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Book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors  School  1561 1961

Download or read book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors School 1561 1961 written by Frederick William Marsden Draper and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors  School  1561 1961

Download or read book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors School 1561 1961 written by F. W. M. Draper and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors  School

Download or read book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors School written by F. W. M. Draper and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Merchant Taylors  Company

Download or read book The History of the Merchant Taylors Company written by Matthew Davies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book will also focus on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book will contribute to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty colour illustrations.

Book Merchant Taylors  School  Founded A D  1561

Download or read book Merchant Taylors School Founded A D 1561 written by Merchant Taylors' School and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchant Taylors  School  Founded A D  1561

Download or read book Merchant Taylors School Founded A D 1561 written by Merchant Taylors' School (London) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Colet

    Book Details:
  • Author : John B. Gleason
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520337891
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book John Colet written by John B. Gleason and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Book History of Universities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mordechai Feingold
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2006-10-12
  • ISBN : 0199206856
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XXI/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Book Edmund Spenser

Download or read book Edmund Spenser written by Andrew Hadfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 3216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'-- a man on the make who aspired to be at court and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted. In his vibrant and vivid book, the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great - Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I and James VI? Why was he more at home with 'the middling sort' -- writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen -- than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work? Spenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory relationship between his between life and his art.

Book Samuel Palmer Revisited

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Shaw-Miller
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351550152
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Samuel Palmer Revisited written by Simon Shaw-Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varied and deliberately diverse, this group of essays provides a reassessment of the life and work of the popular nineteenth-century artist Samuel Palmer. While scholarly publications have been published recently which reassess Palmer's achievement, those works primarily consider the artist in isolation. This volume examines his work in relation to a wider art world and analyses areas of his life and output that have until now received little attention, reinstating the study of Palmer's work within broader debates about landscape and cultural history. In Samuel Palmer Revisited, the contributors provide a fresh perspective on Palmer's work, its context and its influence.

Book Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

Download or read book Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

Book Rubens  A Portrait

Download or read book Rubens A Portrait written by Paul Oppenheimer and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.

Book Staged Normality in Shakespeare s England

Download or read book Staged Normality in Shakespeare s England written by Rory Loughnane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted. It draws together leading and emerging scholars of early modern theatre and culture to debate the meaning of normality in an early modern context and to discuss how it might transfer to the stage. In doing so, these original critical essays unsettle and challenge scholarly assumptions about how normality is represented in the performance space. The volume, which responds to studies of the everyday and the material turn in cultural history, as well as to broader philosophical engagements with the idea of normality and its opposites, brings to light the essential role that normality plays in the composition and performance of early modern drama.

Book The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare s London  1576 1642

Download or read book The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare s London 1576 1642 written by Ann Jennalie Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Hidden Designs  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Hidden Designs Routledge Revivals written by Jonathan Crewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism. Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under ‘suspicion’ as Crewe explores the elements of ‘criminality’ inherent in the powerful interests –personal, institutional, political and cultural – served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it. Revisionary readings of Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham and Shakespeare are linked by a continuing commentary on the history and theoretical claims of Renaissance criticism.

Book Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

Download or read book Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages written by Tanya Pollard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.

Book Mr Midshipman VC

    Book Details:
  • Author : Quentin Falk
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2018-10-30
  • ISBN : 1526726254
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Mr Midshipman VC written by Quentin Falk and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry.At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nations premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In so doing he was badly wounded.Accident-prone, he survived falling into a bog as a child; he was knocked over by a car; as a novice merchantman he fell from the mast of his ship and on another occasion was shipwrecked after rounding Cape Horn and stranded on a deserted island.Tragically he died at Scapa Flow shortly before the end of The Great War, while in command of his first ship.Using contemporary sources, the author brings Drewrys life into sharp focus and describes the role of Snotty as midshipmen were then known. The result will appeal to addicts of real-life adventure and military historians