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This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences        on English during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes        profound contributions to the history of English and of western culture more        generally.English is a Germanic language but altogether different from the...

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A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell into decline long before the Dissolution, but this study demonstrates the...

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has lacked a grand strategy to replace "e;containment of communism."e; In this vacuum, the Bush administration has used the "e;war on terrorism"e; as an excuse for unilateralism, preemption, and hegemony. This essay outlines a much broader set of large purposes--achieving security,...

'Turning the Word'This study reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator. It        discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words        can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed,        manipulated, even performed - over the course of a text's production,...