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Books by Nicholas Perkins






Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes
Counsel and Constraint
by Nicholas Perkins
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by D. S. Brewer
ISBN-13: 978-0-85991-631-8, ISBN: 0-85991-631-6

"The 'new' new historicist shift from a Foucauldian modelling of the infinitely malleable instrumentation of power, in which writers like Hoccleve are inevitably complicit, to a more flexible model in which authority is typically anxious and unstable, open to compromise and negotiation, and where writers can mak significant interventions, is welcome. Perkins's book is a triumph of this new approach. MEDIUM AEVUM (Derek Pearsall) ..."






Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
(Medievalism)
by David Clark, Nicholas Perkins
Hardcover, 302 Pages, Published 2010 by D.S.Brewer
ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-251-4, ISBN: 1-84384-251-3

""An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture". Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound ..."






Harbor of the heartlands(1st Edition)
A history of the inland seaport of Stockton, California, from the Gold Rush to 1985
by Nicholas Perkins Hardeman, Walter A. Payne
Hardcover, 275 Pages, Published 1982 by University Of The Pacific
ISBN-13: 978-0-931156-15-1, ISBN: 0-931156-15-7






Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy Blocks(1st Edition)
Corn As a Way of Life in Pioneer America
by Nicholas Perkins Hardeman
Hardcover, 271 Pages, Published 1981 by Louisiana State Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-0793-5, ISBN: 0-8071-0793-X






Wilderness Calling(1st Edition)
The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750-1900
by Nicholas Perkins Hardeman
Hardcover, 357 Pages, Published 1977 by Univ Of Tennessee Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-87049-194-8, ISBN: 0-87049-194-6






The Romance of the Middle Ages
by Nicholas Perkins, Alison Wiggins, Sarah E. Thomas
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Bodleian Library, University Of Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-295-5, ISBN: 1-85124-295-3

"From chivalrous knights to damsels in distress, fire-breathing dragons, and high-walled towers, the characteristics and expectations we ascribe to stories of love and romance have their origins in some of the most beautiful and intriguing books of the Middle Ages. Encompassing Arthurian legends, Alexander the Great’s global conquests, sudden reversals of fortune, revenge, or enchantment, images and tales of medieval romance still ..."






Medieval Romance and Material Culture
(Studies in Medieval Romance)
by Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, D. S. Brewer
Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2015 by D. S. Brewer
ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-390-0, ISBN: 1-84384-390-0

"Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how ro ..."






The gift of narrative in medieval England
(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
by Perkins, Nicholas
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2023 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6716-3, ISBN: 1-5261-6716-6






Gifts & Books
From Early Myth to the Present
by Perkins, Nicholas
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2023 by Bodleian Library, University Of Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-610-6, ISBN: 1-85124-610-X






Welcome to Just a Minute!
A Celebration of Britain’s Best-Loved Radio Comedy
by Nicholas Parsons, Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by Canongate Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-249-5, ISBN: 1-78211-249-9






The gift of narrative in medieval England
(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
by Perkins, Nicholas
Hardcover, Published 2021 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3991-7, ISBN: 1-5261-3991-X






Welcome to Just a Minute
The Official Companion to Britain’s Best-Loved Radio Comedy
by Nicholas Parsons, Gyles Brandreth, Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2014 by Canongate Uk
ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-247-1, ISBN: 1-78211-247-2






Child Phonology(1st Edition)
Characteristics, Assessment, and Intervention with Special Populations
by John E. Bernthal, Nicholas W. Bankson, William H. Perkins
Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 1994 by Georg Thieme Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-0-86577-502-2, ISBN: 0-86577-502-8






Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People (Second Edition)
by Eberhard Arnold, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joan Chittister, Dorothy Day, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard J. Foster, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, David Janzen, Søren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, Chiara Lubich, Thomas Merton, John M. Perkins, Eugene H. Peterson, Christine D. Pohl, Howard A. Snyder, Mother Teresa, Saint Benedict, Jeremiah Barker, Amy Carmichael, Hans Denck, Andreas Ehrenpreis, Thomas R. Kelly, Penelope Lawson, Juan Mateos, Kathleen Norris, Thomas E. Powers, Peter Riedemann, Christopher C. Smith, Ulrich Stadler
Published 2024 by Plough Publishing House
ISBN-13: 978-1-63608-093-2, ISBN: 1-63608-093-6

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