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Book Synopsis The Commune of London, and Other Studies (Classic Reprint) by : John Horace Round
Download or read book The Commune of London, and Other Studies (Classic Reprint) written by John Horace Round and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Commune of London, and Other Studies In two papers I deal with Ireland and its Anglo Norman conquest. The principal object in the first of these is to show the true character of that alleged golden age which the coming of the invaders de stroyed. It is possible, however, of course, that a vast human shambles may be, in the eyes of some, an ideal condition for a country. Mr. Dillon, at least. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Commune of London by : J. H. Round
Download or read book The Commune of London written by J. H. Round and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review from Literature, Issue 90, 1899:“SO long as Mr. J. H. Round continues to write on historical subjects there is no danger of history becoming as dry as an old almanac. Whenever he has appeared he has accustomed us to expect “wigs on the green”; and his latest volume, entitled “The Commune of London,” does not disappoint our expectations. Not only do Mr. H. Hall, the editor of “The Red Book of the Exchequer,” and Mr. Archer, the supporter of Freeman's account of the Battle of Hastings, have to lose their wigs once more, but Mr. Oman for his “Art of War,” Mr. Loftie for his “London,” even the long-departed Kemble for his “Anglo Saxons,” are not only deprived of their wigs, but of their scalps. Mr. Round flourishes his critical bludgeon in a very entertaining manner; but, after all, he is writing on history, not theology, and it is a pity to introduce the methods of the latter into the study of the former.“The book which gives its title to the present volume, “The Commune of London,” and another, called “London under Stephen,” contain contributions of real value to the history of the constitution of the City. Coupled with his references to London history in his “ Geoffrey de Mandeville,” they point out one subject — and a great one — on which our author might usefully consolidate his researches instead of dispersing them over the whole range of early English history from the origin of the Exchequer to the numbers at Bannockburn. The creation of a mayor, now regarded as the sine qua non of a corporate borough, has commonly been supposed to date from 1189, the first year of Richard I., on the strength chiefly of a list in the “Liber de antiquis legibus,” compiled in 1273. “No mention of the Mayor of London, after long research, is known to me earlier than the spring of 1193,” says Mr. Round in his self-assertive style, the reference being to a document among the archives of St. Paul's, not discovered by Mr. Round (as the uninitiated might be led to suppose), but calendared by Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte long ago for the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The absence of such evidence made Mr. Coote doubt the existence of a mayor before 1191. In that year all the chroniclers record, as something highly eventful and revolutionary, the grant of a commune to the City by John as a reward for their assistance against Longchamp, Richard's “ regent,” to use a more modern term. The title of mayor abroad is intimately connected with the grant of a commune to a town—a grant which converted a town almost into an independent lordship. Mr. Coote argued that the mayoralty was really the only thing granted by John, as the crowning recognition of the City's municipal independence.“Mr. Round follows Mr. Coote's view of the date of the mayoralty. But he shows by a document, hitherto unnoticed and unpublished, in an MS. in the British Museum (which be somewhat oddly omits to describe) that the grant in 1191 must have comprised a full-blown commune after the Continental pattern. It is “The oath of the Commune when King Richard was detained in Germany,” i.e., 1193. The members of the commune swore “to keep the King's peace, to be obedient to the Mayor of the City of London, and the skevins of the same In the King's faith, and to follow and hold with the counsels of the Mayor and skevins and the other good men.” This shows, as Mr. Round, with a right to be jubilant, jubilantly proclaims, that the Corporation of London was thoroughly organized on the foreign model, and particularly on that of the capital of the Norman duchy and our foreign kings, Rouen. The Archbishop of Rouen, it is to be noted, at the council at which the commune was granted, replaced Longchamp as the head of the commission of regency. The skevins, eskevyns— echévins in modern French, scabini in medieval Latin— were not, indeed, unknown in England, as Mr. Round, rather carelessly quoting Gross' “Gild Merchant,” implies...."
Book Synopsis The Governance of London by : George Laurence Gomme
Download or read book The Governance of London written by George Laurence Gomme and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Governance of London: Studies on the Place Occupied by London in English Institutions In this book I have presented an anthropologist's view of London history. History to be of value must concern itself with something definite, and the something definite on which it appears to me to have been worth writing is the position of London as an English institution. Anthropologists know that institutions of quite unequal development do not coalesce, and the difficulty in the way of a Romanised Britain has always been that both tribal Celt and tribal Teuton stood in the way. The book, I hope, shows this difficulty, which was a very real one to our ancestors, to be an historical episode of very considerable importance in the evolution of the English, state. Whether I have successfully solved it is another question. Perhaps anthropologists may question my right to apply their science and their principles to so purely a historical subject, and may dispute my conclusions as unscientific from that point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Commune of London and Other Studies by : John Horace Round
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Download or read book The Commune of London, and Other Studies written by John Horace Round and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis THE COMMUNE OF LONDON AND OTHER STUDIES by : J. H. ROUND M.A.
Download or read book THE COMMUNE OF LONDON AND OTHER STUDIES written by J. H. ROUND M.A. and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper which gives its title to this volume of unpublished studies deals with a subject of great interest, the origin of the City Corporation. In my previous work, ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville’ (1892), and especially in the Appendix it contains on ‘The early administration of London,’ I endeavoured to advance our knowledge of the government and the liberties of the City in the 12th century. In the present volume the paper entitled “London under Stephen” pursues the enquiry further. I have there argued that the “English Cnihtengild” was not the governing body, and have shown that it did not, as is alleged, embrace a religious life by entering Holy Trinity Priory en masse. The great office of “Justiciar of London,” created, as I previously held, by the charter of Henry I., is now proved, in this paper, to have been held by successive citizens in the days of Stephen. The communal movement, which, even under Stephen, seems to have influenced the City, attained its triumph under Richard I.; and the most important discovery, perhaps, in these pages is that of the oath sworn to the Commune of London. From it we learn that the governing body consisted at the time of a Mayor and “Échevins,” as in a continental city, and[x] that the older officers, the Aldermen of the Wards, had not been amalgamated, as has been supposed, with the new and foreign system. The latter, I have urged, is now represented by the Mayor and Common Council. That this communal organization was almost certainly derived from Normandy, and probably from Rouen, will, I think, be generally admitted in the light of the evidence here adduced. This conclusion has led me to discuss the date of the “Établissements de Rouen,” a problem that has received much attention from that eminent scholar, M. Giry. I have also dwelt on the financial side of London’s communal revolution, and shown that it involved the sharp reduction of the ‘firma’ paid by the City to the Crown, the amount of which was a grievance with the citizens and a standing subject of dispute. The strand connecting the other studies contained in this volume is the critical treatment of historical evidence, especially of records and kindred documents. It is possible that some of the discoveries resulting from this treatment may not only illustrate the importance of absolute exactitude in statement, but may also encourage that searching and independent study of ‘sources’ which affords so valuable an historical training, and is at times the means of obtaining light on hitherto perplexing problems. The opening paper (originally read before the Society of Antiquaries) is a plea for the more scientific study of the great field for exploration presented by our English place-names. Certain current beliefs on the settlement of the English invaders are based, it is here urged, on nothing but the rash conclusions[xi] of Kemble, writing, as he did, under the influence of a now abandoned theory. In the paper which follows, the value of charters, for the Norman period, is illustrated, some points of ‘diplomatic’ investigated, and the danger of inexactitude revealed. Finance, the key to much of our early institutional history, is dealt with in a paper on “The origin of the Exchequer,” a problem of long standing. On the one hand, allowance is here made for the personal equation of the author of the famous ‘Dialogus de Scaccario,’ and some of his statements critically examined, with the result of showing that he exaggerates the changes introduced under Henry I., by the founder of his own house, and that certain alleged innovations were, in truth, older than the Conquest. On the other, it is shown that his treatise does, when carefully studied, reveal the existence of a Treasury audit, which has hitherto escaped notice. Further, the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer is traced back as a feudal serjeanty to the days of the Conqueror himself, and its connection with the tenure of Porchester Castle established, probably, for the first time. The geographical position of Porchester should, in this connection, be observed. In two papers I deal with Ireland and its Anglo-Norman conquest. The principal object in the first of these is to show the true character of that alleged golden age which the coming of the invaders destroyed. It is possible, however, of course, that a “vast human shambles” may be, in the eyes of some, an ideal condition for a country. Mr. Dillon, at least, has consistently described the Soudan, before our conquest,[xii] as “a comparatively peaceful country.”