September 4, 2020
Michael Snape is Durham University’s inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies and author and editor of three volumes with Boydell. God and Uncle Sam This huge, acclaimed work examines… READ MORE
September 2, 2020
My book proceeds from two premises. The first is that America is an imaginary place with real people living in it (to adapt a line from Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”). Such… READ MORE
September 2, 2020
These extracts say more about this volume than any intro could! Each is filled with wonderful detail, opinion, anecdote, and a deep knowledge of Spain, its history, art and culture…. READ MORE
September 1, 2020
Welcome to September! This month we are publishing books on how regional identities are reflected in text from medieval England, twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven’s personal life,… READ MORE
August 28, 2020
Christine Linehan was the long-serving executive editor of the Royal Historical Society’s Studies in History series, a role which – as her following account suggests – covered a wide range… READ MORE
August 27, 2020
Marcie Ray’s new book Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater is a timely and significant study of how composers and dramatists of early modern… READ MORE
August 24, 2020
How useful this guide would have been two decades ago when your Boydell marketer had around eight hours to kill in a freezing Edinburgh. In fairness, I did make it… READ MORE
August 21, 2020
We are excited to share our interview with Kate Tiller where she discusses her new publication English Local History, which has been expanded and brought up to date. Dr Tiller… READ MORE
August 19, 2020
Ros Ballaster’s new book reveals the relationship between the stage and the newly respectable and increasingly fashionable novel was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry: novelists sent their… READ MORE
August 17, 2020
While most studies of the Irish Revolution focus on republican violence and on the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, Dr Christopher Magill’s book takes a very different… READ MORE
The Arms and Armour of Death