History and Archaeology Books
The History Press Ltd Women All on Fire
Book SynopsisUsing personal accounts from both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters to reveal the untold story of the women of the English Civil War, Alison Plowden illustrates how the conflict affected the lives of women and how they coped with unfamiliar responsibilities. Some displayed a courage so far above their sex as to suprise and disconcert their men. The Royalists included Queen Henrietta, who went abroad to raise money for the cause, and Mary Bankes who held Corfe Castle for the king with her daughters, heaving stones and hot embers over the battlements at the attacking Roundheads. On the opposing side, Lady Brillia Harley guarded Brampton Bryan Castle in Herefordshire against the Royalists and Anne Fairfax, wife of Cromwell''s northern general, who was taken prisoner by the Duke of Newcastle''s troops after Adwalton Moor. This is a fascinating look at the little reported, yet valient actions, of the women caught up in this tumultuous age.
£10.44
The History Press Ltd Caroline and Charlotte
Book SynopsisCaroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a saga of passion and pathos, tragedy and black comedy, feuding and fighting - all set in Regency England against a backdrop of Europe in turmoil. The marriage of the Prince of Wales - renowned for his intemperance, hedonism and plain ordinary selfishness - to his cousin Caroline of Brunswick in 1795 was a preordained disaster. The groom is said to have called for brandy when he first laid eyes on the bride, while the bride was later to swear that the groom spent most of their wedding night lying in the grate in a drunken stupor. Brought together for reasons of financial and dynastic expediencey, the couple split up within a year of the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Augusta in 1796. The colourful story of these tw
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The History Press Ltd A Century of Belfast
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Belfast during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during this century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Belfast''s recent and often turbulent history are covered, famous occasions (even infamous) and notable individuals are remembered and the impact of national and international events is witnessed. The book provides a striking account of the changes that have so altered Belfast''s appearance and records the process of transformation. Drawing on detailed local knowledge of the community, and illustrated with a wealth of black-and-white photographs, all chosen from the impressive collections of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, this book recalls what Belfast has lost in terms of buildings, traditions and ways of life. It also acknowledges the regeneration that has taken place and celebrates the character and energy of local people as they move through the first years of this new century.
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The History Press Ltd Bandstands of Britain
Book SynopsisBandstands of Britain is a historical celebration of one of the best-loved features still found in many of our parks, open spaces, squares and seaside towns.
£18.00
The History Press Ltd Bournemouth in the 1950s and 60s
Book SynopsisBournemouth in the 1950s & ’60s offers a rare glimpse of life in the town during a fascinating period, which started with post-war austerity and ended with Britain becoming the music and fashion capital of the world.
£14.24
The History Press Ltd Death in Disguise
Book SynopsisVictorian Chelsea was a thriving commercial and residential development, known for its grand houses and pleasant garden squares.
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The History Press Ltd Shrewsbury in the 1950s 60s and 70s
Book SynopsisThe county town of Shropshire underwent great changes in the twenty-five years between 1950 and 1975, when the council’s watchword was ‘down with the old and up with the new’.
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The History Press Ltd James II King in Exile
Book SynopsisJames II was Britain's last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his final exile? John Callow's groundbreaking study focuses on this hitherto neglected period of his life: the twelve years he spent attempting to recover his crown through war, diplomacy, assassination and subterfuge. This is the story of the genesis of Jacobitism; of the devotion of the fallen king's followers, who shed their blood for him at the battle of the Boyne and the massacre at Glencoe, gave up estates and riches to follow him to France, and immortalised his name in artworks, print, and song. Yet, this first King Over the Water' was far more than a figurehead. A grim, inflexible warlord and a maladroit politician, he was also a man of undeniable principle, which he pursued regardless of the cost to either himself or his subjects. He was an author of considerable talent, and a monarch capable of successive reinventions. Denied his earthly kingdoms, he finally settled upon attaining a heavenly crown and was venerated by the Jacobites as a saint. This powerful, evocative and original book will appeal to anyone interested in Stuart history, politics, culture and military studies.
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The History Press Ltd Earls Court Motor Show
Book SynopsisFor decades the Earls Court Motor Show was the annual pilgrimage for car idolaters, dreamers and even the odd buyer.
£21.25
The History Press Ltd Injured Parties
Book SynopsisOn 9 November 1966, popular GP Dr Helen Davidson was battered to death in dense woodland while birdwatching and exercising her dog a few miles from her Buckinghamshire home. Fifty years later, amateur sleuth and author Monica Weller set about solving the murder – without the help of the prohibited files.
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The History Press Ltd Gloucestershire Between the Wars A Memoir
Book SynopsisOne of the most eventful periods in history - the first half of the twentieth century - is vividly and astutely described by Arthur Stanley Bullock in this entertaining memoir. His unique insight comes from having not been in any sense part of the establishment but instead an ordinary intelligent citizen with a strong sense of moral purpose and an inquisitive mind. Arthur grew up in Longhope in the Forest of Dean. After his service in the Great War and his struggle to find employment in Birmingham and south Wales, he worked at Lister''s in Dursley. From there he moved to Stroud and set up a business at Port Mills, Brimscombe, just before the onset of the Second World War. He died in 1988.
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The History Press Ltd Sandringham Days
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham, from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary reports, it is a rich exploration of the private lives of Britain's royal family. From family life at the estate to the first visit of Queen Victoria, the glittering parties of the early twentieth century and all the way up to the death of King George V, the reigns of his sons and the Sandringham of today, it will delight anyone with an interest in the lives of the British royal family.
£13.49
The History Press Ltd A Century of Chester
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Chester during the twentieth century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change.
£9.49
The History Press Ltd A 1950s Holiday in Bognor Regis
Book SynopsisBognor Regis is situated on the south coast of Britain, overlooking the English Channel. On 18 January 1787 the resort’s founder, Sir Richard Hotham, laid the first stone marking the town as a ‘public bathing place’, a description that Bognor Regis has enjoyed ever since.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Entry into the Pacific
Book SynopsisWorld history conventionally ignores or underestimates the importance of Manila, the Manila galleons, and the Philippines as key stages in the development of trans-Pacific contact and of the world economy. Essays in this volume discuss Philippine-Asian exchanges prior to the entry of Europeans, and then look at European influences and the impact of Magellan's voyage, and the emergence of Manila as one of global trade's crucial linchpins during four centuries. Linkages between Latin America and China, and Spanish-Japanese competition for the Chinese marketplace are important topics. Tensions and cooperation among Chinese, Japanese, Iberians, Africans, Christians, Muslims and others on Philippine soil are also covered. This volume suggests the need for thorough re-evaluation of the Philippines' central role in terms of both Pacific history and global history as perhaps the single most important stage in the traffic that linked China and Latin America.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; The galleons in a larger context: Geographical exploration by the Spaniards, Donald D. Brand; The relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands, Berthold Laufer; Initiating the galleon trade: The Mediterranean connection, William Henry Scott; Crusade or commerce? Spanish-Moro relations in the 16th century, William Henry Scott; Spain and Spanish trade in Southeast Asia, M. N. Pearson; The Japanese trade and residence in the Philippines: before and during the Spanish occupation, M. T. Paske-Smith; Impacts of the galleon trade through the 17th century: theory and evidence: Plata es sangre: sidelights on the drain of Spanish-American silver in the Far East, 1550-1700, C. R. Boxer; Le Galion de Manille. Grandeur et décadence d’une route de la soie, Pierre Chaunu; Las conexiones e intercambios Americanos con el Oriente Bajo el Marco Imperial Español, Alvaro Jara; The Chinese silk trade with Spanish-America from the late Ming to the mid-Ch’ing period, Han-sheng Chuan; Arbitrage, China, and world trade in the early modern period, Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez; Further impacts of the galleon trade: 18th-century Philippine economy: commerce, Maria Lourdes Diaz-Trechuelo; Aventuras asiáticas del peso mexicano, John McMaster; Two and a half centuries of the galleon trade, Benito Legarda, Jr.; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 1848 The Year of Revolutions The International
Book SynopsisEurope was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled back by conservative reaction. Though widely perceived as a failure, the revolution ended the vestiges of feudalism, broadened civil society and strengthened the state prior to the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the latter part of the nineteenth century. This volume brings together essays from leading specialists on the international dimension, national experiences, political mobilisation, reaction and legacy.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I International Dimension: A balancing act: domestic pressure and international systemic constraints in the foreign policies of the great powers 1848-51, M. Schulze; The 1848 revolutions and the British empire, M. Taylor. Part II National Experiences: Chartism in 1848: reflections on a non-revolution, H. Weisser; Spain and the revolutions of 1848, D.R. Headrick; The making of the Roman republic, H. Hearder; Revolutionary organisation in the context of backwardness: Hungary's 1848, G. Handlery; Liberal constitutionalism in the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848: an inquiry based on roll-call analysis, D.J. Mattheisen. Part III Political Mobilisation: The insurrectionary tradition in France 1835-48, P. Pilbeam; Peasants and revolutionaries in Venice and Veneto, 1848, P. Ginsborg; Petitions and the social context of political mobilisation in the revolution of 1848/49, C. Lipp/L. Krempel; Violence between civilian and state authorities in the Prussian Rhineland 1830-48, J.M. Brophy; Festivals of national unity in the German revolution of 1848-49, J. Sperber; German women and the revolution of 1848-49: Kathinka Zitz-Halein and the Humania Association, S. Zucker. Part IV Counter Revolution and the State: The role of state violence in the period of transition to industrial capitalism: the example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848, A. Lüdtke; Contention with civility: the state and social control on the German southwest 1760-1850, K. Wegert; The failure of popular counter-revolution in Risorgimento Italy: the case of the centurions, 1831-47, A.J. Reinermann; The techniques of repression. The control of popular protest in mid-19th-century France, R. Price; An army divided: the loyalty crisis of the Habsburg officer corps in 1848-49, I. Deak. Part V Legacy: Garibaldi and the legacy of the revolution of 1848 in southern Spain, G. Thomson; Commemorations of the revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic, T. Baycroft. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Progressive Era in the USA 18901921 The
