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Author : Arthur Robinson Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Calendar Customs: England written by Arthur Robinson Wright and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079922
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Author : David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091452X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Widening Gate written by David Harris Sacks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of "thick description," socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol's artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened i
Author : R. Michael Stewart
Publisher : Unistar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Research for Writers written by R. Michael Stewart and published by Unistar Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J. Cowan
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852532
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Edward J. Cowan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change. In doing so, it uncovers new information about a wide range of topics in local history, including food, festivals and folklore, music, mining, the development of towns and villages, population, smuggling, the experience of migration, and the question of identity. All of the contributors to the book are specialists in their fields and have an in-depth knowledge of the region through life and work.
Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527593185
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece written by Evy Johanne Håland and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates religious rituals and gender in modern and ancient Greece, with a specific focus on women’s role in connection with healing. How can we come to understand such mainstays of ancient culture as its healing rituals, when the male recorders did not, and could not, know or say much about what occurred, since the rituals were carried out by women? The book proposes that one way of tackling this dilemma is to attend similar healing rituals in modern Greece, carried out by women, and compare the information with ancient sources, thus providing new ways of interpreting the ancient material we possess. Carrying out fieldwork—being present during, often, enduring rituals within cultures, despite other changes—teaches one whole new ways of looking at written and pictorial records of such events. By bringing ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination, this text also has relevance beyond the Greek context both in time and space.
Author : James Sharpe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216332
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Instruments of Darkness written by James Sharpe and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-08-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive scholarly history of witchcraft in England in over eighty years.
Author : David Hoseason Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351720554
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900 written by David Hoseason Morgan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, examines the technology, conditions and customs of the harvest and, through that, the life of the rural population of central England from the 1840s until the end of the century when hand tools finally gave way to mechanisation.
Author : David Lindley
Publisher : Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover N.H., USA : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Court Masque written by David Lindley and published by Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover N.H., USA : Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death proves them all but toyes": Nashe's unidealising show / Elizabeth Cook -- "In those figures which they seeme": Samuel Daniel's Tethys' festival / John Pitcher -- Music, masque and meaning in The tempest / David Lindley -- Sounding to present occasions: Jonson's masques of 1620-5 / Sara Pearl -- To that secure fix'd state': the function of the Caroline masque form / Jennifer Chibnall -- The reformation of the masque / David Norbrook -- The present aid of this occasion': the setting of Comus / John Creaser -- Location and meaning in masque, morality, and royal entertainment / Helen Cooper -- The French element in Inigo Jones's masque designs* / John Peacock -- Dryden's Albion and Albanius: the apotheosis of Charles II / Paul Hammond.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781862321908
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Scottish Fairy Belief written by Lizanne Henderson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.
Author : Daniel R. Woolf
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199257782
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Social Circulation of the Past written by Daniel R. Woolf and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faye Getz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082267X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Medicine in the English Middle Ages written by Faye Getz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily concerns. Here the author presents an account of practitioners (English Christians, Jews, and foreigners), of medical works written by the English, of the emerging legal and institutional world of medicine, and of the medical ideals present among the educated and social elite. How medical learning gained for itself an audience is the central argument of this book, but the journey, as Getz shows, was an intricate one. Along the way, the reader encounters the magistrates of London, who confiscate a bag said by its owner to contain a human head capable of learning to speak, and learned clerical practitioners who advise people on how best to remain healthy or die a good death. Islamic medical ideas as well as the poetry of Chaucer come under scrutiny. Among the remnants of this far distant medical past, anyone may find something to amuse and something to admire.
Author : Mark Michael Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325828
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Hearing History written by Mark Michael Smith and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the fields most important writings, this volume will deepen and broaden our understanding of changing perceptions of sound and hearing and the ongoing education of our senses. The essays stimulate thinking on key questions: What is aural history? Why has vision tended to triumph over hearing in historical accounts? How might we begin to reclaim the sounds of the past? With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how military, social, intellectual, and cultural historians have tackled historical acoustemologies. Investigating soundscapes that include a Puritan meetinghouse in colonial New England, the belfries of a French village at the close of the Old Regime, the court hall of Elizabeth I, and a Civil War battlefield, the essays vary just as widely in their topics, which include noise as a marker of social and cultural differences, the privileging of music as the sound of art, the persistence of Aristotelian ideas of sound into the seventeenth century, developments in sound related to medical practice, the advent of sound-recording technology, and noise pollution.
Author : Dillon's University Bookshop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book British Local History written by Dillon's University Bookshop and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835608251
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Green Man written by John Matthews and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the theme of the Green Man in mythology, folklore, and literature throughout history, in such guises as Merlin, Robin Hood, Herne the Hunter, the Green Knight, Enkidu, and Cernunnos.
