Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Accessing Early English Books, 1641-1700: Subject index
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilm International
ISBN:
Category : Books on micorofilm
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
UMI's "Early English books, 1641-1700" series is a microfilm collection of works selected from: Donald Wing's "Short-title catalog of books ... 1641-1700".
Paper Bullets
Author: Harold M. WeberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics -- the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College -- Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility -- conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
Bygone Punishments
Author: William AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The diary of John Evelyn
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The history of Protestantism
Author: James Aitken WyliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Illustrations of Masonry
Author: William PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Born in Blood
Author: John J. RobinsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590771486
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in 1717. But where had this powerful organization come from and why had Freemasonry been attacked by the Roman Catholic Church? Robinson answers those questions and more.
Oxford and Its Story
Author: Cecil HeadlamPublisher: London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company
ISBN:
Category : Oxford
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Author: Brooks Adams