[1] In the second of these papers I advance a new solution of the problem raised by the alleged grant of Ireland, by the Pope, to Henry II. As to this fiercely contested point, I suggest that, on the English side, there was a conspiracy to base the title of our kings to Ireland on a Papal donation of the sovereignty of the island, itself avowedly based on the (forged) “donation of Constantine.” No such act of the Popes can, in my opinion, be proved. Even the “Bull Laudabiliter,” which, in the form we have it, is of no authority, does not go so far as this, while its confirmation by Alexander III. is nothing but a clumsy forgery. The only document sent to Ireland, to support his rights, by Henry II. was, I here contend, the letter of Alexander III. (20th September, 1172), approving of what had been done. That he sent there the alleged bull of Adrian, and that he did so in 1175, are both, I urge, although accepted, facts without foundation.[2] The method adopted in this paper of testing the date hitherto adopted, and disproving it by the sequence of events, is one which I have also employed in “The Struggle of John and Longchamp (1191).” The interest of this latter paper consists in[xiii] its bearing on the whole question of historic probability, and on the problem of harmonising narratives by four different witnesses, as discussed by Dr. Abbott in his work on St. Thomas of Canterbury. This is, perhaps, the only instance in which I have found the historic judgment and the marvellous insight of the Bishop of Oxford, if I may venture to say so, at fault; and it illustrates the importance of minute attention to the actual dates of events. Another point that I have tried to illustrate is the tendency to erect a theory on a single initial error. In “The Marshalship of England” I have shown that the belief in the existence of two distinct Marshalseas converging on a single house rests only on a careless slip in a coronation claim (1377). A marginal note scribbled by Carew, under a misapprehension, in the days of Elizabeth, is shown (p. 149) to be the source of Professor Brewer’s theory on certain Irish MSS. Again, the accepted story of the Cnihtengild rests only on a misunderstanding of a mediæval phrase (p. 104). Stranger still, the careless reading of a marginal note found in the works of Matthew Paris has led astray the learned editors of several volumes in the Rolls Series, and has even been made, as I have shown in “the Coronation of Richard I.,” the basis of a theory that a record of that event formerly existed, though now wanting, in the Red Book of the Exchequer.
Book Synopsis The Commune of London and Other Studies by : John Horace Round
Download or read book The Commune of London and Other Studies written by John Horace Round and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commune of London and other studies - With a prefatory letter by Sir Walter Besant is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Book Synopsis Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities (Classic Reprint) by : E. J. Urwick
Download or read book Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities (Classic Reprint) written by E. J. Urwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities For the data on which this description is based they have relied entirely upon their knowledge of London boys, and do not pretend to have had experience of those of other towns. If, however, it should occur to any reader to question on this ground the propriety of the title of the book, which seems to imply that the investigation covers the whole of England, it may be pointed out that generalisations from the boy life of the metropolis are true of a much wider area. The Irish boy of St. George's-in-the - East, the Jewish boy of Whitechapel, the English boy of Holborn, Lime hou se, Walworth, and Camberwell, offer probably as marked a diversity of characteristics as those of Liver pool and Leeds, of Birmingham and Glasgow. And, on the other hand, the sameness of their nature and the similarity of the conditions under which they live and work go far to justify the assumption that what is true of the boys of London is true in the main of the boys of other towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of ... [books] ... by : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Room to Live written by George Haw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from No Room to Live: The Plaint of Overcrowded London The Government measure is meagre in the extreme. Before it becomes law it is confidently hoped that its scope may be widened to embrace some of the more urgent practicable reforms I have ventured to put forth. At the request of innumerable correspondents, I have added, by way of summary, a final chapter setting out what I regard as the main lines along which reform should run. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle by : Sally Ledger
Download or read book Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle written by Sally Ledger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account.
