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NEW BOOKS2021AutumnThe Song Collectors MarikanaFrom Cecil Sharp toAlan Lomax, the riseof world musicMiners and theirfamilies recall thebloody end to a strikeToni MorrisonWriting in a whitemale worldEnclosedThe meaningsof the medievalwalled garden
African StudiesAFRI C AN S T UDI E SAutumn 2021African Studies 2Art & Architecture 4Eighteenth Century Studies 4Film & Theatre 5Hispanic Studies 6History of Medicine 6History of Religion 6History, Medieval 7History, Early Modern 9History, Maritime 10History, Modern 10Literature, Medieval 11Literature, Renaissance to Modern 12Literature, German 14Music 14PA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LIndia’s Development Diplomacy& Soft Power in AfricaEdited by K E NN ET H K I NG& M EER A VE N KATAC HAL AMPrices and other details in this catalogue are subjectto change without notice.Scholars, policymakers and private sector actorsfrom Africa, Europe, India and North Americacritically examine India’s educational aid andcapacity-building, which lie at the heart of itsAfrica policy. Analysing the broader ideologicalundercurrents and ruptures that underpin neoliberal India’s foreign policy, the contributorsshow how soft power is conceptualized andimplemented in Africa by the diaspora,governmental and private sector players. Casestudies from India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda,Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania explore howthis is enacted, in schemes such as the PanAfrican E-Network, the Asia-Africa GrowthCorridor, where India partners with Japan tobuild capacity and skills and the activities ofmedical professionals.Prices marked with (s) are subject to academicdiscount scales to booksellers. 25.00/ 34.95 September 20219781847012746192pp, 234 x 156, PaperbackE-Books: A selection of e-books are now availablefrom the new Boydell & Brewer website as well asthrough your usual supplier.Go to www.boydellandbrewer.com and see if yourfavourite title is available for immediate download.ALT 39Speculative/Science FictionEdited by C H I M ALUM NWANK WO& LOU I S A U C H UM E GBU N I KEOver the past two decades, there has been aresurgence in the writing of African and Africandiaspora speculative and science fiction writing.Recent discussions around the “rise of sciencefiction and fantasy” in Africa have led to apush-back, in which writers and scholars havesuggested that science fiction and fantasy is nota new phenomenon in African literature. Thiscollection focuses on the need to recalibrateways of reading and categorising the continent’sspeculative fiction through critical examinationsboth of classics such as Kojo Laing’s Woman ofthe Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’soeuvre, as well as more recent works from writersincluding Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell andMasande Ntshanga. 65.00/ 99.00 November 20219781847012852244pp, 216 x 140, HardbackAfrican Literature TodayPA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LWomen andPeacebuilding in AfricaEdited by L A DAN AFFI ,L IV TØN N E S SE N & AI L I T RI PPFront cover image: Mangosteens by MichaelRichards. This is a painting by Boydell’sMarketing Director who retires at the beginningof April 2021 to do more things like this! Hehas exhibited with, and won an award from,the Graphic Arts Society and is a member ofthe Ipswich Art Society, in whose Winter 2019exhibition this painting was exhibited and sold.His website is under construction but examples ofhis work can be found on Instagram under@michael richards drawings.2Women are all too often excluded from formalpeacemaking and peacebuilding processes, andrelegated to the sidelines as observers or limitedto informal peacebuilding strategies. Yet there isenormous potential in these strategies as womenare often able to build bridges across political,ethnic, religious, clan and other differences,through alliances arising from common concernsaround violence, land, access to resources, andprotection of their families and communities.This book draws on cutting-edge research byscholars and women’s rights activists in countrieswrestling with armed conflict, and the threatof Islamist extremism, in South Sudan, Sudan,Algeria, northern Nigeria, and Somalia, toexamine the cost of women’s exclusion andhow their involvement can make a difference.The contributors examine women’s