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This comprehensive volume presents a selection of country studies
on European Accounting published since 1995. It concentrates on
financial accounting, but also gives research on management
accounting, auditing, professionalisation, history and critical
accounting. It sheds light on financial reporting as it is
currently practised, as well as on the regulatory framework and the
accounting environment. The articles range from descriptions of the
development of accounting systems in the transitional economies of
Eastern Europe to analyses of theory and practice in Western
European countries with a more established research tradition. This
collection has international appeal and can be appreciated with
relatively limited prior knowledge of the countries or specific
techniques.
Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and
beyond. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must
in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed
and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues
of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and
transformation of material items for purposes of religion,
memorialisation, restoration and display; attempts to regulate
dress, both ecclesiastical and secular, the reasons for it and the
refashioning which was both a result and a reaction; conventional
ways in which dress was used to characterise children, and their
transition into young men; how symbolism-laded dress items could
indicate political/religious affiliations; waysin which
allegorical, biblical and historical figures were depicted in art
in dress familiar to the viewers of their own era, and the emotive
and intellectual responses to these costumes the artists sought to
elicit; and the use of clothing in medieval literature (often rich,
exotic or unique) as narrative, structuring and rhetorical devices.
Taken together, they honour the costume historian and editor Robin
Netherton, who has been hugely influentialin the development of
medieval and Renaissance dress and textile studies. GALE R.
OWEN-CROCKER is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester;
MAREN CLEGG HYER is Professor of English at Valdosta State
University. Contributors: Melanie Schuessler Bond, Elizabeth
Coatsworth, Lisa Evans, Gina Frasson-Hudson, Charney Goldman,
Sarah-Grace Heller, Maren Clegg Hyer, John Friedman, Thomas
Izbicki, Drea Leed, Christine Meek, M.A. Nordtorp-Madson, Gale R.
Owen-Crocker, Lucia Sinisi, Monica L. Wright.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Boeck, Chyrstel Brandenburgh, …
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R1,901
Discovery Miles 19 010
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Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. This volume continues the series'
tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from
across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include
sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and
bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such
gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a
semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual
medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological
textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval
headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a
fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework.
Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a
survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose.
Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer
on the interpretationof medieval European dress; Gale R.
Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University
of Manchester. Contributors: Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt
Nowak-Boeck, Maren Clegg Hyer, Louise Sylvester,
ChrystelBrandenburgh, Lisa Evans, Patricia Williams, Katherine
Talarico.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Böck, Chyrstel Brandenburgh, …
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R1,912
Discovery Miles 19 120
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A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine
surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society.
The second decade of this acclaimed and popular series begins with
a volume that will be essential reading for historians and
re-enactors alike. Two papers consider cloth manufacture in the
early medieval period: Ingvild Øye examines the graves of
prosperous Viking Age women from Western Norway which contained
both textile-making tools and the remains of cloth, considering the
relationship between the two. Karen Nicholson compliments this with
practical experiments in spinning. This is followed by Tina
Anderlini's close examination of the details of cut and
construction of a thirteenth-century chemise attributed to King
Louis IX of France (St Louis), out of its shrine for the firsttime
since 1970. Three papers consider fashionable clothing and
morality: Sarah-Grace Heller discusses sumptuary legislation from
Angevin Sicily in the 1290s which sought to restrict men's dress at
a time when preparation for war was more important than showy
clothes; Cordelia Warr examines the dire consequences of a woman
dressing extravagantly as portrayed in a fourteenth-century Italian
fresco; and Emily Rozier discusses the extremes of dress attributed
by moral and satirical writers to the men known as "galaunts". Two
textual studies then show the importance of textiles in daily life.
Susan Powell reveals the austere but magnificent purchases made on
behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in the
last ten years of her life (1498-1509); Anna Riehl Bertolet
discusses in detail the passage in Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream where Helena passionately recalls sewinga sampler
with Hermia when they were young and still bosom friends.
Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two
classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for
the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's
Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern world. Its
inhabitants can go anywhere, even toTransylvania. They can
communicate globally in the blink of an eye. But their feet, in
their modern shoes, walk upon the gravestones of a vast cosmic
graveyard. Count Dracula is still alive. He could always come
through walls, arrive on a moonbeam but, in the modern world, he
has emails, smartphones, webcams and the worldwide web... Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein adapted by Lisa Evans: Mary is imprisoned in
a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted of murdering her baby
daughter. During her incarceration she becomes obsessed with Mary
Shelley's famous novel. The novel comes to lifewithin her
imagination, and we are left to question just who the realmonster
really is, Mary or Frankenstein himself...
I had a great great granma. She took Sojourner Truth as her name. I
am her great great granddaughter. I am Mama's daughter. I am Lizzie
Walker...It is 1950s America, the Deep South; a world on the verge
of change but still tainted by everyday injustices and the remnants
of slavery. Lizzie and her family long for progress, inspired by
their ancestor Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter, and just one of
the many heroes the history books forgot. With Sojourner's dreams
pumping in their veins they fight their own battles, old and new.
But when the fight takes a life, can they summon up her courage and
keep dreaming, or will it destroy them? "Shouting, Stamping and
Singing Home" is a production by Polka Theatre aimed at young
people aged 12-16. It premieres in October 2006 as part of Black
History Month.
Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day
she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her
silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And
Milena, desperate to protect her children, carries a terrible
secret. A moving and powerful play about the experiences of three
very different mothers.
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Jamaica Inn (Paperback)
Daphne Du Maurier; Adapted by Lisa Evans
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R381
Discovery Miles 3 810
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From the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.
When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life:
her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best
friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of
another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years -
of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighbourhood "bad boy"
- and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks
that memory can play. A warm and witty new play, Getting to the
Foot of the Mountain opens at the Birmingham Rep in May 2002.
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