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Book Gilbert Sheldon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor D. Sutch
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN : 9401763844
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Gilbert Sheldon written by Victor D. Sutch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of Gilbert Sheldon in seventeenth century history and his influence upon the events of the period have long presented a tantalizing problem. A historian exploring the archives of the time cannot help but be impressed by the ubiquitous appearances of the archbishop. Yet the frequent references too often provide little detail, so that what emerges is a wraith-like picture of the man and a very uncertain account of his activities. As a result it is difficult to know what to think of Sheldon. He has been termed a "Laudian," but Mathew Wren, Laud's loyal assistant and sharer of his imprisonment, was cempletely baffled by the initials "G. Sh." which appeared in a letter sent to him in the early 1650's. Also labeled a staunch Tory and a firm believer in the institution of monarchy, Shelden showed no compunction whatever about lecturing the king on his duties or in boldly epposing the royal wishes when his lectures were ignored. He has been described as a man of "iron character," yet he was invariably soft-spoken and gentle to those in his immediate presence. He is pictured as a ruthless persecutor, but he often offered assistance, material and otherwise, to those who had been his opponents. Supposedly he was avaricious, yet the record suggests that during the Interregnum he impoverished himself to assist needy friends and church acquainƯ tances, seme of whem he barely knew

Book Rochester

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  • Author : Marianne Thormählen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1993-06-25
  • ISBN : 9780521440424
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Rochester written by Marianne Thormählen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.

Book First   120th  report of the deputy keeper of the public records

Download or read book First 120th report of the deputy keeper of the public records written by Public record office and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records

Download or read book Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records

Download or read book Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The     Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records

Download or read book The Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Biographical History of England

Download or read book A Biographical History of England written by James Granger and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parish Magazine

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1870
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book The Parish Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Headington Parish Magazine

Download or read book The Headington Parish Magazine written by St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ship Decoration

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  • Author : Andy Peters
  • Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
  • Release : 2013-10-23
  • ISBN : 1848321767
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Ship Decoration written by Andy Peters and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work _ figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design _ carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and the most prestigious merchant ships, the East Indiamen of the great chartered companies. The work began life in the year 2000 when the author was commissioned to carry out research for an ambitious project to build a full-size replica of a Swedish East Indiaman, which produced a corpus of information whose relevance stretched way beyond the immediate requirements of accurately decorating the replica.??In tracking the artistic influences on European ship decoration, it became clear that this was essentially the story of the baroque style, its dissemination from France, and its gradual transformation into distinct national variations in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. It is an inherently visual subject and the book illustrates developments with numerous photographs of contemporary ship models, paintings and plans, as well as the author's own interpretive illustrations of details.??As the first major work on the topic for nearly a century, it will be of obvious appeal to ship modellers and historians, but with comparative examples drawn from architecture and sculpture, it also makes a broader contribution to the history of the applied arts.

Book The old halls  manors  and families of Derbyshire  by J T

Download or read book The old halls manors and families of Derbyshire by J T written by Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England

Download or read book Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England written by Ole Peter Grell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europe’s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the religious, intellectual, social and economic impact of stranger communities on the rapidly changing nation that was Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Southern England in general, and London in particular, played a unique part in offering refuge to Calvinist exiles for more than a century. For the English government, the attraction of exiles was not so much their Reformed religion and discipline as their economic potential - the exiles were in the main skilled craftsmen and well-connected merchants who could benefit the English economy.

Book History of British Neurology

Download or read book History of British Neurology written by Frank Clifford Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY OF BRITISH NEUROLOGY by F Clifford Rose (Imperial College School of Medicine, UK) Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (16211675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word "neurology" and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London's churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human brain. Developments in our knowledge of the nervous system in the following centuries, and the unique importance of clinical neurology, became globally recognised through the work of Whytt, Heberden, Hughlings Jackson, Gowers and many others. The work and discoveries of these eminent specialists were extended with the introduction of such neurosciences as neurophysiology, neuropathology and neuro-radiology, and this is the first comprehensive account of a battle with the unknown by determined practitioners.