Book SynopsisFew periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have struggled to explain the contradictions of this period and this volume explores some of the major controversies this exciting period has inspired. Investigating subjects as diverse as conservation, socialism, or the importance of women in the reform movements, this volume looks at the lasting impact of this productive, yet ultimately frustrated, generation''s legacy on American and world history.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction: In search of progressivism, Daniel T. Rodgers; Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: a reconsideration, Alan Brinkley; Farmers and the state in the progressive era, Elizabeth Sanders; The discovery that business corrupts politics: a reappraisal of the origins of progressivism, Richard L. McCormick; Railroads and regulation, 1877-1916: conspiracy or public interest?, Robert W. Harbeson; The protean character of American liberalism, Gary Gerstle; 'The American of the future': fictional immigrant children and national ethnic identity in the progressive era, Tim Prchal; Lawrence Veiller and the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900, Roy Lubove; The domestication of politics: women and American political society, Paula Baker; American progressives and the European left, Melvyn Stokes Why not equal protection? Explaining the politics of public social spending in Britain, 1900-1911 and The United States, 1880s-1920, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol; Government and the suppression of radical labor, 1877-1918, Daniel R. Fusfeld; Grasping for the significance of the Turner legacy: an afterword, John Lauritz Larson Beyond parochialism: Southern progressivism, prohibition, and state-building, Ann-Marie Szymanski; The progressives and the environment: 3 themes from the first conservation movement, James Penick; Plessy v. Ferguson: a reinterpretation, David W. Bishop; Progressivism and imperialism: the progressive movement and American foreign policy, 1898-1916, William Leuchtenberg; From colonialism to professionalism: the public-private dynamic in United States foreign financial advising, 1898-1929, Emily S. Rosenberg and Norman L. Rosenberg; The reclamation of Woodrow Wilson, David Steigerwald; An obituary for 'the progressive movement, Peter G. Filene; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Colonial America and the Early Republic The
Book SynopsisReflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women''s citizenship and rights, servitude and slavery and popular political activity. The geographical perspective is as expansive as the topical, with strong representation of trans-Atlantic and continental interests of many nations and peoples. The international and interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic transformations of America during this era of settlement, conquest, development, revolution and nation building.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans, Neal Salisbury ; 'This evil extends especially ...the feminine sex': negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, James F. Brookes; King Philip's herds: Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England, Virginia DeJohn Anderson; Women and property across colonial America: a comparison of legal systems in New Mexico and New York, Deborah A. Rosen; Taking possession and reading texts: establishing the authority of overseas empires, Patricia Seed; Reading the runaways: self-fashioning, print culture, and confidence in slavery in 18th-century mid-Atlantic, David Waldstreicher; 'Damned scoundrels' and 'libertisme of trade': freedom and regulation in colonial New York's fur and grain trades, Cathy Matson; 'Baubles of Britain': the American consumer revolutions of the 18th century, T.H. Breen; Patriarchy reborn: the gendering of authority in the evangelical Church in revolutionary New England, Susan M. Juster; Food rioters and the American Revolution, Barbara Clark Smith; Between slavery and freedom: Virginia blacks in the American Revolution, Sylvia R. Frey; John Adams, diplomat, John Ferling; Thinking like a constitution, Jack N. Rakove; 'Of every age sex and condition': the representation of women in the constitution, Jan Lewis; Slander, poison, whispers, and fame: Jefferson's 'Anas' and political gossip in the early republic, Joanne B. Freeman; Rites of rebellion, rites of assent: celebrations, print, culture and the origins of American nationalism, David Waldstreicher; Liberty, development, and union: visions of the West in the 1780s, Peter S. Onuf; Thinking and believing: nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh, Gregory E. Dowd; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Strategic Defence Initiative US Policy and
Book SynopsisCentral to US foreign policy, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) was launched by Ronald Reagan in 1983. While the Reagan administration failed to deploy the SDI system, it featured prominently in the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union. This insightful book examines SDI and the Reagan administration through an evaluation of the role of the SDI in the end of the Cold War. Presenting an extensive range of primary and secondary material together with interviews, the book will be welcomed by academics and upper level students interested in politics and history.Trade Review'Mira Duric presents an excellent analysis of the role of SDI in US-Soviet relations in the Reagan era. Her book is an important contribution to the historiography on the Cold War and the Reagan presidency.' Dr Peter Boyle, University of Nottingham, UK 'This is a detailed and well-researched book...Not only does it shed light on how the Cold War ended but it also helps to illuminate the on-going debate about missile defence in the United States. This latter debate, with important implications for both America's allies and adversaries, will remain a key issue in international relations for the foreseeable future.' Dr Wyn Rees, University of Nottingham, UK 'Dr Duric has written one of the most comprehensive explorations of the Reagan administration's efforts to develop SDI and the impact of such policies on the Cold War. This book is a fine addition to the scholarship of the Cold War and US national defense policy. The author's exploration of SDI and the Reagan administration is especially important in light of the continuing debate about national missile defense in the United States and the broader efforts to promote homeland security.' Professor Tom Lansford, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA '...offers a competent survey of the issues and...is clear and based on a thorough study of an extensive literature supplemented by interviews with the key figures in the Reagan administration.' SeerTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The strategic defence initiative; The Soviet reaction to the SDI; The Reykjavik Summit: October 11-12 1986; US-Soviet relations after the Reykjavik Summit; Strategic defence: the post-Cold War and post-September 11 world; Conclusion; Selective bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Engineer of Revolutionary Russia Iurii V
Book SynopsisThis book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia''s most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov''s importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin''s generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country''s best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific mTrade Review'... an outstanding achievement, the story of a remarkable man’s life that also sheds light on important themes in twentieth-century Russian and world history. Engineer also may serve as an unsurpassed exemplar of meticulous research... an outstanding contribution to a number of fields, starting with Russian/Soviet history.' Revolutionary Russia '... [Heywood's] interpretations provide a rich and rather sympathetic portrait of this gifted engineer. Along the way, [he] offers some of the finest history of the Russian and Soviet railways available anywhere, supplemented by a very useful technical glossary.' Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, in the Russian Review ’This is a thoroughly researched book which has much of interest to both historians of Russia and of railways, each of whom will find it a comfortable and enlightening read throughout. The publisher is to be commended on the design and production standards: the book is pleasant to handle, the well-chosen pictures are carefully reproduced, there are footnotes rather than endnotes, and sub-editorial slips are rare and minor.’ Slavonic and East European Review 'Anthony Heywood has written a model of a biography, admirably showing his decades of study of the well-documented life of Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov... the reader leaves with a strong sense of context as well as the person.' Technology and Culture '... Heywood has written a commendable work on an important, if largely too-long neglected, figure in the history of the development of the Russian railway system in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Iurii V. Lomonosov. He has managed to achieve this not only thanks to very careful and meticulous archival research in Britain, Europe and the USA, but also in being an objective and dispassionate reader of the voluminous diaries/correspondence left by Lomonosov, charting the many twists and turns in his professional as well as his personal life... Given the comprehensiveness of theTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Making of a Russian Engineer; 2: First Steps in Railway Engineering; 3: Engineering Professor; 4: The Russian Revolution of 1905; 5: Applications of Science on the Russian Railways, 1908-1914; 6: War and Revolution, 1914-1917; 7: America and the Bolshevik Revolution; 8: Building the New Russia; 9: The Diesel Revolution; 10: 'A Free Soviet Citizen Abroad'; 11: Retirement and Remembrance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Poor Relief in SeventeenthCentury
