Author: Elaine Graham-Leigh
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: crusade, albigensian, nobility, french, southern
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843831295
ISBN-13: 9781843831297

The Albigensian Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Count of Toulouse in response to the murder of the papal legate Pierre des Castelnau. The Pope’s aim was to force the Count and other nobles in Languedoc to take action against the Cathar heretics in their lands, but in the end, the defeat of Catharism in the south of France was achieved through the establishment of the Inquisition and the extension of French royal authority to the area. While some Occitan noble families survived the crusade, others were destroyed and the behaviour of the crusaders towards the lo

Author: Barry Emslie
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: love, centrality, wagner, richard
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-03-18
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1843835363
ISBN-13: 9781843835363

Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love is a bold book which argues that Wagner’s music dramas cannot be understood if treated separately from his essays, his life, the intellectual and artistic climate of his day, and the broader history of Germany. Wagner attempts a range of reconciliations that are radical in content and form and appear to succeed partly because he is in well-nigh complete command of the aesthetic product; not only text and music, but also production practice. Nonetheless, all the reconciliations ultimately break down, but in a manner that is illuminating. This is n

Author: Jim Bradbury
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: archer, medieval
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2008-09-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0851156754
ISBN-13: 9780851156750

`It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society.’ SIR STEVEN RUNCIMANThis book traces the history of the archer in the medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. From a close study of early evidence, Mr Bradbury shows that the archer’s role before the time of Edward I was an important but rarely documented one, and that his new prominence in the fourteenth century was the result of changes in development of military tactics rather than the int

Author: Susan Tomes
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: music, chamber, journeys, notes
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-07-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1843831600
ISBN-13: 9781843831600

In this widely acclaimed volume, Susan Tomes, a rare example of a leading musician who writes about the craft of performance, describes her experience of twenty years of rehearsal, concerts and recording. Her performing life has been centred on chamber music and the need to communicate it fully to an audience hungry for meaningful musical experience. She was a founder member and the pianist of both Domus and the Florestan Trio, award-winning groups at the top of their field. Part One is a series of diaries describing their travels and performances: Domus in the 1980s with its own portable conc

Author: Lucien Musset
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: tapestry, bayeux
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-09-29
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1843831635
ISBN-13: 9781843831631

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most extraordinary artefacts to survive from the eleventh century. A fragile web of woollen thread on linen, its brilliant colours undimmed after nearly a thousand years, this masterpiece is unique as a complete example of an art form beloved of the aristocracy in the Romanesque era - the `historiated’ or narrative embroidery. The momentous story it tells is that of one of the turning-points in English and European history, the struggle for the succession to the English throne which culminated in the Battle of Hastings in the fateful year of 1066. The ve

Authors:Marcus Bull, Marcus Bull, Catherine Léglu,
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: france, eleventh, thirteenth, centuries, southern, society, eleanor, aquitaine, literature, world
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2005-02-24
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843831147
ISBN-13: 9781843831143

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a point of entry into wider-ranging discussions of the literary, social, political and religious milieux into which she was born, and to which she contributed; they address many of the misconceptions that have grown around both Eleanor herself and the medieval Midi in general, and open up new areas of debate. Topics explored include the work of the tr

Author: Helen Nicholson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: hospitaller, knights
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-12-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0851158455
ISBN-13: 9780851158457

This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a consideration of the origins of the Order as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, it traces the Hospitaller’s development into a military order during the first part of the twelfth century, and its military activities on the frontiers of Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean, Spain and eastern Eur