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Book Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book Catalogue of the Library

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  • Author : Hispanic Society of America Library
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  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Hispanic Society of America Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club written by Reform Club (London, England). Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tudor Placemen and Statesmen

Download or read book Tudor Placemen and Statesmen written by Narasingha Prosad Sil and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation thus seeks to examine the theory of the Tudor revolution in government advanced by the late Sir Geoffrey Elton and in so doing helps to highlight the human and personal dimensions of institutional history. An outcome of this changed perspective is that the privy chamber acquires a higher profile (following David Starkey's path-breaking revisionist research) than the privy council (as postulated by Elton) in the remarkable "revolutionary" decades of the sixteenth century.".

Book The Material Letter in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Material Letter in Early Modern England written by J. Daybell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.

Book Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office  State papers and departmental records

Download or read book Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office State papers and departmental records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth  1558   1582

Download or read book The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth 1558 1582 written by Stephen Hamrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Hamrick demonstrates how poets writing in the first part of Elizabeth I's reign proved instrumental in transferring Catholic worldviews and paradigms to the cults and early anti-cults of Elizabeth. Stephen Hamrick provides a detailed analysis of poets who used Petrarchan poetry to transform many forms of Catholic piety, ranging from confession and transubstantiation to sacred scriptures and liturgical singing, into a multivocal discourse used to fashion, refashion, and contest strategic political, religious, and courtly identities for the Queen and for other Court patrons. These poets, writers previously overlooked in many studies of Tudor culture, include Barnabe Googe, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Watson. Stephen Hamrick here shows that the nature of the religious reformations in Tudor England provided the necessary contexts required for Petrarchanism to achieve its cultural centrality and artistic complexity. This study makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the complex interaction among Catholicism, Petrachanism, and the second English Reformation.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society written by Law Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of Gifts

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  • Author : Felicity Heal
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  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199542953
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Power of Gifts written by Felicity Heal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies.

Book List of Recent Additions to the Library of the Long Island Historical Society  Being an Appendix to the Report of the Directors  Presented May 10  1881

Download or read book List of Recent Additions to the Library of the Long Island Historical Society Being an Appendix to the Report of the Directors Presented May 10 1881 written by Long Island Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Queen s Bed

Download or read book The Queen s Bed written by Anna Whitelock and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the private world of a beloved English queen, a story of intimacy, royalty, espionage, rumor, and subterfuge Queen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the favored women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels, and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public concern. Her bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body beneath the makeup and raiment, as well as to rumored dalliances with such figures as Earl Robert Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of assassination plots and other Catholic stratagems. Such was the significance of the queen's body: it represented the very British state itself. In The Queen's Bed, the historian Anna Whitelock offers a revealing look at the Elizabethan court and the politics of intimacy. She dramatically reconstructs, for the first time, the queen's quarters and the women who patrolled them. It is a story of sex, gossip, conspiracy, and intrigue brought to life amid the colors, textures, smells, and routines of the royal court. The women who attended the queen held the truth about her health, chastity, and fertility. They were her friends, confidantes, and spies—nobody knew her better. And until now, historians have overlooked them. The Queen's Bed is a revelatory, insightful look into their daily lives—the untold story of the queen laid bare.

Book Catalogue of the Leeds Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Leeds Library written by Leeds Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magna Carta Ancestry  A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families  2nd Edition  2011

Download or read book Magna Carta Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families 2nd Edition 2011 written by and published by Douglas Richardson. This book was released on with total page 2635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Lord Burghley to Sir Robert Cecil  1593   8

Download or read book Letters of Lord Burghley to Sir Robert Cecil 1593 8 written by William Acres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 128 of William Cecil, Lord Burghley's letters to his son Sir Robert Cecil, 1593-8.

Book Calendar of Letters  Despatches  and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations Between England and Spain Preserved in the Archives at Simancas and Elsewhere  Henry VIII  1509  1546  12 v

Download or read book Calendar of Letters Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations Between England and Spain Preserved in the Archives at Simancas and Elsewhere Henry VIII 1509 1546 12 v written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray s Inn

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray s Inn written by Gray's Inn. Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: