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Book Gainsborough Old Hall

Download or read book Gainsborough Old Hall written by Phillip Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government and Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Robert Lander
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780674357945
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Government and Community written by Jack Robert Lander and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York (whose heraldic symbols were the red and the white rose, respectively) for the throne of England. They were fought in several sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1485, although there was related fighting both before and after this period. They resulted from the social and financial troubles following the Hundred Years' War. The final victory went to a relatively remote Lancastrian claimant, Henry Tudor, who defeated the last Yorkist king Richard III and married Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York to unite the two houses. The House of Tudor subsequently ruled England and Wales for 117 years."--Wikipedia.

Book Gainsborough Through Time

Download or read book Gainsborough Through Time written by Sally Outram and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Gainsborough has changed and developed over the last century.

Book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales  1300 1500  Volume 2  East Anglia  Central England and Wales

Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300 1500 Volume 2 East Anglia Central England and Wales written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of a massive, illustrated survey of the greater houses of medieval England and Wales, first published in 1996.

Book    Our Lincolnshire     Exploring public engagement with heritage

Download or read book Our Lincolnshire Exploring public engagement with heritage written by Carenza Lewis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the aims, methods and outcomes of an innovative wide-ranging exploration of public attitudes to heritage, conducted in 2015-16 across Lincolnshire, England’s second-largest county. As policy and practice evolve, this research will remain valuable as a snapshot in time of public engagement with heritage.

Book The English Farmhouse and Cottage

Download or read book The English Farmhouse and Cottage written by M. W. Barley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, The English Farmhouse and Cottage brings together the evidence collected by those who have studied vanished buildings by excavation, and also examined surviving houses with a gentler instrument, the measuring tape. A change is taking place in the attitude towards the old buildings of the countryside. Into the place of the sentimentalist in search of the picturesque and the architect looking for a style have stepped the local historian and the archaeologist. Mr. Barley has built up a picture of the English countryman and his housing needs. He is concerned particularly with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since they were the most formative period in the evolution of the modern house. This book is an essential tool in the hands of those who wish to pursue, whether as tourists or as students, an important and fascinating aspect of the history of Rural England.

Book Homes and Haunts of the Pilgrim Fathers

Download or read book Homes and Haunts of the Pilgrim Fathers written by Alexander MacKennal and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales  1300   1500  Volume 3  Southern England

Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300 1500 Volume 3 Southern England written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.

Book The Congregationalist and Christian World

Download or read book The Congregationalist and Christian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincolnshire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300096200
  • Pages : 956 pages

Download or read book Lincolnshire written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincolnshire is incredibly rich in medieval churches from Saxon times onwards, many of them still little known. Lincoln Cathedral is justly famous, and second only to Durham in the grandeur of its setting. The prosperous years from the Middle Ages though to the eighteenth century have left a splendid legacy in the great town churches of Boston and Louth, in the innumerable village churches of the south of the county, the delightful manor houses (such as Tennyson's Somersby) and the Georgian town houses and coaching inns of Boston and Grantham, of Lincoln and Louth, and above all of Stamford. Monuments to industry include the vast maltings at Sleaford, the soaring dock tower of Grimsby, and an abundance of windmills.

Book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England written by J. Leeds Barroll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.

Book A Guide to Medieval Gardens

Download or read book A Guide to Medieval Gardens written by Michael Brown and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating account of formal gardens during the middle ages,” including plants and their uses, features, tools, cultivation techniques, and more (Books Monthly). Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corner of a castle. Recent research has shown that the gardens were larger than we previously believed. This book contains information and pictures that have not been generally available before, including the theory and practice of medieval horticulture. Many features of later gardens were already a part of medieval gardens. The number of plants was limited, but was still no less than many modern gardeners use in their own gardens today. Yet medieval gardens were imbued with meaning. Whether secular or religious, the additional dimension of symbolism, gave a greater depth to medieval gardens, which is lacking in most modern ones. This book will be of interest to those who know little about medieval gardens and to those with more knowledge. It contains some of the vast amount of research that the author carried out to create the medieval gardens at the Prebendal Manor, Nassington, Northamptonshire. The author has tried to use previously unused sources and included his own practical experience of medieval gardening methods that he carried out to maintain the gardens. “Beautifully illustrated . . . a fascinating read for the armchair gardener as well as the more practical variety . . . The author draws on a wide range of sources: herbals, animal management, medieval manuals, illuminated manuscripts, account books, poems, paintings, and tapestries.” —The Ricardian Bulletin

Book Katherine Parr

    Book Details:
  • Author : Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England)
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-06-30
  • ISBN : 0226647242
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Katherine Parr written by Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England. For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.

Book Mediaeval Leicester

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles James Billson
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Mediaeval Leicester written by Charles James Billson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface, the author concedes that he is using a loose definition of the word 'medieval' because his research covers some time both before and after the strict definition. The book is divided into chapters of information about places, and then people and stories. There is a final chapter about the destruction of the medieval city.

Book Kateryn Parr

Download or read book Kateryn Parr written by Laura Adkins and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katheryn Parr is mainly remembered today as being the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the one who ‘survived’. Katheryn was not only a wife but a queen, mother, reformer, and author. Katheryn would face a number of events in her lifetime including being held to ransom during the Pilgrimage of Grace, being placed as regent while Henry was in France, a role which only one of his five previous wives held, her namesake Katherine of Aragon, and overcame a plot which would have led to her arrest and execution. While Queen she was able to unite the Tudor family and establish some form of happiness for Henry VIII’s three children. Raised by her mother Maud Parr, under a humanist education, Katheryn was intelligent enough to understand her role in life and was not afraid to do her research. Although raised a Catholic, Katheryn became a reformer and went on to write a number of religious texts, being the first female in England to ever have a book published under her own name. She was loyal not only to her family but her servants and the women of her court. She loved her stepchildren and provided them with a mother's love and a role model which her stepdaughters could learn from. Her views on what was expected of her placed her into an open conflict with her brother-in-law Edward Seymour and his wife Anne. This book explores the various roles she had in her lifetime and the passion and duty she put into them, even if it meant putting others first. It will explore her love for Thomas Seymour and how it blindsided her and led to a sad end of her life, and the book will finally look at her legacy - the influence she had on Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Book Inspiring Journeys of Pilgrim Mothers

Download or read book Inspiring Journeys of Pilgrim Mothers written by Jane Noble Knight and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspiring Journeys of Pilgrim Mothers shares and celebrates the uplifting stories of nine Pilgrim Mothers Jane met on her personal pilgrimage: women founding a New World; women with mighty missions; courageous in the face of adversity; mindful of their families; adding value to their communities; and leaving lasting legacies.

Book Late Medieval Lodging Ranges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Kerr
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN : 1783277572
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Late Medieval Lodging Ranges written by Sarah Kerr and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on their contributions to the lived experience of the household and wider society. Why were lodging ranges built, for example, and how were they used? It is this gap in our knowledge which the present book aims to fill. It draws on archaeological and architectural analysis of lodging ranges to show that they were some of the finest living spaces within the great house, built as accommodation for high-ranking members of the household. Their low-, even single-, occupancy rooms, accessible via individual doors, were innovatory, showing how the idea of privacy developed. The explicit displays of uniformity upon the lodging ranges' symmetrical facades were juxtaposed with variations within. Surviving lodging ranges (including Wingfield Manor, Middleham Castle and Dartington Hall) are examined, alongside the lost example of Caister Castle, demonstrating how lodging ranges simultaneously reflected and shaped medieval life; the author argues that their very form and stones, and their manipulation of space, enabled them to have multi-faceted functions, including the representation of multiple and even conflicting identities.