The Boydell Press

The late Wilfrid Mellers, who occupies a special place among music critics, described himself as a non-believer; but his preference for music that "displays a sense of the numinous" (in his words) will strike a chord with many wholisten to religious music nowadays, and who share his view that...

Lapélek enyhén foltosak. Many of the millions of medieval charters surviving in European archives and repositories were written without any reference to a date of issue. The proliferation of undated charters in England and Normandy indicates that the custom was especially peculiar to lands under...

Gerince megtört.

And did those fiet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains ?!rem? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?WILLIAM BLAKE'S lines from the poem known now as 'Jerusalem' are familiar enough to us, if only from the Last Night of the Proms. But how many who have sung these...

ForewordWhen Barrie Rickards asked me if I would write the foreword to The Best of Pikelines I accepted, but over the following weeks began to think, as 'a dreaded maggot strangler', what could I say? After forty years of fishing my memories of the Freshwater Shark are few and mixed, and certainly...