Machaut's Music: New Interpretations
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.

The Macro Plays
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Madame de Lafayette - Out of print

The Madonna of Humility
Series: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
Detailed analysis of an iconographic motif of huge significance in European art.

Mafeking Diary of Sol Plaatje (paperback edition)
This diary offers a view of the siege of Mafeking, one of the most famous sieges of the South African War. The author, Sol Plaatje, was one of the founders of the African National Congress in 1912. Additional material from oral and archival research has also been incorporated into this edition.

Magdalen College and King James II 1686-89

The Magic Bishop
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Pioneering study of undeservedly neglected figure in the early twentieth-century German literary world.

Makerere University in Transition, 1993-2000 (paperback edition)
Series: Higher Education in Africa
Makerere University has shown resilience, from its colonial establishment through the economic hardships, political instability and mismanagement that began in the 1970s. The challenge defined by the authors is to consolidate and improve on previous bold reforms.

Makers and Breakers (paperback edition)
The studies in this text present many different views on the lives of the young around Africa. They contribute to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalisation and identity from the past to the postcolony and beyond.

Making Alternative Histories (paperback edition)
Series: School of American Research Advanced Seminar
This selection of essays focuses on histioriography and cultural ideology. It considers the erasures of local histories wrought by the colonial legacy, and the implicit and inherent presence of ideology in the writing of history.

Making Ethnic Ways (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
This history of the Taita people during the 20th century focuses on their gradual adoption of a novel ethnic identity. The author shows how ethnicity became a language through which prior struggles were reframed and continued.

'Making Headway'
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Making Music
The story of singer Norman Platt's life in music and the rise and fall of the renowned Kent Opera Company.

The Making of Peter Grimes
Facsimile of the composition draft of Peter Grimes, showing Britten's compositional method; companion volume containing essays on its history and significance.

The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays
Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music
Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera.

The Making of Restoration Poetry
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
A survey of Restoration poetry, from the forms in which it was disseminated to studies of important texts.

The Making of the Jacobean Regime
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A new look at the beginning of James VI and I's reign in England, arguing for a reappraisal of his capabilities as a monarch.

The Making of the Neville Family in England, 1166-1400
A study of power in the middle ages: the Nevilles of Raby, who included among their members Warwick the Kingmaker, was one of the major baronial families in England.

Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Traces the changing identity and ownership of the important city of Trieste in a turbulent period.

Making the Town (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
This title incorporates a social history of a West African urban community during colonialism. The focus is centered on town politics and the ways in which the Ga political action shaped Accra's transition from pre-colonial city-state to colonial port city.

The Malory Debate
Series: Arthurian Studies
Seminal essays on one of the most crucial issues in Arthurian studies.

Malory: Texts and Sources
Series: Arthurian Studies
Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.

Malory's Book of Arms
Series: Arthurian Studies
An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's Morte Darthur.

Malory's Contemporary Audience
Series: Arthurian Studies
New readings of the Morte Darthur place both book and author within the historical and cultural context of fifteenth-century England.

Malory's Library: The Sources of the Morte Darthur
Series: Arthurian Studies
New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.

Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development
A survey of the Crown Agents during a turbulent and eventful period.

Managing Language in Piers Plowman
Series: Piers Plowman Studies
A fresh approach to ambiguities of language in Piers Plowman.

Managing the South African War, 1899-1902
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
This case study of the power struggle between politicians and generals for control of the strategic management of the South African War illuminates Victorian and Edwardian civil-military relations.

Managing the British Empire
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development.

Mandela's World
This work covers the demise of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela, and a new constitution leading to a democratic government that transformed South Africa's international status from pole-cat to paragon.

Mandela's World (paperback edition)
This work covers the demise of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela, and a new constitution leading to a democratic government that transformed South Africa's international status from pole-cat to paragon.

Mandeville's Travels, Volume I
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Mandeville's Travels from MS. Cotton Titus C. xvi
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

A Manual of Instruction in Vocal Music (1833)
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

A Manual of Ecclesiastical Heraldry

Manuale Ad Vsum: Percelebris Ecclesie Sarisburiensis
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Series: Monografías A
La primera revisión crítica de la vasta obra creativa de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Manufacturing Africa (paperback edition)

Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Manuscript evidence is used to trace the processes of the establishment of a new order in Northumbria following the Norman conquest.

