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Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History

By James Simpson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780199212484 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 20, 2010, cover price $170.00

Paperback:

9780198724476 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $70.00

John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library Ms Lansdowne 204

By James Simpson (editor)

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9781580442138, titled "John Hardyng Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204" | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, September 1, 2015, cover price $29.95

The Red-green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America

By James Simpson

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9781515085188 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 14, 2015, cover price $6.00

A Visit to Flanders, in July, 1815: Being Chiefly an Account of the Field of Waterloo

By James Simpson

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Hardcover:

9780533093274, titled "The Evolution of Man" | Vantage Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $11.95 | also contains The Evolution of Man

Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

Product Description: One of the greatest characters of medieval literature, the trickster Reynard the Fox, comes to life in this rollicking new translation.What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is they’ve all been had by one sly fox named Reynard...read more

By James Simpson (trans)

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9780871407368 | Liveright Pub Corp, March 9, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the greatest characters of medieval literature, the trickster Reynard the Fox, comes to life in this rollicking new translation.

Savior

Product Description: When a concussion at the National Championship Game lands Sam Brock, star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners, in the hospital, a sample of his blood is tested by a secretive medical research lab. When the blood is found to have a rare antigen that would lead to a cure for HIV/AIDS, Sam is kidnapped and becomes a pawn in a world unfamiliar and deadly...read more

By James Simpson

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9781628549249 | Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc, March 25, 2014, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: When a concussion at the National Championship Game lands Sam Brock, star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners, in the hospital, a sample of his blood is tested by a secretive medical research lab.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Product Description: The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics. The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives: applied linguistics in action language learning, language education language, culture and identity perspectives on language in use descriptions of language for applied linguistics...read more

By James Simpson (editor)

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9780415490672 | Routledge, April 20, 2011, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics.

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9780415658157 | Reprint edition (Routledge, March 1, 2013), cover price $66.95 | About this edition: The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages

By Alfred David, Stephen Greenblatt (editor) and James Simpson

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9780393912494 | 9 pap/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 7, 2012), cover price $58.25

Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text

Product Description: The main aim of this book is to convince the reader of Piers Plowman's centrality in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. It tries to demonstrate how the poem, despite being deeply anchored in a conservative literary, ecclesiastical and social culture, in fact questions that culture in moving towards positions of doubt and dissent, and in reimagining social and religious institutions...read more

By James Simpson

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9780582013926 | Longman Pub Group, November 1, 2011, cover price N/A
| About this edition: The main aim of this book is to convince the reader of Piers Plowman's centrality in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later Middle Ages.

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9780582013919 | Reprint edition (Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, July 1, 1992), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The main aim of this book is to convince the reader of Piers Plowman's centrality in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later Middle Ages.

Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

By James Simpson

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9780691136035 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 26, 2011, cover price $46.00

Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-american Tradition

Product Description: When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm...read more

By James Simpson

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9780199591657 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else.

Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents

Product Description: The evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world. Amid such present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century...read more

By James Simpson

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9780674046122 | Belknap Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world.

Anti-national Education: Or the Spirit of the Sectarianism Morally Tested by Means of Certain Speeches and Letters from the Member for Kilmarnock

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By James Simpson

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9781437479805 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

By James Simpson

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9781437139273 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Piers Plowman: An Introduction

Product Description: This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English. New to the internationally-renowned "Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies" series, James Simpson's indispensable guide to Piers Plowman has been fully revised for this reissue...read more

By James Simpson (editor)

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9780859898027 | 2 revised edition (Liverpool Univ Pr, October 7, 2007), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English.

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9780859898034 | 2 revised edition (Liverpool Univ Pr, October 7, 2007), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English.

Burning to Read: English Funadamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents

By James Simpson

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9780674026711 | Belknap Pr, November 23, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world.

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries

Product Description: The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. They contain a miscellaneous but interesting set of Middle English prose texts: there is the Middle English version of Guy de Chauliac's 'Cyrurgie'; a 'Brut'; four miscellanies of religious matter, including a 'Pore Caitif' and a 'Lay Folks' Catechism', as well as texts by Rolle and Hilton...read more

By James Simpson

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9781843841500 | Ds Brewer, August 16, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve.

La agricultura espanola 1765-1965/ The Spanish Agriculture 1765-1965: La Larga Siesta

Product Description: Aunque recientemente se ha puesto en tela de juicio que la productividad de la agricultura espaÃ±ola fuera tan reducida como se venÃa sosteniendo en los trabajos clÃ¡sicos, difÃcilmente podrÃa cuestionarse -sostiene James Simpson- el hecho de que su contribuciÃ³n al desarrollo del paÃs fue reducida durante los doscientos aÃ±o...read more

By James Simpson

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9788420628769 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Aunque recientemente se ha puesto en tela de juicio que la productividad de la agricultura espaÃ±ola fuera tan reducida como se venÃa sosteniendo en los trabajos clÃ¡sicos, difÃcilmente podrÃa cuestionarse -sostiene James Simpson- el hecho de que su contribuciÃ³n al desarrollo del paÃs fue reducida durante los doscientos aÃ±os

John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, And Lancastrian England

Product Description: Essays in this volume argue that it is time for a powerful reassessment of John Lydgate's poetic projects. The pre-eminent poet of his own century, Lydgate (c. 1370-1449) addressed the historical challenges of war with France, of looming civil war, and of new theological forces in the vernacular...read more

By Larry Scanlon (editor) and James Simpson (editor)

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9780268041151 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 6, 2006, cover price $65.00

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9780268041168 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Essays in this volume argue that it is time for a powerful reassessment of John Lydgate's poetic projects.

Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Product Description: This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in the intellect and the imagination respectively, and shows the very different modes of thought that lie behind their conceptions of selfhood and education...read more

By James Simpson (not applicable)

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9780521471817 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $154.99 | About this edition: This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3).

Paperback:

9780521021111 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3).

The Oxford English Literary History: Reform and Cultural Revolution 1350-1547

Product Description: The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age...read more

By James Simpson

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9780199265534 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 15, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965

Product Description: In the first major study in English of Spanish agrarian history, James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets. He argues that decisive changes in farming techniques only occurred at the start of this century; development was then interrupted by the Spanish Civil War and subsequent short-sighted government policies, only resuming in the 1950s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Simpson

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9780521496308 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $139.99 | About this edition: In the first major study in English of Spanish agrarian history, James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets.

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9780521525169 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: In the first major study in English of Spanish agrarian history, James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets.

A Treasury of Anglican Art

Product Description: The first comprehensive book on the art and architecture of the Anglican (Episcopal) Church, will serve to many as an eye-opener that will dazzle and excite the senses and the mind. The Anglican Church has some of the greatest works of religious art in the world, but these treasures have not been widely publicized...read more

By George H. Eatman and James Simpson

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9780847824670 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The first comprehensive book on the art and architecture of the Anglican (Episcopal) Church, will serve to many as an eye-opener that will dazzle and excite the senses and the mind.

Reform and Cultural Revolution: 1350-1547

By James Simpson

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9780198182610 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 31, 2002, cover price $93.00 | About this edition: The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image

Product Description: This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. The essays that make up this volume were commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeremy Dimmick (editor), James Simpson (editor) and Nicolette Zeeman (editor)

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9780198187592 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 18, 2002, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.

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