Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660
Author: Ann HughesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the Civil War in Warwickshire, examining administration, religion and politics in their social context. The focus is mainly on the landed élite, but the importance of relationships between members of the élite and their social inferiors is also stressed. Early chapters discuss the economic and social character of Warwickshire; a middle section examines the onset of the Civil War in 1642; and finally there is a discussion of the economic impact of the war and the administrative, political and religious changes of the 1640s and 1650s, culminating in an assessment of the significance of the Restoration. Dr Hughes takes a critical approach to recent historiography, and challenges the concept of a 'county community'. The book is intended as a contribution to a general understanding of the Civil War, rather than as a study of one particular county.
Heraldry in Urban Society
Author: Marcus MeerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198910282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too, adopted coats of arms and used heraldic customs, including display and destruction, to underline their social importance and to communicate political messages. Medieval burgesses were part of a fascination with heraldry that spread throughout pre-modern society and looked at coats of arms as honoured signs of genealogy and history. Heraldry in Urban Society analyses the perceptions and functions of heraldry in medieval urban societies by drawing on both English- and German-language sources from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Despite variations that point to socio-political differences between cities (and their citizens) in the relatively centralized monarchy of medieval England and the more independent-minded urban governments found in the less closely connected Holy Roman Empire, urban heraldry emerges as a versatile and ubiquitous means of multimedia visual communication that spanned medieval Europe. Urban heraldic practices defy assumptions about clearly demarcated social practices that belonged to 'high'/'noble' as opposed to 'low'/'urban' culture. Townspeople's perceptions of coats of arms paralleled those of the nobility, as they readily interpreted and carefully curated them as visual expressions of identity. These perceptions allowed townspeople of all ranks, as well as noble outsiders, to use heraldry and its display - along with its defacement and destruction - in manuscripts, spaces (such as town houses, public monuments, halls, and churches), and performances (like processions and joyous entries) to address perennial problems of urban society in the Middle Ages. The coats of arms of burgesses, guilds, and cities were communicative means of individual and collective representation, social and political legitimization, conducting and resolving conflicts, and the pursuit of elevated status in the urban hierarchy. Likewise, heraldic communication negotiated the all-important relationship between the city and wider, extramural society - from the commercial interests of citizens to their collective ties to the ruler.
John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish
Author: Noel MalcolmPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198564848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 663
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The Visitation of London Begun in 1687
Author: T. C. WalesPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Manual of British Topography
Author: The Descendants of Thomas Pincerna, Progenitor of the Butler Family
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Butler family
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Robert Pincerna, son of Thomas Pincerna (b. ca. 1180), married Maud de Chesney of South Newington, Oxfordshire, Elngland, ca. 1160. They had at least four children. He used the surname "Le Boteler" in a deed to his sons. Record chiefly lists ancestors and descendants of Thomas Boteler (ca. 1605-ca. 1646) of the fourteenth generation. He was born at London, England, the son of John Butler (b. ca. 1575). He married Joan Mt. Stephen at London in in 1625. They had five known children. The family immigrated to to Virginia before 1640. Thomas died before January 16, 1646/47. Descendants listed lived in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Most descendants used the surname Butler.
The Publications of the Harleian Society
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Includes reports, etc., of the Society.
The Visitation of the County of Huntingdon, 1684
Author: Sir Henry St. GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Catalogue of Books
Author: Perth (W.A.). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description