Author: Bristol (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Great White Book of Bristol
Author: Bristol (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Bristol
Author: Mark Cartwright PilkintonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A complete edition of primary sources concerning dramatic and musical performance in Bristol from the Middle Ages until the time of Oliver Cromwell.
Great White Shark
Author: Richard EllisPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shares the latest findings on the great white shark's size, ancestry, relatives, breeding, and feeding habits.
The Memory of the People
Author: Andy WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107433800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
The Great White Bear
Author: Kieran MulvaneyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547504764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This “up-close [and] graceful account” of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author’s own encounters in the Arctic (Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost silently; Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown they can measure ten feet and weigh close to two thousand pounds, but at birth they are just twenty ounces. Human encounters with these legendary creatures can be both exhilarating and terrifying. Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks on humans. But human hunters have exacted a far larger toll, obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species before it’s too late. Now another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily destroying sea ice and the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, myth, personal observations, and scientific accounts, Kieran Mulvaney tells the story of the polar bear: its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.
Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and It's Neighbourhood
Author: Samuel SeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The little red book of Bristol
Author: F.B. BickleyPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871482414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Reformation and the Towns in England
Author: Robert TittlerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.
Necessary Conjunctions
Author: D. ShawPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137067918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they work, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence. Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures.
Author: John Britton