Author: London (England). St. Mary Woolnoth with St. Mary Woolchurch (Parish)
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Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S. Mary Woolnoth and S. Mary Woolchurch Haw
Author: London (England). St. Mary Woolnoth with St. Mary Woolchurch (Parish)
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Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Raving at Usurers
Author: Dwight Codr
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813937817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr’s development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of—rather than in spite of—early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics. Beginning with the reconstruction of a major controversy provoked by the delivery of a sermon against usury in the financial heart of London, Codr goes on to show not only how the ethic at the core of the discourse surrounding usury in the eighteenth century was culturally mediated but also how that ethic may be used as a lens to better understand major works of eighteenth-century literature. Codr offers radically new perspectives on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, examining how these novels reacted to emergent financial ways of knowing and meaning as well as how the texts formally bear out the possibility of a truly open and uncertain future. By reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, Raving at Usurers offers a reassessment of what has been called the financial revolution in England and provides a revisionist account of the intimate connection between risk, ethics, and economics in the period.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813937817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr’s development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of—rather than in spite of—early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics. Beginning with the reconstruction of a major controversy provoked by the delivery of a sermon against usury in the financial heart of London, Codr goes on to show not only how the ethic at the core of the discourse surrounding usury in the eighteenth century was culturally mediated but also how that ethic may be used as a lens to better understand major works of eighteenth-century literature. Codr offers radically new perspectives on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, examining how these novels reacted to emergent financial ways of knowing and meaning as well as how the texts formally bear out the possibility of a truly open and uncertain future. By reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, Raving at Usurers offers a reassessment of what has been called the financial revolution in England and provides a revisionist account of the intimate connection between risk, ethics, and economics in the period.
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Everyday Life in Tudor London
Author: Stephen Porter
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Life in the Tudor metropolis for both commoner and king alike.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Life in the Tudor metropolis for both commoner and king alike.
A Century of the English Book Trade
Author: Edward Gordon Duff
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Shakespeare's London
Author: Stephen Porter
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445609312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445609312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city.
Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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