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Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal

Dennis C. Grube

A revealing look at how today’s bureaucrats are finding their public voice in the era of 24-hour mediaOnce relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having to govern under the scrutiny of a 24-hour news cycle, hyperpartisan political oversight, and a restless populace that is increasingly distrustful of the people who govern them. Meg... read more

Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Justin Champion

This volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment. Mark Goldie, Fellow of Churchill College and Professor of Intellectual History at Cambridge University, is one of the most distinguished historians of later Stuart Britain of... read more

Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution

Richard Whatmore

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an exper... read more

Inquisition and its Organisation in Italy, 1250-1350 (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages)

Jill Moore

Inquisition against heresy in Italy was a partnership between the papal inquisitor, usually a Dominican or Franciscan friar, the local bishop and the civic authority; and it is generally considered that the inquisitor was the leading figure, from the mid thirteenth century onwards. This book seeks to question whether this is true. Through an examination of the roles of the different partners, ... read more

Liminality in Cuba's Twentieth-Century Identity; Rites of Passage and Revolutions (Monografías A) (Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A: Monografías)

Stephen M. Fay

This book offers an innovative and provocative analysis of the much-studied Cuban Revolution by reminding us that Fidel Castro's was actually the second of the island's twentieth-century revolutions. By bringing 1959 into critical communication with the revolution of 1933, the book explores Cuba's trajectory from colony to republic to revolution, not as a linear inevitability (as much cultural... read more

Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680

K.J. Kesselring

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public e... read more

Knowing by Perceiving

Alan Millar

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to the sensory experiences implicated by perception. On the most widely held approach, perception drops out of the picture other than as the mean... read more

Metaepistemology

Epistemology, like ethics, is normative. Just as ethics addresses questions about how we ought to act, so epistemology addresses questions about how we ought to believe and enquire. We can also ask metanormative questions. What does it mean to claim that someone ought to do or believe something? Do such claims express beliefs about independently existing facts, or only attitudes of approval an... read more

Literature and the Rise of the Interview

Rebecca Roach

Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find so app... read more

The Oxford Handbook of Truth (Oxford Handbooks)

Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study. Michael Glanzberg has brought together 36 leading experts from around the world to produce the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They consider how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present day, surveying major debates about truth during the emerge... read more

The Works of Henry Vaughan: Introduction and Texts 1646-1652; Texts 1654-1678, Letters, & Medical Marginalia; Commentaries and Bibliography

This is the first newly prepared, complete edition of Henry Vaughan's poetry and prose for over a century. In the introduction, the reader will find an up-to-date biography of Vaughan, a substantial history of developments in Vaughan scholarship and criticism from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, and full bibliographical descriptions of each of the volumes published in the author... read more

Gender from Latin to Romance: History, Geography, Typology (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Michele Loporcaro

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard; he draws on data from the Middle Ages to the present from all the Romance languages and dialects, discussing examples from Romanian to Portuguese and crucially also focusing on less wide... read more

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Adriana Cardoso

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative c... read more

Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Robert E. Lerner (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages)

Michael D. Bailey

From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant Reformation, heresies and heretics helped shape the religious, political and institutional structures of medieval Europe. Within this larger history of religious ferment, the late medieval period presents a particularly dynamic array of heterodox movements, dissident modes of thought, and ecclesiastical responses. Yet recent debates about the nature... read more

Journal of Medieval Military History Volume XV: Strategies

Leif Inge Ree Petersen

This special edition of the Journal aims to respond to the lively debate in recent years as to whether medieval military history was characterized by particular types of strategy, be it Grand, Vegetian or Battle-Seeking. It brings together many of the pre-eminent military historians active today to examine a number of cases that display the complexity and diversity of strategic realities, as w... read more

The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form

Robert J. Meyer-Lee

The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their objects of study. The presumed relation between form and the literary that this project presupposes, however, raises questions that still need to be addressed. What... read more

Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden: Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800 (Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph)

Magdalena Naum

Sweden's connections to and relationships with the European and wider world is a field of study attracting considerable scholarly attention. The essays here, from archaeologists and historians, offer a new perspective on early modern Sweden as deeply affected by the increasing internationality of the 16th-18th centuries. Set in the socio-political context of an expanding and changing kingdom, ... read more

Anglo-italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages

Michele Campopiano

Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connections and cultural interactions between Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a major impact on intellectual life in Britain. T... read more

Haskins Society Journal 2016: Studies in Medieval History

Laura L. Gathagan, William North

The topics treated in this volume include a new look at the Canterbury primacy debate featuring the relics of St Ouen, an analysis of natura and divinitas in twelfth-century philosophical texts, and an examination of the Norman presence in North Africa. There are also considerations of cross-cultural definitions of masculinity and links between legal classifications of adultery and thirteenth-... read more

The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy: Prophecy, Paradox, and <I>Translatio</I> (Gallica)

Laura Chuhan Campbell

The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. Half human, half devil, he possesses a supernatural knowledge that allows him to prophesy the future. This book examines the reinterpretation of Merlin's character in French and Italian Arthurian literature, in which chivalric romance and political prophecy become increasingly intertwined. As the Merlin st... read more

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales (Chaucer Studies)

Frederick M. Biggs

A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames. And yet, although he identified many of his sources, Chaucer never mentions Boccaccio; indeed when he retold the Decameron's final ... read more

