The politics of Middle English parables Michael E. Smith

The politics of Middle English parables Michael E. SmithThis study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re construct Christian belief and practice.

allegorically or metaphysically

Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present

and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan

‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas

and features covering global contemporary art scenes and cultures

marketing and consumption of style and fashion

This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance

Bringing together leading historians

Individual directors

romantic comedy and kung-fu

who are also qualified economists

Howard Barker Interviews 1980–2010 covers his entire career and gives a strong sense of the life and work of this innovative dramatist