.

First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Reformation Church.

Archdeacons were the most senior officers in the secular church after the archbishops and bishops, and played a crucial role in diocesan administration. This book brings together for the first time the 285 surviving acta of English archdeacons in the twelfth century, representing forty-five of the fifty-one medieval archdeaconries of the English church; also included are twenty-one acta of vice-archdeacons, the main deputies of archdeacons at this time. These documents reveal archdeacons at work in various aspects of their responsibilities, such as presiding in archdeacons' synods or rural chapters, settling disputes, holding inquiries, and dealing with appointments to parish churches; they shed new light on the business and diplomatic of archdeacons' acta, the personnel of their households and staff, and the part archdeacons and their deputies played in the ecclesiastical and temporal affairs of the twelfth century.

Petitions are vital sources for our knowledge of life in the middle ages. A selection is presented here with English summaries, notes, and introduction.

Impressive...a significant contribution to the ecclesiastical history of Exeter and the English thirteenth century. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Third and final volume of early Exeter episcopal register; Introduction in Vol. I.

Register of the archdeaconry of Nottingham, including records of prisoners in archdeacon's Nottingham gaol.

Letters and charters shed light on in England prior to and succeeding the death of king John.

Late 14c ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Salisbury.

Introduction to and transcription of earliest surviving Exeter episcopal register, with modern translation.

Edition of the correspondence of the notable antiquarians William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, presenting vivid details of life at the time.

Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of these rolls has survived, and the records therefore begin with the Whitsun ordinations of the eleventh year of Sutton's episcopate (which ran from May 19, 1290, to May 18, 1291) and continue until his death on November 13, 1299.

Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have thrilled and perplexed readers, and its influence continues to be reflected in modern letters.

This volume presents reprints of the prefaces to representative collections of metrical psalms. Psalm-singing, an essentially popular form of music, required some musical knowledge in the singers, and it was in these prefaces thatthe compilers gave basic information on the staves, clefs and note-values of contemporary notation. Dr Rainbow's introduction is a fascinating guide to the changing tastes and needs shown by the carefully selected reprints.

A survey of the political career of George Canning, showing how he contributed to a radical change in British party politics.

The history of the Reform Acts viewed from a Scottish angle, bringing out its implications for relations with England.

Based on a range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting, pickpocketing and distributing forged banknotes, through their trials and on to death, transportation, imprisonment or even to complete freedom.

The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.