Author: Norris PaulPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Alderdene
Author: Norris PaulByzantium After Byzantium
Author: Nicolae IorgaPublisher: Center For Romanian Studies
ISBN: 9781592111367
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published in French in 1935, the author's formula Byzantium after Byzantium defines several centuries of world history. Iorga points out the great contributions of Byzantine civilization to the Western world, especially during the Renaissance. He demonstrates that Byzantium survived through its people and local autonomies, as well as through its exiles--clerics, scholars, merchants, and political officials. One of the most important expressions of this was found in the Romanian principalities where Greeks from the Phanar district of Istanbul played a major role in Romanian political life, defining an entire period of Romanian history--the Phanariot Period. They continued the Byzantine ideas, aspirations, education, and way of life. All of this allows us to speak of a Byzantium after Byzantium.
The Acharnians
Author: AristophanesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
Dante
Author: Leigh HuntDorset Elizabethans at Home and Abroad
Author: Rachel LloydPublisher:
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Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Giant Race Before the Flood
Author: Gunnar SoreliusPublisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Elizabethans and the Irish
Author: David B. QuinnPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library [Washington] by Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
“The views held by sixteenth-century Englishmen of the Irish and their way of life were varied and often contradictory. This book explores the English impressions of the Irish during the period when England was trying to tighten her grip on Ireland and "civilize" its inhabitants. Attempts to impose English forms of religion, law, government, taxation, and social organization met with armed resistance; the author describes the old Gaelic society and customs that the Irish fought so desperately to preserve. Then, turning to contemporary accounts and drawings, he presents the differing approaches of the half-dozen major writers on the Irish—"curious, surprised, hostile, censorious, nationalistic, reforming, and, paradoxically, at times sympathetic and brutal almost in the same breath." Descriptions of the Irish by these writers comprise an important part of the book, which ends with the inevitable destruction of the old Irish society by Tudor repression and slaughter, and the movement of many Irishmen to England and the Continent. The volume contains twenty-five contemporary illustrations of Irish life.”-Publisher.
Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
Author: G. P. V. AkriggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Garrick's Jubilee
Author: Martha Winburn EnglandPublisher: [Columbus] : Ohio State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Four Centuries of Shakespearian Criticism
Author: Frank KermodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Young children describe the eyes of different animals.