Book SynopsisChronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic religious women remained uncloistered. They lived in private houses in the cities and towns of France, offering medical care, religious instruction and alms to the sick and the poor; by the end of the century, they were France's premier organization of nurses. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France - the author shows how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it. The study also examines the complicated relationship of the Daughters of Charity to the Catholic church of the time, analyzing it not only for what light it can shed on the history of the community, but also for what it can tell us about the Catholic Reformation more generally.Trade Review'Dinan's welcome book shows us French women as active and creative participants in the Catholic renewal of the seventeenth century. Tracing the evolution of the Daughters of Charity from a small handful of women under the personal direction of Louise de Marillac to a complex organization with 250 houses scattered across France, it highlights the personal and professional initiative the daughters displayed as they expanded their work as 'servants to the poor' to include teaching, health care, and hospital management and convincingly explains the strong and yet flexible institutional structures that ensured the company's continued success long after its founder's death.' Barbara Diefendorf, Professor of History, Boston University 'Dinan's book is an important addition to recent studies on women's spirituality in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.' Renaissance Quarterly 'In addition to providing a much needed study of the particular history of the Daughters of Charity, Dinan's book deepens our understanding of women's religious experience and their contribution to religious change in Catholic Reformation France.' H-France Review ’To Dinan's credit, she has succeeded in unearthing, collating, and analyzing a variety of rich sources that reveal a confraternal group that provided the inspiration and model for the most prevalent forms of Catholic social engagement in the modern world... a book that will serve as an essential reference to the study of the 'feminization' of the Catholic reformation in France.’ The Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The foundation of the Daughters of Charity; Varieties of work: living the active vocation in parishes; Varieties of work: living the active vocation in institutions; Bureaucraticization and the growth of the Company of the Daughters of Charity; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pionniers du droit occidental au Moyen Age
Book Synopsis''Pioneers'' seems fitting to Professor Gouron to describe the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100. Away from Bologna these pioneers were isolated, scattered from Scotland to Styria or Catalonia, and no more than one hundred can now be identified. These people, and their manuscripts and the relationships between them, are the subject of this collection, the fifth in the Variorum series by André Gouron, himself to be regarded as a pioneer in this field of research. This volume brings together twenty-two studies which have appeared since 1997 in widely scattered publications, often hard to access, along with additional notes and indexes.Trade Review’... on ne peut que recommander une lecture attentive.’ Revue de droit canoniqueTable of ContentsContents: Avant-propos. Traités, Auteurs, Écoles: Le manuscript de Prague, Metr. Knih. J. 74: à la recherche du plus ancient décrétiste à l'Ouest des Alpes; Le traité 'De actionum varietate', la version du manuscrit de Barcelone (A.C.A. San Cugat 55) et la 'Glossa Coloniensis' aux institutes (manuscript de Cologne, H.A. W328); Sur la paternité de la 'Summa Vindocinensis' (MS. Vendôme 223); Sur les gloses siglées d et p dans les manuscrits du XIIe siècle; Sur la compilation des Usages de Barcelone au douzième siècle; Une école de canonistes anglais à Paris: maître Walter et ses disciples (vers 1170); L'auteur du 'Brachylogus': un compagnon de Thomas Becket en exil?; Alexandre de Saint-Gilles et la Lectura Codicis d'Azon; Les 'Quaestiones de juris subtilitatibus': une Å“uvre du maître parisien Albéric; Un grand ancêtre anglo-normand: l''Epitome exactis regibus'; L'auteur du Codi; Un vocabulaire juridique anglais (manuscrit Vatic. Regin. lat. 435); Qui a écrit l'ordo 'Olim edebatur'?; Un traité juridique d'origine irlandaise: le 'Livre de Florence'. Thèmes, Théories, Controverses: Le rôle de l'avocat dans la doctrine romaniste du douzième siècle; L'apport des juristes franÇais à l'essor du droit pénal savant; Dénonciation de nouvel oeuvre et pratique méridionale; La notion de privilège dans la doctrine juridique du douzième siècle; Cessante causa, cessat effectus: à la naissance de l'adage; 'Penuria advocatorum'; 'Lo comun de la vila'; L'irruption des droits savants dans le royaume de Jérusalem. Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the
Book SynopsisIn this collection of studies by James M. Powell, two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean, chiefly in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries - the Crusades - the reasons for them and manner in which they were organized and promoted. The other is the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II, himself a Crusader, and its society and economy, including its Muslim population. A characteristic feature is the author's interest in ordinary participants and the attempt to get behind the generalizations of macro-historians to the extent that may be possible.Trade Review’Researchers working in the fields covered by this collection will be ignoring Powell’s work at their own risk. This collection will help to ensure that they do not.’ The Catholic Historical Review ’The virtues of this collection are many, not least the author’s admirable knowledge of the printed sources for southern Italy in the early thirteenth century.’ English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Crusading : 1099-1999; Myth, legend, propaganda, history: the First Crusade, 1140-ca.1300; Frederick II and the Muslims: the making of an historiographical tradition; The role of women in the 5th Crusade; Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen and the Teutonic Order in the kingdom of Sicily; Innocent III and Alexius III: a crusade plan that failed; Patriarch Gerold and Frederick II: the Matthew Paris letter; Matthew Paris, the lives of Muhammad, and the Dominicans; Innocent III, the Trinitarians, and the renewal of the Church, 1198-1200; Crusading by royal command: monarchy and crusade in the kingdom of Sicily (1187-1230); Honorius III and the leadership of the crusade; The Papacy and the Muslim frontier; Francesco d'Assisi e la Quinta Crociata: una missione di pace; Frederick II and the rebellion of the Muslims of Sicily, 1200-1224; Genoese policy and the kingdom of Sicily, 1220-1240; Economy and society in the kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II: recent perspectives; Medieval monarchy and trade: the economic policy of Frederick II in the kingdom of Sicily (a survey); Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comparative Studies in Modern European History
Book SynopsisThe two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, i.e. those without statehood, and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and traditional society to a modern capitalist one and the uneven pace of this change in the West and East of Europe. The author argues that we cannot study the process of nation-formation as a mere product of some nebulous 'nationalism'; we have to understand it as a part of social and cultural transformation, as a component of modernization of European societies, even though this modernization did not occur synchronically and had its regional specificities. Many of the papers focus specifically on the Czech case, but throughout there is an emphasis on comparative history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part 1 National movements: The social composition of the Czech patriots in Bohemia 1827-1848; From ethnic group toward the modern nation: the Czech case; Zionism as a European national movement; De l'ethnicité à la nation: un chemin oublié vers la modernité; The social interpretation of linguistic demands in European national movements; Social and territorial characteristics in the composition of leading groups of national movements; Real and constructed: the nature of the nation; National minority movements and their aims. Part 2 Nationalism: How much does a nation depend on nationalism?; Nationalism and national movements: comparing the past and present of Central and Eastern Europe; An unwelcome national identity or what to do about 'nationalism' in post-Communist countries; Eugen Lemberg's 'nationalismustheorie'. Part 3 Historical Heritage: Historical belles-lettres as a vehicle of the image of national history; Historical heritage: continuity and discontinuity in the construction of national histories (with J Malecková); The Czech discourse on Europe, 1848-1948. Part 4 Social Change: Die rolle des Zentraleuropäischen Handels im Ausgleich der Handelsbilanz zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa 1550-1650; Die rezeption der Französischen Revolution als Indikator des Fortschritts?; Zur Typologie der europäischen Revolutionen. Einige Ãœberlegungen zur nicht bestehenden Diskussion; Criteria and indicators of uneven development; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Before and After Darwin Origins Species
Book SynopsisThis is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus in this volume is on the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. Plato's Timaeus, the Biblical Genesis and any current textbook of evolutionary biology are all, it may well seem, on this same enduring topic: origins and species. However, even among classical authors, there were fundamental disagreements: the ontology and cosmogony of the Greek atomists were deeply opposed to Plato's; and, in the millennia since, the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species have never settled into any unifying consensus. While the structure of Darwinian theory may be today broadly what it was in Darwin's own argumentation, controversy continues over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole. The historical and philosophical papers collected in this volume, and in the companion volume devoted to Darwin's theorising, seek to clarify the major continuities and discontinuities in the long run of thinking about origins and species.Trade Review’An invaluable resource...’ Scientific and Medical Network 'This [...] collection of previously published papers by Jonathan Hodge not only brings to light a number of essays published in now hard to find places but also offers an unparalleled opportunity for tracing the historiographic trajectory of a leading Darwin historian over more than thirty years of intellectual achievement.' Metascience 'Incisive is a good word to describe Hodge’s famous scholarly style. As some of these papers and reviews demonstrate, he gets to the crux of any issue effortlessly, and often with astonishing directness. Who else can pack such brainy 'oomph' in the space of just a few pages, and in the unconventional form of a review article, instead of some long-winded monograph-length treatise? That, I suspect, is one reason the collection includes so much trenchant work... a splendid collection that should be required reading for anyone interested in Darwin, Darwinism and the history of evolutionary thought.' Science & EducationTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The Very Long Run: Origins and species before and after Darwin; Canguilhem and the history of biology. Cosmogonies and Ontologies After Buffon: 2 Cosmologies (theory of the Earth and theory of generation) and the unity of Buffon's thought; Lamarck's science of living bodies; Lamarck's great change of mind; The history of the Earth, life and Man: Whewell and palaetiological science; The universal gestation of nature: Chamber's Vestiges and Explanations. The Structure and Content of Darwinian Theory Since Darwin: The structure and strategy of Darwin's 'long argument'; Darwin's theory and Darwin's argument; Discussion: Darwin's argument in the Origin; Knowing about evolution: Darwin and his theory of natural selection; Generation and the origin of species (1837-1937): a historiographical suggestion; Biology and philosophy (including ideology): a study of Fisher and Wright; Natural selection as a causal, empirical and probabilistic theory; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reform Ecclesiology and the Christian Life in the
Book SynopsisPhilosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on practical matters from within some larger intellectual context, and many held high office. Among the writers represented here are Pope Pius II (1458-1464), Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) and Juan de Torquemada OP (d. 1468). All of them, and the other writers dealt with, addressed the issues of their day creatively but from within different traditions, scholastic or humanistic. The present studies deal with issues of Reform, Ecclesiology [theories about the church and its mission] and the living of the Christian life. Among the specific issues covered are the canonization of Birgitta of Sweden, the status of converts from Judaism in Spain, acceptable forms of dress for clergy and laity, and the obedience due the pope. Also studied in this collection are the writings of Spanish theologians about the indigenous populatTrade Review’This volume is an impressive and useful compilation, and will be a great stimulus to future research in the areas represented in the various essays.’ Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Part 1 Reform: Reform and obedience in 4 conciliar sermons by Leonardo Dati, OP; The sins of the clergy in Juan de Torquemada's Defense of the Revelations of Saint Birgitta; Forbidden colors in the regulation of clerical dress from the 4th Lateran Council (1215) to the time of Nicolas of Cusa (d.1464). Part 2 Ecclesiology: The Immaculate Conception and ecclesiastical politics from the Council of Basel to the Council of Trent: the Dominicans and their foes; A papalist reading of Gratian: Juan de Torquemada on c. Quodcunque [C. 24 q. 1 c. 6]; Cajetan's attack on parallels between church and state; Representation in Nicholas of Cusa; An ambivalent papalism: Peter in the sermons of Nicholas of Cusa; 'Their Cardinal Cusanus': Nicholas of Cusa in Tudor and Stuart polemics; Reject Aneas!: Pius II on the errors of his youth. Part 3 The Christian Life: Leonardo Dati's sermon on the Circumcision of Jesus (1417); Juan de Torquemada's defense of the conversos; Nicholas of Cusa and the Jews; The origins of the De ornato mulierum of Antonius of Florence; Salamancan relectiones in the Fernán Núñez collection; Addenda et corrigenda; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Words Bede and Theodulf
Book SynopsisMedieval art is wordy; inscriptions and poems, commentaries and chronicles accompany and adorn it. The Art of Words presents a series of detective stories by a renowned explorer of medieval philological evidence who here examines the thought and objects of the Venerable Bede and Theodulf of Orleans. What physical objects did Bede have in mind, for example, when writing about the paintings of his monastic churches? How did he conceive of the division of biblical books into chapters? Why was the famous Libri Carolini made for Charlemagne never published? Indeed what did it mean in the Middle Ages to publish something? Pursuing the story of Bede''s calendar shows how Valentine''s Day began with a reference to birds. To unravel the meaning of the image of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus the author then demonstrates the importance of knowing the books that Bede knew and wrote. The final topic is the celebrated Apse mosaic of Germigny-des-Prés, how it was saved from destruction and how TheodTrade Review’The papers gathered here involve careful linguistic and artistic detective work, presented in an engaging, often personal style, and are well worthy of careful study.’ Journal of Theological StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Bede and the church paintings at Wearmouth-Jarrow; Bede's Capitula Lectionum for the Old and New Testaments; 'In the footsteps of the fathers': the date of Bede's 30 Questions on the Book of Kings to Nothelm; Discovering the calendar (annalis libellus) attached to Bede's own copy of De Temporum Ratione; Bede, Cassiodorus and Codex Amiatinus; The date of Bede's In Ezram and his image of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus; Dissension in Bede's community shown by a quire of Codex Amiatinus; The meaning of Theodulf's apse mosaic at Germigny-des-Prés (with Ann Freeman); Maximilen Théodore Chrétin and the apse mosaic at Germigny-des-Prés; Théodulfe et Bède au sujet des blessures du Christ (with A. Davril); Medieval notions of publication: the 'unpublished' Opus Caroli Regis Contra Synodum and the Council of Frankfort (794); Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal
Book SynopsisThough it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I Visigothica: The 'Isidorian' Epistula ad Massonam on lapsed clerics: notes on its early manuscript and textual transmission; The Visigothic liturgy in the realm of Charlemagne; Baptismal rite and Paschal vigil in transition in medieval Spain: a new text in Visigothic script; Visigothic-script remains of a Pandect Bible and the Collectio Canonum Hispana in Lucca; A Visigothic-script folio of a Carolingian collection of canon law; Utrecht fragments in Visigothic script; An early rule for Canons Regular from Santa Maria de l'Estany. Part II Beneventana: Monumenta liturgica Beneventana: new directions; The liturgy in Rome in the 11th century: past research and future opportunities; A homily in Beneventan script on the sacred orders, canonical hours, and clerical vestments (Vat. Borghese 186); Corpus Christi in Agnone; Canonistica Beneventana; The transmission of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis in Italy from the 10th to the 12th century; A monastic florilegium from the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis at Montecassino; Further evidence for the influence of the Hibernensis in Southern Italy; The South Italian Collection in 5 Books and its derivatives: a South Italian appendix to the Collection in 74 Titles; The South Italian Collection in 5 Books and its derivatives: Maastricht excerpta; Gratian's Decretum and the Code of Justinian in Beneventan script; Addenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of
Book SynopsisIn the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the civil communities. The first section looks both at contemporary historians employing rhetorical constructs and tactics and at contemporary accounts of the employment of rhetorical pedagogical material and theoretical texts in medieval and Renaissance cultural practices. The second set of articles considers change and continuity in the rhetorical exploitation''s of genre forms in cultural programs, focuses on the strong reorientation of Classical forms of moral inquiry, on the ingenious use of the proverb, of etymology, of the exemplum, as well as on the changes in strategies in the theater, Trade Review’For a resource on the application of rhetoric as a mode of historical inquiry, this collection offers a plethora of case studies.’ MetapsychologyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part 1 Rhetoric as Inquiry: The pertinence of rhetorical theory and practice for current Vichian scholarship; Topics in history; Subtilitas applicandi in rhetorical hermeneutics: Pierce's gloss and Kelly's example; Dilthey's Hobbes and Cicero's rhetoric; Political rhetoric and rhetorical politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540); Alltäglichkeit, timefullness in the Heideggerian program; Historical priorities. Part 2 The Rhetoric of Genres: Lorenzo Valla: humanist rhetoric and the critique of the classical languages of morality; Fables of power; Proverbial signs: formal strategies in Guicciardini's Ricordi; Pasquier's Recherches de la France: the exemplarity of his medieval sources; Shakespeare and rhetoric; The conversable world: 18th-century transformations of the relation of rhetoric and truth; Ethos and pathos in Ruskin's rhetoric; Florence and his aesthetic politics; Rhetoric: time, memory, memoir. Part 3 Rhetoric and the Disciplines: Petrarch's Invective contra medicum: an early confrontation of rhetoric and medicine; Rhetoric and medicine in Descartes' Passions de l'âme: the issue of intervention; Lionardo di Capoa's Parere (1681): a legal opinion on the use of Aristotle in medicine; Hobbes and Vico on law: a rhetorical gloss; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in
Book SynopsisThe last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet sequence to be published by an Englishwoman. Wroth''s writings enter into a suggestive and gendered dialogue with the lyric and narrative works of her uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, even as they carve out a place for her own literary experiments. This volume gathers together some of the most striking recent criticism addressing Wroth''s oeuvre; many of its essays also discuss the intellectual and cultural contexts in which she wrote. The collection is prefaced by an extended editorial overview of scholarship in the field.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 'And thus leave off': reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger manuscript, V.a.104, Heather Dubrow; 'Shall I turne blabb?': circulation, gender, and subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroth's sonnets, Jeff Masten; Rewriting lyric fictions: the role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Naomi J. Miller; The labyrinth as style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Mary Moore; Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: the politics of withdrawal, Rosalind Smith. Part II Urania I and II: A pack of lies in a looking glass: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the magic mirror of romance, Jennifer Lee Carrell; 'The Great Cham': East meets West in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; 'Beleeve this butt a fiction': female authorship, narrative undoing and the limits of romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Clare R. Kinney; The biopolitics of romance in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Ellen Lamb; Reading romances: the handwritten ending of Mary Wroth's Urania in the UCLA Library copy, Susan Light; Textual crimes and punishment in Mary Wroth's Urania, Shannon Miller; The constant subject: instability and female authority in Wroth's Urania poems, Maureen Quilligan; The strang[e] constructions of Mary Wroth's Urania: Arcadian romance and the public realm, Paul Salzman. Part III Love's Victory: Love's Victory, Barbara K. Lewalski; Deciphering women's pastoral: coded language in Wroth's Love's Victory, Josephine A. Roberts; 'Here is a sport will well befit this time and place': allusion and delusion in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory, Marion Wynne-Davies. Part IV Contexts: 'A Sydney, though un-named': Ben Jonson's influence in the manuscript and print circulation of Lady Mary Wroth's writings, Michael G. Brennan; 'Yet tell me some such fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'femininity' of romance, Helen Hackett; 'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a mentor to Mary Wroth, Margaret P. Hannay; Boredom and whoredom: reading Renaissance women's sonnet sequences, Elizabeth Hanson; More I still undoe: Louise Labé, Mary Wroth and the Petrarchan discourse, Roger Kuin; The politics of genre in early women's writing: the case of Lady Mary Wroth, Cristina Luckyj; Lady Mary Wroth in the house of Busirane, Jacqueline T. Miller; Agency and marriage in the fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Anne Shaver; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in
