Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
A Commonwealth of the People
Author: David RollisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521853737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
The Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings, near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire: Farmstead and Stronghold
Author: Alistair MarshallPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789693640
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Excavations near Guiting Power in the Cotswolds reveal evidence of occupation until the late 4th century AD: a relatively undefended middle Iron Age farmstead was abandoned, followed by a mid to later Iron Age ditched enclosure. This latter site perhaps became dilapidated, with a Romanised farmstead developing over the traditional habitation area.
A Domesday of English Enclosure Acts and Awards
Author: William Edward TatePublisher: Library University of Reading
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan
Author: Katherine Duncan-JonesPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408139189
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare's image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones' acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological approach, she investigates Shakespeare's changing reputation, as a man, an actor and a poet, both from his own viewpoint and from that of his contemporaries. Many different categories of material are explored, including printed books, manuscripts, literary and non-literary sources. Rather than a biography, the book is an exploration with biographical elements. The change in public opinion in Shakespeare's time is quite startling: Henry Chettle attacked him as an 'upstart Crow' in 1592, an attack from which Shakespeare sought to defend himself; and yet by the time of the First Folio in 1623 he had become the 'Sweet Swan of Avon!' and was fast becoming the national treasure he remains today. This engaging and fascinating study brings the politics and fashions of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical world vividly to life.
Book Ownership in Stuart England
Author: David PearsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198870124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.
Prehistoric Gloucestershire
Author: Timothy DarvillPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445619946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.
Medicine in an Age of Revolution
Author: Peter ElmerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192595776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Medicine in an Age of Revolution is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain was puritanism. While Peter Elmer seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine, he rejects the idea that such initiatives were the special preserve of a small religious elite (puritans), claiming instead that enthusiasm for change can be found across the religious spectrum. At the same time, Elmer seeks to show that medical practitioners were increasingly drawn into contemporary religious and political debates in a way that led to a fundamental politicization of the 'profession'. By the end of the seventeenth century, it was commonplace to see doctors, apothecaries, and surgeons fully engaged in everyday political and civic life. At the same time, religious and political orientation often became an important factor in the career development of medics, especially in towns and cities, where substantial benefits might accrue to those who found themselves in favour with the ruling elites, be they Whig or Tory. The body politic, a Renaissance commonplace, was now peopled by medical practitioners who often claimed a special authority when it came to diagnosing the ills of late seventeenth century society.
Historical Metallurgy
Author: Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Laurel BrakePublisher: Academia Press
ISBN: 9038213409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.