Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory to Accompany the New Chart of the Atlantic Ocean
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Literary Year-book
Author: Frederick George AflaloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames, One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler WoodhouseleePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Secretaries of State, 1681-1782.
Author: Mark A. ThomsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Published in 1968: While giving a lucid account of the functions and difficulties of the office of Principal Secretary, the author shows clearly how the retention of this position was a characteristic example of the English habit of clinging to old forms in political matters long after these forms have ceased to bear any relationship to reality. Originally a clerk in the King's private household and writer of his letters, by the end of the seventeenth century the position had become a political office, second only in importance to that of Lord High Treasurer.
The Place of the Dead
Author: Bruce GordonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Memoir, descriptive and explanatory, to accompany the general chart of the Northern ocean, Davis' strait and Baffin's bay
Author: John PurdyMemoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, to Accompany the Charts of the Atlantic Ocean; and Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for the Navigation of that Sea, ...
Author: John PurdyA Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description