Book SynopsisMary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was renowned in her own time for her metrical translation of biblical Psalms, several original poems, translations from French and Italian, and her literary patronage. William Shakespeare used her Antonius as a source, Edmund Spenser celebrated her original poems, John Donne praised her Psalmes, and Lady Mary Wroth and Aemilia Lanyer depicted her as an exemplary poet. Arguably the first Englishwoman to be celebrated as a literary figure, she has also attracted considerable modern attention, including more than two hundred critical studies. This volume offers a brief introduction to her life and an extensive overview of the critical reception of her works, reprints some of the most essential and least accessible essays about her life and writings, and includes a full bibliography.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Bibliography; Chronology; Part I Original Works: Davies's Astraea and other contexts of the Countess of Pembroke's 'A Dialogue', Mary C. Erler; 'To the angell spirit...': Mary Sidney's entry into the 'world of words', Beth Wynne Fisken; 'Love which hath never done': the Countess of Pembroke's Elegies and the Apology for Copia, Clare R. Kinney; Two unpublished letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Steven W. May; Mary Sidney and gendered strategies for the writing of poetry, Shannon Miller; Ficinian elements in selected poems of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Elizabeth Mary Tilyou; Mary Sidney's '... two shepherds', G.F. Waller. Part II Translations: Antonius: Mary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra, Tina Krontiris; Shakespeare's response to dramatic tradition in Anthony and Cleopatra, Michael Steppat. The Triumph of Death: 'Lover's songs shall turne to holy psalmes': Mary Sidney and the transformation of Petrarch, Danielle Clarke. A Discourse of Life and Death: The style of the Countess of Pembroke's translation of Philippe de Mornay's Discours de la Vie et de la Mort, Diane Bornstein. Part III Psalms: The Queen's proposed visit to Wilton House in 1599 and the 'Sidney Psalms', Michael G. Brennan; George Gascoigne's and Mary Sidney's versions of Psalm 130, Roy T. Eriksen; God's 'scholer': the Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes and Beza's Psalmorum Davidis... Libri Quinque, Noel J. Kinnamon; The influence of medieval rabbinical commentaries on the Countess of Pembroke's Psalm 58, June Leavitt; The Countess of Pembroke's Ruins of Rome, Anne Lake Prescott; Circulating the Sidney-Pembroke Psalter, Debra Rienstra and Noel Kinnamon; The Sidneys and the Psalms, Theodore L. Steinberg. Part IV Literary Contexts: Multiple Arcadias and the literary quarrel between Fulke Greville and the Countess of Pembroke, Joel Davis; Sidney's 2 riddles, Wendy Gibson; 'The highest matter in the noblest form': the influence of the Sidney Psalms, Ha
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in
Book SynopsisElizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. Her History of ... Edward II has provided fertile ground for questions about authorship and historical form. The essays included in this volume highlight the many evolving debates about Cary's works, from their complicated generic characteristics, to the social and political contexts they reflect, to the ways in which Cary's writing enters into dialogue with texts by male writers of her time. In its critical introduction, the volume offers a thorough analysis of where Cary criticism has been and where it might venture in the future.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Selected bibliography; Part I The Life and/in the Work: Elizabeth Cary and The Tragedie of Mariam, Elaine Beilin; Resurrecting the author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Donald W. Foster; The reproduction of mothering in Mariam, Queen of Jewry: a defense of 'biographical' criticism, Meredith Skura; A family affair: the life and letters of Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Heather Wolfe. Part II The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry: Genre: Valuing Mariam: genre study and feminist analysis, Nancy A. Gutierrez; Theaters, households, and a 'kind of history' in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Rosemary Kegl; 'Profane stoical paradoxes': The Tragedie of Mariam and Sidneian closet drama, Marta Straznicky. Social and Political Contexts: Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry, Dympna Callaghan; Reading, work and Catholic women's biographies, Frances E. Dolan; Allegories of imperial subjection: literacy as equivocation in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam, Margaret W. Ferguson; Backbiters, flatterers, and monarchs: domestic politics in The Tragedy of Mariam, Heather E. Ostman; 'Counterfeit colour': making up race in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Kimberly Woosley Poitevin; The Tragedy of Mariam: Cary's critique of the terms founding social discourses, Laurie J. Shannon. Part III The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II: Reform or rebellion? The limits of female authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the life, Reign and Death of Edward II, Gwynne Kennedy; Gender and property: Elizabeth Cary and the History of Edward II, Karen Raber; Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: what do women want to write, Meredith Skura; Shaping a drama out of a history: Elizabeth Cary and the story of Edward II, Janet Wright Starner and Susan M. Fitzmaurice. Part IV Cary in Comparison: 'Ears prejudicate' in Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi, Reina Green; Insurgent flesh: epistemology and violence in Othello and Maria
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in
Book SynopsisUntil recently, Anne Clifford has been known primarily for her Knole Diary, edited by Vita Sackville-West, which recounted her steadfast resistance to the most authoritative figures of her culture, including James I, as she insisted on her right to inherit her father''s title and lands. Lucy Hutchinson was known primarily as the biographer of her husband, a Puritan leader during the English Civil Wars. The essays collected here examine not only these texts but, in Clifford''s case, her architectural restorations and both the Great Book which she had compiled and the Great Picture which she commissioned, in order to explore the identity she fashioned for herself as a property owner, matriarchal head of her family, patron and historian. In Hutchinson''s case, recent scholars have turned their attention to her poetry, her translation of Lucretius and her biblical epic, Order and Disorder, to analyze her contributions to early modern scientific and political writing and to place her work iTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Bibliography; Chronology; Part I Anne Clifford: Anne Clifford as Orlando: Virginia Woolf's feminist historiology and women's biography, Nicky Hallett; Re-writing patriarchy and patronage: Margaret Clifford, Anne Clifford, and Aemilia Lanyer, Barbara K. Lewalski; The agency of the split subject: Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of reading, Mary Ellen Lamb; Anne Clifford and the gendering of history, Mihoko Suzuki; Constructing an identity in prose, plaster, and paint: Lady Anne Clifford as writer and patron of the arts, Alice T. Friedman; The great picture of Lady Anne Clifford, Graham Parry; Marginal maternity: reading Lady Anne Clifford's A Mirror for Magistrates, Stephen Orgel; Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property, Paul Salzman; Knowing her place: Anne Clifford and the politics of retreat, Susan Wiseman; Serial identity: history, gender and form in the diary writing of Anne Clifford, Megan Matchinske; Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries, Anne M. Myers. Part II Lucy Hutchinson: 'The colonel's shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing and the Civil War, N.H. Keeble; Remembering a hero: Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of her husband, Derek Hirst; 'But a copie': textual authority and gender in editions of The Life of John Hutchinson, David Norbrook; Maternity, marriage, and contract: Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and Disorder, Shannon Miller; Between atoms and the spirit: Lucy Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius, Reid Barbour; Lucy Hutchinson writing matter, Jonathan Goldberg; Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies and the situation of the republican woman writer (with text), David Norbrook; Polluted palaces: gender, sexuality, and property in Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies, Pamela Hammons; 'Paper frames': Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies and the 17th-century country house poem, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; Lucy Hutchinson: a life of writing, Robert Mayer; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd War and Religion after Westphalia 16481713
Book SynopsisMany historians consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years'' War in 1648, to mark a watershed in European international relations. It is generally agreed that Westphalia brought to an end more than a century of religious conflicts and marked the beginning of a new era in which secular power politics was the prime motivating factor in international relations and warfare. The purpose of this volume is to question this assumption and reconceptualise the relationship between war, foreign policy and religion during the period 1648 to 1713. Some of the contributions to the volume directly challenge the idea that religion ceased to play a role in war and foreign policy. Others confirm the traditional view that religion did not play a dominant role after 1648, but seek to re-evaluate its significance and thereby redefine religious influences on policy in this period. By exploring this issue from various perspectives, the volume offers a unique opportunity to reassess the iTrade Review'This volume of essays [...] contains much that is of interest, and showcases a wide range of methodological, thematic, and geographical approaches. It suggests the formation of a new historiographical consensus, and provides a springboard for further discussion.' War in HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the 'dark alliance' between religion and war, David Onnekink; Plus royaliste que le pape: Louis XIV's religious policy and his Guerre de Holland, Paul Sonnino; The role of religion in Spanish foreign policy in the reign of Carlos II (1665-1700), Christopher Storrs; After Westphalia: remodelling a religious foreign policy, Andrew C. Thompson; The last war of religion? The Dutch and the 9 Years War, David Onnekink; Diplomacy, religion and political stability: the views of 3 English diplomats, Stéphane Jettot; The blessed Trinity: the army, the navy and providence in the conduct of warfare, 1688-1713, K.A.J. McLay; Schomberg, Miremont and Huguenot invasions of France, Matthew Glozier; The States General on religion and war: manifestos, policy documents and prayer days in the Dutch republic, 1672-1713, Donald Haks; An English dissenter and the crisis of European Protestantism: Roger Morrice's perception of European politics in the 1680s, Stephen Taylor; A righteous war and a Papist peace: war, peace and religion in the political rhetoric of the United Provinces, 1648-1672, Jill Stern; Defending the true faith: religious themes in Dutch pamphlets on England, 1688-1689, Emma Bergin; Conclusion, Benjamin J. Kaplan; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the 'godly' in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church. One of the major sources used is the school textbooks which were incorporated into the 'English Stock' set up by leading members of the Stationers' Company of London and reproduced in hundreds ofTrade Review’A feast of learning.’ Northern History 'Green demonstrates that to really comprehend early modern people it is necessary to know a great deal more about how they were educated to think about their roles in society. His argument is convincing and deserves to be read by anyone interested in early modern English culture.' American Historical Review '... [Green] has produced a work of solid scholarship that will have something for almost any student of early-modern English educational or religious history.' The Catholic Historical Review 'Ian Green in Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education has written a classic study that all early modern scholars will want to own.' Sixteenth Century Journal ’This volume makes a significant contribution to early modern studies, and offers indications for future research in a wide range of areas. It will be of interest not only to historians of education but also to scholars of cultural, linguistic and social history.’ English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Historiography and sources; Grammar schools and grammar teachers in Protestant England; The uses of Latin in the lower forms of grammar schools; The uses of Latin and Greek in the senior forms and universities; Protestant influences in grammar schools and universities; Assessing the impact; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in
Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Contributors analyze portraits of men in domestic and studio spaces in France during the long nineteenth century; the preponderance of such portraits alone supports the book''s premise that the alignment of men with public life is oversimplified and more myth than reality. The volume offers analysis of works by a mix of artists, from familiar names such as David, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Rodin, and Matisse to less well-known image makers including Dominique Doncre, Constance Mayer, Anders Zorn and Lucien-Etienne Melingue. The essays cover a range of media from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture that allows exploration of the relation between masculinity and interiority across the visual culture of the period. The home and other interior spaces emerge from these studies as rich and complex locations for both masculine self-expreTrade Review'The exploration of the theme of masculinity in relation to interiority is long overdue. This volume ameliorates some of the divisions that have haunted the scholarship of this period... a great addition to the roster of 19th century books.' Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University, USA 'Overall, the essays make case for the contingency of masculinity and the insufficiency of critical attention to that fact in modernism. While primarily of interest to historians of visual culture, the volume offers ways to understand articulations of masculinity beyond the public/private binary. The collection succeeds in giving shape to the case that understanding interiors, and the interiority expressed within them, has not just value but some urgency.' French History 'The twelve essays themselves cover a broad and exciting range of visual material across the period, from painting and sculpture to photography and fashion. Among fascinating discussions of topics such as family portraiture, the artist’s studio, and the cabinet de travail, the volume also offers engaging reflections on key nineteenth-century figures... All images are beautifully presented and meticulously set out, while an extensive bibliography provides an up-to-date resource for the fields discussed.' French StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen and Pamela J. Warner; The revolution at home: masculinity, domesticity and political identity in family portraiture, 1789-1795, Amy Freund; Picturing paternity: the artist and father-daughter portraiture in post-Revolutionary France, Heather Belnap Jensen; Public and private identities in Delacroix's Portrait of Charles de Mornay and Anatole Demidoff, Jennifer W. Olmsted; At home with the camera: modeling masculinity in early French photography, Laurie Dahlberg; The artist in his studio: dress, milieu, and masculine identity, Heather McPherson; Cézanne, Manet, and the portraits of Zola, Andre Dombrowski; At home in the studio: two group portraits of artists by Bazille and Renoir, Alison Strauber; In bed with Marat: (un)doing masculinity, James Smalls; The competing dialectics of the cabinet de travail: masculinity at the threshold, Pamela J. Warner; Anders Zorn's etched portraits of American men, or the trouble with French masculinity, S. Hollis Clayson; Auguste Rodin, photography, and the construction of masculinity, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez; Matisse and self, the persistent interior, Temma Balducci; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture
Book SynopsisOttonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-1002) and Henry II (1002-1024). Author Eliza Garrison analyzes liturgical artworks created for both rulers with the larger goal of addressing the ways in which individual art objects and the collections to which they belonged were perceived as elements of a material historical narrative and as portraits. Since these objects and images had the capacity to stand in for the ruler in his physical absence, she argues, they also performed political functions that were bound to their ritualized use in the liturgy not only during the ruler''s lifetime, but even after his death. Garrison investigates how treasury objects could relay officially sanctioned information in a manner that texts alone could not, offering the first full length exploration of this central phenomenon of the Ottonian era.Trade Review'The rare publication of an English monograph on Ottonian art is always cause for celebration. Still too little known, the art produced in the Germanic realms in the forty years on either side of 1000 CE is among the most sumptuous and complex of the entire Middle Ages. Although not a survey of the period, Eliza Garrison’s Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture is a fine demonstration of this claim, and Ashgate is to be congratulated on producing a handsome book whose mostly full-page illustrations do justice to the beauty and power of the objects under discussion.' caa.reviews '... an engaging and thoughtful analysis of the artistic patronage of the Holy Roman Emperors Otto III and Henry II... it will no doubt delight readers with its lucid presentation of some of the most complex and beautiful treasures to survive from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Highlights, to name just a few, include the Lothar Cross, the Gospels of Otto III, the Pericopes of Henry II, and the Bamberg Star Mantle; these works are often included in surveys, but too rarely discussed in depth. This new book is thus greatly welcome for two reasons: it engages with important objects that deserve more discussion, and it presents a well-written, up-to-date, yet accessible overview of scholarship on Ottonian treasury art... this is a welcome addition to the field of Ottonian art history, a subject that is finding increasing attention among North American scholars, and will do so even more thanks to the wonderful images, helpful bibliography, and engaging discussions presented in this book.' The Medieval Review 'Rarely does one encounter a study that attempts to associate this body of political art with the hard realities of contemporary politics. Garrison does not ignore the formal questions with which medieval art historians have been typically concerned, but such questions are supplemented by her methodology, which combines considerations of iconography, liturgy, political thought and source analyis, with a sense of the pragmatic aims and methods of Ottonian rulership.' Early Medieval EuropeTable of ContentsContents: Art and politics at the Imperial court: an introduction; Otto III at Aachen: the encounter with the divine; Henry II at Aachen: the remaking of the Aachen treasury; Henry II at Bamberg: picturing the ruler for all time; The use and reuse of the past: the cult of relics, the cult of spolia and the imperial image in the Ottonian period; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Newton his Friends and his Foes 390 Variorum
Book SynopsisOver the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the ânew viewâ of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of Newtonâs vast, but long neglected legacy of manuscripts, and the first studies in this volume illustrate the wealth of information these provide on the earliest phases of his great discoveries in mathematics and science. In particular, they confirm the intensity and originality of Newtonâs investigations before and through the âanni mirabilesâ of 1665-66. Further papers then deal with his relations with contemporaries such as Hooke, Leibniz and Huyghens, again making extensive use of unpublished manuscript material, and with the developing influence of his work. Durant les quarante derniÃres annÃes, le professeur Hall a Ãtà lâun des plus importants contributeurs à la nouvelle apprÃciation de lâoeuvre de Newton, qui est de nos jours la plus gÃnÃralement acceptÃe. Ceci provient essentiellement de lâexamen du vaste hÃritage de manuscrits laissÃs par Newton et trÃs longtemps nÃgligÃ; les premiÃres Ãtudes de ce volume illustrent la richesse dâinformations contenues dans ceux-ci quant aux toutes premiÃres phases de ses grandes dÃcouvertes dans le domaine des mathÃmatiques et de le science. Ils confirment en particulier lâintensità et lâoriginalità des recherches de Newton avant et pendant les anni mirabiles de 1665-66. Sâajoutent à ceci plusieurs Ãtudes, oà il est à nouveau fait grand usage de manuscrits inÃdits, traitant des rapports quâil entretenait avec ses contemporains tels, Hooke, Leibniz et Huyghens, ainsi que de lâinfluence progressive de ses travaux.Table of ContentsContents: An autobiographical introduction; Sir Isaac Newton’s note-book, 1661-1665; Further optical experiments of Isaac Newton; Newton on the calculation of central forces; Newton’s chemical experiments; Correcting the Principia; Newton’s ’mechanical principles’; Newton’s theory of matter; Newton and his editors; Beyond the fringe: diffraction as seen by Grimaldi, Fabri, Hooke and Newton; Two unpublished lectures of Robert Hooke; Newton’s first book; Horology and criticism: Robert Hooke; Henry More and the Scientific Revolution; Le problème de la vitesse de la lumière dans l’oeuvre de Newton; Leibniz and the British mathematicians (1673-1676); Newton in France: a new view; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The âCreed of Scienceâ in Victorian England
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new âcreedâ of science embraced what John Tyndall called the âscientific movementâ; it was, in the language of T.H. Huxley, a militant creed. The âmarchâ of invention, the discoveries of chemistry, and the wonders of steam and electricity culminated in a crusade against ignorance and unbelief. It was a creed that looked to its own apostolic succession from Copernicus, Galileo and the martyrs of the âscientific revolutionâ. Yet, it was a creed whose doctrines were divisive, and whose convictions resisted. Alongside arguments for materialism, utility, positivism, and evolutionary naturalism, persisted reservations about the nature of man, the role of ethics, and the limits of scientific method. These essays discuss lTrade Review'He has done more than most to facilitate our understanding of the debates around scientific naturalism...An extremely readable collection', British Journal for the History of Science, vol.34, no.1 'This most instructive volume provides a fascinating backdrop to some of the current controversies surrounding the science-religion field... there is a great deal of general interest in this book, especially for students of the science/religion interface.' Network '... a valuable collection. The convenience of having all of these essays collected together in one place makes it more likely that they will be read as a group, allowing the reader to consider their impact as a whole and come to a greater appreciation of MacLeod's anticipations of so many themes that now command the attention of historians of Victorian science.' ISISTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The X-Club: a social network in late-Victorian England; The scientists’s declaration: reflections on science and belief in the wake of Essays and Reviews, 1864-1865; The ’bankruptcy of science’ debate: the ’creed of science’ and its critics, 1885-1900; Evolutionism, internationalism and commercial enterprise in science: the international scientific series, 1871-1910; Education - scientific and technical; Fathers and daughters: reflections on women, science and Victorian Cambridge; The ’naturals’ and Victorian Cambridge: reflections on the anatomy of an elite, 1851-1914; Breaking the circle of science: the natural sciences tripos and the ’examination revolution’; Scientific careers of 1851 exhibition scholars; The genesis of Nature; The social framework of Nature in its first fifty years; Science, progressivism and ’practical idealism’: reflections on efficient imperialism and federal science in Australia, 1895-1915; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Practice of British Geology 17501850
