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New books – Art and Visual Studies, Medieval and Early Modern History, Variorum

Published April 4, 2012 Art and Visual Studies , History , new title updates , Variorum Leave a Comment

Art and Visual Studies

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood    Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham, UK

The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art    Edited by Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Independent Scholar, USA

Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture: The Artistic Patronage of Otto III and Henry II    Eliza Garrison, Middlebury College, USA

Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image    Susan Merriam, Bard College, USA

Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries    Sally Anne Hickson, University of Guelph, Canada

Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped    Frances Spalding

Medieval and Early Modern History

Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England  – Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils    Edited by Nadine Lewycky, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; and Adam Morton, University of York, UK

Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe    Edited by Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Variorum

The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures    Edited by Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago, USA

New books – Modern History, Religion, Philosophy

Published March 22, 2012 History , new title updates , Philosophy , Religion and Theology Leave a Comment

Modern History

Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon    Edited by Anne Brunon-Ernst, University of Paris 2 and Centre Bentham, France

The Eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain    Martin Cohen, Queen Mary University of London, UK

National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930–1944    Debbie Lackerstein, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

Religion

Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines    Edited by Douglas Davies, Durham University, UK; Chang-Won Park, Durham University, UK and Sogang University, South Korea

The Last Judgment: Christian Ethics in a Legal Culture    Andrew Skotnicki, Manhattan College, USA

African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions    Edited by Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe and Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

New in paperback Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination    Malcolm Guite, Girton College, Cambridge, UK

Philosophy

Volume 11, Tome III: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy – Anglophone Philosophy    Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

New series – Rural Worlds: Economic, Social and Cultural Histories of Agricultures and Rural Societies

Published March 21, 2012 Authors , History Leave a Comment

We would like to encourage proposals for a new Ashgate series, Rural Worlds: Economic, Social and Cultural Histories of Agricultures and Rural Societies, edited by Richard W. Hoyle, University of Reading.

The Rural Worlds series has as its primary themes questions of competition and change, production, power and perception.

The series looks at change and competition in the countryside: social relations within it and between urban and rural societies. It offers a forum for the publication of the best work on all of these issues, straddling the economic, social and cultural, concentrating on the rural history of Britain and Ireland, Europe and its colonial empires, and North America over the past millennium.

We like to forget that agriculture is one of the core human activities. In historic societies most people lived in the countryside: a high, if falling proportion of the population were engaged in the production and processing of foodstuffs. The possession of land was a key form of wealth: it brought not only income from tenants but prestige, access to a rural lifestyle and often political power.

Nor could government ever be disinterested in the countryside, whether to maintain urban food supply, as a source of taxation, or to maintain social peace. Increasingly it managed every aspect of the countryside. Agriculture itself and the social relations within the countryside were in constant flux as farmers reacted to new or changing opportunities, and landlords sought to maintain or increase their incomes. Moreover, urban attitudes to the landscape and its inhabitants were constantly shifting.

Do you have a book proposal for this series?

Please contact the Commissioning Editor, Emily Yates.

For information on how to submit a proposal, visit:

www.ashgate.com/humanities_proposals

The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous – now available!

Published March 12, 2012 Art and Visual Studies , History , Literary Studies , Reference , Religion and Theology Leave a Comment
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‘This volume awakens the monster as an academic topic.  Combining John Block Friedman’s historical-literary approach with Jeffrey J. Cohen’s theoretical concerns, Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle have marshaled chapters that comprise a seminal work for everyone interested in the monstrous.  Wide-ranging chapters work through various historical and geographic views of monstrosity, from the African Mami Wata to Pokemon.  Theoretical chapters consider contemporary views of what a monster is and why we care about them as we do.  Taken together, the essays in The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous reveal that monsters appear in every culture and haunt each of us in different ways, or as Mittman says, the monstrous calls into question our (their, anyone’s) epistemological worldview, highlights its fragmentary and inadequate nature, and thereby asks us … to acknowledge the failures of our systems of categorization.’ David Sprunger, Concordia College, Minnesota, USA

‘An impressively broad and thoughtful collection of the ways in which many cultures, ancient and modern, have used monsters to think about what it means to be human. Lavishly illustrated and ambitious in scope, this book enlarges the reader’s imagination.’ Professor Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

This companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives.  The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The volume includes a Foreword by John Block Friedman and a Postscript by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

About the Editors: Asa Simon Mittman is Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, California State University, Chico, USA and Peter Dendle is Associate Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA

More information about The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

Read Jeffery J Cohen’s blog post about the book on In the Middle

New books – Variorum, Medieval and Early Modern History

Published February 28, 2012 History , new title updates , Variorum Leave a Comment

Variorum

Contemporary Issues in Islam and Science    Edited by Muzaffar Iqbal, Center for Islam and Science, Canada

