This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.

Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. After the Council

This exploration of the forces that shaped Impressionism proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourge

In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on condition that he convert to Christianity. This work advances our understanding

French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greate