Author: GEORGE GATFIELDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
GUIDE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY
Author: GEORGE GATFIELDBritish Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Part II. 1820. A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Curious, Scarce, & Useful Books
Author: Thomas DashThe Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760
Author: Antti MatikkalaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843834235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation (1687) and the revival (1703-4) of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath (1725). It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.
Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne
Author: Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimésPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
List of the Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum
Author: William Brenchley RyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne
Author: Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des livres imprimésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
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