informalpeacebuilding activities, demands for legislativeand constitutional reforms, and advocacy forpolitical representation and political inclusion.They also look at how women have pushed backagainst the conservative Islamist forces thattoday dominate much of the armed conflict wesee in Africa.October 2021Paperback: 19.99/ 24.95, 9781847012814Hardback: 75.00/ 130.00, 97818470128211 map; 4 tables, 240pp, 216 x 140African IssuesFrom Rebels to RulersWriting Legitimacy in theEarly Sokoto StatePAU L NAY LORSokoto was the largest and longest lasting of WestAfrica’s nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Thejihad’s leaders – Usman dan Fodio, his brotherAbdullahi and his son, Muhammad Bello (knowncollectively as the Fodiawa) – left behind a vastwritten record. However, current narratives paylittle attention to the formative role these textsplayed in the creation of Sokoto as we know it.Far from being unified around a single conceptof Muslim statecraft, the author demonstrateshow divided these men were about what Sokotocould and should be, and the various discursivestrategies they used to enrol local societies intotheir vision. Based on a close analysis of thesources (some appearing in English translationfor the first time), the author restores agency toSokoto’s leaders as individuals with different goals,characters and methods. The author also showshow revolutionary religious movements gainlegitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy theyclaim changes as they move from rebels to rulers. 60.00/ 99.00 August 202197818470127081 Table, 1 Figure, 4 maps; 224pp, 234 x 156, HardbackReligion in Transforming Africawww.boydellandbrewer.com
African St ud i estheir families, Brown tells the stories of those whoembarked on the strike, those who were killed,and the attempts of the families of the deceased toidentify and bury their dead and the subsequentCommission of Inquiry as well as the solidaritypolitics that have emerged since. 65.00/ 99.00 July 20219781847012845272pp, 234 x 156, HardbackKamba Proverbs fromEastern KenyaSources, Origins & HistoryJ ERE MIAH M. KI TUN DANot simply relics of the past, proverbs arean oral tradition containing historical andanthropological knowledge missing fromconventional sources, offering a valuable source inthe reconstruction of the manners, characteristics,and worldviews of societies. This book providesthe first, comprehensive collection of Kambaproverbs from Eastern Kenya in their originalKikamba language and in translation. Analysing2,000 proverbs drawn from oral interviews,archival collections, museum artefacts andpublished sources, the author traces the origins ofeach within the cultural context of its appearance,and explores its diverse meanings, interpretationsand use. A valuable reference for East Africanhistory and Kamba heritage, the book suggests aninnovative, alternative approach to the study ofhistory in Africa and elsewhere. 75.00/ 99.00 October 202197818470128071 b/w illus, 1 line, 352pp, 234 x 156, HardbackEastern Africa SeriesLabour & Christianityin the MissionAfrican Workers in Tanganyikaand Zanzibar, 1864-1926MIC H EL L E L I E B STThe important role missions played as placesof work has been underexplored, yet missionworkers’ roles went far beyond religion, asthey became actively involved, not alwaysvoluntarily, in building churches, domesticwork and preparing meals. Focusing on theAnglican Universities’ Mission to Central Africa(UMCA) in Tanzania and Zanzibar in the late19th and early 20th centuries, Michelle Liebstshows how missionaries, some of the earliestEuropeans whotried to control African labour,both supported and undermined the livelihoodtrajectories of Africans who came into contactwith them. Revealing the changing nature ofrelations over time between missionaries andAfrican mission workers reflected broaderpolitical transformations, and this innovativestudy of missions’ role in society adds a criticaldimension to our understanding of their functionand socio-economic impact and the history ofChristianity in Africa. 