The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: The B-Version

The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version

Manuscrits Francais de la Bibliotheque Parker [Les Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Actes du Colloque 24-27 Mars 1993
Series: Parker Library Publications
The scholarly quality of all of these contributions does justice to the richness of the entire collection. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Articles examining aspects of the French manuscripts in the Parker Library.

Map of Bedfordshire 1763
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc

Maps and Mapping of Africa
This volume provides bibliographical references to writing about maps, both historical and contemporary, of Africa.

Maps of Medieval Thought (paperback edition)
Mappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close detail.

Maps of Medieval Thought Hereford - Out of print

Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history.

Marabout and the Muse (paperback edition)
This volume analyzes the vitality of certain African literary traditions that have a common sense of belonging to the world of Islam. Topics include literature in Swahili and other African languages, women authors in Islamic literature, and the place of Islamic orthodoxy in native African texts.

Marcabru: A Critical Edition
New critical edition of complete work of 12c Occitanian troubadour Marcabru, crucial figure in development of European courtly lyric.

Margaret Atwood
Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture
A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood (paperback edition)
Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture
A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Margaret of Anjou (paperback edition)

Márgenes Literarios del Juego
Series: Monografías A

Margins of Insecurity
Responses to the problem of ensuring the safety of minority populations.

Margins of Insecurity (paperback edition)
Responses to the problem of ensuring the safety of minority populations.

Marguerite de Navarre - Out of print

Marie de France
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

Marie de France
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

Marie de France
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series
A listing of the latest publications on Marie de France.

Mariken van Nieumegen
Series: Medieval Texts & Translations
Translation of medieval Dutch drama featuring first known use of the play-within-a-play device.

Maritime Empires
Britain's empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas.

Maritime Enterprise and Empire
The 19C roots of globalisation demonstrated through an account of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon.
WINNER OF THE 2004 WADSWORTH PRIZE.
WINNER OF THE 2004 SALTIRE SOCIETY RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur
Series: Arthurian Studies
An exploration of how Malory deals with the themes of love, marriage and adultery, revealing the socially conservative vantage of the gentry and nobility.

Marriage in Maradi (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
This work explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Niger, a period which saw the advent and demise of colonial rule, the abolition of slavery and the rise of Islam.

Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice
A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.

Marriage of Convenience
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubridad Pública as they jointly promoted public health through campaigns against yellow fever and hookworm disease, organized cooperative rural health units, and educated public health professionals in North American universities and Mexican training stations.

The Martiloge in Englysshe
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Martyrology of Gorman
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c.1400-1700
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
A fresh examination of the idea of martyrdom in the transition from the medieval to the modern periods.

Martyrs and Martyrologies
Series: Studies in Church History

Marxism and African Literature (paperback edition)

Marxist Modern (paperback edition)
Modernity has become a keyword in a number of intellectual debates: in marginal areas of the world as much as its centres of power and wealth. Investigating Ethiopia during the 1974 revolution, Donald Donham constructs a narrative of upheaval and change, presenting locals' views on the matter.

Mary Ward (1585-1645): `A Briefe Relation', with Autobiographical Fragments and a Selection of Letters
Series: Catholic Record Society: Records Series
Biography of, and writings by, Mary Ward, the founder of the Congregation of Jesus, still in existence today.

Masculinities in Chaucer
Series: Chaucer Studies
Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through modern critical theory.

Massacre at the Champ de Mars
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
The massacre exposed the widely differing ways in which post-Revolutionary Parisians construed the word 'patriotism', and why the great Revolutionary goal of political unanimity was so elusive.

The Master Masons of Chartres

Masterpieces in Little
Catalogue to the exhibition of portrait miniatures from the Royal Collection at the Queen's Gallery and across the United States.

The Maternal Fetal Interface
Series: Trophoblast Research
Volume 12 of the world-renowned Trophoblast Research series, devoted to placental science.

Matilda of Scotland
A study of Matilda of Scotland (wife to Henry I) and the political acumen and personal skills she brought to the role of queen.

Matins Lauds & Vespers - Out of print

Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society
Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.

Matter and Spirit
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science.

The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance
Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity.

Matthew Arnold
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
Examines the critical reputation of one of the great literary critics.

Matthew and George Culley: Farming Letters, 1798-1804
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
Letters from two farming brothers provide fascinating insights into rural life at the turn of the eighteenth century.

Mau Mau and Kenya (paperback edition)
This work introduces the Mau Mau movement and its part in Kenya's nationalism and independence.

