Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
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List of Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum Preserved in the Public Record Office
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Lists and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Association of American Law SchoolsPublisher:
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke
Author: Sir Edward CokeTacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45
Author: Mathew OwenPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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e emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's 'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
List of Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum Preserved in the Public Record Office
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Leper Knights
Author: David MarcombePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851158935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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One of the most unusual contributions to the crusading era was the idea of the leper knight - a response to the scourge of leprosy and the shortage of fighting men which beset the Latin kingdom in the twelfth century. The Order of St Lazarus, which saw the idea become a reality, founded establishments across Western Europe to provide essential support for its hospitaller and military vocations. This book explores the important contribution of the English branch of the order, which by 1300 managed a considerable estate from its chief preceptory at Burton Lazars in Leicestershire. Time proved the English Lazarites to be both tough and tenacious, if not always preoccupied with the care of lepers. Following the fall of Acre in 1291 they endured a period of bitter internal conflict, only to emerge reformed and reinvigorated in the fifteenth century. Though these late medieval knights were very different from their twelfth-century predecessors, some ideologies lingered on, though subtly readapted to the requirements of a new age, until the order was finally suppressed by Henry VIII in 1544. The modern refoundation of the order, a charitable institution, dates from 1962. The book uses both documentary and archaeological evidence to provide the first ever account of this little-understood crusading order.DAVID MARCOMBE is Director of the Centre for Local History, University of Nottingham.
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature
Author: Charles Wareing Endell BardsleyPublisher:
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Category : Names, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, in the County of Cornwall
Author: Sir John MacleanPublisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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