65.00/ 99.00 October 202197818470127534 line; 222pp, 234 x 156, HardbackReligion in Transforming AfricaSOCIAL MEDIAMarikanaA People’s HistoryJUL IA N BROW NTwitter: @Boydell Africawww.boydellandbrewer.comOn 16 August 2012, the South African police – atthe encouragement of mining capital, and withthe support of the political state – intervened toend a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinummine in Marikana, in South Africa’s North WestProvince, shooting dead 34 men, and injuringhundreds more. None posed a threat to any policeofficer. While this internationally significant eventhas been subject to studies of global politics andlabour relations, the perspective of the minershas been almost missing. Now, for the first time,the men’s lives – and deaths – are brought intothe history. Placing the strike in the context ofSouth Africa’s long history of racial and economicexclusion, explaining how the miners came to bein Marikana, how their lives were lived, and thesubstance of their complaints, the author showshow the strike developed from an initial gatheringinto a mass movement of more than 3,000workers. Drawing on interviews with strikers andSacred Queer StoriesUgandan LGBTQ RefugeeLives & the BibleADRIAAN VAN K L I NK E N ,JOHAN NA ST I E BE RT, SE B YAL A BR IAN& FRE DRIC K H U D S ONPresenting the deeply moving personal life storiesof Ugandan LGBTQ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya,alongside an analysis of the way in which theycreatively engaged with two Bible stories Daniel inthe Lions’ Den and Jesus and The Woman Caughtin Adultery, Sacred Queer Stories explores howreadings of biblical stories through refugees’ owneyes can reveal LGBTQ people’s experiences ofstruggle, hopes for the future, and faith in Godand humanity. Arguing that the telling of lifestories by the marginalised, such as of UgandanLGBTQ refugees, affirms their embodiedexistence and agency, is socially and politicallyempowering, and enables human solidarity,the authors also show how the Bible as anauthoritative religious text and popular culturalarchive in Africa is often used against LGBTQ people, but can be reclaimed as a site of meaning,healing, and empowerment. 65.00/ 99.00 November 202197818470128382 b/w photos; 256pp, 234 x 156, HardbackReligion in Transforming AfricaAFRICAN GRIOTOur bi-annual e-newslettercovering all aspects ofAfrican studies.Sign up by sending an emailto africangriot@boydell.co.uk3
African Studies / Art & Architecture / Eighteenth Century studiesA RT & ARC HI T E CT URERediscovering Lost LandscapesTopographical Art inNorth-West Italy, 1800-1920PIETRO PIANA, C HARL E S WAT K I N S& RO S S BAL Z ARET T ISol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History,Criticism, CelebrationEdited by SABATA-MPHO MOKA E& BR IAN WI LL ANSol Plaatje’s Mhudi is the first full-length novelin English to have been written by a blackSouth African and is widely regarded as one ofthe continent’s most important literary works.Drawing upon both oral and literary traditions,Plaatje uses the novel to explore the 19th-centurydispossession of his people, to provide a novelblack perspective on their history. It is a bookthat speaks to present-day concerns to do withland, language, history and decolonisation. Todaythe novel has iconic status, not only in SouthAfrica, but worldwide and its impact on otherwriters has been profound. The novelist BessieHead described it as ‘more than a classic; thereis just no other book on earth like it.’ A centuryafter its writing in London, this book celebratesMhudi’s place in African literature, reviews itscritical reception, and offers fresh perspectives.The contributors discuss Mhudi’s genesis,writing and publication; its reception by literarycritics from the 1930s to the present; Mhudi asa feminist novel; its use of oral tradition; issuesof translation; its place in the context of Africanliterature and history, and the decolonisation ofthe curriculum.After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy Britishwomen and men settled along the coast in Liguriaand travelled in Piedmont and Valle d’Aostain search of warmth and health, establishingEnglish-speaking colonies at places such asAlassio, Bordighera, Sanremo and Portofino.Many were keen artists. This book assesseshundreds of topographical drawings, paintingsand photographs of north-west Italy producedby these British visitors and residents in thenineteenth and early twentieth century. Throughthe identification and analysis of these works,scattered today in private and public collectionsin Italy and Britain, it provides insights intothe way Italian landscapes were understoodand appreciated. Considered in conjunctionwith historical photography, maps, archivesand fieldwork , they deepen our knowledge ofpast land management traditions and recoverhow the contemporary landscape looked.Different chapters assess the main subjectsdepicted, including mountains, seascapes, rivers,agriculture, trees and woodland, castles, churches,villages, industries and landscapes of luxury. 