Author: Richard Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Repr. The customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle [ed. by F. Douce].
Author: Richard Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A catalogue of books, chiefly relating to English and American history and antiquities ... presented to the University of McGill college, Montreal, by Peter Redpath, esq
Author: Montreal McGill univ, libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Chiefly Relating to English and American History and Antiquities
Author: McGill University. Library
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London
Author: Malcolm Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732398X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732398X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.
History of the Cutlers' Company of London and of the Minor Cutlery Crafts
Author: Charles Welch
Publisher:
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Category : Cutlers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cutlers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Celys and Their World
Author: Alison Hanham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A richly detailed study of the Cely family and its activities as staplers and ship-owners.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A richly detailed study of the Cely family and its activities as staplers and ship-owners.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
Author: Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
The Tudor Sheriff
Author: Jonathan McGovern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192848240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for executing legal process, holding local courts, empanelling juries, making arrests, executing criminals, collecting royal revenue, holding parliamentary elections, and many other vital duties. Although sheriffs have a cameo role in virtually every book about early modern England, the precise nature of their work has remained something of a mystery. The Tudor Sheriff offers the first comprehensive analysis of the shrieval system between 1485 and 1603. It demonstrates that this system was not abandoned to decay in the Tudor period, but was effectively reformed to ensure its continued relevance. Jonathan McGovern shows that sheriffs were not in competition with other branches of local government, such as the Lords Lieutenant and justices of the peace, but rather cooperated effectively with them. Since the office of sheriff was closely related to every other branch of government, a study of the sheriff is also a study of English government at work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192848240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for executing legal process, holding local courts, empanelling juries, making arrests, executing criminals, collecting royal revenue, holding parliamentary elections, and many other vital duties. Although sheriffs have a cameo role in virtually every book about early modern England, the precise nature of their work has remained something of a mystery. The Tudor Sheriff offers the first comprehensive analysis of the shrieval system between 1485 and 1603. It demonstrates that this system was not abandoned to decay in the Tudor period, but was effectively reformed to ensure its continued relevance. Jonathan McGovern shows that sheriffs were not in competition with other branches of local government, such as the Lords Lieutenant and justices of the peace, but rather cooperated effectively with them. Since the office of sheriff was closely related to every other branch of government, a study of the sheriff is also a study of English government at work.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
Author: Steven Gunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192523899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play in the long-term transformation of England's military capabilities? The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII searches for the answers to these questions in parish and borough account books, wills and memoirs, buildings and paintings, letters from Henry's captains, and the notes readers wrote in their printed history books. It looks back from Henry's reign to that of his grandfather, Edward IV, who in 1475 invaded France in the afterglow of the Hundred Years War, and forwards to that of Henry's daughter Elizabeth, who was trying by the 1570s to shape a trained militia and a powerful navy to defend England in a Europe increasingly polarised by religion. War, it shows, marked Henry's England at every turn: in the news and prophecies people discussed, in the money towns and villages spent on armour, guns, fortifications, and warning beacons, in the way noblemen used their power. War disturbed economic life, made men buy weapons and learn how to use them, and shaped people's attitudes to the king and to national history. War mobilised a high proportion of the English population and conditioned their relationships with the French and Scots, the Welsh and the Irish. War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192523899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play in the long-term transformation of England's military capabilities? The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII searches for the answers to these questions in parish and borough account books, wills and memoirs, buildings and paintings, letters from Henry's captains, and the notes readers wrote in their printed history books. It looks back from Henry's reign to that of his grandfather, Edward IV, who in 1475 invaded France in the afterglow of the Hundred Years War, and forwards to that of Henry's daughter Elizabeth, who was trying by the 1570s to shape a trained militia and a powerful navy to defend England in a Europe increasingly polarised by religion. War, it shows, marked Henry's England at every turn: in the news and prophecies people discussed, in the money towns and villages spent on armour, guns, fortifications, and warning beacons, in the way noblemen used their power. War disturbed economic life, made men buy weapons and learn how to use them, and shaped people's attitudes to the king and to national history. War mobilised a high proportion of the English population and conditioned their relationships with the French and Scots, the Welsh and the Irish. War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII.