The splendid pictorial collection of nearly two thousand miniatures illuminating the historiated codices of the Cantigas de Santa Maria provides the most reliable evidence for the study of Castilian society in the second half othe thirteenth century.

‘You'll be warm enough.’ ‘I bloody won't. I'm nithered now.’

A series of experiments are carried out to simulate the equilibrium conditions as the ecospheric recovery rate improves.

At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.