Mau Mau and Nationhood
Series: Eastern African Studies
Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. This collection combines retrospective overviews with research to achieve a multi-layered analysis of this topic.

Mau Mau and Nationhood (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. This collection combines retrospective overviews with research to achieve a multi-layered analysis of this topic.

Mau Mau from Below (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
This text is based on the oral evidence of the Kikuya villagers with whom the author lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau emergency in the 1950s. The data suggests that there was never a single Mau Mau movement, and that none of its members ever saw it as such.

Mau Mau War in Perspective (paperback edition)

Maurice Barrès
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

Maurice Duruflé
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A new, deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem.

Max Bruch
In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and composer.

Maxims in Old English Poetry
A study of maxims - what they are, why and when they are used - based on detailed investigation of issues, texts and formulas.

Meat Matters
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris.

The Mechanization of the Heart:
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulation of the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.

Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from `The Flowing Light of the Godhead'
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe.

Mechthild von Magdeburg
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
A survey of critical literature devoted to Mechthild and her Flowing Light of Godhead.

Media in Africa and Africa in the Media
This is an annotated bibliography of the literature on mass communication and the press in Africa.

Mediaeval Archives of the University of Oxford vol. I
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Mediaeval Archives of the University of Oxford vol. II
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages
Series: J.A.W.Bennett Memorial Lectures
Studies of the reception of medieval works from the middle ages to the present day.

Medical Charities, Medical Politics
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
An examination of Ireland's advanced mid nineteenth-century health policy, focusing on the Medical Charities Act of 1851 and the Irish Poor Law Commission.

Medical Education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1995
Traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London Hospital and Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1995.

Medicine's Moving Pictures
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Medicine's Moving Pictures (paperback edition)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem
The concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as realised in architecture and literature, especially Pearl.

The Medieval Archer (paperback edition)
A study of the archer and his weapon from the 11th to the 15th century, focusing on military tactics but also exploring the archer's position in society.

The Medieval Armour from Rhodes

Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal
Series: Monografías A
The career of Arthur L-F. Askins is celebreated in a panorama of current scholarship on the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Medieval Boethius - Out of print

The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector
New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing.

A Medieval Book of Beasts
Text, translation, and critical study of one of the most important medieval bestiaries.

Medieval Cambridge
Series: History of the University of Cambridge
Subjects ranging from legal history to college endowments reflect the current emphasis of research in medieval history on economic, religious and social themes.

Medieval Castles of Ireland
A definitive study of the archaeology of Irish castles, from the middle ages to the seventeenth century, covering well over four hundred castles and earthworks.

The Medieval Chantry Chapel
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
An archaeological investigation into the structure of the medieval chantry chapel, with many implications for religious practice at the time.

The Medieval Church: Universities, Heresy, and the Religious Life
Series: Studies in Church History: Subsidia
Aspects of the medieval church investigated, with a particular emphasis on heresy, the teaching of the universities, and the lives of the religious.

The Medieval City under Siege (paperback edition)
[This] substantial book...makes an important and stimulating contribution. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
First volume in new series dedicated to medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles: volumes 1-3 [set]
Now available as a specially-priced set, the first three volumes of these wide-ranging volumes cover a range of topics and periods from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Medieval Comic Tales [new edn] [hb] - Out of print

Medieval Comic Tales (paperback edition)
Medieval humour revealed in an anthology of 80 tales from England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain.

Medieval Comic Tales
Medieval humour revealed in an anthology of 80 tales from England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.

The Medieval Cook
The figure of the medieval cook revealed, in the context of time and circumstance.

The Medieval Court of Arches (paperback edition)
Series: Canterbury & York Society
First full-length study and edition of the acts of the Court of Arches, the most important medieval English ecclesiastical court.

The Medieval Crusade
Papers on major themes in current scholarly work on the medieval crusade, including the Templars and Jewish-Christian polemics.

The Medieval Cult of St Petroc
Series: Studies in Celtic History
The saint's cult casts light on relations between Cornwall and Brittany - and Henry II's empire - in the 12th century.

Medieval East Anglia
Medieval East Anglia - one of the most significant and prosperous parts of England in the middle ages - examined through essays on its landscape, history, religion, literature, and culture.

Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history, focusing particularly on administration.

Medieval English Wardship in Romance and Law
Wardship literature in romance used to illuminate the reality of wardship, and to further an understanding of legal history.

