Author: Elias Ashmole
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Category : Knights and knighthood
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Author: Elias Ashmole
Publisher: London : Printed by J. Macock, for Nathanael Brooke
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Category : Orders of knighthood and chivalry
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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Author: Elias Ashmole
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Author: Elias Ashmole
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Elias Ashmole
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Category : Knights and knighthood
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Antti Matikkala
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843834235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation (1687) and the revival (1703-4) of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath (1725). It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.

Author: Elias Ashmole
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Roy C. Strong
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520058408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.

Author: Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 1: Conceptualizing the West Indies The texts in this volume chart the growth of English interest in the West Indies, as seen through the publications of the time. Beginning with the Spanish discovery and colonization there followed reports of Spanish cruelty. Gradually the English started to make incursions into the area and this new era of colonization is reflected in the sources. Later publications document the landscape of the islands, the native inhabitants and the other settlers who began to arrive.

Author: James Norris Brewer
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

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