Book Synopsis Gerald of Wales by : Thomas Charles-Edwards
Download or read book Gerald of Wales written by Thomas Charles-Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actually by Gerald himself, and framed as the biography of a bishop although Gerald never became a bishop. Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed Norman and Welsh descent and educated at Gloucester and in Paris. He worked for Henry II and Richard I, by whom he was valued as an intermediary between the king and Gerald's relations, who included the leading Welsh king, Rhys ap Gruffudd, and many of the first English settlers in Ireland. When elected bishop of St Davids, Gerald was sent by his fellow-canons to Rome to secure his own consecration and metropolitan status for St Davids; ultimately, both cases failed, defeated by the combined power and resources of the English state and church. Near the beginning of this final part, the single MS breaks off, but the chapter-headings show that much of the substance is preserved in another work by Gerald. His career spanned Wales, Ireland, and England, Paris and Rome, and De gestis Giraldi offers a vivid and personal view of them all. This volume has been prepared from a critical study of the extant manuscript, and features an accompanying English translation. The edition supports the translation and text with an authoritative introduction, extensive historical notes, and critical study of the work.
Download or read book La D?b?cle written by Émile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.' Émile Zola The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Débâcle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Débâcle has been described as a 'seminal' work for all modern depictions of war.
Download or read book La Debacle written by Emile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Book Synopsis The Organization of Imperial Studies in London (Classic Reprint) by : Sidney Low
Download or read book The Organization of Imperial Studies in London (Classic Reprint) written by Sidney Low and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Organization of Imperial Studies in London Nor is our deficiency alone in works intended mainly for the use of scholars and publicists. That highly important person the general reader is equally ill served. It is strange that no one of the greater masters of modern historical writing in England should have turned his attention to the story of the British Realm in its extension beyond the seas of Europe. What might the subject have become in the hands of a Froude, a Freeman, a Stubbs, a Samuel Rawson Gardiner, a John Richard Green! Seeley, who seemed marked out for the task, contented himself with a single suggestive, if somewhat superficial, essay. Macaulay has given us a vivid indication of what he could have done with the theme if he had not limited his share in it to two dazzling biographical sketches. We have had no modern History of the English in India written on a large scale and with the dignity and literary power the subject demands. We have not even an adequate life of the great man who was the founder of our Empire in the East; for. The English language is still without a really sufficient historical biography of Robert Clive. If he had been a Frenchman or a German how many notable books would have illus trated every phase of his activity by this time! Or to turn to another portion of the field, we are still waiting for a comprehensive and precise account of the struggle between the British and the Dutch for commercial supremacy in the East and West. We have no study in minute detail of the Mercantile System and the effects and application of the Navigation Acts. If there are some good histories of particular colonies we owe them not to English, but to colonial writers, such as Kingsford for Canada, and Theale for South Africa. And for the story of the struggle for the New World between France and Britain we go to no British historian, but to the prose epic of Francis Parkman, an American citizen and the graduate of an American University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The House of Commons (Classic Reprint) by : Richard Temple
Download or read book The House of Commons (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Temple and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House of Commons The Chapters of this little work relate to the House of Commons in the present time. The book is intended to serve as a short and easy manual for those who may desire to acquire a fundamental though elementary idea of our representative institution as it is in all its vivid reality and in its overwhelming importance, - but who may not be able to attend and hear the Debates or have not been personally conducted round the House by their members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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