Author: Peter BarwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick
Author: Peter BarwickThe Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick, D.D., Sometime Fellow of St. Johns College in Cambridge and Immediately After the Restoration Successively Dean of Durham, and St. Paul's
Author: Peter BarwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jhon Barwick
Author: Peter BARWICKThe Life of Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's
Author: Peter BarwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals
Author: Katherine EllisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315458195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public. While there are many surveys of cryptography, none pay any attention to the volume of manuals that appeared during the seventeenth century, or provide any cultural context for the appearance, design, or significance of the genre during the period. On the contrary, when the period’s cryptography writings are mentioned, they are dismissed as esoteric, impractical, and useless. Yet, as this book demonstrates, seventeenth-century cryptography manuals show us one clear beginning of the capitalization of information. In their pages, intelligence—as private message and as mental ability—becomes a central commodity in the emergence of England’s capitalist media state. Publications boasting the disclosure of secrets had long been popular, particularly for English readers with interests in the occult, but it was during these particular decades of the seventeenth century that cryptography emerged as a permanent bureaucratic function for the English government, a fashionable activity for the stylish English reader, and a respected discipline worthy of its own genre. These manuals established cryptography as a primer for intelligence, a craft able to identify and test particular mental abilities deemed "smart" and useful for England’s financial future. Through close readings of five specific primary texts that have been ignored not only in cryptography scholarship but also in early modern literary, scientific, and historical studies, this book allows us to see one origin of disciplinary division in the popular imagination and in the university, when particular broad fields—the sciences, the mechanical arts, and the liberal arts—came to be viewed as more or less profitable.
Catalogue of the Library of the Late L.L. Hartley
Author: Leonard Lawrie HartleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of S. Christie-Miller, Esq., Britwell, Bucks
Author: Samuel Christie-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
'Settling the Peace of the Church'
Author: N. H. KeeblePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A collection of nine essays on the context and consequences of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the subsequent "Great Ejection," in which around two thousand ministers, teachers, and university fellows gave up their positions rather than submit to the conditions of the Act.
Restoration Historians and the English Civil War
Author: R.C. MacGillivrayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401016259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This is a study of the histories of the English Civil War or some aspects of it written in England or by Englishmen and Englishwomen or publish ed in England up to 1702, the year of the publication of the first volume of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. By the terms of this definition, Clarendon is himself, of course, one of the historians studied. Clarendon's History is so formidable an achievement that all historians writing about the war before its publication have an air of prematureness. Nevertheless, as I hope the following pages will show, they produced a body of writing which may still be read with interest and profit and which anticipated many of the ideas and attitudes of Clarendon's History. I will even go so far as to say that many readers who have only a limited interest or no in terest in the Civil War are likely to find many of these historians interest ing, should their works come to their attention, for their treatment of the problems of man in society, for their psychological acuteness, and for their style. But while I intend to show their merits, my main concern will be to show how the Civil War appeared to historians, including Clarendon, who wrote within one or two generations after it, that is to say, at a time when it remained part of the experience of people still alive. A word is necessary on terminology.
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
Author: Ronald HuttonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300257457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)--the only English commoner to become the overall head of state--is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction. Cromwell, pursuing his devotion to God and cementing his Puritan support base, quickly transformed from obscure provincial to military victor. At the end of the first English Civil War, he was poised to take power. Hutton reveals a man who was both genuine in his faith and deliberate in his dishonesty--and uncovers the inner workings of the man who has puzzled biographers for centuries.