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The story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great discusses Frederick's abuse-marked upbringing, his challenge to Bach to improvise an intricate fugue, and

This work, which could be almost be said to be the definitive work on Chivalry brings to life and collects those many more and now obscure works which were written at the

This book charts the sequence of events that lead to the outbreak of World War II. It also follows the intricacies of the struggle in Japan between the forces that favoured the

On Friendship And The Dream Of Scipio,9780856684418

Ane Conpendious And Breue Tractate Concernyng Ye Office And Dewtie Of Kyngis,9780197220030

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II),9780197223116

Ancrene Riwle: Latin Text - Merton College MS 44 And British Museum MS Cotton Vitellius E. VII,9780197222164

Husbandrie,9780859918299

Emblemes And Epigrames,9780859918350

An account of the intellectual and theological ferment of 19th-century Britain, which saw the impact of biblical criticism upon traditional theology and the belief in the social as well as spiritual mission

This text examines Russia at the end of the 20th century, as it seeks to come to terms with its new status within the world community. It looks at the pressures and