Visual Experience: A Semantic Approach (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

Wylie Breckenridge

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory of what we mean by the 'look' sentences that we use to describe the character of our visual experiences, and on that basis develops a theory of what it is to have a visual experience with a certain character. The result is a new and stronger defence ... read more

The Phonology of Chichewa (The Phonology of the World's Languages)

Laura J. Downing, Al Mtenje

This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. Bantu languages have played and continue to play an important role as a source of data illustrating core phonological processes such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena such as High tone... read more

Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

Itamar Francez, Andrew Koontz-Garboden

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book explores a key issue in linguistic theory, the systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages. Two contrasting views of the role of ... read more

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

S. A. Smith

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the ninete... read more

Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History)

Sara McDougall

The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other than marriage had fewer rights or opportunities. They certainly could not become king or queen. As this volume demonstrates, h... read more

Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran

Michael Hope

This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimate authority amon... read more

Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Uta Reinöhl

This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 bc) to contemporary Hindi. Uta Reinohl focuses specifically on the rise of configurational structure as a by-product of the grammaticalization of postpositions: while Vedic Sanskrit lacks function words that constrain nominal expressions... read more

The Syntax of Old Romanian (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century, the date of the earliest attested Romanian texts, and the end of the eighteenth century, generally considered to mark the start of the modernizat... read more

The Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-norman Prose Brut Tradition: The Manuscript Culture of Late Medieval England (Writing History in the Middle Ages)

Julia Marvin

The prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the the Anglo-Norman Olde... read more

Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-century France: Translation, Appropriation, Transformation (Medievalism)

Jennifer Rushworth

Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less well-known but equally rich Petrarchism: the nineteenth century. It considers both translations and rewritings: the former comprise not only Petrarch's celebrated Italian poetry but also his often neglected Latin works; the latter e... read more

Communication and Conflict: Italian Diplomacy in the Early Renaissance, 1350-1520 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History)

Isabella Lazzarini

Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955.... read more

Use-Conditional Meaning: Studies in Multidimensional Semantics (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics)

Daniel Gutzmann

This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that the meaning of expressions such as oops or damn can be captured by giving the conditions under which they can be felicitously used. He develops a ... read more

Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics) by John J. Lowe (2015-06-23)

Time, Language, and Ontology: The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)

M. Joshua Mozersky

This book brings together, in a novel way, an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time. Joshua Mozersky argues that it is possible to reconcile the human experience of time, which is centred on the present, with the objective conception of time, according to which all moments are intrinsically alike. He defends a temporally centreless ontology alo... read more

Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

John Sabapathy

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. During this period a mentality took hold which trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and quantitatively more widespread in this period, across Eur... read more

The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216

Hugh M. Thomas

The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the central Middle Ages. The secular clergy got their title from the Latin word for world, saeculum, and secular clerics kept the Church running in the world beyond the cloister wall, with responsibility for the bulk of pastoral care and ecc... read more

Vowel Length From Latin to Romance (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Michele Loporcaro

This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has retained that same contrast. However, many non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early 20th century) h... read more

Discourse and Pragmatic Markers from Latin to the Romance Languages (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the organization of the discourse, the speaker's relationship with the interlocutor, and the speaker's stance with regard to the information expressed. Their relevance is in assisting interpretation, despite the fact that they have little or no proposit... read more

Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Paola Beninca, Adam Ledgeway, Nigel Vincent

This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the period of textual attestation. While attention in the past has been focussed on the variation found in phonology, morphology, ... read more

Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1

Peter Adamson

Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy with the Presocratics, the probing q... read more

A War of Peoples 1914-1919 (Oxford Histories)

Adrian Gregory

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military actions in July 1914 until the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919. Adrian Gregory considers the sources of information available to historians and the ways in which historians have written about the war for over fifty years.This volume ... read more

Devastation: Volume I: The European Rimlands 1912-1938 (Crisis of Genocide)

Mark Levene

From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal eve... read more

Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953 (Crisis of Genocide)

Mark Levene

From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal eve... read more

Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer

Gabriele G. Stein

Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England. In this book Gabriele Stein describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later influence.The author opens with an account of Elyot's life and publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist sc... read more

The Positions of Adjectives in English

P. H. Matthews

This book explores the uses of adjectives in different constructions, and of the problems that arise in their analysis, both in terms of syntactic theory and philosophy of grammar. Professor Matthews also examines a variety of other issues relating to individual adjective positions, including the basic structure of noun phrases and the justification for binary constituents; the status of the c... read more

British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series)

Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand various reorderings of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previous... read more

Nature and Origin of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Denis Bouchard

This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the properties of language. Part I considers the main approaches to the subject and how far language evolved culturally or... read more

Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form

Hagit Borer

Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for ling... read more

The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches

Richard Toye

The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, which were almost universally admired and played an important role in the ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. Richard Toye now re-examines this accepted national story - and gives it a radical new spin. Using survey evidence and the diaries of ordinary people, he ... read more

Time: Language, Cognition & Reality (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)

Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Louis de Saussure

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all over the world examine and report on recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, temporal adverbials, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between events and states, as we... read more

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Rudolf Botha, Martin Everaert

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, cul... read more

Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918-1945

Stuart Ball

The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties, despite its long record of success. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history. The creation of a democratic franchise in 1918 was follow... read more