70.00/ 99.00 November 2021978178327631826 colour, 91 b/w illus; 320pp, 240 x 170, HardbackGarden and Landscape HistoryE I G H T E E N T H C E N T URY S T UDI E SAfrican rights: Jacana 60.00/ 99.00 March 2021978184701276031 b/w., 272pp, 234 x 156, HardbackYouth and PopularCulture in AfricaMedia, Music, and PoliticsEdited by PAUL UGORThis collection focuses on the links between youthand African popular culture. Contributions by adistinguished group of scholars explore popularculture produced and consumed by young peoplein contemporary Africa. Essays cover a varietyof cultural representations – visual, oral, written,performative, fictional, social, and virtual –created by African youth, mostly about their livesand their immediate societies, and for themselves,but also consumed by the larger public, andshared locally and globally. 95.00/ 125.00 September 20219781648250248262pp, 152 x 228, HardbackRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora4Blood WatersWar, Disease and Race inthe Eighteenth-CenturyBritish CaribbeanN IC HOL AS RO GE RSIt also explores the mutiny of a slave-ship and itsunsuccessful raiding ventures in order to showhow the dominant European powers soughtto contain piracy in an expanding plantationcomplex. The book emphasizes the contrarietiesof struggle, the difficulties preventing subalterngroups, whether slaves, free blacks, indigenouspeoples or soldiers and sailors, from forgingbroader alliances, and the importance of tropicaldisease in shaping military outcomes. 70.00/ 99.00 July 202197817832762336 b/w illus; 240pp, 234 x 156, HardbackStudies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social HistoryErasmus Darwin’s GardensMedicine, Agriculture and theSciences in the Eighteenth CenturyPAU L A. E L L IOT TFamous as the author of The Botanic Garden(1791) and grandfather of Charles Darwin,Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a larger-thanlife enlightenment natural philosopher (scientist)and writer who practised as a doctor across theEnglish Midlands for nearly half a century. This isthe first full study of Erasmus Darwin’s gardening,horticulture and agriculture. It shows him askeen a nature enthusiast as his contemporaryRev. Gilbert White of Selbourne (1720-1793) orhis grandson Charles, fascinated with everythingfrom swarming insects and warring bees todomestic birds and dogs, pigs and livestock onhis farm to fungi growing from horse dung inDerby tan yards. Ranging over his observations ofplant physiology and anatomy to the use of plant“bandages” in his orchard and electrical machinesto hasten seed germination to explosive studiesof vegetable “brains”, nerves and sensations, thebook demonstrates the ways in which ErasmusDarwin’s landscape and garden experiencestransformed his understanding of nature. 40.00/ 90.00 June 2021978178327610312 colour, 39 b/w illus; 400pp, 240 x 170, HardbackGarden and Landscape HistoryThis book paints a picture of the eighteenthcentury British Caribbean as a frontier zone inwhich war, international rivalry, disease andslavery are paramount themes. It explores thelure of the region as a vaunted site of potentialwealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropicalcampaigns, the nature of slave insurrection,and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here,the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and theBlack Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out someautonomy from the British and Bourbon powers.www.boydellandbrewer.com
