Author: Richard Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary and Legal Professor, consisting of Descriptions of Public Records; parochial and other Registers; wills; County and Family Histories; Heraldic Collections in public Libraries
Author: Richard Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions
Author: Silvester Tissington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England
Author: Peter Sherlock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351916815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351916815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions
Author: Silvester Tissington
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382331330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382331330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England
Author: Rosemary Cramp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians.
A manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary and legal professor
Author: Richard Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor, Consising of Descriptions of Public Records; Parochial and Other Registers; Wills; County and Family Histories; Heraldic Collections in Public Libraries, Etc., Etc
Author: Richard Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Wiltshire Record Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary and Legal Professor, Consisting of Descriptions of Public Records, Parochial and Other Registers (etc.) 2. Ed
Author: Richard Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Letters of Mary Penry
Author: Scott Paul Gordon
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271082828
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters—compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon—introduces readers to an unmarried woman who worked, worshiped, and wrote about her experience living in Moravian religious communities at the time of the American Revolution and early republic. Penry, a Welsh immigrant and a convert to the Moravian faith, was well connected in both the international Moravian community and the state of Pennsylvania. She counted among her acquaintances Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker and Hannah Callender Sansom, two American women whose writings have also been preserved, in addition to members of some of the most prominent families in Philadelphia, such as the Shippens, the Franklins, and the Rushes. This collection brings together more than seventy of Penry’s letters, few of which have been previously published. Gordon’s introduction provides a useful context for understanding the letters and the unique woman who wrote them. This collection of Penry’s letters broadens perspectives on early America and the eighteenth-century Moravian Church by providing a sustained look at the spiritual and social life of a single woman at a time when singleness was extraordinarily rare. It also makes an important contribution to the recovery of women’s voices in early America, amplifying views on politics, religion, and social networks from a time when few women’s perspectives on these subjects have been preserved.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271082828
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters—compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon—introduces readers to an unmarried woman who worked, worshiped, and wrote about her experience living in Moravian religious communities at the time of the American Revolution and early republic. Penry, a Welsh immigrant and a convert to the Moravian faith, was well connected in both the international Moravian community and the state of Pennsylvania. She counted among her acquaintances Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker and Hannah Callender Sansom, two American women whose writings have also been preserved, in addition to members of some of the most prominent families in Philadelphia, such as the Shippens, the Franklins, and the Rushes. This collection brings together more than seventy of Penry’s letters, few of which have been previously published. Gordon’s introduction provides a useful context for understanding the letters and the unique woman who wrote them. This collection of Penry’s letters broadens perspectives on early America and the eighteenth-century Moravian Church by providing a sustained look at the spiritual and social life of a single woman at a time when singleness was extraordinarily rare. It also makes an important contribution to the recovery of women’s voices in early America, amplifying views on politics, religion, and social networks from a time when few women’s perspectives on these subjects have been preserved.