July 5, 2023
Continuity, or change? This simple question is at the heart of much modern research. Researchers are constantly asking themselves: To what extent is the phenomenon I am studying a continuation… READ MORE
July 3, 2023
Highlights this July include interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature; new insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of… READ MORE
June 20, 2023
Kurt Weill is well established as one of the 20th century’s most significant workmen in music theater. And yet his far-reaching legacy – the result of a career that stretched… READ MORE
June 13, 2023
The theme of this book was suddenly focused for me when I recently read an anthology of memoirs by citizens of Sarajevo who lived through the siege of that city… READ MORE
June 6, 2023
Representations of women’s education in the eighteenth century always depict it as “superficial”. I had long imagined writing a book based on my research into this topic that would tell… READ MORE
June 1, 2023
Are you looking for a new Boydell & Brewer book this month? Check out some of the highlights published this month. Don’t forget, you can purchase any of these titles… READ MORE
May 30, 2023
For the larger towns of late medieval England, it is often possible to recreate the marketplace, its layout and attendees. However, this is a much more difficult task for the… READ MORE
May 23, 2023
Volume 1 For some reason, historians have largely seen fit to avoid the subject of African human rights and not least the 1981 African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter. The… READ MORE
May 17, 2023
Ideas for my monograph, African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya – which has just been republished in paperback –… READ MORE
May 4, 2023
Towards the end of a manuscript of illustrated Old English poetry once thought to contain works attributable to the illiterate Northumbrian labourer and eventual famed Christian songmaker, Cædmon, there is… READ MORE
Exploring the Medieval Armoury