Medieval Framlingham: Select Documents, 1270-1524
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Six medieval texts on social and economic life in Framlingham.

Medieval Futures
Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.

Medieval Ghost Stories
Seventy-seven tales of the supernatural, intended to frighten and excite and bring to heel their medieval audience, gathered from medieval chronicles, sagas, heroic poetry and romances.

Medieval Hispanic studies presented to Rita Hamilton
Series: Monografías A

The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450
Series: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed.

The Medieval Household
Series: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike.

Medieval Iberia
Series: Monografías A
An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.

Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation
Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods.

Medieval Knighthood IV
Series: Medieval Knighthood
Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe 10c-15c. from the practical (houses, armour), to the intellectual (concept of holy war, loyalty, etc.)

Medieval Knighthood V
Series: Medieval Knighthood
`Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ... highly informative and useful.' ALBION

The Medieval Leper and his Northern Heirs (paperback edition)
The medieval leper is a pathetic figure; records of the remarkable survival of a leper colony in Scandinavia until the early years of the 20th century provides a window onto the reality of this tragic disease.

The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Select Documents
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Mainly unpublished records on land drainage and sea defences between the Humber and the Wash, 12c-16c.

Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry
Historicist readings of the politics and ethics exhibited in a range of medieval texts including Chaucer, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays.

Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
A sensitive and detailed investigation of the complex relationship between text and music in medieval chant.

The Medieval Lyric (paperback edition)

Medieval Marriage
Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.

The Medieval Medea
Wide-ranging study of the myth of Medea, concentrating on but not exclusively confined to its medieval incarnation.

Medieval Mind Deyermond Festschrift - Out of print

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England III
Series: Medieval Mystical Tradition

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England IV
Series: Medieval Mystical Trad

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England V
Series: Medieval Mystical Trad
Twelve papers focus on mysticism as an experience and on the work of individual mystics.

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Ireland and Wales
Series: Medieval Mystical Trad
Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
Series: Medieval Mystical Tradition
The regular meetings resumed, here with particular focus on Julian of Norwich, and Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines.

Medieval Obscenities
`Obscenity' is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and it is here examined in a number of different media.

Medieval Oxford
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Medieval Petitions
New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice.

The Medieval Popular Bible
The presentation, the use, and the possible reception of the book of Genesis to lay audience largely unable to read the original texts.

Medieval Records of a London City Church I & II (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries
A case study of the Chapter of Windesheim and the texts produced there illuminates the female spiritual experience of the Modern Devotion, a northern European movement of the late fourteenth century.

Medieval Saints' Lives
Series: Gallica
The significance of Old French hagiography in current theoretical debates in medieval studies and the humanities.

The Medieval Siege
Sieges were a vital strategic weapon in medieval warfare. This book explores developments in siege tactics and the personal experiences of those who were involved.

The Medieval Siege (paperback edition)
A guide to sieges that took place in Europe and the Near East between 450 and 1565.

Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200-1500
Series: History of Suffolk
A comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.

The Medieval Surgery (paperback edition)
The complete illustrations, with commentary, from the 13th-century Anglo-Norman translations of Roger of Parma's Surgery(c.1180), the first original treatise on surgery to be written in the medieval West.

Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
Series: York Studies in Medieval Theology
New interdisciplinary essays on the treatment of the body in medieval theology.

Medieval Traveller [pb] - Out of print

Medieval Wall Paintings in English and Welsh Churches
The first major illustrated study of this unique medieval art form for almost half a century, surveying the images and iconography that made the medieval church a riot of colour.

The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy
Series: Gallica
A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture.

Medieval Women and the Law (paperback edition)
Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc.

The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval Written Between 1662 and 1671
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
Meditations and prayers, aged 14 to 23.

Meditations on the Life and Passion of Christ
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Meditations on the Supper of our Lord and the Hours of the Passion
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead.

Melodies of Mourning
Series: World Anthropology
Presents an ethnographical account of the way that song, dance and musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community of Australia. This book focuses upon the song and associated emotional experience of women, and the way in which children are socialized into the musical and imaginative discourses and practices of the adult world.

Melodies of Mourning (paperback edition)
Series: World Anthropology
Presents an ethnographical account of the way that song, dance and musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community of Australia. This book focuses upon the song and associated emotional experience of women, and the way in which children are socialized into the musical and imaginative discourses and practices of the adult world.

