History

Eight essays from the Quarterly Review, reprinted with additions and corrections, by the celebrated Tory diarist. They form a picture of the Revolution through the fall of Robespierre, from Croker's viewpoint

As the preface says, this is not a history of the Revolution, but a picture of life in Paris under it.

The celebrated historical novelist writes a life of Cesare Borgia and his family - and a case for the defense, in an age in which it was customary to draw the Borgias as devils incarnate.

The life of a sixteenth-century French intellectual, poet, Protestant, and orator, with extensive discussion of his works in French and Latin

This impressive volume is a collection of inscriptions, mostly Syriac, but also two in Akkadian and some in Aramaic, collected by Pognon during travels in the Middle East. They are accompanied with detailed notes and French translations.

The monk Florentius of Worcester compiled several chronicles and other sources, here translated into English. It is an independent source for Anglo-Saxon history, and a contemporary source for the Normans.

Five essays by a French historian of medieval England: on an abbot's advice, an ambassador's report, the life of Scarron, a traveller's diary, and a report on Voltaire.

This short catalogue lists the heresies known on the Syrian frontier of the Roman Empire in the beginning of the fifth century.

This study is of the concept of atheotes ("godless") in antiquity in relation to Christianity.

Poems of advice to monks and nuns from one of the first monks to write, in the late fourth century.

This book speaks of the internal struggle that arose within the Syrian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century.

An account of the Crusades from the Syrian perspective as detailed by the priest Isaac Armala. A non-Western account of the epic battle perfect for students of history.

A history of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchs of the nineteenth century as they struggle against political, internal, and external opposition.

This is a book filled with documents, details and glimpses of Syria after its government granted cultural rights to its Syriac speaking citizens.

This is a brief history of the life of the School of Nisibis, its teachings, traditions, and influence.

Rahmani here presents the first edition of the martyrdom stories of Guria and Shmona in Syriac, who were killed during the Diocletian persecution. The editor also gives a Latin translation and discusses historical and textual matters in the introduction.

This volume gathers six essays from papers presented at the 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on November 19-20, 2010. The essays explore both the technology of inscribed musical expression in the Middle Ages—especially in regard to notation—and the role that modern digital technologies play in facilitating the study of music manuscripts today. As the manuscript evidence shows, medieval music as written text was both expressive and prescriptive in shaping music-making practices, performance, and reception.

Lilias Trotter moved from England to Algiers in 1888, at the age of 35, and died there in 1928. In the latter stages of her mission there, she wrote specifically for Muslims influenced by mysticism. Lilias based The Way of the Sevenfold Secret on Christ’s seven ‘I am’ sayings in John’s gospel, and attempted to link them to the traditional seven steps taken by members of Sufi orders in their quest for union with God. This republication should enable readers to capture the essence of a woman whose legacy is vitally alive for our times.

This book describes the Arabian peninsula on the eve of the First World War.

The High Church position, as of the Diamond Jubilee: after much turbulence and political interference, can the Bishops, advised by liturgists, reach a Victorian Settlement of the ceremonies of the Church of England?

This book presents parallel texts of the Acts of the Three Martyrs of Edessa; the Syriac text is translated into German, Greek, and Latin.

This work provides a glimpse of life in eighteenth century Madrid.

This collection contains several hundred vivid literary pieces from the High and Later Middle Ages.

A history of tapestry from its Egyptian origins up to the author’s day.

This book examines Paul as a hybrid of both Jewish and early Christian traditions meeting at the crossroads of a commonly-shared Hellenistic culture.