Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print.
Der Gotthardpass ist weit mehr als nur eine geografische Verbindung zwischen Nord- und Südeuropa – er ist ein Symbol für kulturellen Austausch, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und die Überwindung von Barrieren.
Im Spannungsfeld von Macht, Glauben und Intrigen zeichnet diese packende Biografie das faszinierende Leben von Giulio de' Medici nach, der als Clemens VII.
This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland.
First published in 1963, The Irish in Britain tells the story of the many facets of the Irish migration and discusses some of its economic, demographic and social implications.
Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance.
Originally published in 1938, Women Servants of the State 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service tells the story of women as they became an integral part of the Civil Service, work previously reserved for men.
Who composed in Charlemagne's name the impressive treatise that repudiates the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (but which, in the end, the king prevented for religio-political reasons from circulating in his own day)?
Without denying the real importance of the more 'traditional' tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint's objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged.
The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.