Author: Sir Thomas Skyrme
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
History of the Justices of the Peace: Territories beyond England
Author: Sir Thomas Skyrme
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Texts and Territories
Author: Hülya Taflı Düzgün
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The writing of a literary text is as a retrospective explanation of what is happening in the present, including social, cultural, religious, and political events, and is a deliberate re-creation in actual practice. The impact of immediate contemporary concerns places a literary text at least partly outside the author’s control. The author responds to a given context of historical and cultural incident that limits his freedom to invent, adapt, or explain. Of these contemporary concerns, the literary text is concerned first with how cultural practices and cultural changes helped to create it, and second with what happens when specific historical events appear to model themselves on narrative structures, and how those events can be given a conscious boost by narrative authors or patrons to make the parallels even closer. History turns into literary narrative, or literary narrative turns into history; therefore, literature and history live in each other’s pockets. The medieval texts that straddle the borderland between literature and history – what has been called a medieval fashion for pseudo-history – have been repeatedly commented on over the years. However, the broader implications of this phenomenon for the modern understanding of medieval concepts of the past and historiography have been under-explored. This volume engages with the history and the literary narrative in Medieval England through a variety of approaches to an interdisciplinary array of texts (ranging from Latin, Old-French, Anglo-Norman to Middle English) between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The writing of a literary text is as a retrospective explanation of what is happening in the present, including social, cultural, religious, and political events, and is a deliberate re-creation in actual practice. The impact of immediate contemporary concerns places a literary text at least partly outside the author’s control. The author responds to a given context of historical and cultural incident that limits his freedom to invent, adapt, or explain. Of these contemporary concerns, the literary text is concerned first with how cultural practices and cultural changes helped to create it, and second with what happens when specific historical events appear to model themselves on narrative structures, and how those events can be given a conscious boost by narrative authors or patrons to make the parallels even closer. History turns into literary narrative, or literary narrative turns into history; therefore, literature and history live in each other’s pockets. The medieval texts that straddle the borderland between literature and history – what has been called a medieval fashion for pseudo-history – have been repeatedly commented on over the years. However, the broader implications of this phenomenon for the modern understanding of medieval concepts of the past and historiography have been under-explored. This volume engages with the history and the literary narrative in Medieval England through a variety of approaches to an interdisciplinary array of texts (ranging from Latin, Old-French, Anglo-Norman to Middle English) between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
Territory Beyond Terra
Author: Kimberley Peters
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786600137
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra—land—a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans in which ‘places’ are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic world. Through a focus on the planet’s elements, environments, and edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786600137
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra—land—a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans in which ‘places’ are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic world. Through a focus on the planet’s elements, environments, and edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.
Cinema Beyond Territory
Author: Stephen Groening
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838715010
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this groundbreaking exploration of in-flight cinema, Stephen Groening traces the history of this transnational cinematic practice. At once a history of exhibition and an inquiry into changing forms of media and spectatorship, this interdisciplinary book opens up new directions in the history of cinema, visuality, travel and cultural geography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838715010
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this groundbreaking exploration of in-flight cinema, Stephen Groening traces the history of this transnational cinematic practice. At once a history of exhibition and an inquiry into changing forms of media and spectatorship, this interdisciplinary book opens up new directions in the history of cinema, visuality, travel and cultural geography.
Viceregalism
Author: H. Kumarasingham
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030462838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny. This original study highlights how the Queen’s position has been replicated across continents with surprising results. It also shows the topicality and contemporary relevance of this historical research to interpret and understand crises of governance and the enduring legacy of monarchy and colonialism to modern politics. This collection uniquely brings together a diverse set of states including specific chapters on England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, Australia, Tuvalu, and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Viceregalism is written and conceptualised to remind that the Crown is not just a ceremonial part of the constitution, but a crucial political and international actor of real importance.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030462838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny. This original study highlights how the Queen’s position has been replicated across continents with surprising results. It also shows the topicality and contemporary relevance of this historical research to interpret and understand crises of governance and the enduring legacy of monarchy and colonialism to modern politics. This collection uniquely brings together a diverse set of states including specific chapters on England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, Australia, Tuvalu, and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Viceregalism is written and conceptualised to remind that the Crown is not just a ceremonial part of the constitution, but a crucial political and international actor of real importance.
The Dispute Over Gibraltar
Author: Melissa R. Jordine
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438121393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Details the history behind the countries that have laid claim to and currently control the Gibraltar peninsula that acts as a gateway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438121393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Details the history behind the countries that have laid claim to and currently control the Gibraltar peninsula that acts as a gateway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: A.D. 1181 to A.D. 1201
Author: Roger (of Hoveden)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond
Author: William L Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
These essays trace the changing relationship between Scotland and England following the unifying reign of Queen Victoria, through the debates over devolution, and into a future where the Union will be under continuing pressure to evolve. Historians, social scientists and lawyers investigate the personal, social, financial and constitutional tensions between the Scots and the English, both before and after devolution, and ask if Scots and English have been driven apart, or brought more closely together by this reconstruction of the Union. Building on its companion Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1603 to 1900 (0-19-726330-5), this volume provides wideranging insights into what some may regard as 'unfinished business'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
These essays trace the changing relationship between Scotland and England following the unifying reign of Queen Victoria, through the debates over devolution, and into a future where the Union will be under continuing pressure to evolve. Historians, social scientists and lawyers investigate the personal, social, financial and constitutional tensions between the Scots and the English, both before and after devolution, and ask if Scots and English have been driven apart, or brought more closely together by this reconstruction of the Union. Building on its companion Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1603 to 1900 (0-19-726330-5), this volume provides wideranging insights into what some may regard as 'unfinished business'.
Report of the Annual Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description