The great favourite

The great favouriteThis is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study is profoundly well researched and fluently written.

’ This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form from its imprisoning substance

sustainable civilisation

gender relations within the profession and between nurses

but film acts as a repository for memories of lost places

Ivan Ilyich never truly considered the possibility of his own death

becoming the first person to take local productions to an overseas market

consumption and exchange

It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice

worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood

from the Puritans to the present

Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history

national identity and the ‘English Question’