Film & TheatreFIL M & T H E AT R EPA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LPA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LPA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LThe PatriotToni ErdmannR ICHARD L ANGSTONG ER D G E M Ü NDE NANJ E ANA K . HAN SAlexander Kluge’s 1979 film, The Patriot (DiePatriotin) was the first feature that embodied thegreat heights his storytelling could reach. Titledafter its heroine, the history teacher Gabi Teichert,The Patriot is not just a story about a headstrongpedagogue intent on teaching kids a version ofGerman history that does not end in war anddeath: it is one of the finest examples of Kluge’sexploration of the poetic force of Frankfurt SchoolCritical Theory. This book pursues The Patriot’sconception as a cinematic extension of theFrankfurt theoretical agenda just as the school’sfirst generation was ending. It will guide twentyfirst-century English-language readers pastsuperficial interpretations of the film’s engagementwith German history, in so doing revitalizingKluge’s film for the new millennium.Maren Ade’s tragicomedy, Toni Erdmann, a2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee,is an internationally acclaimed classic ofrecent German cinema. By turns hilarious,cringeworthy, and heart-wrenching, the filmrevolves around Winfried, a retired music teacherand prankster trying to rebuild a relationshipwith his daughter Ines, a high-powered businessconsultant based in Bucharest. At its center,this unpredictable scenario pits one type ofperformance-Ines’s efforts to meet the unyieldingexpectations of the new economy-againstanother-Winfried’s anarchic role-play meant todisrupt the standardization of life. This book, thefirst in-depth analysis of the film, explores themany layers of this generational tug-of-war aboutthe meaning of life, work, and death.Artur Robison’s Warning Shadows is the grippingstory of a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband,and their guests who are entertained by atraveling illusionist dealing in shadow play andhypnosis. Extolled by one critic upon its premierein 1923 as superior to now-canonical Weimarera films including Nosferatu and Caligari, itnevertheless was long unknown: only with therecent restored version on DVD has it begunto get its due. A rare silent movie that eschewsintertitles, it was an attempt to create a “purefilm,” drawing on the qualities of cinema thatmade it not an heir to literature or theater, but aunique and autonomous art form. 12.99/ 19.95 September 2021978164014076935 color illus; 96pp, 190 x 133, PaperbackCamden House German Film Classics 12.99/ 19.95 September 2021978164014109435 color illus; 96pp, 190 x 133, PaperbackCamden House German Film Classics9781640140363 Fitzcarraldo 9781640140370 Wings of Desire 9781640140387 Phoenix9781640140448 The White Ribbon 9781640140301 The Golemwww.boydellandbrewer.com 12.99/ 19.99 September 2021978164014091231 color, 2 b/w illus; 96pp, 190 x 133, PaperbackCamden House German Film ClassicsGerman Film ClassicsA L S O AVA I L A B L E I N T H I S AC C L A I M E D SE R I E SWarning ShadowsCAMDEN HOUSE5
Hispanic Studies / History of Medicine / History of religionHISPA N IC ST UDI E SA Companion toCalderón de la BarcaEdited by JONAT HAN THAC K ER& ROY NORTONPedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is oneof the most important – many would say thesingle most important – dramatists of the SpanishGolden Age. His plays are still regularly stagedand translated, and he had a significant influenceon later writers as diverse as Schiller, Shelley andLorca. Calderón wrote approximately 120 plays(not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos)in a variety of styles, but he is most famous for hisdramas, characterized by rhetorically powerfulpoetry, dramatic structures carefully calibrated toproduce poignant echoes, and by his intellectualbent. His plays succeed in combining philosophical,political, and theological concerns with compellingplots subtle enough to defy definitive interpretation.This volume offers an overview of Calderón’s lifeand the intellectual, social, moral, and literarypreoccupations of his time and examines hisstagecraft, his corpus, and his reception both withinand without the Hispanic world. As a whole, itprovides a reliable introduction to Calderón and hiswork while delving into the major current issues inCalderón studies. 