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Book Coronations

    Book Details:
  • Author : János M. Bak
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-29
  • ISBN : 0520311124
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Coronations written by János M. Bak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the revived interest in political history, written from a perspective that cultural historians will also enjoy. The symbolic and ritual acts that served to represent and legitimate monarchical power in medieval and early modern Europe include not only royal and papal coronations but also festive entries, inaugural feasts, and rulers' funerals. Fifteen leading scholars from North America, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Denmark explore the forms and the underlying meanings of such events, as well as problems of relevant scholarship on these subjects. All the contributions demonstrate the importance of in-depth study of rulership for the understanding of premodern power structures. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary approaches, drawing on the findings of ethnography and anthropology, combined with rigorous critical evaluation of the written and iconic evidence. The editor's historiographical introduction surveys the past and present of this field of study and proposes some new lines of inquiry. "For 'reality' is not a one-dimensional matter: even if we can establish what actually transpired, we still need to ask how it was perceived by those present." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Book Authority and Power

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  • Author : B. Tierney
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-07-19
  • ISBN : 1107404568
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Authority and Power written by B. Tierney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1980 volume, friends and former pupils of Walter Ullmann contribute essays on subjects originally studied under his supervision.

Book The Mind of the Book

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  • Author : Alastair Fowler
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0198717660
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Mind of the Book written by Alastair Fowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the history of the book for the first time. He illuminates key features of title page design and presents 16 illustrations of significant title-pages with commentaries, from Chaucer to Dickens.

Book Vivat Rex

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  • Author : Richard Kingston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1683
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Vivat Rex written by Richard Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Course

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  • Author : Seymour Eaton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The American Course written by Seymour Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A General View of the History of the English Bible

Download or read book A General View of the History of the English Bible written by Brooke Foss Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII  by Richard Garnett

Download or read book From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII by Richard Garnett written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The history of Protestantism

Download or read book The history of Protestantism written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Let it Go Among Our People

Download or read book Let it Go Among Our People written by David Price and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King James translators drew upon all of their English predecessors and much more besides. The authors offer both a political and literary history of the Bible. Their purpose is to explain how styles of presenting Scriptures in English developed out of political and ecclesiastical circumstances. The result is a refreshing reassessment of the literary and scholarly accomplishment of all the Renaissance Bibles and a clear account of what is different and distinctive in the King James Version. They also linger over the texts of the Bible, comparing significant passages in the various versions. Such close study of the texts is warranted because the English Bible has had a profound effect on English language, literature, politics and ideas; it has left a lasting impression on the language that we speak today. No other language, except perhaps German, can boast that its vernacular translation of the Bible is a literary masterpiece in its own right.

Book The Lives of the Kings   Queens of England

Download or read book The Lives of the Kings Queens of England written by Antonia Fraser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of illustrated biographies of the British monarchs, revised throughout and updated to include the recent history of the Windsors.

Book Medieval Schools

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  • Author : Nicholas Orme
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300111026
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Medieval Schools written by Nicholas Orme and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught, how they were run, and who attended them. Every kind of school is covered, from reading schools in churches and town grammar schools to schools in monasteries and nunneries, business schools, and theological schools. The author also shows how they fitted into a constantly changing world, ending with the impacts of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Medieval schools anticipated nearly all the ideas, practices, and institutions of schooling today. Their remarkable successes in linguistic and literary work, organizational development, teaching large numbers of people shaped the societies that they served. Only by understanding what schools achieved can we fathom the nature of the middle ages.

Book Edward the Confessor

Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Frank Barlow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. "Deploying all the resources of formidable scholarship, [Barlow] has recovered the real Edward." — Spectator

Book La pathologie du pouvoir  vices  crimes et d  lits des gouvernants

Download or read book La pathologie du pouvoir vices crimes et d lits des gouvernants written by Patrick Gilli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La singularité de la criminalité des gouvernants ou de leurs actes peccamineux réside dans la rareté des condamnations qu’ils ont subies. En examinant sur la longue durée, les formes de dénonciation de ces délits des hommes de pouvoir, le livre essaie de comprendre les raisons qui aboutissent à la rupture du consensus et à la remise en cause de l’acceptation sociale des traditions jusqu’alors tolérées (corruption, extorsion, abus en tout genre). Les différentes contributions examinent les conditions de ces condamnations, morales et politiques, et dessinent un tableau nuancé de ces pathologies du pouvoir qui loin d’être invariables dans le temps sont articulées aux paradigmes moraux de chaque société historique. Les contributeurs sont: Nathalie Barrandon, Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Franck Collard, Kathleen Crowther, Angela De Benedictis, Silvia Di Paolo, Julien Dubouloz, Patrick Gilli, Cedric Giraud, Thomas Granier, Laurent Guitton, Charles Guerin, Corinne Manchio, Nancy McLoughin, Hélène Ménard, Richard Newhauser, Flocel Sabaté, Armand Strubel, Julien Théry et Silvana Vecchio English: What is singular about the criminality of rulers or their sinful acts is how rarely they are convicted. Through a long-term study of the forms of denunciation of crimes committed by those who hold power, this book tries to understand the reasons that lead to breaking the consensus and calling into question the social acceptance of traditions which had hitherto been tolerated (corruption, extortion, different types of abuse). The various contributions investigate the moral and political conditions of these convictions, and give a well-balanced account of these pathologies of power: far from being invariable over time, they are consistent with the moral paradigms of each society in history.

Book Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

Download or read book Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France written by Tracy Adams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine’s poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time.

Book Songs of Sherborne School

Download or read book Songs of Sherborne School written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apis matina

Download or read book Apis matina written by Edward Mallet Young and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: