Author: Eustace BudgellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles;
Author: Eustace BudgellMemoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles, Particulary of the Late Eminently Learned Charles Earl of Orrery
Author: BudgellMaking Ireland English
Author: Jane OhlmeyerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030017750X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. Jane Ohlmeyer's research in the archives of the era yields a major new understanding of early Irish and British elite, and it offers fresh perspectives on the experiences of the Irish, English, and Scottish lords in wider British and continental contexts. The book examines the resident peerage as an aggregate of 91 families, not simply 311 individuals, and demonstrates how a reconstituted peerage of mixed faith and ethnicity assimilated the established Catholic aristocracy. Tracking the impact of colonization, civil war, and other significant factors on the fortunes of the peerage in Ireland, Ohlmeyer arrives at a fresh assessment of the key accomplishment of the new Irish elite: making Ireland English.
Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles
Author: Eustace BudgellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: M.A. GilkeyPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750
Author: Floris VerhaartPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the progress of scientific discoveries and the new paradigms of rationalism and empiricism meant the authority of the ancients was called into question. Those working on the classical past and its literature debated new ways of defending their relevance for society. The different approaches to classical literature defended in these debates explain how the writings of ancient Greece and Rome could become a vital part of eighteenth-century culture and political thinking. Floris Verhaart analyses these eighteenth-century debates about the value of classics, arguing that the Enlightenment, though often seen as an age of reason and modernity, in fact continuously sought inspiration from preceding traditions and ages such as Renaissance humanism and classical antiquity. The volume offers an interesting parallel with the modern day, in which the relationship between 'experts' and the general public has become the topic of debate and many academics, especially in the humanities, face pressure to explain how their work benefits society at large.
Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Dustin GriffinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. Challenging claims about the public sphere and the professional writer, it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book and takes up such under-treated topics as the forms of literary careers and the persistence of the Renaissance “republic of letters” into the “age of authors.”
Bibliotheca Chethamensis: sive Bibliothecæ publicæ mancuniensis ab Humfredo Chetham armigero fundatæ catalogus exhibens libros in varias classes pro varietate argumenti distributos ...
Author: Bibliotheca Chethamensis: sive Bibliothecæ publicæ Mancuniensis ab Humfredo Chetham armigero fundatæ catalogus, ed. J. Radcliffe (G.P. Greswell, T. Jones).
Author: Manchester Chetham's librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description