Author: Catherine McIlwainePublisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Author: Catherine McIlwainePublisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Report to ... the Master of the Rolls Upon the Carte and Carew Papers in the Bodleian and Lambeth Libraries
Author: Thomas Duffus HardyPirro Ligorio’s Worlds
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385630
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds brings renowned Ligorio specialists into conversation with emerging young scholars, on various aspects of the artistic, antiquarian and intellectual production of one of the most fascinating and learned antiquaries in the prestigious entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The book takes a more nuanced approach to the complex topic of Ligorio’s ‘forgeries’, investigating them in relation to previously neglected aspects of his life and work.
The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667
Author: Paul SeawardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is the first detailed study of Westminster politics in the 1660s for over twenty years, and the first ever in-depth study of the legislation of the 1660s. Dr Seaward shows how these drastic and dramatic events had changed perceptions and attitudes in British politics.
The Works of Jacques-Auguste de Thou
Author: S. KinserPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401034850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Until the nineteenth century Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was among the most famous and most valued of historians. While his first fame was a succes de scandale - the History of His Time was placed on the Index in 160g - de Thou's work quickly found favor with the humanistically-educated learned class throughout Europe. The esteem in which the History was held transcended religious divisions. The historian received letters of praise from staunchly orthodox Spain and Portugal as well as from heretic England and Germany; through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries his History was read with enthusi asm by certain cardinals at the very curia which condemned it; and so staunch a champion of orthodoxy as Bishop Bossuet did not hesitate to appeal to "such a great author" for support in his own historical works. ! To the philosophe of the Enlightenment de Thou's impartiality in de scribing the impassioned times through which he lived and the exact yet eloquent style with which he wrote the History of His Time were familiar touchstones. Voltaire appealed to the "truthful and eloquent de Thou" again and again in his works,2 William Pitt rose in the House of Commons to quote the words of the "great historian of France" during the early years of the French Revolution,3 Lessing 4 and Herder 5 praised him with poetic hyperbole, and Edward Gibbon re ferred to "the authority of my masters, the grave Thuanus and the philosophic Hume . . . .
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Annual Report by the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records
Author: Report, 1840-1908
Author: Great Britain. Public Records. Deputy KeeperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Reports from Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)
Author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
An edition of the extant manuscripts of proceedings in the Lower House of the English parliament of 1614, prefaced by a critical introduction to the texts and a description of source materials. The vol. includes 8 appendixes, one of which is a list of returns that reveals the full membership of the House of Commons in 1614. Until recently historians believed that apart from the official Journal of the House of Commons no complete account of the 1614 assembly survived. Immediately after the close of the session 4 members were imprisoned in the Tower for remarks madeabout the crown, and the Privy Council ordered the papers and notes of others burned. To protect the identity of the author any private diary of the session retained as a personal record had to have been well hidden. The discovery in the Midlands of an anonymous diary subsequently purchased by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the U. of Kansas altered this picture and makes possible for the first time, close to 400 years after the event, a detailed study of the proceedings in that assembly. Besides the Kansas diary one other small account of debates that year from a manuscript in Trinity College, Cambridge, and several folios of proceedings from Petyt MS, 538/11 in the Inner Temple Library, as well as an unpublished Crown Office list of returns are included in the vol. The manuscript Commons Journal and MS. Add. 48, 101 have been re-edited with the accounts mentioned above, making accessible in one place all of the known accounts of the session. Illus.