Author: William MaitlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The History and Survey of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time: in Two Volumes
Author: William MaitlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
Grammars of Approach
Author: Cynthia WallPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646783X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Author: Gray's Inn. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Maps in the Atlases of The British Library
Author: Rodney W. ShirleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Accompanying ... "CD-ROM contains the index to the two printed volumes. Searches can be made for principal atlas-makers or book authors, personal names of surveyors, map-makers, engravers, etc., or geographical area of map." -- disc label.
The Athenaeum
Author: The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I.
Author: Frederick PollockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
London Illustrated, 1604-1851
Author: Bernard AdamsPublisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
This is a bibliography of prints and illustrated books which illustrate London.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description