16/04/2021
In mid-seventeenth-century France, Charlotte-Amélie de la Trémoille, the young member of one of the country’s most prominent Protestant families, is playing with some childhood friends, who are young Catholic girls…. READ MORE
19/11/2019
How did early modern fighting men perceive themselves? What was the relationship between a soldier and contemporary conceptions of masculinity, honour, and nobility? Matthew Woodcock, Professor of Medieval and Early… READ MORE
10/10/2019
On Saturday, August 31, I had the chance to do the unthinkable… rub shoulders with the likes of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; authors David McCullough, Barbara Kingsolver, and… READ MORE
12/07/2019
“Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when, no, they were… READ MORE
11/07/2019
In a celebration of the short-story form, leading American authors have selected their favourite short stories and written personal essays about why they love them. The personal essays, commissioned by… READ MORE
04/07/2019
The original hardback edition of Representing Beasts was published in summer 2015, in fact just in time for Leeds IMC where both subject and sleekly stunning cover made it one… READ MORE
25/06/2019
You may enter South Carolina by many routes. Sail into Charleston Harbor and you pass Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began, and Sullivan’s Island, where forty-percent of the Africans… READ MORE
05/06/2019
Dr Elly McCausland’s new book is an examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory’s Morte Darthur that were written for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here we present… READ MORE
30/05/2019
This blog post is part of the ‘Why We Like These Stories’ series: a series of personal essays from the staff of Boydell and Brewer and University of Rochester Press… READ MORE
28/05/2019
This blog post is part of the ‘Why We Like These Stories’ series: a series of personal essays from the staff of Boydell and Brewer and University of Rochester Press… READ MORE
A Voyage of Discovery: Richard Hakluyt and Maritime History