Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: London, Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher: London : J. Duncan
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Kathleen Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Get Book Here

Book Description
The monastic sites of early Christian Ireland have always been an attraction to visitors. Now issued in a new edition, this book is intended for use by those who wish to understand the religious and secular life of early Ireland. The authors have used the site remains and historical source material to reconstruct the life of Irish monks and laymen from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Here the reader will find treatments of the function of monasteries in early Ireland, the daily life of their inhabitants, and the significance of their art and sculpture. The appendices include a county-by-county guide to the most interesting early Christian sites.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Joan-Pau Rubiés
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000939251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Get Book Here

Book Description
Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings, much of them with an empirical basis, albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance, the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas, but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers, historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show, the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions, travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates, ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama, to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China, or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians.

Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498178884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Get Book Here

Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.

Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Mary C. Fuller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Get Book Here

Book Description
Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.