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Book Christopher Saxton s 16th Century Maps

Download or read book Christopher Saxton s 16th Century Maps written by Christopher Saxton and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christopher Saxton  Elizabethan Map maker

Download or read book Christopher Saxton Elizabethan Map maker written by Ifor M. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Saxton was a surveyor by profession. His major achievement was a survey of English and Welsh counties which he began in 1574 and completed by 1579.

Book Historian s Guide to Early British Maps

Download or read book Historian s Guide to Early British Maps written by Helen Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Book Magnificent Maps

Download or read book Magnificent Maps written by Peter Barber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the British Library, London, April 30-Sept. 19, 2010.

Book Christopher Saxton  Elizabethan Map maker

Download or read book Christopher Saxton Elizabethan Map maker written by Ifor M. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Saxton was a surveyor by profession. His major achievement was a survey of English and Welsh counties which he began in 1574 and completed by 1579.

Book Mapping the Renaissance World

Download or read book Mapping the Renaissance World written by Frank Lestringant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

Book Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland

Download or read book Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland written by B. Klein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.

Book Manors and Maps in Rural England  from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth

Download or read book Manors and Maps in Rural England from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth written by P.D.A. Harvey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. It first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century to the 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, in the village community and in underlying long-term changes. How landlords drew profits from their property in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, how and why there followed changes in the way landed estates were run and in the written records they produced, what new light their personal seals can throw on medieval peasants, are all among the topics discussed, while the local management of large estates and the development of the peasant land market are themes that recur throughout. There follow essays on the way maps were brought into the management of landed estates in the 16th and 17th centuries, starting with the introduction of consistent scale into mapping, a new concept crucially important in the general history of topographical maps. The collection closes by looking at some of the traps that both documents and maps set for the historian of the English countryside.

Book A Companion to British Literature  Volume 2

Download or read book A Companion to British Literature Volume 2 written by Robert DeMaria, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to British Literature, Early Modern Literature, 1450 - 1660

Book Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play

Download or read book Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play written by Ralf Hertel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Book The England of Elizabeth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780299188146
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book The England of Elizabeth written by Alfred Leslie Rowse and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to Shakespeare, Hollywood, and the formidable Elizabeth I herself, Elizabethan England remains a place and time that fascinates us. Modern England still has visible memorials of the Elizabethans--the houses they built, the objects they cherished, the patterns they imposed upon the very landscape. A. L. Rowse's famously vivid portrayal of the Elizabethan world is a detailed account of that society and tradition, from the lowest social class to the men and women who governed the realm. A major new introduction from Christopher Haigh offes both a reflection on Rowse's masterpiece and an assessment of the Elizabethan Age.

Book British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain  1450 1700

Download or read book British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain 1450 1700 written by John Cramsie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain.

Book Bibliotheca Staffordiensis

Download or read book Bibliotheca Staffordiensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publications of the Thoresby Society

Download or read book The Publications of the Thoresby Society written by Thoresby Society and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camden s Britannia  1695

Download or read book Camden s Britannia 1695 written by William Camden and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Geography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book History of Geography written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the evolution of geography as a science with O.J.R. Howarth and Sir John Scott Keltie's book, "History of Geography." This volume provides a comprehensive account of the development of geography from its beginnings, chronicling important milestones such as Greek and Roman cartography, Portuguese expansion, and polar exploration. With chapters on measurement, cartography, and theory, this book provides an in-depth look into the scientific methods and functions of geography.