Author: Michael Johnston Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191669210 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.
Author: Joel T. Rosenthal Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319697005 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 126
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This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their awareness of the issues surrounding the theater of birth, their interest in the world of and beyond the village, and what aspects of the ubiquitous mother Church were worth recalling. Supported by primary sources and by modern scholarly focus on such issues as social memory, village life, rumor and gossip, and demography, this book provides both a wealth of source material and insightful discussion on how historians can chart the role of memory and community in its shaping of medieval identity and society.
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780851158921 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 626
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Vol. 24 edited by M.L. Holford and others.
Author: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1493188070 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 657
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Winner of the Maryland Historical Society's 2014 Sumner A. Parker Prize for the best genealogical work concerning Maryland families. The Sumner A. Parker Prize was established in 1946 by Dudrea Wagner Parker in memory of her late husband Sumner A Parker, a Baltimore architect and engineer. The prize is awarded each year by the Maryland Historical Society at its Annual Meeting in June. British Origins and Descendants Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, BROOKE, Broome, Boyd, Butler, CABELL-HORSLEY, Cadwalader, Carroll, CAVANAGH, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, COLE, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, DERING, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, FIELDER, GANTT, Gittings, Glover, Graves, GREENFIELD, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, LEE-FEARN, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, PARKER, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, STODDERT, Stoughton-Sloss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, WEEMS, Wheeler, Wight (White), WILLIAMS, Winder, Wortham, Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 Ancestral British Pedigrees.
Author: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 152457533X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 425
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Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh First edition awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014. The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert Co. 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. PG Co. 1726) in the first six to ten generations. Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial GATEWAY ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 16201679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (16281699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and magna carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigrees are documented in these volumes. The name Fielder has been inherited in multiple generations of the Beall, Belt, Berry, Bowie, Calvert, Clagett, Denwood, Dorsett, Gantt, Jones (Somerset Co.), Parker (Cal. Co.), Smallwood, Smith (Cal. Co.), and Wight (White) Maryland families. In addition, this second edition contains important new research findings on the British origins of the Hatton-Domville and Brooke-Darnall families, as well as revealing the two lost Ann Bradfords of PG Co. Colonial Chesapeake Families details the pedigrees of eighty-eight families, historical illustrations, portraits, documents, and coats-of-arms (where proven) are included. Publication of these volumes has been subsidized to make them more widely available to the thousands of descendants listed in their pages. And thanks to print on demand, Colonial Chesapeake Families will never go out of print.
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