Author: Norwich (England). Public Libraries
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Category : Norwich (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Guide to the Study of Norwich
Author: Norwich (England). Public Libraries
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Category : Norwich (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Norwich (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Silver in England
Author: Philippa Glanville
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136611630
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136611630
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Memorials of Old Lancshire: Castles and fortified houses, by Lt.-Colontel Fishwick Ormskirk town and church, by J. Bromley. Some early Lancashire authors, by C. W. Sutton. Old Wigan, by H. T. Folkard. A Lancashire squire of the eighteenth century, by E. Axon (cont)
Author: Henry Fishwick
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Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Story of London
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Story of London
Author: Henry B. Wheatley
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of London" by Henry B. Wheatley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of London" by Henry B. Wheatley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Archaeological Journal
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Church Plate of the Diocese of Bangor
Author: Edward Alfred Jones
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Inventing a Republic
Author: Sean Kelsey
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804731157
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth—the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell’s seizure of power in 1653. It focuses particularly on the problem of how to legitimate governmental authority in the absence of a monarchy and in the absence of all the symbolic and ceremonial forms through which authority had traditionally been expressed and exercised. Finally, the author argues that the Commonwealth regime was not in fact the corrupt administrative failure that it was alleged to have been by its enemies and later by many historians; instead the republican experiment was brought down by a faction no less intent on enjoying the spoils of the Stuart regime, anxious about the Commonwealth’s successes rather than alarmed by its failures. The English revolution demolished almost all political landmarks, and this book describes in vivid detail how the new republican state successfully restored the dignity of civilian government by expressing its authority through a calculated range of imagery and symbolism. Individual chapters focus on the occupation and revival of the abandoned royal palace of Whitehall by members of the new regime; the public spectacle mounted to celebrate its military victories; the ritual and ceremony with which it dignified everyday politics; and the invention of a new state iconography to replace familiar forms such as the crown and the royal seal. These efforts of the Republic to graft its own symbols and rhetoric onto the familiar political culture of the monarchical Stuart state secured an increasingly broad degree of support and, indeed, enthusiasm from its citizens. However, the steady growth of the regime’s stability and prestige was seen by the army as a threat to its power, and in 1653 they acted, lest the Republic continue to harden into an unassailable form.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804731157
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth—the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell’s seizure of power in 1653. It focuses particularly on the problem of how to legitimate governmental authority in the absence of a monarchy and in the absence of all the symbolic and ceremonial forms through which authority had traditionally been expressed and exercised. Finally, the author argues that the Commonwealth regime was not in fact the corrupt administrative failure that it was alleged to have been by its enemies and later by many historians; instead the republican experiment was brought down by a faction no less intent on enjoying the spoils of the Stuart regime, anxious about the Commonwealth’s successes rather than alarmed by its failures. The English revolution demolished almost all political landmarks, and this book describes in vivid detail how the new republican state successfully restored the dignity of civilian government by expressing its authority through a calculated range of imagery and symbolism. Individual chapters focus on the occupation and revival of the abandoned royal palace of Whitehall by members of the new regime; the public spectacle mounted to celebrate its military victories; the ritual and ceremony with which it dignified everyday politics; and the invention of a new state iconography to replace familiar forms such as the crown and the royal seal. These efforts of the Republic to graft its own symbols and rhetoric onto the familiar political culture of the monarchical Stuart state secured an increasingly broad degree of support and, indeed, enthusiasm from its citizens. However, the steady growth of the regime’s stability and prestige was seen by the army as a threat to its power, and in 1653 they acted, lest the Republic continue to harden into an unassailable form.
Classed Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Memorials of Old Herefordshire
Author: Compton Reade
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Category : Herefordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Herefordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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