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Fall 2017 Picks of the Lists Food, Eating and Boydell & Brewer Identity in Early Medieval England Christopher Okigbo: Frantzen, Allen J. Thirsting for Sunlight Boydell & Nwakanma, Obi Brewer/Boydell Press Boydell & Brewer 9781783272457 9781847011794 Anglo-Saxon Studies. 7 276 pages b/w illus. 23.4 x 15.6 Paperback 304 pages $24.95 paperback Publish date: $25.95 8/18/2017 Publish date: 4/1/2017 NEW IN PAPERBACK. NEW IN PAPERBACK. Food in the Middle Ages Christopher Okigbo, once described as 'Africa's usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, most lyrical poet of the twentieth century' was and special occasions, even though most killed in September 1967, fighting for the evidence of food culture consists of fragments independence of Biafra. The Sunday Times of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, described his death as 'the single most and grinding stones, which are rarely important tragedy of the Nigerian civil war'. mentioned by contemporary writers. ‘This The manner in which Okigbo died typified the book puts daily life and its objects at the centre passionate, tortured and dramatic quality of his of the food world. It brings together life. Widely considered along with Wole archaeological and textual evidence to show Soyinka and Chinua Achebe as part of modern how words and implements associated with Nigeria's greatest literary triumvirate, Okigbo's food contributed to social identity at all levels death promoted him to cult status among of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the subsequent generations of African writers. This networks which connected fields to kitchens is the first full biography of the Nigerian poet. and linked rural centres to trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place OBI NWAKANMA, of fish in the diet are examined in a wide- journalist and poet, was ranging, interdisciplinary inquiry into the Assistant Professor in the power of food to reveal social complexity. ‘An Department of English at excellent introduction to the topic, one Truman State University, enriched with a goldmine of references for Kirksville, Missouri and is further study.’ - MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY. now Assistant Professor in the English Department, Allen J. Frantzen is University of Central an American Florida, Orlando. Nigeria: medievalist with a HEBN (PB). specialization in Old English literature. Since retiring from Loyola University Chicago, he has been an emeritus professor. Balloon Madness: The Battle for Flights of Palestine, 1917 Imagination in Grainger, John D. Britain, 1783-1786 Boydell & Brant, Clare Brewer/Boydell Press Boydell & 9781783272556 Brewer/Boydell 18 b/w illus. 23.4 x Press 15.6 9781783272532 300 pages 6 colour illus.; 6 b/w paperback illus. 23.4 x 15.6 $25.95 304 pages Publish date: hardcover 10/1/2017 $39.95 Publish date: 9/1/2017 A centenary edition of the most complete account of Allied victory over Ottoman forces All the world is mad about balloons observers in the Middle East. recorded during the craze in Britain from 1783 to 1786. Excitement about the new invention NEW IN PAPERBACK. ‘Grainger’s analysis is spread rapidly, inspiring hopes, visions, informed, critical, readable and supported by a fashions, celebrations, satires, imaginary wealth of unpublished and printed primary heroics and real adventures. In this sparkling material….Makes good use of soldiers’ account, Brant follows the craze as it travelled experiences bringing to life the human around the country, spread through crowds dimension to the fighting in southern and shaped the daily lives and dreams of Palestine.’ - ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW. individuals. From the levity of fashion, political ‘Extremely good value as it is, like all books satire and light verse inspired by balloons, she from this publisher, of high quality. The one shows how wonders of air and speed also book on Palestine in the Great War that I connected with the deeper preoccupations and would select.’ - THE BULLETIN OF THE anxieties of eighteenth- century Britain. An MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. aerial ‘view from above’ provided new moral perspectives on the place of humans in the Dr. John D Grainger is a universe and the nature of their aspirations; respected historian with a while the success of the French, leaders in particular reputation for aeronautics, unsettled national identity with military subjects. His visions of a new world order. The practical recent publications limitations of balloons soon put an end to one include Cromwell Against set of possibilities, but their effect on popular the Scots and The Battle culture was more enduring, with meaning even of Yorktown. today. CLARE BRANT is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. The Soldier Experience Comic Medievalism: in the Fourteenth Laughing at the Century Middle Ages Bell, Adrian R. and D’Arcens, Louise Curry, Anne (editors) Boydell & Brewer/D. Boydell & S. Brewer Brewer/Boydell Press 9781843844785 9781783272433 Medievalism. 