70.00/ 99.00 November 2021978185566315225 b/w illus; 424pp, 234 x 156, HardbackTamesis CompanionsThe Epic MirrorPoetry, Conflict Ethics and PoliticalCommunity in Colonial PeruIMO G EN C HOIWorking across the fields of Hispanic literature,the history of political thought, and studiesof empire, colonialism and globalisation, thisbook reinterprets three major works of colonialLatin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla’sLa Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña’s Araucodomado (1596), and Juan de MiramontesZuázola’s Armas antárticas (1608-9). The warsthat are the subjects of these poems took placeat the frontiers of the Spanish empire, wherenew political communities were emerging:fiercely independent Amerindian republics,rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdomsof fugitive African slaves. This colonial realitygenerated a distinctive vision of just warfare andpolitical community, here revealed through theimaginative mirrors of epic. 75.00/ 99.00 November 20219781855663473208pp, 234 x 156, HardbackMonografíasHI S TO RY O F M E DIC I N EHI S TO RY O F R E LI G I ONOP E N AC C E S S &PA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LAugustus Hopkins Strongand the Struggle to ReconcileChristian Theology withModern ThoughtJOH N ALOI SIIn the context of late nineteenth century culturalshifts, Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921), whowas director of the Rochester Theological Seminaryfor forty years (1872-1912), wrestled with how toreconcile Christian theology with modern thoughtwhile also trying to solve tensions within this owntheology. As John Aloisi’s important new studyshows, Strong hoped to be able to bring modernistsand more traditional Christians together arounda concept he labeled ethical monism. In the end,his effort suggested the task was more difficultthan many understood it to be. This book is openlyavailable in digital formats thanks to a generousgrant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Available as a free, digital download from our website or asa printed paperback edition. 25.00/ 29.95 June 20219781648250224191pp, 228 x 152, PaperbackOP E N AC C E S S& PA P E R BAC K OR I G I NA LCancer, Research,and Educational Filmat MidcenturyThe Making of the Movie“Challenge: ScienceAgainst Cancer” (1950)DAV ID C A NTORThe Borges EnigmaMirrors, Doubles, andIntimate PuzzlesCYNT HIA LUCY ST EPHEN SThis book focuses on the ways in which Borgesuses events and experiences from his own life,in order to demonstrate how they become theprincipal structuring motifs of his work. It aims toshow how these experiences, despite being ‘heavilydisguised’, are crucial components of some ofBorges’s most canonical short stories, particularlyfrom the famous collections, Ficciones and El Aleph.Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doublesand allusions and the roles played by translationand the figure of the creator, the book provides newreadings of these stories, revealing their hiddenpersonal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. 75.00/ 99.00 July 20219781855663497320pp, 234 x 156, HardbackMonografías6During the mid-twentieth century, American andCanadian health agencies feared that a shortfallin the numbers of scientists would underminecancer research and commissioned a movie torecruit young researchers into the field. In Cancer,Research, and Educational Film at Mid-TwentiethCentury, author David Cantor chronicles thehistory of this forgotten film, Challenge: ScienceAgainst Cancer (1950), exploring why Canadianand American health agencies turned to film toaddress the problem of scientist recruitment andhow information officers sought to shape theimpact of Challenge by embedding it in a broadereducational and propaganda program.Available as a free, digital download from ourwebsite or as a printed paperback edition. 25.00/ 29.95 December 20219781648250293320pp, 228 x 152, PaperbackRochester Studies in Medical HistoryN E W I N PA P E R BAC KPriests and their Books inLate Anglo-Saxon EnglandGE R AL D P. DYS ONThis first full-length study of Anglo-Saxonpriests’ books draws on a wide array of evidence,including booklists, music, liturgy, narrative,and crucially the surviving manuscripts. It openswith a consideration of the context of a priest’slife and work, moving on to examine the issuesof clerical literacy and the availability of books topriests, uncovering avenues for priestly educationand elucidating the role that the secular clergyplayed in channels of manuscript production anddistribution. The second part of the book analyzesthe documentary and manuscript evidence forcertain classes of priests’ books, challenging existingthought and arguing that two poorly understoodmanuscripts are in fact books for priests. 25.00/ 34.95 October 20219781783276387296pp, 234 x 156, PaperbackAnglo-Saxon Studieswww.boydellandbrewer.com