Studies in the Islam and Science Nexus    Edited by Muzaffar Iqbal, Center for Islam and Science, Canada

Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion    Edited by Muzaffar Iqbal, Center for Islam and Science, Canada

The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures    Edited by Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago, USA

Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books    M.B. Parkes, emeritus, University of Oxford, UK

Medieval and Early Modern History

Bede and the End of Time    Peter Darby, University of Leicester, UK

British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, c.1560–1688    David Worthington, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK

Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities    Edited by Bert De Munck, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and Anne Winter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop: Inquisition, Forbidden Books and Unbelief in Early Modern Venice    Federico Barbierato, Università di Verona, Italy

Cassian’s Conferences: Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal    Christopher J Kelly, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, USA

Ashgate books on Military Studies

Published February 27, 2012 History , Human Factors , Politics and International Relations Leave a Comment
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The Military and War Studies page on our website provides links through to related books, and you can also download the latest Military Studies catalogue.

Our Military Studies publishing programme covers contemporary thought on strategy and operations, security studies and ethics, and provocative interpretations of military and naval history.

Key subject areas are: war studies; security, peace and conflict; terrorism; and military and naval history.

New books – Sociology, Information Management, Modern History

Published February 21, 2012 History , Information Management , new title updates , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology 

Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination    Luis Suarez-Villa, University of California, Irvine, USA

The New Environmentalism?: Civil Society and Corruption in the Enlarged EU    Davide Torsello, CEU Business School, Hungary

Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class    Jerome Krase, City University of New York, USA

Teaching Justice: Solving Social Justice Problems through University Education    Kristi Holsinger, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA

Information and Cultural Management

Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage    Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker, King’s College London, UK

Modern History

European Perceptions of Terra Australis    Edited by Anne M. Scott, University of Western Australia, Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, Claire McIlroy, University of Western Australia, and Christopher Wortham, University of Western Australia

Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective    Edited by John Consiglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva, and Gabriel Tortella, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser

The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human ‘Material’ in Modern Medical History    Edited by Sarah Ferber, University of Wollongong, Australia and Sally Wilde, University of Queensland, Australia.

Britain and Disarmament: The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Control and Programmes 1956-1975    John R. Walker, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK

The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade

Published February 15, 2012 History Leave a Comment
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We were delighted to read Simon John’s review of The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade on the Reviews in History website.

…this volume is a landmark piece of scholarship not only in the field of the crusades but more widely in medieval history. The Chanson d’Antioche is one of the most important texts in crusade history, and a significant example of medieval vernacular literature in its own right. The publication of this translation will make the Antioche accessible to a large number of scholars across a range of disciplines.

The Chanson d’Antioche is published in Ashgate’s Crusade Texts in Translation series, and the volume is translated and introduced by Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham.

Further information about The Chanson d’Antioche is on our website.

New books – History, Variorum

Published February 10, 2012 History , new title updates , Variorum Leave a Comment

Medieval and Early Modern History

Forbidden Prayer: Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy    Giorgio Caravale, Università di Roma Tre, Italy

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation    Eva Johanna Holmberg, Academy of Finland 2010-2012; Visiting fellow 2010: Queen Mary, University of London, UK

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589–1597: Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain’s Monarchy    Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., Fordham University, USA

Modern History 

‘Boredom is the Enemy’: The Intellectual and Imaginative Lives of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond    Amanda Laugesen, Australian National University, Australia

Variorum

Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300    John Boe, University of Arizona, USA

Humanism and Renaissance Civilization    Charles G. Nauert, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism    Andrew Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland

Reform, Representation and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age    H. Lawrence Bond, formerly Appalachian State University, USA, and Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA

Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy    John Parascandola, University of Maryland College Park, USA

Ashgate and The Crusades

Published February 1, 2012 History Leave a Comment

Posted by Claire Percy, Senior Marketing Executive

The Guardian has described the BBC2 documentary series The Crusades as ‘storytelling of the highest quality … never less than utterly engaging.’

Its presenter Tom Asbridge, Reader in Medieval History at Queen Mary University of London, publishes widely on the history of The Crusades, and has previously published with Ashgate.

In his blog, Tom Asbridge talks about one of the highlights of making the series being the chance to view an 800-year-old manuscript, its text laying bare Saladin’s agony in July 1192, during the Third Crusade, when he abandoned Jerusalem to the Christians.

You can read for yourself some of this source material, in Ashgate’s Crusade Texts in Translation series. Volumes in the series include The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, a translation of the Muslim ruler’s life and career by Ibn Shaddad (1144–1234) who was a close associate of Saladin for a number of years.

‘… The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin will be of immense value to non-Arabic readers… an excellent translation of the text… invaluable to students and scholars alike: it is not just an improving and useful read, but a lively and entertaining one as well.’ Crusades

You can see all Ashgate Crusades titles here.

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