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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Author: Hana Videen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan 'If you love words, the weird and...
Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
Author: Blessin Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Grimly fascinating ... engrossing' Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul....
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....
The Excellence of the Arabs
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In...