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ISBN:
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Minutes of meetings of the society appear in most of the vols.
Collections for a History of Staffordshire
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Minutes of meetings of the society appear in most of the vols.
Collections for a History of Staffordshire
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, Co. Stafford
Author: George WrottesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Ancestor
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts
Author: Ch. BotolphPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871291937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts
Author: Charles Botolph Joseph Stourton Baron MowbrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540
Author: Amy ApplefordPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246691
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art of dying" (ars moriendi). An educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of families and households but also to the practices of cultural memory, the building of institutions, and the good government of the city itself. In fifteenth-century London in particular, where an increasingly laicized reformist religiosity coexisted with an ambitious program of urban renewal, cultivating a sophisticated attitude toward death was understood as essential to good living in the widest sense. The virtuous ordering of self, household, and city rested on a proper attitude toward mortality on the part both of the ruled and of their secular and religious rulers. The intricacies of keeping death constantly in mind informed not only the religious prose of the period, but also literary and visual arts. In London's version of the famous image-text known as the Dance of Death, Thomas Hoccleve's poetic collection The Series, and the early sixteenth-century prose treatises of Tudor writers Richard Whitford, Thomas Lupset, and Thomas More, death is understood as an explicitly generative force, one capable (if properly managed) of providing vital personal, social, and literary opportunities.
The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485
Author: Charles GrossPublisher: London, Green
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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