Author: Browne Willis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the Town, Hundred, and Deanry of Buckingham
Author: Browne Willis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe
Author: Thomas Langley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Desborough Hundred (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Desborough Hundred (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Women of Fortune
Author: Linda Levy Peck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three generations of the Bennet and Morewood families, who made their fortune in Crown finance, the East Indies, the Americas, and moneylending, Linda Levy Peck explores the changing society, economy, and culture of early modern England. The heiresses - curious, intrepid, entrepreneurial, scholarly - married into the aristocracy, fought for their property, and wrote philosophy. One spent years on the Grand Tour. Her life in Europe, despite the outbreak of war, is vividly documented. Another's husband went to debtors' prison. She recovered the fortune and bought shares. Husbands, sons, and contemporaries challenged their independence legally, financially, even violently, but new forms of wealth, education, and the law enabled these heiresses to insist on their own agency, create their own identities, and provide examples for later generations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three generations of the Bennet and Morewood families, who made their fortune in Crown finance, the East Indies, the Americas, and moneylending, Linda Levy Peck explores the changing society, economy, and culture of early modern England. The heiresses - curious, intrepid, entrepreneurial, scholarly - married into the aristocracy, fought for their property, and wrote philosophy. One spent years on the Grand Tour. Her life in Europe, despite the outbreak of war, is vividly documented. Another's husband went to debtors' prison. She recovered the fortune and bought shares. Husbands, sons, and contemporaries challenged their independence legally, financially, even violently, but new forms of wealth, education, and the law enabled these heiresses to insist on their own agency, create their own identities, and provide examples for later generations.
Catalogue. (With a general index). [Ed. by T.M. Shiells, With] Rules and regulations for the library
Author: Society of writers to the signet libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer
Author: John Nichols
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Stone Fidelity
Author: Jessica Barker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272716
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side: demonstrating, as in the words of Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb, their "stone fidelity". This is the first book to address the phenomenon of the "double tomb", drawing the rich history of tomb sculpture into dialogue with discourses of power, marriage, gender and emotion, and placing them in the context of ecclesastical material culture of the time more broadly. It offers new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval monuments, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, as well as drawing attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe. In turn, these monuments provide a vantage point from which to reconsider the culture of medieval marriage, from wedding rings and dresses, to the sacramental symbolism of matrimony, and embodied ritual practices. Whilst it is tempting to read these sculptures as straightforward expressions of romantic feeling, the author argues that a closer look reveals the artifice behind the emotion: the artistic, religious, political and legal agenda underlying the rhetoric of married love.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272716
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side: demonstrating, as in the words of Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb, their "stone fidelity". This is the first book to address the phenomenon of the "double tomb", drawing the rich history of tomb sculpture into dialogue with discourses of power, marriage, gender and emotion, and placing them in the context of ecclesastical material culture of the time more broadly. It offers new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval monuments, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, as well as drawing attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe. In turn, these monuments provide a vantage point from which to reconsider the culture of medieval marriage, from wedding rings and dresses, to the sacramental symbolism of matrimony, and embodied ritual practices. Whilst it is tempting to read these sculptures as straightforward expressions of romantic feeling, the author argues that a closer look reveals the artifice behind the emotion: the artistic, religious, political and legal agenda underlying the rhetoric of married love.
A Catalogue of twenty thousand volumes including the library of ... Mr. R. Thoresby ... on sale ... at T. Payne's
Author: Thomas Payne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Charles Brandon
Author: Steven Gunn
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The first biography of the lifelong companion and trusted confidante of Henry VIII
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The first biography of the lifelong companion and trusted confidante of Henry VIII
The Medieval Cloister in England and Wales
Author: John McNeill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351195050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"This dedicated volume of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association draws together ten papers which, collectively, explore something of the art and architecture, styles and uses, of the medieval cloister in England and Wales. Contributors consider the continental context, cloisters in English palaces, Benedictine and Augustinian cloister arcades in the 12th and 13th centuries, architecture and meaning in Cistercian east ranges, late medieval vaulted cloisters in the West Country, cloisters at the cathedrals of Old Sarum, Canterbury, and Lincoln, and assess the extent to which the cloister bosses at Norwich cathedral priory reflect contemporary religious politics. The volume also contains an extended consideration and gazetteer of all Cistercian cloisters in England and Wales."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351195050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"This dedicated volume of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association draws together ten papers which, collectively, explore something of the art and architecture, styles and uses, of the medieval cloister in England and Wales. Contributors consider the continental context, cloisters in English palaces, Benedictine and Augustinian cloister arcades in the 12th and 13th centuries, architecture and meaning in Cistercian east ranges, late medieval vaulted cloisters in the West Country, cloisters at the cathedrals of Old Sarum, Canterbury, and Lincoln, and assess the extent to which the cloister bosses at Norwich cathedral priory reflect contemporary religious politics. The volume also contains an extended consideration and gazetteer of all Cistercian cloisters in England and Wales."