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Book The Voyage of Sir Robert Dudley  afterwards styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland  to the West Indies  1594 1595

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Robert Dudley afterwards styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland to the West Indies 1594 1595 written by George F. Warner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899.

Book The Voyage of Robert Dudley  Afterwards Styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland  to the West Indies  1594 1595

Download or read book The Voyage of Robert Dudley Afterwards Styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland to the West Indies 1594 1595 written by Sir George Frederic Warner and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love  Lust  and License in Early Modern England

Download or read book Love Lust and License in Early Modern England written by Johanna Rickman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since members of the nobility were not generally brought before the ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction over other citizens' sexual offences, Rickman's sources include collections of family papers (primarily letters), state papers, and literary texts (prescriptive manuals, love sonnets, satirical verse, and prose romances), as well as legal documents. Rickman explores how attitudes towards illicit sex varied greatly throughout the period of study, roughly 1560 - 1630. Whole some viewed it as a minor infraction, others, directed by a religious moral code, viewed it as a serious sin. seeks to illuminate the place of noblewomenin early modern aristocratic culture, both as historical subjects (considering personal circumstances) and as a social group (considering social position and status).She argues that two different gender ideals were in operation simultaneously: one primarily religious ideal, which lauded female silence, obedience, and chastity, and another, more secular ideal, which required noblewomen to be beautiful, witty, brave, and receptive to the games of courtly love.

Book The Son that Elizabeth I Never Had

Download or read book The Son that Elizabeth I Never Had written by Julia A. Hickey and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Dudley, the handsome ‘base born’ son of Elizabeth I’s favourite, was born amidst scandal and intrigue. The story of his birth is one of love, royalty and broken bonds of trust. He was at Tilbury with the Earl of Leicester in 1587; four years later he was wealthy, independent and making a mark in Elizabeth’s court; he explored Trinidad, searched for the fabled gold of El Dorado and backed a voyage taking a letter from the queen to the Emperor of China. He took part in the Earl of Essex’s raid on Cadiz and was implicated in the earl’s rebellion in 1601 but what he wanted most was to prove his legitimacy. Refusing to accept the lot Fate dealt him after the death of the Queen, he abandoned his family, his home and his country never to return. He carved his own destiny in Tuscany as an engineer, courtier, shipbuilder and seafarer with the woman he loved at his side. His sea atlas, the first of its kind, was published in 1646. The Dell’Arcano del Mare took more than twelve years to write and was the culmination of a lifetime’s work. Robert Dudley, the son Elizabeth never had, is the story of a scholar, an adventurer and Elizabethan seadog that deserves to be better known.

Book Mapping Our World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Barber
  • Publisher : National Library of Australia
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 0642278091
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.

Book World Archaeoprimatology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernardo Urbani
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-08-18
  • ISBN : 1108487335
  • Pages : 559 pages

Download or read book World Archaeoprimatology written by Bernardo Urbani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies, covering past relationships between humans and nonhuman primates across the world.

Book Transgressing the Bounds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise A. Breen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-02-22
  • ISBN : 0190285974
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Transgressing the Bounds written by Louise A. Breen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book On the Date  Sources and Design of Shakespeare s The Tempest

Download or read book On the Date Sources and Design of Shakespeare s The Tempest written by Roger A. Stritmatter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest--long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play--was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has not received the critical inquiry it deserves, a number of subsidiary and closely related interpretative puzzles come sharply into focus. These include the play's sources of New World imagery; its festival symbolism and structure; its relationship to William Strachey's True Reportory account of the 1609 Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture (not published until 1625)--and the tangled history of how and why scholars have for so long misunderstood these matters. Publication of some preliminary elements of the authors' arguments in leading Shakespearean journals (starting in 2007) ignited a controversy that became part of the critical history. This book presents the case in full for the first time.

Book University Library Bulletin

Download or read book University Library Bulletin written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of South American Indians  The circum Caribbean tribes

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians The circum Caribbean tribes written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of South American Indians

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library

Download or read book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caribbean History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Toni Martin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-09-13
  • ISBN : 1315510111
  • Pages : 713 pages

Download or read book Caribbean History written by Toni Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More centrally focused on the Caribbean than any other survey of the region, Caribbean History examines a wide range of topics to give students a thorough understanding of the region's history. The text favors a traditional, largely chronological approach to the study of Caribbean history, however, because it is impossible to be entirely chronological in the complex agglomeration of often disparate historical experiences, some thematic chapters occupy the broadly chronological framework. The author creates a readable narrative for undergraduates that contains the most recent scholarship and pays particular attention to the U.S.-Caribbean connection to more fully relate to students.

Book The Geographical Journal

Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Book Elizabeth s Rival

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Tallis
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-03-06
  • ISBN : 1681777142
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Elizabeth s Rival written by Nicola Tallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen’s glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that she would enjoy for two decades. However, on the morning of September 21st, 1578, Lettice made a fateful decision. When the Queen learned of it, the consequences were swift. Lettice had dared to marry without the Queen’s consent. But worse, her new husband was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s favorite and one-time suitor.Though she would not marry him herself, Elizabeth was fiercely jealous of any woman who showed an interest in Leicester. Knowing that she would likely earn the Queen’s enmity, Lettice married Leicester in secret, leading to her permanent banishment from court. Elizabeth never forgave the new Countess for what she perceived to be a devastating betrayal, and Lettice permanently forfeited her favor. She had become not just Queen Elizabeth’s adversary. She was her rival. But the Countess’ story does not end there. Surviving the death of two husbands and navigating the courts of three very different monarchs: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Charles I, Lettice’s story offers an extraordinary and intimate perspective on the world she lived in.