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Book The Spanish Match

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  • Author : Alexander Samson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 1351881655
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Match written by Alexander Samson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1623 Charles, Prince of Wales, the young heir to the English and Scottish thrones donned a false wig and beard and slipped out of England under the assumed name of John Smith in order to journey to Madrid and secure for himself the hand of the King of Spain's daughter. His father James I and VI had been toying with the idea of a Spanish match for his son since as early as 1605, despite the profoundly divisive ramifications such a policy would have in the face of the determined 'Puritan' opposition in parliament, committed to combatting the forces of international Catholicism at every opportunity. With the Spanish ambassador, the machiavellian Count of Gondomar's encouragement to 'mount' Spain, Charles impetuously took matters into his own hands and as the negotiations stalled he departed secretly in the guise of Mr Smith to win with his romantic and foolhardy daring what his father could not achieve through diplomacy. The eventual failure and public humiliation that followed his journey to Madrid has been cited as a major influence on Charles's subsequent development and policies as king. Until now, there has been no attempt to systematically explore the failure of the Spanish match from an interdisciplinary perspective, including what it reveals about the practice of diplomacy, the taste, art, and dress of the period, its literature and the long-term consequences for Anglo-Spanish relations. In this volume leading scholars from a variety of disciplines analyse the reactions and representations of Charles's romantic escapade and offer their insights into the affair. In doing so many traditional assumptions about the trip are overturned. By taking into account the political, social, religious and international dimensions of the event, and examining historical, literary and artistic evidence, this volume paints a rounded, lively and vivid portrait of one of the most remarkable episodes of the Jacobean age.

Book Typographical Antiquities  Or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britan and Ireland     From the Year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC     Considerably Augmented by William Herbert

Download or read book Typographical Antiquities Or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britan and Ireland From the Year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC Considerably Augmented by William Herbert written by Joseph Ames and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Books in English History and Literature from the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book A Catalogue of Books in English History and Literature from the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Typographical Antiquities

Download or read book Typographical Antiquities written by Joseph Ames and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature

Download or read book Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Books in English Literature and History

Download or read book A Catalogue of Books in English Literature and History written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective

Download or read book Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective written by John Considine and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexicology by a team of twelve contributors working in England, continental Europe, and North America. Fredric Dolezal’s opening essay offers a provocative discussion of how the history of English lexicography has been, and might in the future be, written. The next four papers deal with the medieval and early modern periods: Carter Hailey investigates the dictionary evidence for individual lexical creativity in a discussion of Chaucer and the Middle English Dictionary; Gabriele Stein shows how early modern English dictionaries handled lexicological questions rather than simply listing words and equivalents; R. W. McConchie analyzes the biographical record of the lexicographer Richard Howlet, and Paola Tornaghi presents and discusses an unpublished source for the seventeenth-century lexicography of Old English. Three papers on the long eighteenth century follow: Noel Osselton’s is an analysis of the “alphabet fatigue” which led many early lexicographers to treat words at the end of the alphabetical sequence more tersely than words at the beginning; Elisabetta Lonati’s shows the engagement of John Harris’s Lexicon technicum with one of the sources of its medical vocabulary; Charlotte Brewer’s discusses the under-representation of eighteenth-century material in the Oxford English Dictionary. In the last three papers, Julie Coleman provides a groundbreaking analysis of Farmer and Henley’s Slang and its analogues; Peter Gilliver draws on the Oxford English Dictionary archives to tell the story of an important editorial crisis; and Laura Pinnavaia discusses the syntactic flexibility of a set of idioms in a corpus of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose. The volume as a whole offers new discoveries and important analytical and conceptual work, and is an essential text in the developing field of the history of lexicography.

Book Two Centuries of Spanish and English Bilingual Lexicography  1590   1800

Download or read book Two Centuries of Spanish and English Bilingual Lexicography 1590 1800 written by Roger J. Steiner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Investigating Lexis

Download or read book Investigating Lexis written by José Ramón Calvo-Ferrer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical research plays a central role in present-day linguistics. Thanks to its ability to combine the traditional humanistic approach with state-of-the-art linguistic theory, it quickly responds to the demands of a constantly changing society, which requires scholars to provide answers to challenges in the field of translation, language teaching and language use. Furthermore, while still dealing with areas like legal language or dictionaries, the parameters of research have expanded to include previously unforeseeable fields, such as video game terminology, code mixing in pop music or the translation of erotic literature. This book shows how researchers are currently responding to these challenges, with a collection of essays representing various aspects of lexicography, combining cutting-edge research with a user-friendly approach. Divided into four major sections (Lexical Theory and Acquisition; Legal Terminology; Dictionaries; and New Challenges), it proves that lexicology, lexicography and terminology are very much at the forefront of current research trends.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge written by Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of      books

Download or read book A Catalogue of books written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford English Dictionary  1884 1928

Download or read book Oxford English Dictionary 1884 1928 written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antiquary

Download or read book The Antiquary written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medievalia et Humanistica  No  34

Download or read book Medievalia et Humanistica No 34 written by Paul Maurice Clogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Medievalia et Humanistica Editorial Board and Submissions Guidelines

Book The Painter of His Dishonour

Download or read book The Painter of His Dishonour written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Paterson presents Calderon's original text, from manuscript and printed sources, with a skilful verse translation into English of a remarkable play, in which Calderon develops the motif of marital honour in quite original ways.