Melusine (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Memoirs and Memorials of Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby, 1600-1657
Series: Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series
Collected papers of prominent Yorkshire MP who notably converted from Parliamentarian to Royalist; his essays illuminate aspects of the civil war.

The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440) (paperback edition)
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary.

Memoirs of the Maelstrom (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
Between 1914 and 1918, the French recruited over 140,000 West Africans who fought on the Western front. Based on personal testimonies of war veterans and archival research, this book describes how the experience altered African soldiers' views of themselves, their societies, and the French.

Memorial Inscriptions in St John's College, Oxford
Series: Oxford Historical Society Second Series

Memorials of the Book Trade in Medieval London
Series: Manuscript Studies

Memorials of Merton College with bibliographical notices of the Wardens and Fellows

Memorias cronológicas sobre el origen de la representación de comedias en España (año de 1785)
Series: Fuentes para la historia del Teatro en España
Una nueva edición de la primera historia sistemática del teatro en España.

Memory, History and Opposition Under State Socialism (paperback edition)
Series: School of American Research Advanced Seminar
This collection of articles focuses on the contest and contrast between official versions of history and historical events as remembered by actual participants or witnesses. The articles cover socialist regimes in the 20th century.

Memory in 'La Celestina'
Series: Monografías A

Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Series: Chaucer Studies
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it.

Men Viewing Women as Art Objects
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Varied images of women studied in a variety of German texts as a springboard for plot or character.

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust and other works.

Mental Health Care in Modern England
This history of one particular place for 'madness' covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries.

Merlin
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Merlin and the Grail (paperback edition)
Series: Arthurian Studies
This trilogy establishes a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through the figure of Merlin, links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest.

Merlin II & III (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Meroure of Wysdome composed for the use of James IV, King of Scots, AD 1490, by Johannes de Irlandia
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

The Meroure of Wysdome composed for the use of James IV, King of Scots, AD 1490, by Johannes de Irlandia
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

The `Mester de Clerecía': Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile
Series: Monografías A
A fresh approach to the mester de clerecía, a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed in thirteenth-century Spain by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity.

Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd
Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture
First full-length study of one of the emerging masters of English fiction.

Metal Detecting and Archaeology
Series: Heritage Matters
A groundbreaking examination of one of the most controversial topics within modern archaeology.

Metaphors of Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
Series: Monografías A
A new examination of the important theme of conversion in seventeenth-century Spanish drama.

Metaphysics and Aesthetics in the Works of Eduardo Barrios
Series: Monografías A

The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry
A comprehensive study of Old Saxon metre, based on close analysis of the Heliand.

The Metrical Life of St Robert of Knaresborough together with the other Middle English pieces in British Museum MS. Egerton 3143
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Metrical Version of Mandeville's Travels
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Michel Butor
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

Michigan German in Frankenmuth
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect, Michigan Frankenmuth.

The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World
Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day.

Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of St Anne (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Middle English Versions of Partonope of Blois (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Middle English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem
Series: Annotated Bibliographies
This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life.

The Middle English Physiologus
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Middle English Poem Erthe upon Erthe
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions
Series: York Manuscripts Conference
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature and the early formation of the canon of English poetry.

Middle English Saints' Legends
Series: Annotated Bibliographies
Annotated bibliography covering two centuries of scholarly criticism on the extensive corpus of medieval saints' legends.

Middle English Sermons
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index
A bibliography of studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words offering evidence for word meanings.

Migrant Cocoa-farmers of Southern Ghana (paperback edition)
Series: Classics in African Anthropology
The volumes collected in this series were the product of two programmes of publications and research, one in the 1930s and the other in the 1950s. The series as a whole is designed to provide an academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa through these texts.

Migration in History
Series: Studies in Comparative History
A study of migration habits as a global phenomenon.

Miguel de Unamuno: The Contrary Self
Series: Monografías A

Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora (Obras Completas II)
Series: Monografías A

Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches
Series: Studies in Celtic History
A comparison of the opposed military systems along the English/Welsh border - Anglo-Norman and Celtic -in the 12th century.

Military Survey 1522 - Out of print

The Miller's Tale on CD-Rom
Series: Scholarly Digital Editions
The third in the series of 'single-tale' CD-ROMs, containing a full set of materials for study of the text in all extant fifteenth-century witnesses: 55 mss, 4 incunabula.

