Böcker av Craig Taylor

Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could legitimately resort to violence, the true nature of courage, the importance of mercy, and the role of books and scholarly learning in the very practical world of military men. Contributors to these discussions included some of the most famous French medieval writers, led by Jean Froissart, Geoffroi de Charny, Philippe de Mezieres, Honorat Bovet, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier and Antoine de La Sale. This interdisciplinary study sets their discussions in context, challenging modern, romantic assumptions about chivalry and investigating the historical reality of debates about knighthood and warfare in late medieval France.

We know that there are real pressures on childhood. We also know that children spend less time with nature and have fewer opportunities to play. Around the world, schools are being called on to to see what they can do to help? Based on over 25 years of experience as a teacher, Craig shows how schools can develop their outdoor learning programmes so that everyone in the school community can benefit and how genuine, long-term, sustainable change can be achieved. As he says, "The best outdoor learning does not cost the earth, but it does take some work." Warm and filled with a depth of experience, this book is an absolute must for anyone involved in a school - leaders, governors, teachers, parents and carers - anyone who can see that, if we really want to make a difference for our children, schools are going to have to be at the forefront of that change.

First English translation of the chivalric biography of one of France's leading figures of the middle ages.

While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment.

Moralism involves the distortion of moral thought, the distortion of reflection and judgement. It is a vice, and one to which many are highly susceptible. This book examines the nature of moralism in specific moral judgements and the ways in which moral philosophy and theories about morality can themselves become skewed by this vice.

First full English translation of a major text, narrating the adventures of the Jouvencel whilst interweaving them with advice on military tactics and strategies.

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

A radical re-interpretation of the chivalric biography of Boucicaut.

Provides the tools to better understand acceptable risk processes, and how those processes can enable to develop risk reduction strategies and implement mitigation actions to reduce lifeline losses from earthquakes. The topics in this title include technical issues; risk criteria issues; and communication, administration, and regulations issues.

An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.

'Gentle, subtle, absorbing ... the most complex and supple account of that much-discussed idea, "modern rural life", that I have ever read' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places