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Author : Spalding Gentlemen's Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Minute-books of The Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755 written by Spalding Gentlemen's Society and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Spalding Gentlemen's Society
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0901503878
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761 written by Spalding Gentlemen's Society and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time.
Author : Dorothy M. Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901503497
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755 written by Dorothy M. Owen and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile of record of matters and items discussed by this society, modelled on the meetings of the Royal Society.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542164
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800 written by Peter Clark and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.
Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248687
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Country House Library written by Mark Purcell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits. For those who love books and the libraries in which they are collected and stored, The Country House Library is an essential volume to own.
Author : Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108905013
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900 written by Jon Mee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700–1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.
Author : Charles King
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385548273
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Every Valley written by Charles King and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah "A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World "A book of power and glory, brimming with emotion and dazzling in its reach."—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra and The Revolutionary George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras, as well as by audiences singing along with the words on their cell phones. But this work of triumphant joy was born in a worried age. Britain in the early Enlightenment was a place of astonishing creativity but also the seat of an empire mired in war, enslavement, and conflicts over everything from the legitimacy of government to the meaning of truth. Against this turbulent background, prize-winning author Charles King has crafted a cinematic drama of the troubled lives that shaped a masterpiece of hope. Every Valley presents a depressive dissenter stirred to action by an ancient prophecy; an actress plagued by an abusive husband and public scorn; an Atlantic sea captain and penniless philanthropist; and an African Muslim man held captive in the American colonies and hatching a dangerous plan for getting back home. At center stage is Handel himself, composer to kings but, at midlife, in ill health and straining to keep an audience’s attention. Set amid royal intrigue, theater scandals, and political conspiracy, Every Valley is entertaining, inspiring, unforgettable.
Author : David J. Ibbetson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483062
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book English Legal History and its Sources written by David J. Ibbetson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Festschrift in honour of Professor Sir John Baker, presented by leading scholars on the sources of English legal history.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Small Towns in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the great wave of publications on European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period, little has been written about the thousands of small towns which played a key role in the economic, social and cultural life of early modern Europe. This collection, written by leading experts, redresses that imbalance. It provides the first comparative overview of European small towns from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, examining their position in the urban hierarchy, demographic structures, economic trends, relations with the countryside, and political and cultural developments. Case studies discuss networks in all the major European countries, as well as looking at the distinctive world of small towns in the more 'peripheral' countries of Scandinavia and central Europe. A wide-ranging editorial introduction puts individual chapters in historical perspective.
Author : Michael J. Franklin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851153841
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies written by Michael J. Franklin and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1995 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history, focusing particularly on administration.
Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198206699
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in instilling civic pride and shaping a sense of community, but also in informing contests for power and influence in the local community.
Author : Ana Simões
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735840
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Travels of Learning written by Ana Simões and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological traveling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise. It is of interest to scholars and students of history and philosophy of science and technology, cultural and social history, science, technology and society studies.
Author : Matthew Craske
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Silent Rhetoric of the Body written by Matthew Craske and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.
Author : J. Arianne Baggerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004195009
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Controlling Time and Shaping the Self written by J. Arianne Baggerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives answers to questions surrounding the rise of autobiographical writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by analyzing texts varying from the time of the Spanish Inquisi tion to post-war Japan.
Author : Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004692304
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Eleusis and Enlightenment written by Ferdinand Saumarez Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.
Author : Bernard Lightman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118620747
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the History of Science written by Bernard Lightman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field
Author : Adam Daubney
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445658127
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book 50 Finds From Lincolnshire written by Adam Daubney and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores 50 of Lincolnshire's most fascinating finds.
