Author: Francis NicholsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The British Compendium
The British Compendium
Author: Francis NicholsThe British Compendium
Author: Francis NicholsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
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The British Compendium: or, a Particular account of all the present nobility, both spiritual and temporal ... Also an account of all the bishopricks and deanaries, and by whom, and when founded. Likewise the arms and coronets of the peers, with the names of their seats ... To which is added, an introduction to the ancient and most noble science of heraldry. The second edition, corrected. By Francis Nichols. vol. 1. England
Author: The British Compendium
Author: Francis NicholsRudiments of Honour
Author: Francis NicholsPublisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760
Author: Antti MatikkalaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843834235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation (1687) and the revival (1703-4) of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath (1725). It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.
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