Product Description: This collection of original contributions by leading researchers celebrates the 1996 centenary of the births of the two most seminal figures in education and developmental psychology - Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Research in their footsteps continues worldwide and is growing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of commissioned essays re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art. The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: Taking a variety of critical approaches, the papers in Women, the Book and the Godlyanalyse the subject of women and religion, illustrating clearly the wealth of previously untapped material on this topic, whether in archive, manuscript or early printed source...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Essays about sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Britain cover the Reformation, the Tudors, Parliament, political parties, marriage, literature, commerce, and territorial expansion

Looks at the history of Britain from the Norman conquest to the defeat of Richard III, and discusses village life, the manor system, the Magna Carta, development of the courts, and voyages of discovery