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Book Diary of Thomas Burton

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of Thomas Burton  1

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton 1 written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DIARY OF THOMAS BURTON ESQ MEM

Download or read book DIARY OF THOMAS BURTON ESQ MEM written by Thomas Fl 1656-1659 Burton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 Diary  of Thomas Burton  Esq  Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 59

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton Esq Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 59 written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainly a record of the proceedings in Parliament.

Book Diary Of Thomas Burton  Esq  Member In The Parliaments Of Oliver And Richard Cromwell  From 1656 To 1659  Now First Published From The Original Autograph Manuscript   With An Introduction  Containing An Account Of The Parliament Of 1654  From The Journal Of Guibon Goddard  Esq  M  P  Also Now First Printed   Edited And Illustrated With Notes Historical And Biographical By John Towill Rutt   In Four Volumes

Download or read book Diary Of Thomas Burton Esq Member In The Parliaments Of Oliver And Richard Cromwell From 1656 To 1659 Now First Published From The Original Autograph Manuscript With An Introduction Containing An Account Of The Parliament Of 1654 From The Journal Of Guibon Goddard Esq M P Also Now First Printed Edited And Illustrated With Notes Historical And Biographical By John Towill Rutt In Four Volumes written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of Thomas Burton Esq  Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 1659  Now First Published from the Original Ms

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton Esq Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 1659 Now First Published from the Original Ms written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of Thomas Burton  Esq  Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell  From 1656 to 1659

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton Esq Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell From 1656 to 1659 written by John Towill Rutt and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, From 1656 to 1659: Now First Published From the Original Autograph Manuscript, Vol. 1 of 4: With an Introduction, Containing an Account of the Parliament of 1654; From the Journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq. M. P. Also Now First Printed The period of English history, from the opening of the Long Parliament to the Restoration, has been justly regarded as the most eventful and interesting which had occurred during the century. It was distinguished by the patriotic deeds of men, whom knowledge, energy, and discretion, had eminently qualified to dispute the claims of the crown, to an unlimited and irresponsible authority. 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 Treacherous Faith

Download or read book Treacherous Faith written by David Loewenstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious fear-mongering and demonizing. It illuminates the terrors and anxieties early modern writers articulated and the fantasies they constructed about pernicious heretics and pestilent heresies in response to the Reformation's shattering of Western Christendom. Treacherous Faith analyzes early modern writers who contributed to cultural fears about the contagion of heresy and engaged in the making of heretics, as well as writers who challenged the constructions of heretics and the culture of religious fear-mongering. The responses of early modern writers in English to the specter of heresy and the making of heretics were varied, complex, and contradictory, depending on their religious and political alignments. Some writers (for example, Thomas More, Richard Bancroft, and Thomas Edwards) used their rhetorical resourcefulness and inventiveness to contribute to the politics of heresy-making and the specter of cunning, diabolical heretics ravaging the Church, the state, and thousands of souls; others (for example, John Foxe) questioned within certain cultural limitations heresy-making processes and the violence and savagery that religious demonizing provoked; and some writers (for example, Anne Askew, John Milton, and William Walwyn) interrogated with great daring and inventiveness the politics of religious demonizing, heresy-making, and the cultural constructions of heretics. Treacherous Faith examines the complexities and paradoxes of the heresy-making imagination in early modern England: the dark fantasies, anxieties, terrors, and violence it was capable of generating, but also the ways the dreaded specter of heresy could stimulate the literary creativity of early modern authors engaging with it from diverse religious and political perspectives. Treacherous Faith is a major interdisciplinary study of the ways the literary imagination, religious fears, and demonizing interacted in the early modern world. This study of the early modern specter of heresy contributes to work in the humanities seeking to illuminate the changing dynamics of religious fear, the rhetoric of religious demonization, and the powerful ways the literary imagination represents and constructs religious difference.

Book Diary of Thomas Burton  2

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton 2 written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Richard Burton Diaries

Download or read book The Richard Burton Diaries written by Richard Burton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years—from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death—and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions. From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights—among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee—he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.

Book Cromwell s Major Generals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Durston
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2001-07-06
  • ISBN : 9780719060656
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Cromwell s Major Generals written by Christopher Durston and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Durston's full-scale study ambitiously documents the history behind what remains today, a powerful symbol of military rule. He explores the motivations behind the decisions to appoint the major-generals, looking at their careers and personalities. Durston pays particular attention to the collection of the decimation tax, the attempt to improve the security of the regime, and the struggle to build a godly nation. He concludes with an investigation of the 1656 election and the major-generals' subsequent fall from power.

Book Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency

Download or read book Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency written by Ben Lowe and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the nation’s early presidents. The framers of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many expectations. Here, leading scholars of the early republic examine principles from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish a range of duties to make the office functional within a governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations required to succeed. As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process. Contributors: Claire Rydell Arcenas | Lindsay M. Chervinsky | François Furstenberg | Jonathan Gienapp | Daniel J. Hulsebosch | Ben Lowe | Max Skjönsberg | Eric Slauter | Caroline Winterer | Blair Worden | Rosemarie Zagarri A volume in the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American Presidency

Book Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650 1700

Download or read book Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650 1700 written by Trevor Cliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latter half of the seventeenth century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval. Even non-conformist ministers were inclined to be pessimistic about the endurance of `godliness' - Puritan attitudes and practices - among the upper classes. Based on a study of family papers and other primary resources, Trevor Cliffe's study reveals that in many cases, Puritan county families were playing a double game: outwardly in communion with the Church, they often employed non-conformist chaplains, and attended nonconformist meetings.

Book Providence Lost

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  • Author : Paul Lay
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-01-09
  • ISBN : 178185257X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Providence Lost written by Paul Lay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-Generals – bureaucrats with a penchant for closing alehouses – backfires spectacularly. Sectarianism and fundamentalism run riot. Radicals and royalists join together in conspiracy. The only way out seems to be a return to a Parliament presided over by a king. But will Cromwell accept the crown? Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government: he brings the febrile world of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to life, providing vivid portraits of the extraordinary individuals who inhabited it and capturing its dissonant cacophony of political and religious voices. ***************** Reviews: 'Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade' John Adamson, The Times. 'Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence' Jessie Childs, Guardian.

Book Republicanism  Liberty  and Commercial Society  1649 1776

Download or read book Republicanism Liberty and Commercial Society 1649 1776 written by David Wootton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the Netherlands, and Venice.

Book The Cromwellian Protectorate

Download or read book The Cromwellian Protectorate written by Barry Coward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cromwellian Protectorate examines the nature of the first regime ever to have had effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. Few previous studies of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and his son, Richard, have given sufficient emphasis to its achievements. Instead they have characterized it either as "a military dictatorship" or a reactionary regime that after the revolutionary events of 1649 put Britain on a road that led inevitably to the restoration of the monarchy. This book presents an alternative view of the Cromwellian Protectorate.