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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Occasional Publications - Worcestershire Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 180511042X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century written by David Atkinson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027802
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns written by Samuel Kline Cohn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Author : Gerarld Alymer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826436285
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Hereford Cathedral written by Gerarld Alymer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-07-07 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its possession of a chained library and of the Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral is remarkable for its architecture, its long history and its musical tradition. "Hereford Cathedral" is the definitive account of its history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, and of its architecture, fittings, musical tradition, archives and library. Substantial parts of the structure date from Norman times, but the building has been modified in many ways over the years. In the middle ages Hereford was the centre of pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (d.1282). It survived the Reformation relatively intact, but was damaged during the Civil War. Its west end collapsed disastrously in 1786, leading to the renewal and reworking of the exterior by James Wyatt. Little was changed in the interior until the striking Victorian rationalisation by George Gilbert Scott.
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789554
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)
Download or read book State Formation in Early Modern England, C.1550-1700 written by Michael J. Braddick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ... written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Hill
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 139901062X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Fortress Kingdom written by Paul Hill and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this the second part of his four-volume military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill follows the careers of Æthelflæd, Alfred the Great’s eldest daughter, and Edward the Elder, Alfred’s eldest son, as they campaigned to expand their rule after Alfred’s death. They faced, as Alfred had done, the full force of Danish hostility during the early years of the tenth century, a period of unrelenting turbulence and open warfare. But through their military strength, in particular their strategy of fortress building, they retained their hold on the kingdom and conquered lands which had been under Danish lords for generations. Æthelflæd’s forces captured Derby and Leicester by both force and diplomacy. Edward’s power was always immense. How each of them used forts (burhs) to hold territory, is explored. Fortifications across central England became key. These included Bridgnorth, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick, Chirbury and Runcorn (Æthelflæd) and also Hertford, Witham, Buckingham, Bedford and Maldon (Edward), to name a few. Paul Hill’s absorbing narrative incorporates the latest theories and evidence for the military organization and capabilities of the Anglo-Saxons and their Danish adversaries. His book gives the reader a detailed and dramatic insight into a very sophisticated Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
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Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198221665
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book An Age of Transition? written by Christopher Dyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great lords was threatened and weakened, and when new social groups emerged and new methods of production were adopted. Professor Dyer examines both the commercial growth of the thirteenth century, and the restructuring of farming, trade, and industry in the fifteenth. The subjects investigated include the balance between individuals andthe collective interests of families and villages. The role of the aristocracy and in particular the gentry are scrutinized, and emphasis placed on the initiatives taken by peasants, traders, and craftsmen. The growth in consumption moved the economy in new directions after 1350, and this encouragedinvestment in productive enterprises. A commercial mentality persisted and grew, and producers, such as farmers, profited from the market. Many people lived on wages, but not enough of them to justify describing the sixteenth century economy as capitalist. The conclusions are supported by research in sources not much used before, such as wills, and non-written evidence, including buildings.Christopher Dyer, who has already published on many aspects of this period, has produced the first full-length study by a single author of the 'transition'. He argues for a reassessment of the whole period, and shows that many features of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries can be found before 1500.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521431415
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277440
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and Its Historians written by Christopher Dyer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops an understanding of Warwickshire's past for outsiders and those already engaged with the subject, and to explore questions which apply in other regions, including those outside the United Kingdom.
Author : Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136021183
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Spaces of Consumption written by Jon Stobart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.
Author : Worcester Cathedral. Library
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Worcestershire Historical Society written by Worcester Cathedral. Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000945669
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine, 1650–1820 written by Adrian Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although articles in this volume fall into three thematic clusters, each of those groups exemplifies three general themes: micro-social processes; innovations and the question of continuity versus discontinuity; and the relationship between ideas and practice. Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summoned to such occasions, the functioning of voluntary hospitals, the protocols underlying patient records. Such social practices are well worth studying as both the sites and drivers of larger-scale historical change. Whenever there comes into being something new - whether an institution (a hospital), a social practice (the summoning of men as midwives) or a concept (a new approach to disease) - the question arises as to its relationship with what went before. This concept resonates throughout these essays, but is most to the fore in the chapters on early Hanoverian London (which asks explanatory questions) and on Porter versus Foucault (who represent the extremes of continuity and discontinuity respectively). A couple of generations ago, the ’history of ideas’ was pursued largely without reference to practice; in recent times, the danger has appeared of the very reverse taking place. This book ranges across a broad spectrum in this respect, the emphasis being sometimes upon practice (Eleanor Willughby’s work as a midwife) and sometimes upon ideas (concepts of pleurisy across the centuries); but in every case there is at least the potential for relating the two to one another. None of these themes is specific to medical history; on the contrary, they are the bread-and-butter of historical reconstruction in general.
Author : Maria Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351903195
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Rich Apparel written by Maria Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English dress in the second half of the sixteenth century has been studied in depth, yet remarkably little has been written on the earlier years, or indeed on male clothing for the whole century. The few studies that do cover these neglected areas have tended to be quite general, focusing upon garments rather than the wearers. As such this present volume fills an important gap by providing a detailed analysis of not only what people wore in Henry's reign, but why. The book describes and analyses dress in England through a variety of documents, including warrants and accounts from Henry's Great Wardrobe and the royal household, contemporary narrative sources, legislation enacted by Parliament, guild regulations, inventories and wills, supported with evidence and observations derived from visual sources and surviving garments. Whilst all these sources are utilised, the main focus of the study is built around the sumptuary legislation, or the four 'Acts of Apparel' passed by Henry between 1509 and 1547. English sumptuary legislation was concerned primarily with male dress, and starting at the top of society with the king and his immediate family, it worked its way down through the social hierarchy, but stopped short of the poor who did not have sufficient disposable income to afford the items under consideration. Certain groups - such as women and the clergy - who were specifically excluded from the legislation, are examined in the second half of the book. Combining the consideration of such primary sources with modern scholarly analysis, this book is invaluable for anyone with an interest in the history of fashion, clothing, and consumption in Tudor society.