History of religion / History: MedievalContesting Orthodoxies inthe History of ChristianityHI S TO RY, M E DIE VALEssays in Honour ofDiarmaid MacCullochEdited by ELLI E GEBAROWSK I-SHA F ER ,ASHLEY NULL & ALEC RY R IEExamines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and itsconsequences for the history of Christianity.Seventeen leading historians of Christianity askhow the ideal of unity has clashed, negotiated,reconciled or coexisted with the historical realityof diversity, in a range of historical settings fromthe early Church through the Reformation era tothe twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Inspiredby or building on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s seminalcareer as a historian of Christianity, these essayshold the huge variety of the Christian experiencetogether with the ideal of orthodoxy, whichChristians have never (yet) fully attained but forwhich they have always striven. 75.00/ 120.00 October 202197817832762716 b/w illus; 368 pp, 234 x 156, HardbackStudies in Modern British Religious HistoryThe Clergy in EarlyModern ScotlandEdited by C H RI S R . L ANGL EY,C ATHER I N E E . M C M I L L AN ,RUS SEL L N EW TONFrom the early percolation of Protestantthought in the sixteenth century through tothe controversies and upheaval of the civil warsin the seventeenth century, the clergy were atthe heart of religious change in Scotland. Byexploring their lived experiences, and drawingupon historical, theological, and literaryapproaches, the essays here paint a fresh andvibrant portrait of ministry during the kingdom’slong Reformation. What emerges is a ministrythat, despite the increasing professionalisationof the role, maintained a degree of localautonomy and agency. The volume thusprovokes a significant shift in our view of earlymodern European ministry: away from thesimplistic caricatures of the past towards a morehistorically aware understanding of those whostood at the forefront of Protestant reform. 70.00/ 99.00 September 20219781783276196265pp, 234 x 156, HardbackSt Andrews Studies in Scottish HistorySaints’ Legends in MedievalSarum BreviariesA Catalogue and StudiesSHE RRY L. REAMESSarum Use was the most widely used form of theliturgy in late medieval England, but its servicebooks were much less standardized than theirmodern counterparts. The lack of uniformity isparticularly marked in Sarum breviaries’ lessonson saints, which can vary enormously from copyto copy. This book is the first comprehensiveexamination of those lessons and the manuscriptsthat preserve them. It provides a catalogue of over80 manuscripts and 12 early printed versions,giving a brief description of each one. This isfollowed by studies of the key aspects of thelessons. 125.00/ 220.00 August 202197819031539945 b/w illus; 320pp, 240 x 170, HardbackYork Manuscript and Early Print StudiesYORK MEDIE VA L P RE SSThe Social World of theAbbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300G R A HA M A. LOU DThe Cult of St ThomasBecket in the PlantagenetWorld, c.1170-c.1220Edited by PAU L W E B ST E R& M ARI E - PI E RRE GE L I NOutstanding The volume overall is excellent, andwill surely be indispensable to scholars with aninterest in Becket as well as saints’ cults.JOU R NAL OF R ELIGIOU S H I STORY ,LI T ER AT U R E AND CU LT U R EIt will surely be an important resource for futurestudies, and it prompts many questions abouthow the cult developed and changed over thelonger term, and about how elite engagement withthe Becket cult influenced popular engagement.ENGLI SH H I STOR ICAL S O CI ET Y[T]his volume enriches our understanding of themultiple meanings and diverse uses of Becket’sprodigious afterlife. SPECU LUM 25.00/ 34.95 October 2021978178327639410 colour, 3 b/w illus; 272pp, 234 x 156, PaperbackMEDIEVAL HERALDThe Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, Cava, hashad a continuous existence since its foundationalmost exactly a thousand years ago. From itsmodest beginnings, it developed into one of thewealthiest and most influential monasteries insouthern Italy. This study, based on researchinto the largely unpublished charters of Cava,examines the growth of the abbey’s congregationand property, and its struggle to defend itsinterests during the troubled thirteenth century.In addition, it uses the evidence available to studyits benefactors and dependents, administrationand economy, and analyses the social andec
diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the “rise of science-fiction and fantasy” in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African liter
