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Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth (2016)
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Cochrane, C., & Robinson, J. (Eds.). (2016). Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137457288

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India -... Read More about Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth.

Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises (2016)
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Gehring, D. (2016). D. Gehring (Ed.). Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises. Cambridge University Press, for the Royal Historical Society

This collection brings to light three accounts on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the second half of the sixteenth century. Written by two Englishmen and one Scot, these works demonstrate the depth of diplomacy as carried out by highly speci... Read More about Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises.

Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (2016)
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Sotirova, V., González-Díaz, V., Hodson, J., & Auer, A. (Eds.). (2016). Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson. John Benjamins Publishing

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their in... Read More about Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson.

The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050 (2015)
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Parkes, H. (2015). The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316014752

This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest... Read More about The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050.

Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015)
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Eidinow, E. (2015). Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199562602.001.0001

At the heart of this book are some trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE. In each case, the charges involved a combination of supernatural activities, including potion-brewing and cult activity; the defendants were all women. Because o... Read More about Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens.

Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (2015)
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LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of... Read More about Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980.

The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states (2015)
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Lewis, D. (2015). D. Lewis, E. Harris, & M. Woolmer (Eds.), The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states. Cambridge University Press

This volume draws together contributions by historians, economists, and archaeologists on the question of the role of markets in the economy of the Greek city-states during the classical and hellenistic periods.