"Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles ...
"Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played and how today's audie...
"Few military or ecclesiastical figures are as controversial as the military chaplain, routinely attacked by pacifist and anticlerical commentators and too read...
Situated in northern Syria, on the eastern-most frontier of Latin Christendom, the principality of Antioch was a medieval polity bordered by a host of rival pow...
"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in th...
"This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between Western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations...
American Popular Music in Britain's Raj is the first systematic study of the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing...
The thirteenth century saw major developments in England's administration, as the procedures and processes of government expanded rapidly, the principles enshri...