6 b/w Warfare in History. illus. 23.4 x 15.6 23.4 x 15.6 219 pages 244 pages paperback paperback $25.95 $25.95 Publish date: Publish date: 4/1/2017 4/1/2017 NEW IN PAPERBACK. ‘A vivid and detailed NEW IN PAPERBACK. First full-length critical picture of the variety and flexibility of the study of humour in medievalism. century’s military forces. THE HISTORIAN Contributes in several significant ways to our The role of laughter and humour in the knowledge of late medieval English military postmedieval citation, interpretation or history….The groundbreaking efforts of these recreation of the middle ages has hitherto historians open the way for more extensive received little attention, a gap in scholarship future investigations.’ - MEDIEVAL WARFARE. which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of heritage tourism such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has Adrian R. Bell is Chair in the History of Finance influenced ideas not just about the medieval at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. He but also about modernity. completed his PhD at the University of Reading (2002) and is the author of War and the Soldier Louise D'Arcens is a Professor in the Fourteenth Century (2004). Anne Curry is in the English Literatures Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Program, and an Australian University of Southampton. She was President Research Council Future of the Historical Association between 2008 and Fellow (2013-17). She received 2011, and has also been a Vice-president of the a BA (Hons) specializing in Royal Historical Society and editor of the medieval literature from the Journal of Medieval History. University of Sydney in 1990. Her 1997 PhD thesis, also completed at the University of Sydney, examined the concepts of political and literary authority in the writings of medieval women. A.E. Housman: Hero Must Close of the Hidden Life Saturday: The Vincent, Edgar Decline and Fall of Boydell & the British Musical Brewer/Boydell Flop Press Wright, Adrian 9781783272419 Boydell & 45 b/w illus. 23.4 x Brewer/Boydell 15.6 Press 416 pages 9781783272358 hardcover 40 b/w illus. 23.4 x $34.95 15.6 Publish date: 352 pages 10/1/2017 hardcover $34.95 A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a Publish date: 10/1/2017 celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. As a seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, The ominous announcement Must Close Housman never set out to be a professional Saturday too often heralded the demise of poet, yet poetry poured out of him and British musicals. Looking forward from the became his monument. His renowned A vantage point of Lionel Bart’s spectacularly Shropshire Lad and Last Poems were born of an successful Oliver! in 1960, Adrian Wright’s inner crisis, sparked by a profound but authoritative chronicle of the commercially unreciprocated attachment for a fellow unsuccessful British musical of the last half a undergraduate. Until now, Housman has century uncovers a wealth of fascinating remained a hidden personality, held in the material. In the wake of the resurgence that public mind as prim and grim. This biography briefly blew through the British musical at the reveals by contrast a man of many facets, one end of the 1950s with verismo works such as companionable in small groups, generous to a Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be and Expresso fault, and always on the lookout for humour Bongo, the British musical was shaken by Bart’s and fun. Drawing on Housman’s published adaptation of Dickens, but was quickly left letters and on 81 significant new finds, Edgar floundering in the face of constant critical Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created complaint and financial failure. The first book out of his reactions to the events of his life as to deal exclusively with British musical flops, he experienced them. It weaves together his Must Close Saturday presents a rolling scholarly life and the biographical elements in panorama of the good, the bad and the ugly, his poetry to examine his emotional and sexual reassessing their place in theatrical history. needs with dispassion and empathy and uncover his hidden sensibilities and creative ADRIAN WRIGHT is the world. author of two novels and numerous books on music EDGAR VINCENT’S book Nelson: Love & Fame and literature including A (Yale), was shortlisted for the BBC 4 Samuel Tanner’s Worth of Tune: Johnson Prize, a New York Times Notable Book Rediscovering the Post- and was one of Atlantic Monthly’s Books of the War British Musical Year.