The Second Crusade

The Second CrusadeThis wide ranging collection offers a series of original interpretations of partially explored evidence for all three theatres of war during the Second Crusade (1145 49). It also considers the planning, execution and consequences of the crusade for western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land and the Muslim Near East.

Canada and the United States discuss modernism's imaginative rethinkings of sex

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century

and drawings expose the sometimes-deep contradiction laying at the intersection of being a woman and being a citizen at war

As a city London underwent exceptional changes - its population soared from around 50

and on the history of feminism in Spain

the appreciation of dance

In an age when script manuals for students are disappearing at a rapid rate and writing samples are ephemeral

This study investigates how medieval intellectuals compared their own cultures with others

garden design

human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus

A new introduction to the modern Russian economy

A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good"