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London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson, 1981 328 pages with 353 illustrations: 85 in colour, 268 photographs, drawings and maps in b/w; with index, sources of illustrations and select bibliography. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - dj edges and corners worn - slight tanning to the dj's front and back flaps. Slight water damage to the lower edges of the back board of the book. Otherwise tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. " Professor Barraclough's book is not written specifically for Christians or for non-Christians; it takes Christianity as a historical fact and uses the resources of modern research to trace the way in which it has moulded men and events. The thirteen authors, all leading historians in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals and kings."

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1988 This book club edition by arrangement with Phoebe Phillips Editions and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Original dustjacket - not price clipped - Dj edges and corners slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Illustrated throughout - b/w and colour; list of the kings & queens of the period; 13 pages of maps. This "tells the story of the last hundred years of the dynasty founded by Henry II in 1154 - it begins in 1377 with the accession to the throne of Richard II and ends in 1485 with the death on Bosworth Field of the enigmatic Richard III. More than 100 short essays, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, provide background information on the people and politics, manners, mores and customs of a formative epoch in English and European history.

London, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976 [First published in 1976 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd] Now out of print. 181pp with index, notes, calendar of witch trials. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Very good copy except that there is no dustjacket. Contents: Introduction; Chronological Survey; Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions; The Content of Popular Tradition; The Imposition of Learned Notions; The Social Context of Witch Trials; Conclusion; Calendar of Witch Trials; List of Abbreviated Titles; Notes; Addenda; Index. The book explores the relationship between clerical and lay notions of witchcraft in late medieval Europe. Richard Kieckhefer is a professor of religion and history at Northwestern University, and a world renowned historian working on the late Middle Ages in Western Europe.

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1986 This book club edition published by arrangement with Thames and Hudson Ltd. With 376 illustrations - 95 in colour; 281 photographs, engravings, drawings and maps. Original dustjacket not price clipped - edges of d/j slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Contributions by 8 of the leading authorities of the period - A.R. Burn (The Troubled Birth of a New World: The struggle of the city states); H.C. Baldry (The Voice of Greece: The first great literature and its living context); W.K. Guthrie (The Revolution in the Mind: Old gods and the new reason); John Boardman (The Sublime Achievement: The art and architecture of Ancient Greece); F.R. Cowell (The Ancient Life: The Greece and Rome of Everyday); R.A.G. Carson (A City of the Scattered Earth: From Tiber's seven hills to world dominion); Michael Grant (Poetry, Prose and Rhetoric: The riches of the Roman language); Sir Mortimer Wheeler (The Vision Turns Inward: The art and… Read More

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 215-398). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: The Colonial History of the Norman Conquest by Francis James West; The Treaty of Edinburgh and the Disinherited (1328-1332) by Sonja Cameron and Alasdair Ross; Fenianism in North America in the 1860s: The Problems for Church and State by Oliver Rafferty; The Importance of Being Serious: The Unexplored Connection between Gladstone and Humour by Joseph S. Meisel; The Rise, Fall and Rise of Political Consensus in Britain since 1940 by Brian Harrison; Reviews and Short Notices: Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 393-543). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: H.H. Asquith and Britain's Manpower Problem, 1914-1915 by John Gordon Little; Revising Orwell's Wigan Pier by Robert Pearce; 'A Goddamned Electable Person': The 1966 California Gubernatorial Campaign of Ronald Reagan by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Cherchez la femme. Queens, Queens' Lands and Nunneries: Missing Links in the Foundation of Reading Abbey by Pauline Stafford; What Happened to English Catholicism after the English Reformation? by M.C. Questier; Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) by Margaret Mehl; Social Democracy and Labour Politics in Britain, 1892-1911; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996 (page numbers 507-737). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Why Was Sir Francis Bacon Impeached? The Common Lawyers and the Chancery Revisited: 1621 by Damian X. Powell; Political Dinners in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: Platform, Meeting Place and Battleground by Peter Brett; Roads to Democracy: Electioneering and Corruption in Nineteenth-Century England and Ireland by K. Theodore Hoppen; Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern; Index

