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Book Synopsis A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by : Joseph Grego
Download or read book A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria written by Joseph Grego and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of elections being so indissolubly bound up with that of parliamentary assemblages and dissolutions, it will not be out of place to glance at the progress of that institution. John was the first king recorded to summon his barons by writ; this was directed to the Bishop of Salisbury. In 1234 a representative parliament of two knights from every shire was convened to grant an aid; later on (1286) came the parliament of Merton; and in 1258 was inaugurated the assembly of knights and burgesses, designated the madparliament. The first assembly of the Commons as “a confirmed representation” (Dugdale) was in 1265, when the earliest writ extant was issued; while, according to many historians, the first regular parliament met in 1294 (22 Edw. 1), when borough representation is said to have commenced. From a deliberative assembly, it became in 1308 a legislative power, without whose assent no law could be legally constituted; and in 1311, annual parliaments were ordered. The next progressive step was the election of a Speaker by the Commons; the first was Peter de la Mare, 1377. A parliament of one day (September 29, 1399), when Richard II. was deposed, is certainly an incident in the history of this institution; the Commons now began to assert its control over pecuniary grants. In 1404 was held at Coventry the “Parliamentum Indoctum” from which lawyers were excluded (and that must have offered a marked contrast to parliaments in our generation). In 1407 the Lords and Commons assembled to transact business in the Sovereign’s absence. Reforms were clearly then deemed expedient: in 1413 members were obliged to reside at the places they represented,—this enactment has occasioned expense and inconvenience in obeying “the letter,” but appears to have otherwise been easily defeated as regards “the spirit;”1 in 1430 the Commons adopted the forty-shillings qualification for county members. A parliament was held at Coventry in 1459; this was called the Diabolicum. The statutes were first printed in 1483; in 1542 the privilege of exemption from arrest was secured to members; and in 1549 the eldest sons of Peers were admitted to sit in the Commons. With James I. commenced those collisions between the Crown and the representatives of the people which marked the Stuart rule. The Commons resisted those fine old blackmail robberies known during preceding reigns as “benevolences,” under which plea forced contributions were levied by the Crown, especially during Elizabeth’s reign. James I. pushed these abuses too far, in his greed for money.
Book Synopsis Cinema and Painting by : Angela Dalle Vacche
Download or read book Cinema and Painting written by Angela Dalle Vacche and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard's iconophobia (Pierrot Le Fou) and Andrei Tarkovsky's iconophilia (Andrei Rubleov), Kenji Mizoguchi's split allegiances between East and West (Five Women around Utamaro), Michelangelo Antonioni's melodramatic sensibility (Red Desert), Eric Rohmer's project to convey interiority through images (The Marquise of O), F. W. Murnau's debt to Romantic landscape painting (Nosferatu), Vincente Minnelli's affinities with American Abstract Expressionism (An American in Paris), and Alain Cavalier's use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity (Thérèse). While addressing issues of influence and intentionality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.
Book Synopsis British Historical Fiction before Scott by : A. Stevens
Download or read book British Historical Fiction before Scott written by A. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.
