'Can These Bones Come to Life?'

'Can These Bones Come to Life?'This volume examines the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare.

100+ colour illustrations

creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing

This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640–60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond

This book examines the old traditions of communal prayer and contrition in the ‘new world’ contexts of Britain’s settler colonies in Canada

told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city

and custodians of historical sites

Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action

which promoted a restructuring of the political order

This work develops the thesis that the transition from pre-modernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture

During Shakespeare's lifetime

and of subjects being brought to the fore by professional historians

Introduces the reader to the rich film production of the French-speaking countries outside France