Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Medulla Historiae Anglicanae full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Medulla Historiae Anglicanae ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : William Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Medulla Historiae Anglicanae written by William Howell and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Higgins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521418143
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Swift's Politics written by Ian Higgins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.
Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040234119
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800 written by John Gascoigne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton’s work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. But the author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, European context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th TO the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191043508
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age. This new edition includes all Thackeray's original illustrations. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185726
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and his engagement with the issues and events of his time. Defoe, the dedicated professional writer and innovator, emerges with a new wholeness, and certain of his novels assume new significance. Defoe's literary status continues to be debated and misunderstood. Even critical studies of the novel often begin with Richardson rather than Defoe. By moving from Defoe's poetry, pamphlets, and histories to the novels, Backscheider offers an argument for the thematic and stylistic coherency of his oeuvre and for a recognition of the dominant place he held in shaping the English novel. For example, Defoe deserves to be recognized as the true originator of the historical novel, for three of his fictions are deeply engaged with just those conceptual and technical issues common to all later historical fiction. And Roxana now appears as Defoe's deliberate attempt to enter the fastest growing market for fiction—that for women readers. What have been powerfully significant for the history of the novel, then, are the very characteristics of his writing that have been held against his literary stature: its contemporaneity, its mixed and untidy form, its formal realism, its concentration on the life of an individual, and its probing of the individual's psychological interaction with the empirical world, making that world representative even as it is referential. It is exactly these characteristics most original, prominent, and subsequently imitated in Defoe's fiction that define the form we call "novel."
Author : Margaret M. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847143091
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Index of English Literary Manuscripts written by Margaret M. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven authors are included in this final part of Volume III of the Index, beginning with Laurence Sterne and concluding with Edward Young. It also includes the final cumulative first-line index of all the verse which is described in the manuscript entries or mentioned in the Introductions in Parts 1-4 of Volume III.
Author : George Peabody Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristof Smeyers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526177226
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Supernatural bodies written by Kristof Smeyers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on one phenomenon that became hotly contested and discussed in the public sphere between 1840 and 1940: the stigmata. In 1874, an Irish reporter asked why the wounds of the crucified Christ on mortal bodies could ‘not be discussed with calmness... without indulging in angry rhetoric’. Supernatural bodies takes that question seriously. It draws on previously unexamined archival materials to place supernatural bodies at the heart of long-lasting discussions about the position of Roman Catholicism in society; the supernatural in modern Christianity and society; the authority of sciences; the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and between Britain and the Continent. Through the lens of stigmata controversies, this book shows how these discussions could converge around supernatural bodies.
Author : Adam Budd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191019666
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Circulating Enlightenment written by Adam Budd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the intellectual and literary culture of the Enlightenment have recognised the importance of Andrew Millar (1705-68). His publisher's imprint adorned the title-pages of the most important works of the eighteenth century, in fiction, poetry, drama, medicine, and philosophy. This is the first extended study of Millar's commercial and social role in the commissioning, production, circulation, and consumption of Enlightenment literature in Britain. Providing a new intervention on the culture of Enlightenment this study shows how and why Millar provoked major controversies through his role as friend, patron, and publisher to great rivals in the republic of letters. An unprecedent analysis of publishing and authorship at the intersection of politics, business, visual arts, moral debate, and literary self-fashioning, this study of Andrew Millar also shows the degree to which Scottish identity shaped a professional career within London's rise as the cosmopolitan centre of learning and trade at the heart of the British empire. This volume presents hundreds of previously unpublished letters that passed between Millar and his literary network, and includes the 52 letters that passed between Millar and David Hume, the majority of which have been edited for the first time since 1931. This is a major contribution to the material and intellectual worlds that defined the culture of Enlightenment in Britain during the eighteenth century, casting new light in the history of publishing and authorship.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1; 2d ser., v. 7-25; 3rd ser., v. 2- (3rd ser., v. 10 containing members from the foundation of the Society to 1913) etc.
Author : R.C. MacGillivray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401016259
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Restoration Historians and the English Civil War written by R.C. MacGillivray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the histories of the English Civil War or some aspects of it written in England or by Englishmen and Englishwomen or publish ed in England up to 1702, the year of the publication of the first volume of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. By the terms of this definition, Clarendon is himself, of course, one of the historians studied. Clarendon's History is so formidable an achievement that all historians writing about the war before its publication have an air of prematureness. Nevertheless, as I hope the following pages will show, they produced a body of writing which may still be read with interest and profit and which anticipated many of the ideas and attitudes of Clarendon's History. I will even go so far as to say that many readers who have only a limited interest or no in terest in the Civil War are likely to find many of these historians interest ing, should their works come to their attention, for their treatment of the problems of man in society, for their psychological acuteness, and for their style. But while I intend to show their merits, my main concern will be to show how the Civil War appeared to historians, including Clarendon, who wrote within one or two generations after it, that is to say, at a time when it remained part of the experience of people still alive. A word is necessary on terminology.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521890601
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Visions of Politics written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and character of Hobbes's political thought. An indispensable work in its own right, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those methodological theories propounded in Volume I, and as an appositional commentary on the Renaissance values of civic virtue treated in Volume II. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professer Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474
Author : Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers written by Stationers' Company (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Balston
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486808076
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 written by Thomas Balston and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases five decades' worth of magnificent black-and-white illustrations and includes an informative history of the art. Images include scenes of animals and rural life, portraits, episodes from literature, and much more.
Author : Preston T. King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415080811
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hobbes written by Preston T. King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the rich periodical literature on one of the greatest English philosophers. These definitive essays range across Hobbes' work in ethics, metaphysics, law, politics, history, science and religion.
Author : Patricia Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876857
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England written by Patricia Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977. The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area. This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.
