Examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly song, and suggests that they may illustrate his search for a public 'voice' which would embody, communicate, and perhaps resolve his private beliefs and anxieties.

The peasant economy in north-east England, and indeed throughout the country as a whole, underwent many changes during the later middle ages. The author argues that the peasant economy in this region of England was affected by war in the early fourteenth century.

An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.

A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.

An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century.