The first ever archaeologically based study of the turbulent period of English history often known as the 'Anarchy' of King Stephen's reign in the mid-twelfth century, covering battlefields and conflict landscapes, arms, armour and material culture, fortifications and the church.

This collection is the first to examine the different forms of peace and reconciliation work that have taken place in Northern Ireland since the onset of the troubles in the late 1960s.

An Open Access edition of this book is availableon the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse culturalrepresentations and deployments of disability as they interact withposthumanist theories of technology and embodiment.

This collection explores 'Gothic sf' from 1980-2010. Ranging across narrative media and across genres, taking in horror, sf, the Gothic, the New Weird and more, essays examine questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower and capitalism.

Hiding to Nothing suggests that complex and damaging legacies in all their forms can create shockwaves that reverberate over a lifetime, stopping lives from reaching their full potential. Bloodfruit gives voice to the less heard narratives of infertility and difficult trajectories towards becoming, or not becoming, a 'mother'.

Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart-stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told.

Suitable for readers who have little or no training in Middle English, this book engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere.

This study surveys Hughes's entire achievement, including "Birthday Letters". The main purpose is to attempt an adequate reading of his poetry, revealing the underlying quest which transformed his imagination, leading him by painful stages to a vision of a world made of light.