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Book The Knight and the Umbrella

Download or read book The Knight and the Umbrella written by Ian Anstruther and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton

Download or read book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton written by James Aikman and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton

Download or read book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton written by W Gordon and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic account of a celebrated tournament held at Eglinton Castle in Scotland in the mid-19th century provides an illuminating glimpse into the customs and pageantry of the era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Eglinton Tournament

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Richardson
  • Publisher : Royal Armouries
  • Release : 2017-09
  • ISBN : 9780948092640
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Eglinton Tournament written by John Richardson and published by Royal Armouries. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eglinton Tournament, held in August 1839, was intended to be the most magnificent and glorious expression of the nineteenth-century revival of chivalry. Archibald William Montgomerie, the 13th Earl of Eglinton, spared no expense in transforming his castle and grounds for the event. Eglinton's guests dressed in the finest costumes, and the event captured the public imagination with nearly 100,000 tickets issued. Of all the volumes published to commemorate the tournament, the most magnificent was a set of prints published by the fine art dealers, Colnaghi and Puckle, from original illustrations made on the spot by the artist James Henry Nixon. The colour version is reproduced in full here, with an introduction by Karen Watts.

Book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton

Download or read book An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton written by W. Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton: Revised and Corrected by Several of the Knights; Illustrated by Representations of the Various Scenes, From Sketches Taken on the Spot Introduction Origin of Chivalry; Traces of it among the Germanic Tribes in the Forest; among the Nations which overturned the Roman Empire its Character, a Military Institution, combined with Religion; Training of Knights; Pages, their Education, curious instance Squires, their high spirit Quintaine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

Download or read book The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

Book A List of Works Relating to Scotland

Download or read book A List of Works Relating to Scotland written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eglinton Tournament and Gentleman Unmasked

Download or read book Eglinton Tournament and Gentleman Unmasked written by Peter Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatrical Costume  Masks  Make Up and Wigs

Download or read book Theatrical Costume Masks Make Up and Wigs written by Sidney Jackson Jowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.

Book Wargames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin van Creveld
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-04
  • ISBN : 110735563X
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Wargames written by Martin van Creveld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did wargames come from? Who participated in them, and why? How is their development related to changes in real-life warfare? Which aspects of war did they capture, which ones did they leave out, how, and why? What do they tell us about the conduct of war in the times and places where they were played? How useful are they in training and preparation for war? Why are some so much more popular than others, and how do men and women differ in their interest? Starting with the combat of David versus Goliath, passing through the gladiatorial games, tournaments, trials by battle, duels, and board games such as chess, all the way to the latest simulations and computer games, this unique book traces the subject in all its splendid richness. As it does so, it provides new and occasionally surprising insights into human nature.

Book Performing the Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karin Tilmans
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9089642056
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Performing the Past written by Karin Tilmans and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --

Book Medievalism in Technology Old and New

Download or read book Medievalism in Technology Old and New written by Karl Fugelso and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to today's computer games. As medievalism is refracted through new media, it is often radically transformed. Yet it inevitably retains at least some common denominators with more traditional responses to the middle ages. This latest volume of Studies inMedievalism explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games, examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging from the sovereign ethics of empire in Star Wars to gender identity in on-line role playing. Medievalism in more conventional venues is also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of medievalism. CONTRIBUTORS: ALICIA C. MONTOYA, ALBERT D. PIONKE, GRETCHENKREAHLING MCKAY, CHENE HEADY, BRUCE C. BRASINGTON, STEFANO MENGOZZI, CAROL L. ROBINSON, OLIVER M. TRAXEL, AMY S. KAUFMAN, BRENT MOBERLY, KEVIN MOBERLY, LAURYN S. MAYER

Book Artist of Wonderland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frankie Morris
  • Publisher : Lutterworth Press
  • Release : 2023-03-30
  • ISBN : 0718847857
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Artist of Wonderland written by Frankie Morris and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books. In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and his fifty years with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. Tenniel's countrymen thought his work would embody for future historians the 'trend and character' of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled. The biography is followed by three sections on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures. Morris also demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day, from the Eastern Question to Lincoln and the American Civil War, examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist who mythologized the world for generations of Britons.

Book Cosplay  A History

Download or read book Cosplay A History written by Andrew Liptak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at the colorful and complex history of cosplay and fandom fashion examines the relationship between franchises and the cosplayers they inspire and the technology that helps bring the details of costumes to life.

Book Publications of the Scottish History Society

Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: