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This volume completes the publication of a unique source for historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 2, Dr Woolgar has carefully sele...

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The broad spectrum of the Mari documents provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into Early Israel, the Bible and Biblical Hebrew. The present volume utilizes these possibilities to obtain a new perspective on Early Israelite t...

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In order to make the contents of the British Academy's Proceedings more accessible to readers, the following changes have been made: The large annual volumes have been replaced by an irregular series of slimmer volumes, published about three times...

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Sifts through the myths to illustrate how the reality of the Victorian age differes from modern perceptions. Of particular relevance is Raphael Samuel's important examination of Mrs Thatcher's use of the concept, while other papers shed light on V...

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Questions of the typicality or 'exceptionalism' of the Irish experience are discussed, and the relevance of this experience for current theories of industrialism and 'modernization' is critically examined.

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Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. Eleven scholars, from both sides of the Atlantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology,...

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This critical edition publishes an important collection of charters, some of them from the seventh and eighth centuries, providing crucial evidence about the history of the Anglo-Saxon church in Kent and the development of the documentary process.

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This latest volume of thirty Anglo-Saxon charters covers the pre-Conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred. It is an extremely important collection as it provides almost the only evidence for the history of Shaftesbur...

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The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years. Part 2 publishes the accounts for the years 1518-1540 and also contains biographical and other appen...

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The volume is both an important study of late Victorian historiography and a significant reassessment of the early history of English law.

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London was the largest city in the Anglo-Norman empire, and its bishops were therefore figures of the utmost importance. The 250 acta recorded in this volume testify to their role in the development of episcopal government and its documentation.

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From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evide...

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The impact of information technology is reviewed by scholars who are leading pioneers in the application of that technology to research in their disciplines. From both a general appreciation of their fields, and from their own personal research, t...

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Volume 101 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 12 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

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One of the major intellectual debates at the beginning of the new century concerns the status of accounts of the past. Do historians discover or invent, construct or reconstruct the objects they study? The discussion has been particularly lively i...

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Nineteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: W S Allen; George Anderson; A C de la Mare; John Flemming; James Harris; John Hurst; Casimir Lewy; Donald MacDougall; Colin Matthew; Edward Miller; Michio Morishima; Brian Re...

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The Cantelowe Accounts record a large sale of English wool in Pisa and Florence in 1450-51 and offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. The text features a unique mixed-language code (combining Middle ...

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This, the last of the planned fascicules of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani for Great Britain, includes 500 sculptures, all of stone. Its geographical area covers the hinterland of Hadrian's Wall, including the modern counties of County Durham,...

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Gardenier aims to shed light on what appears to be the emergence of a new society of vigilance, especially around borders in Calais and Dover. Based on field research on both sides of the Channel, he aims to understand the dynamics of anti-migrant...

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The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part Two covers the period 1843-45 and presents his discussions of topics such as religious questions (including here the intense debates over Tractarianism); ind...

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This case study rigorously investigates village spatial organisation and vernacular architecture of the Early Neolithic village of Beidha in southern Jordan. Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to establish farming villages in a variety of setti...

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