Author: Thomas ComberPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Autobiographies and Letters of Thomas Comber, Sometime Precentor of York and Dean of Durham
Author: Thomas ComberMemoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Comber
Author: Thomas ComberThe Politics of Prayer in Early Modern Britain
Author: Richard J. GinnPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857715771
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Prayer was regarded as an essential arm of the State and even a method of 'thought control' in early modern England. In the seventeenth Century, the period covered by Richard Ginn's study, Common Prayer dominated people's everyday lives at a national level, in communities and congregations, as well as privately in households. Ginn demonstrates how prayer represented the search for pattern, order and purpose in and between these different layers of society in a period when England was struggling to come to terms with political and social turbulence, rocked by the violence of the Civil War, unease over the Commonwealth and the uncertainties of the Restoration. Ginn argues that the importance of Prayer as a stabilizing force during these times of instability cannot be underestimated; it fostered a sense of national identity, an integrating principle at a vulnerable time for England, putting the social order in a greater context under a sovereign God.
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Comber, D. D., Sometime Dean of Durham
Author: My First Booke of My Life
Author: Alice ThorntonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803248482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Originally published in 1873 by the Surtees Society, with less of the original text, under title: The autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York.
Book Ownership in Stuart England
Author: David PearsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198870124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.
Literary Sociability in Early Modern England
Author: Paul TrolanderPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494982
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, significant patrons to state regulators, printers to publishers, from 1615 to 1725. Correspondents include a significant sampling from among antiquarians, natural scientists, poets and dramatists, philosophers and mathematicians, political and religious controversialists. The author addresses how early modern letter writing practices (sometimes known as letteracy) and theories of friendship were important underpinnings of the actions and the roles that seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century authors and readers used to communicate their needs and views to their social networks. These early modern social conditions combined with an emerging view of the manuscript as a seedbed of knowledge production and humanistic creation that had significant financial and cultural value in England’s mercantilist economy. Because literary networks bartered such gains in cultural capital for state patronage as well as for social and financial gains, this placed a burden on an author’s associates to aid him or her in seeing that work into print, a circumstance that reinforced the collaborative formulae outlined in letter writing handbooks and friendship discourse. Thus, the author’s network was more and more viewed as a tightly knit group of near equals that worked collaboratively to grow social and symbolic capital for its associates, including other authors, readers, patrons and regulators. Such internal methods for bartering social and cultural capital within literary networks gave networked authors a strong hand in the emerging market economy for printed works, as major publishers such as Bernard Lintott and Jacob Tonson relied on well-connected authors to find new writers as well as to aid them in seeing such major projects as Pope’s The Iliad into print.
Subjects and Sovereigns
Author: Corinne Comstock WestonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The book charts the establishment of the modern idea of parliamentary sovereignty.
Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs
Author: Mark GoldiePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271108
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent era of later Stuart rule.
Restoration England 1660-1689
Author: William Lewis SachsePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521081719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description