February 5, 2021
The idea for this book initially emerged when I was conducting research on a woman who, although only mentioned in a few pages of Young Women against Apartheid, is nevertheless… READ MORE
February 3, 2021
Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century won the Holyer an Gof Award in non-fiction and The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) Holyer an Gof Cup in 2020…. READ MORE
February 1, 2021
Welcome to February and new releases from Boydell & Brewer! Our list this month is varied, from essays investigating the question of time to insights into the different elements of… READ MORE
January 29, 2021
Charles d’Orléans is one of the most fascinating figures of the fifteenth century. A fabulously charming member of the French royal family, captured at the battle of Agincourt and held… READ MORE
January 25, 2021
A composer, a pianist, a writer, an editor and a painter walk into a bar. “Good evening, Professor Dickinson,” says the barman, “Your usual?” Yes, Peter Dickinson, who has produced… READ MORE
January 12, 2021
It was with great sadness that I learned of the death on December 5 of Theodore Ziolkowski, professor emeritus and former graduate dean at Princeton; prolific scholar of German Studies,… READ MORE
December 9, 2020
Christina Guillaumier’s new book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev is the first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev’s operatic output in its entirety. The book draws on… READ MORE
November 26, 2020
Sometimes you just get lucky. That was certainly the case for me when I chanced upon a microfilm container clearly labeled “Agricultural Development in Kenya” at the Friends Collection and… READ MORE
November 26, 2020
My conceptual journey to the book began in the 1970s. My family in Nigeria was a dynamic preparatory source of storytelling, masquerade narratology, dances, and dramatic performances. In her routine… READ MORE
October 6, 2020
The Groundnut Scheme is nearly forgotten now. But in its time, it was a notorious scandal that dominated British politics as well as the economy of colonial Tanganyika, and which… READ MORE
Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century