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Book The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar

Download or read book The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar written by Robert Ricart and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar

Download or read book The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar written by Bristol (England) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain  with Indexes of Authors and Subjects  and a List of Historical Pamphlets  Chronologically Arranged

Download or read book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Indexes of Authors and Subjects and a List of Historical Pamphlets Chronologically Arranged written by Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stations of the Sun

Download or read book Stations of the Sun written by Ronald Hutton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1872
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 900 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray s Inn

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray s Inn written by Gray's Inn. Library and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation

Download or read book Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation written by Malcolm B. Yarnell III and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English Reformation. Historians and theologians often present the doctrine according to more recent debates rather than the contextual understandings manifested by the historical figures under consideration. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of John Wyclif and an incisive survey of late medieval accounts, the book challenges the predominant presentation of the doctrine of royal priesthood as primarily individualistic and anticlerical, in the process clarifying these other concepts. It also demonstrates that the late medieval period located more religious authority within the monarchy than is typically appreciated. After the revolutionary use of the doctrine by Martin Luther in early modern Germany, it was wielded variously between and within diverse English royal, clerical, and lay factions under Henry VIII and Edward VI, yet the Old and New Testament passages behind the doctrine were definitely construed in a monarchical direction. With Thomas Cranmer, the English evangelical presentation of the universal priesthood largely received its enduring official shape, but challenges came from within the English magisterium as well as from both radical and conservative religious thinkers. Under the sacred Tudor queens, who subtly and successfully maintained their own sacred authority, the various doctrinal positions hardened into a range of early modern forms with surprising permutations.

Book The Medieval City

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  • Author : Norman Pounds
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2005-04-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Medieval City written by Norman Pounds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, the author delves into urban planning or lack thereof; the urban way of life; the church in the city; city government; urban crafts and urban trade, health, wealth, and welfare; and the city in history. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work. After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns enjoyed various levels of autonomy, and always provided goods and services unavailable in rural areas. Hazards abounded in towns, though. Disease, fire, crime and other hazards raised mortality rates in urban environs. Designed as an introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, eminent historian Norman Pounds brings to life the many pleasures, rewards, and dangers city-dwellers sought and avoided. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, Pounds delves into Urban Planning or lack thereof; The Urban Way of Life; The Church in the City; City Government; Urban Crafts and Urban Trade, Health, Wealth, and Welfare; and The City in History. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work.

Book The Law Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Law Quarterly Review written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drama and Resistance

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  • Author : Claire Sponsler
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780816629275
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Drama and Resistance written by Claire Sponsler and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a cultural and historical context for medieval popular drama. In Drama and Resistance, Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power. The medieval theater was a social site where resistance, masked from the full scrutiny of authority by theatricality, was practiced, articulated, and enacted. Sponsler examines three key discourses of authoritarian bodily and commodity control -- clothing laws, conduct literature, and Books of Hours -- and pairs them with three kinds of theatrical performances that enact resistance to disciplining codes -- Robin Hood performances, morality plays, and Corpus Christi pageants. She considers the contradictions and inconsistencies in the repressive official discourses and analyzes the ways in which the staging of forbidden acts like cross-dressing, social and sexual misbehavior, and violence against the body challenged these discourses. Drawing on recent social theory, Drama and Resistance is an important contribution to medieval studies and the history of theater.

Book Catalogue of the books in the library of the Honourable society of Gray s inn  compiled by W  Douthwaite   With  1st  2nd

Download or read book Catalogue of the books in the library of the Honourable society of Gray s inn compiled by W Douthwaite With 1st 2nd written by London Gray's inn, libr and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Perfect Prince

Download or read book The Perfect Prince written by Ann Wroe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king. The most intriguing and ambitious pretender in history, this elegant young man was celebrated throughout Europe as the prince he claimed to be: Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the “Princes in the Tower” who were presumed to have been murdered almost a decade earlier. Handsome, well-mannered, and charismatic, he behaved like the perfect prince, and many believed he was one. The greatest European rulers of the age—among them the emperor Maximilian, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and Charles VIII of France—used him as a diplomatic pawn to their own advantage. As such, he tormented Henry VII for eight years, attempting to invade England three times. Eventually, defeated and captured, he admitted to being Perkin Warbeck, the son of a common boatman from Flanders. But was this really the truth? Ann Wroe, a historian and storyteller of the first rank, delves into the secret corners of the late medieval world to explore both the elusive nature of identity and the human propensity for deception. In uncovering the mystery of Perkin Warbeck, Wroe illuminates not only a life but an entire world trembling on the verge of discovery.

Book Desolation of a City

Download or read book Desolation of a City written by Charles Phythian-Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly documented case-study of urban crisis and decline in late-medieval England.

Book John Nichols s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth  Volume II

Download or read book John Nichols s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth Volume II written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England includes accounts of dramatic performances, orations, and poems, and a wealth of supplementary material dating from 1572 to 1578.