Download or read book The Romance of Peasant Life in the West of England written by Francis Heath and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Peasantry written by Francis George Heath and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ties that Bound written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

Download or read book A World Lit Only by Fire written by William Manchester and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

Download or read book The Dying Peasant and the Future of His Sons written by John William Robertson Scott and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Rural Poor 1850 1914 Vol 1 written by Mark Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians.

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Download or read book The Countryside written by Virginia Schomp and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of books explores what is perhaps the most dynamic era in the history of England.

Download or read book Cursed Britain written by Thomas Waters and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed – dark supernatural forces.Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia.This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state’s role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.

Download or read book The British Quarterly Review written by Henry Allon and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book THE SANITARY RECORD A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PROGRESS OF SANITARY SCIENCE written by ERNEST HART and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Medieval England written by Edmund King and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the Industrial Revolution. Edmund King traces his chronicle through the lives of successive monarchs, the inescapable central thread of that epoch. The momentous events of the times are also recreated, from the compiling of the Domesday Book, through the wars with the Scots, the Welsh, and the French, to the Peasants' Revolt and the disastrous Black Death.

Download or read book A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire written by George Edward Dartnell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating language and customs of the county of Wiltshire with this comprehensive glossary compiled by George Edward Dartnell and E.H. Goddard. Unravel the mysteries of Wiltshire's folk-speech with over half of the words listed never before appearing in any Wiltshire vocabulary. Learn the history and etymology of each word, and their relation to other English dialects. The glossary also includes examples of actual folk-talk, short stories illustrating the dialect, and appendices on various matters of interest.