Author: Arthur Edmund GarnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, 1530-1900 ...
Author: Arthur Edmund GarnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, 1530-1900
Author: Arthur Edmund GarnierPublisher:
ISBN: 9781016426619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Strange Case of "The Angels of Mons"
Author: Richard J. BleilerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic bowmen sent by St. George. But his fiction became accepted as fact. The believers--notables G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle and C. S. Lewis, along with almost forgotten figures like Harold Begbie, Phyllis Campbell and T. W. H. Crosland--wrote pamphlets, testimonies and poems, performed music and created motion pictures attesting to the existence of the guardian angels. This history of the Angels of Mons controversy for the first time collects and annotates Machen's work and the responses it inspired, most of which have not been available since their publication a century ago. Also reprinted for the first time are several of Machen's responses to the believers, including "The Angels of Mons: Absolutely My Last Word on the Subject" and "The Return of the Angels: This Time They Are at Ypres."
The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, 1530-1900
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461219197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.
Author: Paul KoppermanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317069218
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when abroad (Commonly called the Blews).' Revised in several stages almost until the time of Buchanan's death in 1767, this work was for the most part based on the author's observations while surgeon to a cavalry regiment serving in Flanders 1742-45, during the War of the Austrian Succession. It is a work of immense value to the understanding of eighteenth-century interpretation and treatment of diseases, but as yet has never been published. Presented here is an annotated modern edition of the text, with an introductory section setting the work in the context of Buchanan's life and career, and within the broader framework of eighteenth-century medical practice. Buchanan's practice of medicine generally represented the mainstream of professional practice as regarded both his understanding of disease and his treatment of it. Across the decades of the eighteenth century there were discoveries and fashions that impacted both the theory and the practice of medicine. Various writers of that age, as well as a number of historians since, have conveyed the sense that practice was chaotic. On the contrary, what this book argues is that methods used to treat diseases were fairly standard. Therefore, by reading Buchanan's manuscript one sees not only how he treated more than three dozen diseases, as well as various wounds and injuries, but also how these conditions were often treated in this period.
A Catalogue of British Family Histories
Author: Theodore Radford ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings
Author: Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Eyewitness Views
Author: Peter Björn KerberPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065254
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. These occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Little explored by scholars, these paintings stand out by virtue of their extraordinary artistic quality, vibrant atmosphere, and historical interest. They are imbued with a sense of occasion, even drama, and were often commissioned by or for rulers, princes, and ambassadors as records of significant events in which they participated. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study—in any language—of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Björn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists who produced them and the patrons who commissioned them, as well as for their contemporary viewers. This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts.