Author: Frederick RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Ruined Abbeys of Britain
Author: Frederick RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain
Author: Ralph Adams CramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Ruined Abbeys of Britain
Author: Frederick RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain
Author: William HowittRuined Abbeys and Castles in Great Britain and Ireland ...
Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
If These Stones Could Talk
Author: Peter StanfordPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1529396441
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday
Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Author: Michael CharlesworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135156109X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to modernity during the period in question.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrin BerndtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110649896
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.
The English Castle, 1066-1650
Author: John GoodallPublisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN: 9780300110586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
From coast to coast, the English landscape is still richly studded with castles both great and small. As homes or ruins, these historic buildings are today largely objects of curiosity. For centuries, however, they were at the heart of the kingdom's social and political life. The English Castle is a riveting architectural study that sets this legion of buildings in historical context, tracing their development from the Norman Conquest in 1066 through the civil wars of the 1640s. In this magnificent, compellingly written volume, which includes over 350 illustrations, John Goodall brings to life the history of the English castle over six centuries. In it he explores the varied architecture of these buildings and describes their changing role in warfare, politics, domestic living, and governance.