Middletown, Connecticut USA: Wesleyan University, 1997 (page numbers 317-433). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Contents: Articles: The New Annalistic: A Sketch of a Theory of History by Lucian Holscher; An Apologia for Theoretical History by Nikolai Rozov; Paradigmatic versus Historical Thinking: The Case of Rabbinic Judaism by Jacob Neusner. Review Essays: Matt K. Matsuda, The Memory of the Modern and Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (Patrick H. Hutton); Joan Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Dena Goodman); F.R. Ankersmit, History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor (J.L. Gorman); Charles R. Bambach, Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism (Allan Megill). Books in Summary.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Joint Action against 'Bad' Lordship: The Peasants' Revolt in Essex and Norfolk by Herbert Eiden; Cement or Solvent? Kinship and Politics in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Nevilles by Michael Hicks; Party Politics, Political Economy and British Protectionism, 1919-1932 by W.R. Garside; The British Popular Press and the Early Cold War by Tony Shaw; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 399-568). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany by C. Scott Dixon; Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher; The British Secret Service and the Escape of Sir Sidney Smith from Paris in 1798 by Michael Durey; Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Ridge and Romantic Revolution by Iain McCalman; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 (page numbers 391-581). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'To solemnize His Majesty's Birthday': New Perspectives on Loyalism in George II's Britain by Bob Harris and Christopher A. Whatley; Englightenment and Freedom of the Press: The Debate in the Berlin Mittwochsgesellschaft, 1783-1784 by Eckhart Hellmuth; The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Fiction, British Conservatism and the Revolution in France by M.O. Grenby; 'A new language in Politicks': George Canning and the Idea of Opportunities, 1801-1807 by Stephen M. Lee; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 545-750). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Locality Metropolis and Nation: The Impact of the Military Camps in England during the American War by Stephen Conway; Women's Place in the American Labour Force, 1870-1995 by Margaret Walsh; 'All you soldiers are what we call pro-Boer': The Military Critique of the South African War, 1899-1902 by Keith Surridge; Thatcher and the Victorians: A Suitable Case for Comparison? by Stephen Evan. Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern. Index to Volume 82.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'Adultery a-la-Mode': Privilege, the Law and Attitudes to Adultery 1770-1809 by Donna T. Andrew; Narratives of Women: English Feminists of the 1790s by William Stafford; 'An idyllic and unruffled atmosphere of complete Anglo-German misunderstanding': aspects of the Operations of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop in Great Britain, 1934-1938 by G.T. Waddington; 'I Love the Scent of Cordite in Your Hair': Gender Dynamics in Mixed Anti-Aircraft Batteries during the Second World War by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 1989 Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped. B/w illustrations throughout. "Our medieval ancestors moved about far more than we might expect. The many sources quoted reveal the diversity of the medieval traveller : princes and their armies, pilgrims, merchants and envoys, even fugitives and spies. Norbert Ohler lets the travellers speak for themselves, and from the many sources builds up a picture of what travel was really like - why people travelled, and how they prepared for the journey; means of transport; hospices and inns; and defence against attack and natural hazards, sickness and starvation. Based largely on material from western Europe, although Byzantium, the Far East, the West Indies and the Islamic world are also included, this book offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on a fascinating aspect of the medieval world."

London, U.K. : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982 Original dustjacket - not price clipped. Slight age and shelf wear to dustjacket - edges of dj slightly rubbed. Tight copy. Front endpaper has initial and date in black ink of previous owner in upper right hand corner - clean text pages. B/w illustrations, Index. Contents: I Contact and Impact; II The Muslim View of the World; III On Language and Translation; IV Media and Intermediaries; V Muslim Scholarship about the West; VI Religion; VII The Economy: Perceptions and Contacts; VIII Government and Justice; IX Science and Technology; X Cultural Life; XI Social and Personal; XII Conclusions. "Using journals, letters, diaries and dispatches, many newly translated, Bernard Lewis reveals the impact of the great Muslim civilization on primitive Europe and explores the subtle ways in which two great societies influenced each other."

London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1982 First Edition. 578pp. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Slight shelf and age wear especially to jacket. Paper has tanned with age especially around edges. Initial and date of previous owner on first endpaper on the top right hand corner. Otherwise no internal markings - clean text pages. Contents: Prologue; Part One: The Forties - Original Sin, The Act of Obedience, A Most Deadly Illusion, The Atomic Archipelago, The Poor Relation, The One-Eyed Kings; Part Two: The Fifties - The Fates and the Furies, The Power of Les X, A Separate World, The Admiral, The Perennial Fountain, What Are You Doing, The Uncertified Possibility, The First Ice Age, The Outcasts; Part Three: The Sixties - Like Butter in the Sun, Foolish Dreams, Transitory, Dangerous and Degrading, Listen World; Part Four: The Seventies - The Boom Years, A Shell of the Atom, A Tale of Two Dynasties, A Certain Event, The Buddha is Smiling, Pride and Prejudice, The Second Ice Age, In the… Read More

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1989 This book club edition published by arrangement with Alan Sutton Publishing Limited. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Corners and edges of dj slightly bumped and rubbed. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Illustrated throughout - 350 engravings, paintings, drawings and photographs - b/w and some colour plates. With Index. "This is the first major work on the period to challenge the established views of the Reformation, and to look at it from a broader, international viewpoint. A collection of studies, written by eminent international historians and theologians and edited by the French academic Pierre Chaunu, presents a fascinating panorama of the world of the Reformation: pre-Reformation Europe; politics and crisis in the Holy Roman Empire; Luther, Calvin and the Protestant Reformers; diffusion, failure, Catholic Counter-Reformation and the survival of the Reforming convictions; England's 'via… Read More