Author: Sir Henry SpelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt
Author: Sir Henry SpelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, publ. in his life-time
Author: Henry SpelmanThe English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, K. Publish'd in His Life-time, Together with His Posthumous Works, Relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England
Author: Henry SpelmanSources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689
Author: Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library
Author: Sir Robert Chambers
Author: Thomas M. CurleyPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West. The cooperation of Chambers's descendants and the discovery of all his judicial notebooks have given Curley access to a splendid archival collection of rare documents about Sir Robert's private life and public career. Curley adds important dimensions to political and legal history by recounting the establishment of the Vinerian Chair of English law at Oxford University and by documenting long-hidden activities, motives, and decisions in the stormy foundation of British India, beginning with Chambers's farsighted role in the century's most infamous criminal case, the prosecution of Maharajah Nuncomar in 1775. Sir Robert Chambers is the first analysis of Chambers's groundbreaking commingling of English law and Indian practice, as detailed in seventy-two volumes of his judicial notebooks recovered in Calcutta. As an Indian judge, Chambers founded the enduring hybrid heritage of Anglo-Indian law on which the modern constitution of the Republic of India still rests. This book also provides the first full account of Chambers's close friendship with Samuel Johnson and their collaboration on a survey of the British constitution, which profoundly influenced the later writings of both men. Curley reveals Johnson's literary and political interest in India, and his call for encyclopedic study of the East by the West, a call heeded by Chambers and Sir William Jones in founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Amassing the largest library of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Western World, Chambers contributed significantly to European awareness of the riches of ancient Indian literature. Lively and readable, this authoritative biography examines the relationships and activities of prominent men in eighteenth-century England, and it supplements Curley's two-volume edition of Chambers's and Johnson's A Course of Lectures on the English Law. It will interest readers curious about multiculturalism--two centuries before the term existed--as it developed under the British empire. All scholars of legal and literary history and of Asian and British studies, as well as lovers of biography, should relish this absorbing and well-researched history.
Spelman Genealogy
Author: Fannie Cooley Williams BarbourPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Richard Carew, The Examination of Men's Wits
Author: Rocío G. SumilleraPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322817
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—it underwent fifty-five editions in six different languages—that it is now considered one of the most influential Spanish scientific books of the early modern period. The present edition modernizes the text of Richard Carew’s The Examination of Men’s Wits (London, 1594), the first rendering into English of Huarte’s work—via a previous Italian translation. In addition, the Introduction contextualizes both the Spanish and the English texts and their authors, discusses the censorship imposed by the Inquisition, the (often deliberate) textual divergences of the English translation, the multiple translations and editions the book underwent in early modern Europe, and its domestic and European reception, with a focus on the English scientific, educational and literary arenas. William Camden, John Marston, Ben Jonson and Sir Francis Bacon are some of the household names acquainted with Huarte’s theories, thanks to Richard Carew’s widely read English version.
Catalogue of books on British history
Author: British historyThe English Works ... Publish'd in His Life-time; Together with His Posthumous Works, Relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England; First Publish'd by the Present Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in the Year 1695, Together with the Life of the Author, Now Revised by His Lordship. To which are Added, Two More Treatises ... Never Before Printed: One, Of the Admiral-Jurisdiction, and the Officers Thereof: The Other, Of Antient Deeds and Charters. With a Compleat Index to the Whole
Author: Sir Henry SpelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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