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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Month
Author: The Wedding Night
Author: Jane MerrillPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313392110
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.
Collections Vol 9 N1
Author: CollectionsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442267844
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
"Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals" is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of handling, preserving, researching, and organizing collections. Curators, archivists, collections managers, preparators, registrars, educators, students, and others contribute.
The Literary World
Author: State Beds and Throne Canopies
Author: Val DaviesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781873132586
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
State Beds and Throne Canopies: Care and Conservation is the first publication to concentrate solely on state beds and throne canopies in England, covering not only their historical and stylistic developments and the role that they played in the theatre of courtly ritual, but more importantly focusing on the surviving objects themselves and the care they now receive. The specific subjects of this book are the state beds and throne canopies at Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace. Different in style, construction and hangings, they reflect the changing times, circumstances, court use and character of their owners. Increasingly rare, they pose problems of access, conservation treatment and financial provision. Practical guidelines are provided for conservation approaches with short case history summaries that bring together knowledge and experience gained from working in a unique situation with an unparalleled collection of court furnishings. The information accrued and the strategies that have evolved to cope with these rare objects are outlined.Containing a vast amount of detail not found elsewhere, this lavishly illustrated work is a valuable reference not only to conservators, but also to owners, curators and collection managers who may not have access to specialist advice in house, and to a wider audience of all those with an interest in cultural heritage and in preserving it for future generations to enjoy.
The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs
Author: John TimbsThe new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences
Author: Encyclopaedia PerthensisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Furniture Manufacturer
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Tudor England
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1747
Book Description
This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami
Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe
Author: Helen Matheson-PollockPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331976974X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice—but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this volume shows. These essays trace the relationship between queenship and counsel through over three hundred years of history. Case studies span Europe, from Sweden and Poland-Lithuania via the Habsburg territories to England and France, and feature queens regnant, consort and regent, including Elizabeth I of England, Catherine Jagiellon of Sweden, Catherine de’ Medici and Anna of Denmark. They draw on a variety of innovative sources to recover evidence of queenly counsel, from treatises and letters to poetry, masques and architecture. For scholars of history, politics and literature in early modern Europe, this book enriches our understanding of royal women as political actors.