The Miller's Tale on CD-Rom (Institutional Licence)
Series: Scholarly Digital Editions

Milton, Aristocrat and Rebel
General survey and discussion of the development of Milton's political ideas, from his early poetry through the English revolution of 1640-1660 to the epic poetry of the Restoration years, and his self-proclaimed role as poet-prophet. _

Milton and the Terms of Liberty
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime.

Mímesis y Cultura en la Ficción
Series: Monografías A

Mimetic Desire
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Reconsideration of the phenomenon of narcissism in the works of a number of important German writers.

The Ministry: Clerical and Lay
Series: Studies in Church History

The Minor Poems of Stephen Hawes
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Minor Poems of the Vernon MS Vol II (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Minstrels Playing
MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows on with examination of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'

Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Facsimile of record of matters and items discussed by this society, modelled on the meetings of the Royal Society.

Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln 1674-1695 Volume II
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society

'Mio Cid' Studies
Series: Monografías A

The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour
Medieval miracle stories from a major pilgrim destination in 12c France.

Miraculous Rhymes
Series: Gallica
The first published general study of an unduly neglected writer whose stylistic legacy remains unique in the Middle Ages.

Mirk's Festial
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Miscellanea. Volume III
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
I. Durham Recusants' Estates 1717-1778, Part II, edited by C. Roy Hudleston. See volume 173. Continuation in alphabetical order from Edwar Salvin. Appendix of 6 registrations from 1717-22. II. Durham Estates on the Recusants' Roll 1636-7.

The Mismapping of America
The history of five major cartographic errrors of American geography which have had considerable resonance long after they were perpetrated.

The Mismapping of America (paperback edition)
The history of five major cartographic errrors of American geography which have had considerable resonance long after they were perpetrated.

The Missal of Robert of Jumièges
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
Early 11c service book containing many masses commemorating English and Continental saints.

Missale Romanum
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Missionary Women
The first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Missions and Missionaries
Series: Studies in Church History: Subsidia
Missions and missionaries explored from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day.

Mocedades de Rodrigo: estudio y edición de los tres estados del texto
Series: Textos B
Definitive edition of epic poem recording the Cid's youthful deeds.

Models and Integrations
Series: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychology

Modern German Political Drama 1980-2000
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

Modern History of the Somali (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
This text covers topics such as: before partition; the imperial partition - 1860-97; the dervish fight for freedom - 1900-20; Somali unification - the Italian East African empire; from trusteeship to independence - 1950-60; the problems of independence; the Somali revolution - 1969-76.

Modern Indian Kingship
Series: World Anthropology
This work examines the ways in which royal power has survived and been re-invented within modern India, following the abolition of kingly rule in the 1970s. It should be useful to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India.

Modern Indian Kingship (paperback edition)
Series: World Anthropology
This work examines the ways in which royal power has survived and been re-invented within modern India, following the abolition of kingly rule in the 1970s. It should be useful to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India.

Modern Mysteries
A lively account of the modern staging of the medieval mystery plays, richly illustrated with stills and other photographs.

The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Explores the resurgence of Gnostic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and provides a startling reevaluation of Mann's late novel.

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time (paperback edition)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
A handbook to Hemingway's famous collection of short stories that emphasizes its status as a modernist masterwork.

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
A handbook to Hemingway's famous collection of short stories that emphasizes its status as a modernist masterwork.

Molecular Biology and Cell Regulation of the Placenta
Series: Trophoblast Research

Monarch of All I Survey (paperback edition)

Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
New essays on the monastic life in the later middle ages show that far from being in decline, it remained rich and vibrant.

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Monastic Hospitality
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
How guests were cared for in medieval monasteries, exploring the administrative, financial, spiritual and other implications.

The Monastic Ordinale of St Vedast's Abbey Arras
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Monastic Ordinale of St Vedast's Abbey Arras
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Monastic Revival and Regional Identity in Early Normandy
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Normandy transformed from military power base of pagan Norse invaders to Christian political entity.

The Monastic Ritual of Fleury
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
New light is shed on the spiritual life and liturgical rituals of the influential abbey of St Benedict in the 12th century.

The Monastic Ritual of Fleury
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
New light is shed on the spiritual life and liturgical rituals of the influential abbey of St Benedict in the 12th century.

Money Matters (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
A social history of ordinary people's conceptions of money, this book examines currency and value in West Africa over the past 100 years. It contributes to the new history of imperialism and suggests new ways of analyzing money in areas of the globe which are outside the centres of financial power.