Book SynopsisGeology is the most historical of all sciences. Yet its own history remains neglected, especially the many aspects of how geology was practised in the past. This volume analyses the careers of some important practical figures in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish geology between 1750 and 1850. These include people who would have regarded themselves more as mining engineers (or âcoal viewers' as they were then called in the vital coal industry) or âmineral surveyors' as today's mineral prospectors were first called (from 1808), or even inventors. Their expertise, in the land which led the industrial revolution, took them all over the world. Those included here went to Italy, and South (Peru) and North America (Virginia and Canada). The practice of geology, through the search for mines and minerals, has been much less attended to by historians than the geology which was undertaken by leisured amateurs - even though practical geology was as important in the past as the oil industry is todTrade Review'... the present collection of papers, from 1983 to 1999, is especially welcome... Torrens's papers are essential to understanding the history of geology ...' Archives of Natural History '... Hopefully this important collection of essays (...) will be acquired and placed on open shelves for geologists to access... a fascinating expedition into the past... opens windows into the long-lost world of the surveyors and engineers, all artisans rather than university-trained gentlemen, who were the first actually to practice geology.... Torrens has an eye for detail that reveals as much about the lives of these people as the very real geological world of shafts, wimbles, sections and strata.' Geological Magazine 'Few other practitioners in this field recreate the drama of historical discovery so convincingly... Torres writes (...) for specialists and has much to teach them.' Isis 'It is genuinely worthwhile and convenient to have these papers in one volume, given their disparate places of issue, sometimes in publications of limited distribution; and the index is a bonus of real value... Anyone interested in the history of British geology at the relevant period, and many local historians and industrial archaeologists, would find this worth checking for the issues that these papers raise...' Annals of Science 'This book should be on the shelf of all interested in the early development of both geology and mineral prospecting, particularly coal mining.' Geology Today 'Almost every one of these papers serves to advance and amplify an underlying thesis that should be of interest to historians of geology, and by extension to historians of science generally... In championing the historical roles of prospectors, surveyors, miners, engineers, and mineral dealers, he raises important questions about the proper balance between theory and practice in our historical perspective.' MetascienceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Some thoughts on the complex and forgotten history of mineral exploration; The British 'mineral engineer' John Williams (1732-1795), his work in Britain from 1749 to 1793 and as a mineral surveyor in the Veneto and North Italy between 1793 and 1795; Geological communication in the Bath area in the last half of the 18th century; Le ’Nouvel Art de Prospection Minière’ de William Smith et le ’Projet de Houillère de Brewham’: un essai malencontreux de recherche de charbon dans le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, entre 1803 et 1810; Patronage and problems: Banks and the earth sciences; John Farey (1766-1826), an unrecognised polymath, including John Farey, Bibliography; Coal hunting at Bexhill 1805-1811: how the new science of stratigraphy was ignored; James Ryan (c.1770-1847) and the problems of introducing Irish 'new technology' to British mines in the early 19th century; Arthur Aikin's mineralogical survey of Shropshire 1796-1816 and the contemporary audience for geological publications; The scientific ancestry and historiography of The Silurian System; Joseph Harrison Fryer (1777-1855): geologist and mining engineer, in England 1803-1825 and South America 1826-1828 - a study in 'failure'; William Edmond Logan's geological apprenticeship in Britain 1831-1842; James Buckman (1814-1884), English consulting geologist and his visit to the Guyandotte coal-fields in 1854; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd State Society and Intelligentsia
Book SynopsisThe subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia. These articles make available the results of work otherwise published only in the author''s books in Polish. The first part deals with key themes in the history of the last two centuries: nationalism and the nation state, the role of culture in the recovery of Polish independence, the Versailles system, and the growth of authoritarianism and fascism. The second part focuses on the history of Polish society in the 20th century, highlighting the extraordinary importance of the intelligentsia in modern Poland. Two articles also discuss the impact of new technologies and media in interwar Poland.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; State and Society in East-Central Europe, 19th-20th Centuries : Remarques sur l'évolution de l'idée nationale et de la conscience nationale en Pologne aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles; The role of Polish culture in the Polish nation's liberation strivings; The emergence of the system of national states in Central Europe (1918); L'Europe de Versailles, 1918-1923. Nationalités et securité collective; Arbeiter und Nationalismus in Polen vom Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges bis in die Gegenwart; Authoritarian systems in Central and South-Eastern Europe (1918-1939): analogies and differences; Fascist systems and authoritarian regimes - their basic features; East-central Europe as a periphery of 'genuine Europe'? Social Structure and the Intelligentsia in Modern Poland: Social structure of Poland, 1918-1939; Social inequalities in 20th-century Poland; The Polish intelligentsia between the intellectual élite and the middle class - typicality and peculiarity of the Polish social stratum; The historical role of the intelligentsia in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe; The old and the new rôles of the intelligentsia in Poland; Learned professions in Poland, 1918-1939; Techniques et civilisation dans la Pologne d'entre-deux-guerres 1918-1939; The impact of new technology on cultural life in Poland, 1918-1939; Die Folgewirkungen von Krieg und Okkupation und die Entwicklung der sozialen Klassen in Polen 1945-1948; Sozialgeschichte in Polen (with Anna Zarnowska); Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social and Economic Life in Byzantium Variorum
Book SynopsisSocial and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series; a fourth, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, will follow in 2005. The present volume is centred upon the period from the 9th to the 11th century, and a series of examinations into the society and economic activity of the Byzantine world. Other groups of studies investigate relations between state and church, monasteries in particular, aspects of the history of the Slavs in the Balkans, and topics in Byzantine epigraphy.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Michael McCormick; Church and State: Tax exemptions for the secular clergy under Basil II; La brebis égarée et retrouvée: l'apostat et son retour; The first century of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas; Le bateau de Chilandar; O Athos kai to Stouditikou protypo koinobiou; To dikastiko pronomio tes Neas Mones Chiou; The monastery of Patmos in the 11th and 12th Centuries and its economic functions. Society and Economy: Silk trade and production in Byzantium from the 6th to the 9th century: the seals of kommerkiarioi; De l'impôt de distribution à l'impôt de quotité: à propos du premier cadastre byzantin (7e-9e siècle); Middle-Byzantine provincial recruits: salary and armament; Terres du fisc et revenu de la terre aux Xe-XIe siècles; Le marchand byzantin des provinces (IXe-XIe s.); The economic region of Constantinople: from directed economy to free economy, and the role of the Italians; Se poio bathmo etan ekchrematismene e mesobyzantine oikonomia?; The Jews of Chios (1049): a group of excusati; The social structure of the Byzantine countryside in the first half of the 10th century; Title and income at the Byzantine court; To oplo tou chrematos; Il livello economico di Creta negli anni intorno al 1204; Liens de vassalité dans un apanage byzantin du XIIe siècle; Life and society in 11th-century Constantinople; The contents of the Byzantine house from the 11th to the 15th century. The Balkans and the Slavs: The medieval Via Egnatia; St Andrew, Joseph the Hymnographer and the Slavs of Patras; A propos de la première occupation byzantine de la Bulgarie (971-ca 986); A note on the campaign of Staurakios in the Peloponnese (783/84). Epigraphy: Pour une nouvelle lecture des inscriptions de Skripou en Béotie; L'épigraphie des bulles de plomb byzantines; Le tour du grand chartulaire Lapardas à Thessalonique; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Word Image and Experience Dynamics of Miracle and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poitiers, Dr de Nie gives in these innovative studies a new understanding of the miracle stories around which much of their writing revolves, but whose bizarre dynamics appear to defy sense, which has often resulted in their dismissal as useless to the historian. These authors' perceptions of miracles - and their renderings of the human self-awareness through which miracles are perceived and happen - are analysed as attempts, mostly rooted in models from the Bible, to adjust the early Christian tradition so as to make sense of, and protect themselves in, the highly insecure environment of 6th-century Frankish Gaul. Drawing on modern anthropological and psychological studies, notably in the area of spiritual healing practices, as well as on philosophical and theological reflections about verbal and mental imagery, she demonstrates how these can be used to throw fresh light on late antique society and its spirituality, exploring views of mind, affectivity, body, sensory phenomena, symbols, and the perception of women as well as of the qualities of images, verbal language and texts. The volume includes five essays not previously published in English.Trade Review'The great value of de Nie's work lies [...] in probing the very areas that many historians seek to avoid - namely the imagination, the actual nature of miracles and a spiritual rather than a sensory reality...' Early Medieval EuropeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Visions of the heart; Self-Perception: a permeable vessel: Is a woman a human being? Precept, prejudice and practice in 6th-century Gaul; The body, fluidity and personal identity in the world view of Gregory of Tours; Contagium and images of self in late 6th-century Gaul; Images of invisible dynamics: self and non-self in 6th-century saints' lives; Symbolic action: Miracle - or magic?: Caesarius of Arles and Gregory of Tours: two 6th-century Gallic bishops and 'Christian magic'; Iconic alchemy: the dynamic of images: A broken lamp or the effluence of holy power? Common sense and belief-reality in Gregory of Tours' own experience; Seeing and believing in the early Middle Ages: a preliminary investigation; Gregory of Tours' smile: spiritual reality, imagination and earthly events in the 'Histories'; History and miracle: Gregory's use of metaphor; The poet as visionary: Venantius Fortunatus' 'new mantle' for St Martin; Iconic alchemy: imaging miracles in late 6th-century Gaul; Word, image and experience in the early medieval miracle story; Fatherly and motherly curing in 6th-century Gaul: St Radegund's mysterium; Poetics of wonder: dream-consciousness and transformational dynamics in 6th-century miracle stories; The miracle in language: The 'power' of what is said in the book: word, script and sign in Gregory of Tours; Text, symbol and 'oral culture' in the 6th-century church: the miracle story; The language in miracle - the miracle in language: words and the Word according to Gregory of Tours; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Manuscripts in PostMedieval England
