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Noble Ambitions

Author : Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617991
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Noble Ambitions written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. A delicious romp, Noble Ambitions pulls us into these crumbling halls of power, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history—from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret. Capturing the spirit of the age, historian Adrian Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change.

Noble Households

Author : Tessa Violet Murdoch
Publisher : John Adamson Dist A/C
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Noble Households written by Tessa Violet Murdoch and published by John Adamson Dist A/C. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, the great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them. This book serves as a tribute to his lifelong interest in the field.

Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats

Author : James Reginato
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848981
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats written by James Reginato and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the leading families of Great Britain and Ireland and the opulent residences that have defined their heritages. The history of England is inextricably linked with the stories of its leading aristocratic dynasties and the great seats they have occupied for centuries. As the current owners speak of the critical roles their ancestors have played in the nation, they bring history alive. All of these houses have survived great wars, economic upheavals, and, at times, scandal. Filled with stunning photography, this book is a remarkably intimate and lively look inside some of Britain’s stateliest houses, with the modern-day aristocrats who live in them and keep them going in high style. This book presents a tour of some of England’s finest residences, with many of the interiors shown here for the first time. It includes Blenheim Palace—seven acres under one roof, eclipsing the splendor of any of the British royal family’s residences—property of the Dukes of Marlborough; the exquisite Old Vicarage in Derbyshire, last residence of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (née Deborah Mitford); Haddon Hall, a vast crenellated 900-year-old manor house belonging to the Dukes of Rutland that has been called the most romantic house in England; and the island paradises on Mustique and St. Lucia of the 3rd Baron Glenconner. This book is perfect for history buffs and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life.

Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture

Author : M. Burnett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023038014X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture written by M. Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-10-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of power, social change and the threat of economic upheaval. In this way, writers were instrumental in creating servant 'cultures', and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.

The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134751427
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages written by Chris Given-Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Of Noble Family

Author : Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466861231
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Of Noble Family written by Mary Robinette Kowal and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty the couple decide to go. The sea voyage is long and Jane spends enough time unable to perform glamour that towards the end of the trip she discovers that she is with child. They are overjoyed, but when they finally arrive at the estate to complete what they expect to be routine legal tasks, they realize that nearly everything they came expecting to find had been a lie. Also, the entire estate is in disarray, with horrifying conditions and tensions with the local slave population so high that they are close to revolt.Jane and Vincent's sense of peril is screaming out for them to flee, but Vincent cannot stand to leave an estate connected with his family in such a condition. They have survived many grand and terrifying adventures in their time, but this one will test their skills and wits more than any they have ever encountered before, this time with a new life hanging in the balance. Mary Robinette Kowal's Of Noble Family is the final book of the acclaimed Glamourist Histories. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436076X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories.

This Noble House

Author : Arnold E. Franklin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206401
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book This Noble House written by Arnold E. Franklin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings that came to be ascribed to the House of David in this period. Jews and Muslims shared the perception that the Davidic line and the noble family of the Prophet Muhammad were counterparts to one another, but captivation with Davidic lineage was just one facet of a much broader Jewish concern with biblical ancestry. Based on documentary material from the Cairo Geniza, the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab-Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment. While Jewish society surely had genealogical materials and preoccupations of its own upon which to draw, the Arab-Islamic regard for tracing the lineage of Muhammad provided the impetus for deploying those traditions in new and unprecedented ways. On the one hand, the increased focus on ancestry is an instance of medieval Jews reflexively and unselfconsciously making use of the cultural forms of their Muslim neighbors; on the other, it is an expression of cultural competitiveness or even resistance, an implicit response to the claim of Arab genealogical superiority that uses the very methods of the Arab "science of genealogy." To be sure, Franklin notes, Jews were only one of several non-Arab minority groups to take up genealogy in this way. At the broadest level, then, This Noble House illuminates a strategy that various minority populations utilized as they sought legitimacy within the medieval Arab-Islamic world.

The Long Weekend

Author : Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098657
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Long Weekend written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar period As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamorous history of English country houses during the years between World Wars. As estate taxes and other challenges forced many of these venerable houses onto the market, new sectors of British and American society were seduced by the dream of owning a home in the English countryside. Drawing on thousands of memoirs, letters, and diaries, as well as the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door to a world by turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, and forever wrapped in myth. We are drawn into the intrigues of legendary families such as the Astors, the Churchills and the Devonshires as they hosted hunting parties and balls that attracted the likes of Charlie Chaplin, T.E. Lawrence, and royals such as Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. We waltz through aristocratic soiré, and watch as the upper crust struggle to fend off rising taxes and underbred outsiders, property speculators and poultry farmers. We gain insight into the guilt and the gingerbread, and see how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs. Through the glitz of estate parties, the social tensions between old money and new, the hunting parties, illicit trysts, and grand feasts, Tinniswood offers a glimpse behind the veil of these great estates -- and reveals a reality much more riveting than the dream.

Strong of Body, Brave and Noble

Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485480
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Strong of Body, Brave and Noble written by Constance Brittain Bouchard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.

Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112892
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500 written by Jennifer Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a collection of sources for an important and influential group of women in medieval England, and examines changes in their role and activities between 1066 and 1500. For most noble and gentry-women, early marriage led to responsibilities for family and household, and, in the absence of their husbands, for the family estates and retainers. Widowhood enabled them to take control of their affairs and to play an independent part in the local community and sometimes further afield. Although many women's lives followed a conventional pattern, great variety existed within family relationships, and individuality can also be seen in religious practices and patronage. Piety could take a number of different forms, whether a woman became a nun, a vowess or a noted philanthropist and benefactor to religious institutions. This volume provides a broad-ranging and accessible coverage of the role of noble women in medieval society. It highlights the significant role played by these women within their families, households, estates and communities.

The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage

Author : George Francis Savage-Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage written by George Francis Savage-Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The House of Beaufort

Author : Nathen Amin
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647656
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The House of Beaufort written by Nathen Amin and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John of Gaunt's illegitimate line whose role in the Wars of the Roses led to the capture of the crown.

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England

Author : Anthony Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139449199
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.

Household Politics

Author : Don Herzog
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180780
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Household Politics written by Don Herzog and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.

House of Hunger

Author : Alexis Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593438477
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book House of Hunger written by Alexis Henderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she know. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid. Though she knows little about the far north—where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service—Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery. At the center of it all is Countess Lisavet. The countess, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when she discovers that the ancient walls of the House of Hunger hide even older secrets, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home—and fast—or its halls will soon become her grave.

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Author : Barbara Jean Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195151282
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 written by Barbara Jean Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.