Money, Prices and Politics in 15th-Century Castile
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History

Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire
Series: Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series
Identification of religious, with pre- and where possible post-Dissolution careers.

The Monks of Redon
Series: Studies in Celtic History

Monumental Inscriptions in All Souls College, Oxford
Series: Oxford Historical Society Second Series

Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money! (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa

The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
The influence of the Moravian Church on the missionary awakening in England and its contribution to the movement's nature and vitality.

Morte Arthure [alliterative version from Thornton MS.]
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Mothers and Daughters in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Literature
Series: Monografías A
How women, and the generally 'other', are treated in the fiction of four Mexican women writers of the early 20th century.

Mountain Farmers (paperback edition)
This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi successfully intensified their own irrigated agriculture.

Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.

Moving People in Ethiopia
Series: Eastern Africa
Development has increasingly led to population displacement worldwide; Ethiopia is no exception to this, where the displacement of people is a result not only of development, but also drought, conflict and conservation.

Moving Reflections: Gender, Faith and Aesthetics in the Work of Angela Figuera Aymerich
Series: Monografías A
Volume exploring the important but neglected Spanish female poet Angela Figuera Aymerich.

Moving the Centre (paperback edition)

Mozambique
Dominated until recently by destruction rather than development, Mozambique in the late-1990s is working towards building sustainable development. The contributions and research here are the work of government ministers, NGOs and academics pursuing this end.

Mozambique (paperback edition)

Mozart's Così fan tutte
A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.

Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment
The theoretical and musical background to the relationship between the piano and orchestra in Mozart's concertos.

Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music
The music Mozart composed in Vienna closely examined, bringing out the processes of re-invention and re-formulation it displays.

Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235

The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
Series: Chaucer Studies
Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being.

Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages
Series: Manuscript Studies

Mujer pública y vida privada
Series: Monografías A
La profunda fractura entre moral privada y moral pública en la cultura española entre 1843 y 1900

Multi-party Politics in Kenya (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
The two authors of this work analyze the case of post-colonial Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi and show how, in spite of a multi-party system, the ruling elite has kept power and wealth to itself.

Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain.

Multiparty Elections in Africa
A volume of electoral studies of multiparty politics in 14 African countries during the 1990s. Most are about national elections in Anglophone Africa. There are also less well-known examples from Sudan, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau, and studies of the local elections in Namibia.

Multiparty Elections in Africa (paperback edition)
A volume of electoral studies of multiparty politics in 14 African countries during the 1990s. Most are about national elections in Anglophone Africa. There are also less well-known examples from Sudan, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau, and studies of the local elections in Namibia.

Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti
Series: Monografías A

The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past.

The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (paperback edition)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past.

Mum and the Sothsegger
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie
Series: Oxford Historical Society First Series

Murder from An Academic Angle
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
A study of critical response to, and the growth of respectability of, the detective story.

Museums and Archaeology in West Africa (paperback edition)
The contributors to this volume analyze problems and attitudes involved in the development of links between museum personnel and archaeologists in West Africa, underlining the existing gaps and suggesting possible improvements.

Museums and the Community in West Africa (paperback edition)
Drawing on the practical experience of the West African Museums Programme, this book argues that in the preservation of the cultural heritage of the community, the focal responsibility falls rather on the local museums than on the centrally-controlled national museums.

Museums and History in West Africa (paperback edition)
The contributors to this volume examine the problems of museums being percieved as warehouses for exotic objects presented in an historic way, rather than as research-related centres that are capable of developing and communicating with their public through exhibitions and outreach.

Museums and Urban Culture in West Africa (paperback edition)
Series: West African Museums Programme
A study of museums and urban culture in West Africa. It addresses: the origins of the urban phenomenon in Africa; museums and investigations into urban culture; urban culture in the museums; and the role of museums in the enhancement of urban culture.

Museums and Urban Culture in West Africa
Series: West African Museums Programme
A study of museums and urban culture in West Africa. It addresses: the origins of the urban phenomenon in Africa; museums and investigations into urban culture; urban culture in the museums; and the role of museums in the enhancement of urban culture.

Music and German Literature
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Music & Opera around World 2002/3 - Out of print

Music and Education (1848)
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

Music and Literature in German Romanticism
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Essays on the synthesis of the musical and literary arts in German Romanticism.

Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs, 1563-1700
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
The performance and composition of liturgical music at El Escorial re-examined.

Music and Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939-1952
Series: Hans Keller Archive

Music and Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939-52 (paperback edition)
Series: Hans Keller Archive
The first collection of Hans Keller's psychoanalytic music criticism - looking at composers, performers, listeners and critics - much of which appears in print for the first time.

Music and the Occult - Out of print

Music as Social and Cultural Practice
Essays dealing with the controversial concept of the `work', and how far social and cultural practices are integral to it.

Music, Closed Societies, and Football
`... one of the most continuously interesting mixtures of aesthetic and social analysis I have read ...' Peter Porter, NEW STATESMAN

Music in Educational Thought and Practice
One of the landmark texts in music education reissued and brought up to date.

Music in Educational Thought and Practice
One of the landmark texts in music education reissued and brought up to date.

Music and the English Public School
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

Music and the English Public School (paperback edition)
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

Music Explained to the World (1844)
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

Music in the Age of Chaucer (paperback edition)
Series: Chaucer Studies
Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer.

Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
This book throws new light on aspects of the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka.

Music in German Immigrant Theater
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.

The Music of Aaron Copland
First survey of Copland's entire output for some 30 years - a period seeing some of his most important works.

The Music of Aaron Copland (paperback edition)
First survey of Copland's entire output for some 30 years - a period seeing some of his most important works.

'The Music of American Folk Song'
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living part of the American musical tradition.

'The Music of American Folk Song' and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music (paperback edition)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living part of the American musical tradition.

The Music of E.J. Moeran
Chronological examination of Moeran's output, from his early piano and chamber music and tone-poems to the late masterpieces of the Cello Concerto and Cello Sonata.

Music of Franz Schmidt
A major step in the rediscovery of one of the towering composers of the twentieth century; this brings to Schmidt's music the scholarship it so richly merits.

The Music of Franz Schmidt (paperback edition)
A major step in the rediscovery of one of the towering composers of the twentieth century; this brings to Schmidt's music the scholarship it so richly merits.

The Music of Lennox Berkeley
Fully revised edition of Peter Dickinson's acclaimed study of one of the great British composers of the twentieth century.

The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
The first English work dealing in detail with the life and musical influences of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975).

Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914
Series: Rochester Studies in Central Europe
An examination of the interconnections between popular music and societal conditions in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Galician region between 1772 and 1917.

The Music of the Moravian Church in America
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
The first comprehensive study, by a team of leading scholars, of one of the United States' most distinctive musical traditions.

On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song

Music Theory and Mathematics
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today.

Music Theory in Concept and Practice
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Historical, theoretical and analytical studies of principally 19-20c topics, reflecting current musical research.

Music's Modern Muse
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.

Music's Modern Muse
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.

Music's Modern Muse Leather Edition
Series: Eastman Studies in Music

The Musical Charlatan
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First English translation of one of the first realistic novels written in German. Beyond the humor of the work there is a mass of detail on musical issues and practices in the 17th century.

Musical Creativity in Twentieth-Century China
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A study of the life and music of the blind Chinese folk musician Abing (1893-1950), with accompanying CD.

Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.

Musical Ensembles in Festival Books, 1500-1800
First in-depth study of festival books as they document musical performance practices from 1500-1800.

The Musical Madhouse
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.

The Musical Madhouse: English Translation of Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique (paperback edition)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.

Musicking Shakespeare
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Demonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question.

Mwalimu (paperback edition)
In this text, international figures, such as Father Huddleston and Sir Shridath Ramphal, join with Tanzanian scholars to assess, not without criticism, the influential contributions of Julius Nyerere both within his own country and across the Third World.

Myroure of oure Ladye
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England
Essays on the ways in which the mystical writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth century responded to and influenced each other.

The Myth of Icarus in Spanish Renaissance Poetry
Series: Monografías A

Myth of Iron (paperback edition)
Most of the stories about Shaka, a Zulu leader, have come to sound so familiar that they generally pass unquestioned. Stating that virtually everything about this popular portrait is wrong, this book re-examines what pretends to be a biography and lays out the available evidence on Shaka's reign, including many Zulu oral testimonies.

Myths and Legends of the British Isles (paperback edition)
Tales from the dawn of Christianity to the age of the Plantagenets reveal a mythology in its time as potent as that of the classical world.

Myths and Legends of the British Isles
A mythology for the islands of Britain.