Our September 2021 update with the latest forthcoming titles from all of Boydell & Brewer’s imprints and many client presses. As ever, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected] (or [email protected] if you are based in North or South America). If you would like to reserve review copies, request advance proofs or find out more information.
The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.
Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality.
The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.
India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa
Unpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa.
"In the Beginning was Napoleon"--"Napoleon and no end": Inspiration Bonaparte explores German responses to Bonaparte in literature, philosophy, painting, science, education, music, and film from his rise to the present.
The fascinating life of Frances Jennings, elder sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, charting her marriages and changes of fortune, her exile and return, her ambition, political manoeuvring and sincere piety.
Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.
Revitalizes Alexander Kluge's classic 1979 film, showing it to be not just great storytelling but also an exploration of the poetic force of Frankfurt School Critical Theory.
Saints and their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literature.
The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death.
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.
A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.