Book Synopsis The Young American: Or Book of Government and Law; Showing Their History, Nature and Necessity. For the Use of Schools. Fourth Edition by : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Download or read book The Young American: Or Book of Government and Law; Showing Their History, Nature and Necessity. For the Use of Schools. Fourth Edition written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Governments Showing the Progress of Civil Society and the Structure of Ancient and Modern States by : Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
Download or read book History of Governments Showing the Progress of Civil Society and the Structure of Ancient and Modern States written by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remarks made at the Annual Meeting ... showing the origin and history of the Society ... By the President by : Boston Society of Natural History (BOSTON, Massachusetts)
Download or read book Remarks made at the Annual Meeting ... showing the origin and history of the Society ... By the President written by Boston Society of Natural History (BOSTON, Massachusetts) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fool's Journey: the History, Art, and Symbolism of the Tarot by : Robert M. Place
Download or read book The Fool's Journey: the History, Art, and Symbolism of the Tarot written by Robert M. Place and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the best resources for understanding the Tarot's mystical symbolism. It includes an updated history based on Place's The Tarot: History Symbolism and Divination, which "Booklist" said " may be the best book ever written on ...the tarot." This edition adds color illustrations of key works and comparative illustrations from the Renaissance, from alchemical texts, from ancient Egypt, and from occult sources. It views the Tarot as a 500-year visual conversation between artists, mystics, and occultists. The work is based on the 2010 Tarot exhibition at the LA Craft and Folk Art Museum, curated by Place, and includes the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, the 1st Italian printed deck, the oldest Tarot of Marseille, The 1st occult reference, the 1st occult Tarot, the 1st modern Tarot, the 1st New Age Tarot, and examples from popular modern decks including the Twilight Tarot, the Legacy Tarot, the Deviant Moon Tarot, the Annotated Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, and Place's Alchemical Tarot.
Book Synopsis The history of John Wesley's coat: showing by whom it has been worn, and how it has been trimmed by : John Wesley
Download or read book The history of John Wesley's coat: showing by whom it has been worn, and how it has been trimmed written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Derby Charities, Showing the Original Terms of the Bequests and the Present Administration by : Henry L. KEMP
Download or read book A History of the Derby Charities, Showing the Original Terms of the Bequests and the Present Administration written by Henry L. KEMP and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland ; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People in Those Countries by : William Cobbett
Download or read book A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland ; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People in Those Countries written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People in Those Countries; and Containing a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries ... Confiscated ... by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments. In a Series of Letters, Etc by : William Cobbett
Download or read book A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People in Those Countries; and Containing a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries ... Confiscated ... by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments. In a Series of Letters, Etc written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Protestant "reformation", in England and Ireland: Showing how that Event Has Impoverished and Degraded the Main Body of the People in Those Countries by : William Cobbett
Download or read book A History of the Protestant "reformation", in England and Ireland: Showing how that Event Has Impoverished and Degraded the Main Body of the People in Those Countries written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People ... in a Series of Letters ... by William Cobbett by : William Cobbett
Download or read book A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People ... in a Series of Letters ... by William Cobbett written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Protestant "Reformation", in England and Ireland. Showing how that Event Has Impoverished and Degraded the Main Body of the People in Those Countries. In a Series of Letters, Addresses to All Sensible and Just Englishmen by : William Cobbett
Download or read book A History of the Protestant "Reformation", in England and Ireland. Showing how that Event Has Impoverished and Degraded the Main Body of the People in Those Countries. In a Series of Letters, Addresses to All Sensible and Just Englishmen written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History Assignment by : Burr W. Phillips
Download or read book The History Assignment written by Burr W. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World by : Linda Farrar
Download or read book Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World written by Linda Farrar and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each period were designed and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and horticulture is gathered from surviving examples of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual period gardens that have survived the centuries and the wealth of garden myths associated with certain plants. These sources bring ancient gardens and their gardeners back to life, and provide information on which plants were chosen as garden worthy, their setting and the design and appearance of ancient gardens. Deities associated with aspects of gardens and the garden's fertility are featured - everyone wanted a fertile garden. Different forms of public and domestic gardens are explored, and the features that you would find there; whether paths, pools, arbors and arches, seating or decorative sculpture. The ideal garden could be like the Greek groves of the Academy in Athens, a garden so fine that it was comparable with that of the mythical king Alcinoos, the paradise contemplated by the Islamic world, or a personal version of a garden of Eden that Early Christians could create for themselves or in the forecourt of their churches. In general books on garden history cover all periods up to the present, often placing all ancient gardens in one chapter at the beginning. But there is so much of interest to be found in these early millennia. Generously illustrated with 150 images, with plant lists for each period, this is essential reading for everyone interested in garden history and ancient societies.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