Book SynopsisTwo themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the universities. The section 'Libraries and collectors' includes papers on seven major English collectors of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the section 'Manuscripts' concerns the fates of five manuscripts or groups of manuscripts from England, Belgium and Italy. Of the other chapters one is concerned with the post-medieval history of the library of All Souls College, Oxford, and another with the provenance of hundreds of manuscripts in the Harleian collection in the British Library. For this volume Andrew Watson has provided extensive additional notes and indexes.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; Libraries and Collectors: The post-medieval library of All Souls College Oxford; Robert Green of Welby, alchemist and Count Palatine, c.1467-c.1540; A 16th-century collector: Thomas Dackomb, c.1496-c.1572; John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a collector of medieval manuscripts: a preliminary investigation; Christopher and William Carye, collectors of monastic manuscripts, and 'John Carye'; Robert Hare's books; Thomas Allen of Oxford and his manuscripts; The manuscript collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614); The manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke; Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Review article; Manuscripts: An early 13th-century Low Countries booklist [in BL MS Harley 2720]; A 16th-century English Sammelband [in BL, MS Harley 218]; A Merton College manuscript reconstructed: Harley 625, Digby 178 fols. 1-14, 88-115, Cotton Tiberius B. IX, fols. 1-4, 225-35; A St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, manuscript reconstructed: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.30 and British Library MSS Egerton 823 and 840a; A Varese library-stamp identified?; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Les sources du plainchant et de la musique
Book SynopsisThe origin and development of Western plainchant, and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded, have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career, which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume, the first in a set of four to appear in the Variorum series, brings together analyses of manuscripts dating from the 9th to the 13th century, including Huglo's pathbreaking studies of the antiphoner of CompiÃgne, the first troper-prosers, and of alleluia lists as clues to place of origin. The consequences of the Treaty of Verdun (843) for the diffusion of the plainchant repertory, research in medieval musicology in the 20th century, the utility of codicology for musicological manuscript studies, and the critical edition of the Gregorian antiphoner are addressed in other studies included here. Les origines et le dÃveloppement du plain-chant en Occident et l'Ãtude des genres de livres liturgiques qui le contiennent ont occupà Michel Huglo durant sa longue carriÃre et l'ont conduit à visiter des bibliothÃques partout en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Ce volume, le premier d'une sÃrie de quatre dans la collection Variorum, comprend des analyses de manuscrits du neuviÃme au treiziÃme siÃcle, notamment des Ãtudes novatrices relanà ant les recherches sur l'antiphonaire de CompiÃgne, les premiers tropaires-prosaires et les listes d'alleluias comme moyen d'identification des manuscrits de chant. Les consÃquences du traità de Verdun (843) pour la diffusion du rÃpertoire de plain-chant, les recherches en musicologie mÃdiÃvale au XXe siÃcle, l'application des mÃthodes de la codicologie à l'Ãtude des manuscrits notÃs, et l'Ãdition critique de l'Antiphonaire grÃgorien forment les sujets d'autres Ãtudes rÃunies dans ce volume.Trade Review'The reproduction is to a high standard throughout, and there can be no doubt that these volumes will quickly prove themselves indispensable to the diverse range of scholars for whom Michel Huglo continues to be a guiding light.' The Library 'Huglo published three books and over two hundred articles on the history and manuscripts of Eastern and Western plainchant, late antique and medieval music theory, and early organum. Eighty of these have been reprinted as a four-volume set in Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies series, a dazzling display of scholarship on almost all aspects of early medieval music.' AMS NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Entrée en Matière: La recherche en musicologie médiévale au XXe siècle; Codicologie et musicologie; Division de la tradition monodique en deux groupes 'est' et 'ouest'. Graduel et Missel: Les listes alléluiatiques dans les témoins du Graduel Grégorien; Le graduel palimpsest de Plaisance (Paris, B.N. lat. 7102); Un missel noté de Fleury; Un missel de Saint-Riquier (Wien, Österr. N.B. 1933); Un missel d'Annet Régin, chantre de la cathédrale de Clermont. Antiphonaire et Bréviaire: L'antiphonaire: archétype ou répertoire originel?; L'édition critique de l'antiphonaire grégorien; Les remaniements de l'antiphonaire grégorien au IXe siècle: Hélisachar, Agobard, Amalaire; Observations codicologiques sur l'antiphonaire de Compiègne (Paris, B.N. lat. 17436); Remarques sur la notation musicale du bréviaire de Saint-Victor-sur-Rhins. Autres Livres: Un évangéliaire de la cathédrale d'Amiens; Les 'Libelli' de tropes et les premiers Tropaires-Prosaires; Les fragments d'Echternach (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 9488); Trois anciens manuscrits liturgiques d'Auvergne; Les anciens manuscrits du fonds Fétis; Un rituel de Gemona conservé en Californie; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chant grgorien et musique mdivale Variorum
Book SynopsisThis is the third in a set of four collections of articles by Michel Huglo to be published in the Variorum series. It brings together the studies of Gregorian chant and of later monophonic and polyphonic additions to the earlier repertory that occupied Huglo in the second phase of his research. Represented here are articles on the Kyrie, the introit tropes of St-Gall, an elegy for William the Conqueror (d. 1087), the versus by Venantius Fortunatus for the cathedral of Paris, the liturgical dramas of Fleury, early organum, the Mass of Tournai, and, finally, the Requiem by Eustache Du Caurroy. Ce volume des articles de Michel Huglo est le troisiÃme de la sÃrie de quatre dans la collection Variorum. Il rÃunit des Ãtudes sur le chant grÃgorien et sur les additions de piÃces monodiques ou polyphoniques faites au rÃpertoire primitif, sujets qui ont occupà Michel Huglo dans la seconde phase de sa carriÃre de chercheur. Dans ce volume, le lecteur trouvera des articles sur le Kyrie, les tropes d'introà t de St-Gall, l'ÃlÃgie pour Guillaume le ConquÃrant (d. 1087), les versus de Venance Fortunat pour la cathÃdrale de Paris, les drames liturgiques de Fleury, les dÃbuts de l'organum, la Messe de Tournai, et finalement le Requiem d'Eustache Du Caurroy.Trade Review'Apart from the easy availability of the articles, this series has added value in the indexes, with separate ones for MSS, place names, personal names, and chant texts.' Early Music Review ’This supplementary material and the occasionally out-of-the-way places in which the original articles appeared would make these volumes essential to any university library that is serious about medieval music. In addition, multiple indexes (of manuscripts, place names, names of individuals, and an index of chants) allow readers to identify and access multiple references in both the original articles and the addenda.’ Plainson and Medieval Music 'Huglo published three books and over two hundred articles on the history and manuscripts of Eastern and Western plainchant, late antique and medieval music theory, and early organum. Eighty of these have been reprinted as a four-volume set in Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies series, a dazzling display of scholarship on almost all aspects of early medieval music.' AMS NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Michel Huglo; Chant Grégorien: Le traitement de l'accent tonique latin au Moyen âge d'après le chant grégorien; Origine et diffusion des Kyrie; Le Répons-Graduel de la Messe. Evolution de la forme. Permanence de la fonction; Les livres liturgiques de la Chaise-Dieu. Poésie Liturgique, Tropes, Séquences et Drames Liturgiques: Les versus de Venance Fortunat pour la procession du Samedi-saint à Notre-Dame de Paris; Remarques sur un manuscrit de la Consolatio Philosophiae (Londres, British Library, Harleian 3095); Aux origines des tropes d'interpolation: le trope méloforme d'introit. 1ère partie: la tradition sangallienne [St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 484 et 381]; Compte rendu: Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen Codices 484 & 381; Compte rendu: Codex 121 Einsiedeln, t. 1: Graduale und Sequenzen Notkers von St. Gallen, t. 2: Kommentar zum Faksimile, éd. Otto Lang (Weinheim: VCH, Acta humaniora, 1991); Centres de composition des tropes et cercles de diffusion; Une élégie sur la mort de Guillaume le Conquérant; Un nouveau prosaire nivernais; Les séquences de Münsterbilsen (Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale, 9736-9790); Analyse codicologique des drames liturgiques de Fleury (Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 201). Organum et Polyphonie: L'organum à Landévennec au IXe siècle; Les origines de l'organum vocal en France et en Italie d'après les données de l'ethnomusicologie et d'après les sources historiques; Du répons de l'Office avec prosule au répons organisé; Les débuts de la polyphonie à Paris: les premiers organa parisiens; Le manuscrit de la Messe de Tournai; A propos du Requiem de Du Caurroy. Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance Variorum
Book SynopsisOf the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (Franà ois Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and Franà ois Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled 'Serious Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'Trade Review'... the volume is a further tribute to a scholar the breadth and depth of whose researches have long been an example to us all.' Renaissance Studies 'The main reason for scholarly neglect of old jokes is presumably that they are no longer funny, but Bowen reminds us by both precept and example that this does not make them any the less interesting.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Humanist Wit: Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1344-1490: a new listing; Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1499-1528: a new listing; Roman jokes and the Renaissance prince, 1455-1528; Ciceronian wit and Renaissance rhetoric; The collection of facezie attributed to Angelo Poliziano; Paolo Cortesi's laughing cardinal; Festive humanism: the case of Luscinius; Rabelais: Rire est le propre de l'homme; Rabelais's Panurge as homo rhetoricus; Rabelais et le propos torcheculatif; Lenten eels and Carnival sausages; Bragueta juris: notes sur Rabelais et le droit; Rabelais and the Library of Saint-Victor; Janotus de Bragmardo in the limelight (Gargantua, ch. 19); Rabelais and Folengo once again; French Humanist Humour: 'Honneste' et sens de l'humour au XVIe siècle; Facétie/sententia/apophtegme: les Divers propos memorables de Gilles Corrozet; Tabourot facetus: le sieur Gaulard; 'Lasciuetez' et scatologie: la rhétorique des Escraignes dijonnoises; Béroalde de Verville and the self-destructing book; 'Il faut donner dedans': sexe ou/et rhétorique dans le Moyen de parvenir; 'Serious' Humanists: Geofroy Tory's Champ Fleury and its major sources; Cornelius Agrippa's De vanitate: polemic or paradox?; Jacques Tahureau revisited; Emblems, elephants, and Alexander; Index.
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