Author: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940
Author: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Dictionary of British Educationists
Author: Richard AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317949315
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This dictionary provides the reader with an easily accessible guide to the biographies of approximately 450 educationists. It covers the period from 1800 to the present day and includes a wide range of people who were active in promoting education at different levels.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 Under the Auspices of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion ...
Author: Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary
Author: Feisal G. MohamedPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the roots of its modern iterations. It offers fresh readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell, as well as lesser-known figures and literary texts. In addition to political philosophy and literary studies, it also takes account of the period's legal history, exploring the exercise of the crown's feudal rights in the Court of Wards and Liveries, debates over habeas rights, and contests of various courts over jurisdiction. Theorizing sovereignty in a way that points forward to later modernity, the book also offers a sustained critique of the writings of Carl Schmitt, the twentieth century's most influential, if also most controversial, thinker on this topic.
Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works: Universal biography ; National or area biography
Author: Robert B. SlocumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Powys
Author: Richard HaslamPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300096316
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This volume covers the old counties of Montgomeryshire, and Breconshire. The gazetteer ranges from early Christian memorials in remote rural churches to the splendours of Powis Castle's baroque interiors and terraced gardens and the monumental achievements of the Victorian reservoir engineers.
Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland
Author: Peter AugerPublisher:
ISBN: 0198827814
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. C. S. Lewis felt that a reconsideration of his works' British reception was 'long overdue' back in the 1950s, and this study finally provides the first comprehensive account of how English-speaking authors read, translated, imitated, and eventually discarded Du Bartas' model for Protestant poetry. The first part shows that Du Bartas' friendship with James VI and I was key to his later popularity. Du Bartas' poetry symbolized a transnational Protestant literary culture in Huguenot France and Britain. Through James� intervention, Scottish literary tastes had a significant impact in England. Later chapters assess how Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and many other poets justified writing poetic fictions in reaction to Du Bartas' austere emphasis on scriptural truth. These chapters give equal attention to how Du Bartas' example offered a route into original verse composition for male and female poets across the literate population. Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland responds to recent developments in transnational and translation studies, the history of reading, women's writing, religious literature, and manuscript studies. It argues that Du Bartas' legacy deserves far greater prominence than it has previously received because it offers a richer, more democratic, and more accurate view of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, Scottish, and French literature and religious culture.
Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works
Author: Robert B. SlocumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
How to Find Out About the Victorian Period
Author: Lionel MaddenPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483153614
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
How to Find Out About the Victorian Period: A Guide to Sources of Information focuses on the Victorian period of Great Britain. The book first discusses the study of the Victorian period and general guides to the literature. The use of books, periodical articles, theses, and bibliographies in the study of this period in British history is emphasized. The text underscores the value of Victorian periodicals and newspapers in the study of the Victorian period. Guides to special collections and source materials on this period are discussed. These include guides to collection of books and manuscripts, libraries and their collections, archives and manuscripts, and government publications. The book also presents guides to the study of the Victorian church. These include encyclopedias and dictionaries, biographical works, and theses. Guides on the kind of education, development of science, visual arts, music, and literature of the Victorian period are also described. The text is a fine reference for readers who are interested in British history, particularly the Victorian era.