Author: George WeirPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle
Author: George WeirA History of Horncastle, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Author: James Conway WalterPublisher:
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Category : Horncastle (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Contains the barons from the commencement of the nineteenth century and the Union of Ireland and also a short extinct peerage from the accession of King Henry VII with an account of peerage claims
Author: Arthur CollinsPublisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece
Author: D. J. Ian BeggPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing
ISBN: 1789699614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
By day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by night he socialised with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly writing for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both antebellum Athens in 1921 and the catastrophic collapse of Christian civilisation in western Anatolia in 1922. While there have been many accounts by refugees of the disastrous flight from Smyrna, few have been written from the perspective of the west side of the Aegean. The flood of a million refugees to Greece brought in its wake a military coup in Athens, the exile of the Greek royal family and the execution or imprisonment of politicians, whom Gilbert knew. Gilbert's weekly letters to his mother in Rome reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery through the origins of western civilisation. As an archaeologist in Greece, he travelled through time seeing history repeat itself: Minoan Knossos, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Smyrna were all violently destroyed, but the survivors escaped to the new worlds of Mycenaean Greece, Renaissance Venice and modern Greece. At Smyrna in the twentieth century, history was written not only by the victors but was also recorded by the victims. At the same time, however, the twentieth century itself was so filled with reports of ethnic cleansings on such a scale that the reports brutalized the humanity of the supposedly civilized people reading about them, and the tragedy of Smyrna disappeared from public awareness between the cataclysmic upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.
Notes and Extracts from Numerous Authorities Respecting the Family of Bukenham Or Bokenham, of Norfolk and Suffolk
Author: Henry MaudslayA Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours
Author: John BurkePublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Diss. Giltcross. Shropham
Author: Francis BlomefieldPublisher:
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Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk. (Continued from p. 678 [of vol. 3] by C. Parkin).
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Author: Francis BlomefieldHistory of the County of Lincoln
Author: Thomas AllenPublisher:
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Category : Lincolnshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Pilgrims’ Castle (‘Atlit), David’s Tower (Jerusalem) and Qal‘at ar-Rabad (‘Ajlun)
Author: C.N. JohnsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042976135X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
First published in 1997, this collection includes papers on Crusader-era architecture in Palestine with a focus on ‘Atlit, the castle of ‘Ajlun and on the Citadel of Jerusalem, both the papers and sites of which have previously been difficult to access. The volume is presented partly to repair the very real deficit in the literature on Crusader architecture and partly as a fitting memorial to the author, who died in 1992. ‘Atlit in particular held a special significance for C.N. Johns, being the site of his first major project as a field archaeologist. His Guide to ‘Atlit, a masterly summary of his findings, remains the most complete and comprehensive account of the castle and its suburb. The studies collected here pay tribute to their author’s enduring contribution to the medieval archaeology of the Near East. The first part of the book deals with the ‘Pilgrim’s Castle’, the great Templar fortress and town at ’Atlit. The significance of Johns’ excavations at this site has been relatively neglected, because it remains in a military area, inaccessible to visitors, and because almost the entire stock of his major publication was lost in 1947. This ‘Guide to ’Atlit’, a synthesis of historical, archaeological and architectural research on the monument, is reprinted here together with all the interim reports relating to the medieval period. Also included are Johns’ studies on the Citadel of Jerusalem, the ‘Tower of David’, and on the Islamic castle of ‘Ajlun. Together, they represent a fundamental contribution to the study of the period of the Crusades and to the military architecture of the Middle Ages. The notes by Denys Pringle bring the accounts up to date in the light of recent research.