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Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1851
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  • Pages : 1418 pages

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Book Growing Up in Medieval London

Download or read book Growing Up in Medieval London written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare felt [:] 'The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'" Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instance that--contrary to the belief of some historians--medieval adults did recognize and pay close attention to the various stages of childhood and adolescence. For instance, manuals on childrearing, such as "Rhodes's Book of Nurture" or "Seager's School of Virtue," clearly reflect the value parents placed in laying the proper groundwork for a child's future. Likewise, wardship cases reveal that in fact London laws granted orphans greater protection than do our own courts. Hanawalt also breaks ground with her innovative narrative style. To bring medieval childhood to life, she creates composite profiles, based on the experiences of real children, which provide a more vivid portrait than otherwise possible of the trials and tribulations of medieval youths at work and at play. We discover through these portraits that the road to adulthood was fraught with danger. We meet Alison the Bastard Heiress, whose guardians married her off to their apprentice in order to gain control of her inheritance. We learn how Joan Rawlyns of Aldenham thwarted an attempt to sell her into prostitution. And we hear the unfortunate story of William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, two mercer's apprentices who found themselves forgotten by their senile master, and abused by his wife. These composite portraits, and many more, enrich our understanding of the many stages of life in the Middle Ages. Written by a leading historian of the Middle Ages, these pages evoke the color and drama of medieval life. Ranging from birth and baptism, to apprenticeship and adulthood, here is a myth-shattering, innovative work that illuminates the nature of childhood in the Middle Ages.

Book The English Review

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  • Release : 1851
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  • Pages : 1094 pages

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Book Art in Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Art in Great Britain and Ireland written by Sir Walter Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Big Smoke  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book The Big Smoke Routledge Revivals written by Peter Brimblecombe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background. He examines domestic and industrial pollution and their effects on fashions, furnishings, buildings and human health. The book ends with an intriguing analysis of the dangers arising from contemporary pollutants and a glimpse of what the future may hold for London.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Philip Webb

Download or read book The Letters of Philip Webb written by John Aplin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Webb (1831-1915) was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He was an important figure in the literary and artistic world of the late-nineteenth century. Webb had a long association, both professionally and personally, with William Morris and his family as well as becoming treasurer of Morris's revolutionary Socialist League. They first met as trainees in the same architect's practice and remained collaborators throughout their lifetimes. Webb was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, the Morris's first home. It was through Morris that Webb became connected with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, amongst others. Webb and Morris were also joint founders of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), the first organization to promote conservation rather than intrusive restoration. This comprehensive selection from Webb's surviving letters includes many important and previously unpublished letters to some of his closest associates. They reveal the wide range of his professional and personal interests. These four volumes will be of interest to art and architecture historians, scholars of Victorian history in general and of William Morris and the wider Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements in particular.

Book The Evolution of the English House

Download or read book The Evolution of the English House written by Sidney Oldall Addy and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries  Number 190  June 18  1853

Download or read book Notes and Queries Number 190 June 18 1853 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ecclesiologist

Download or read book The Ecclesiologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ecclesiologist

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  • Author : Ecclesiological society
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  • Release : 1851
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  • Pages : 1026 pages

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Book Catalogue of My English Library

Download or read book Catalogue of My English Library written by Henry Stevens (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale Catalogues

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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  • Release : 1919
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  • Pages : 1524 pages

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: