Author: Mary Woolley Stapleton Cotton (viscountess Combermere.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A friar's scourge, nonsense verses [by M.W. Stapleton Cotton].
Author: Mary Woolley Stapleton Cotton (viscountess Combermere.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker
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Category : Black Death
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category : Black Death
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Nugae Antiquae
Author: Sir John Harington
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The new world of words. [&c.].
Author: Edward Phillips
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Medieval People
Author: Eileen Power
Publisher: Jovian Press
ISBN: 153780426X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities. In point of fact there is often as much material for reconstructing the life of some quite ordinary person as there is for writing a history of Robert of Normandy or of Philippa of Hainault; and the lives of ordinary people so reconstructed are, if less spectacular, certainly not less interesting...
Publisher: Jovian Press
ISBN: 153780426X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities. In point of fact there is often as much material for reconstructing the life of some quite ordinary person as there is for writing a history of Robert of Normandy or of Philippa of Hainault; and the lives of ordinary people so reconstructed are, if less spectacular, certainly not less interesting...
Mighty Lewd Books
Author: J. Peakman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
Author: N. Rodgers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
Author: Andrew Hiscock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672806
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672806
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings
Author: Trench H. Johnson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
'Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings' is a one-of-a-kind encyclopedic work that offers plain statements of facts on the origins of popular phrases and names, alphabetically organized for easy reference. Trench H. Johnson's expertise in the subject matter, acquired through years of omnivorous reading and patient inquiry, has culminated in a comprehensive and fascinating compilation of linguistic curiosities that is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any word lover. From the history of place-names to the evolution of expressions, including a plethora of slang terms and Americanisms, this book offers a wealth of knowledge that opens up the history of peoples and civilizing influences.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
'Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings' is a one-of-a-kind encyclopedic work that offers plain statements of facts on the origins of popular phrases and names, alphabetically organized for easy reference. Trench H. Johnson's expertise in the subject matter, acquired through years of omnivorous reading and patient inquiry, has culminated in a comprehensive and fascinating compilation of linguistic curiosities that is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any word lover. From the history of place-names to the evolution of expressions, including a plethora of slang terms and Americanisms, this book offers a wealth of knowledge that opens up the history of peoples and civilizing influences.