Download or read book Daily Life during the Reformation written by James M. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad exploration captures the lives of ordinary people during the turbulent period that transformed early Modern Europe. Organized thematically, Daily Life during the Reformation covers the hectic and tumultuous years between 1517 and 1648, allowing readers to discover what it was like for ordinary people during this critical period and to compare events and living conditions in early Modern Europe with those of today. With the help of eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on the lives of the people, the conditions in which they lived and died, their roles in the unfolding events of the Reformation, and the Reformation's effects on them. Leading protagonists are described, as are their beliefs and the impact of those beliefs on the population in general and in particular cases. The book also explores, for example, the medical practice of the time, which, while not considered black magic, was close to it.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-12-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Daily Life in Holland in the Year 1566 written by Rien Poortvliet and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid illustrations of famed Dutch artist and naturalist Rien Poortvliet are admired all over the world. His warm and imaginative portrayals and stories of people, animals, or such fantastic creatures as gnomes are loved by readers of all generations. His countless fans will be enchanted by this intriguing new book, Daily Life in Holland in the Year 1566, And the Story of My Ancestor's Treasure Chest. To create this latest gem, Poortvliet found inspiration in the rich legacy of Dutch landscape and genre painting traditions and in his own Dutch heritage as well. He became intrigued by a document dating from the year 1566 that revealed the existence of an armoire owned by his distant ancestor, Jacob Jansz Poortvliet. That armoire led Rien Poortvliet to come upon something valuable indeed - a treasure trove of insights into the world of his ancestor. Characteristically evocative, the words and images in Daily Life in Holland are rich in detail and delicate in coloration, and perhaps the most beautiful of any of Poortvliet's works to date. In this fascinating saga, he recreates the lives of his forebears as they toiled and celebrated their way through daily existence. He does not conjure up a romantic vision of the past - the Dutch countryside was not all tulips and windmills! There were adversity and hard work, and we learn that 1566 was an extraordinary year in Holland, marked by famine and plague, great freezes, floods and droughts, comets and earthquakes, and an invasion by the Spanish as well. Poortvliet's colorful account unfolds before us to reveal how ordinary men, women, and children lived: what kinds of clothes they wore, what their houses were like, what they are and how theycooked. How did they celebrate Christmas? What did the people do for a living and what kind of money did they have? What did a girl's engagement ring look like? How many different kinds of swords and firearms did they have? Exploring his own roots, Poortvliet captures the beauty of everyday life and livelihood in turbulent sixteenth-century Holland. Rien Poortvliet is recognized as the greatest living Dutch artist. He first won acclaim in this country when Abram's Gnomes and Secrets of the Gnomes (text by Wil Huygen) became best-sellers. His other Abrams books - Dutch Treat, The Living Forest, The Farm Book, Dogs, The Book of the Sandman, In My Grandfather's House, and Noah's Ark - have also won a devoted following. His works are popular as well in Australian, Canadian, Danish, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yugoslavian editions.
Download or read book Dutch Treat written by Rien Poortvliet and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luckily for everyone, the famous artist Rien Poortvliet, who from his pastoral retreat in Holland has charmed millions with his books Gnomes, The Living Forest, and The Farm Book, felt the urge to make another book. Almost before he knew it, he was setting down on paper, with pencil and brush, the myriad thoughts, memories, observations, and comments that flowed into his mind. Here, in his own words and in his inimitable sketches and paintings, is the story of the artist's life, by turns matter-of-fact and sentimental, serious and comic. Here are is family (the grownups and the babies), his friends (human and animal), and the people of the village--as well as persons vividly remembered from the past. Some of Poortvliet's keenest recollections are of World War II: holding on to his mother's hand as they watched the bombing of Rotterdam in the distance; being bored but grateful for endless meals of mashed carrots, onions, and potatoes during the starvation winter; feeling horror at the sight of angry mobs painting red swastikas on the shaved heads of the camp followers of the German troops. Poortvliet's spontaneous evocations of the varied aspects of the Netherlands--through his superb drawings and paintings and his sensitive running comment--give the reader a strong sense of the land and its inhabitants. His depictions of people in their customary daily pursuits and of woodland animals in their natural settings alike arouse profound admiration. Dutch Treat is pervaded by a sense of the beauty of nature and its creatures and leavened by Poortvliet's gentle but irrepressible humor. No one will be able to resist it. -- Inside jacket flap.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Finance written by Irene Finel-Honigman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns of enthusiasm, greed, culpability, revulsion, reform and recovery. The book explores the political and socio-economic factors which determine fallibility and resilience in financial cultures, periods of crisis, transition and recovery based on cyclical rather than linear progression. Examining the roots of financial capitalism, in Europe and the United States and its corollary development in Asia, Russia and emerging markets proves that cultural and psychosocial reactions to financial success, endeavor and calamity transcend specific periods or events. The book allows the reader to discover parallel and intersecting reactions, controversies and resolutions in the cultural history of financial markets and institutions.
Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic Complete 1566 74 written by John Lothrop Motley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)" by John Lothrop Motley John Lothrop Motley was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands. Using his career abroad, he was able to pen this history which narrates how this small European country grew to become a powerful force in trade. As his most important work, it's still used to this day as a comprehensive text for Dutch history.
Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by Richard Henry Greene and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De Halve Maen written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey to the Ice Age written by Rien Poortvliet and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Dutch painter and illustrator of the enormously successful Gnomes takes readers back hundreds of thousands of years to the Ice Age. Through more than 220 pages of full-color illustrations and incisive text, Rien Poortvliet presents an up-close look at real and imaginary Ice Age animals.
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book He Was One of Us written by Rien Poortvliet and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic a History by John Lothrop Motley written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Citadel and the Lamb Seekers Book 3 written by Ethel Herr and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling Historical Fiction from the 16th-Century Reformation In this third story, the Dutch revolt against the occupation and religious oppression of Spain moves into full engagement. Pieter-Lucas van den Garde continues to run messages for Willem of Orange. In the midst of the uncertainties of war, his wife Aletta gives birth to their second child. Then Aletta discovers that the baby girl has a deformity. Concerned for the safety of his family, Pieter takes them to the fortified city of Leyden, where he had once dreamed of studying art under its master artists. In Leyden, the only painter Pieter-Lucas finds is Joris, an innkeeper who for fear of persecution will not admit to being a painter of that his true identity is Jewish. But Joris' son's gift as an artist exposes them to danger, and his wife's discovery of a true Christian faith is very disturbing to him. When the Spaniards lay siege to Leyden, all their lives are in danger and intertwined, and Pieter-Lucas' arrest as a spy pushed Aletta's fears to the overwhelming point. In the blackest night, will faith prove to be a citadel stronger than the sword.
Download or read book The Ryerse Ryerson Family 1574 1994 written by Phyllis Ryerse and published by Ingersoll, Ont. : Ryerse-Ryerson Family Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marten Reijersen was baptised as Marten Reijersz in 1637 at Amsterdam, the son of Reijer Reijersz (b. ca. 1604). He immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1646 and settled at Breuckelen (Brooklyn, New York). He married Annetie Joris in 1663. They had eleven children, 1664-1685. His grandson, Lucas Reyerse (1704-1764), migrated to a valley along the Pequannock River, with his family as a young boy. He married Elizabeth Howell, daughter of Capt. Daniel Howell, in 1736. They had five children, 1738-1745, born at Pequannock and Readington, New Jersey. After her death he married 2) Susanna Vaner der Linden (1712-1747). They had a child in 1747 who died as an infant. He married 3) Johanna Van Der Hoff in 1750 in New Jersey. They had seven children, 1752-1761. His two sons, Samuel Ryerse (1752-1812) and Joseph Ryerson (1761-1854) were American Loyalists and after the Revolutionary War settled in Norfolk County, Ontario. Their descendants lived in Ontario, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of the Netherlands written by James C. Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.
Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic written by Motley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
