Author: University of OxfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Oxford University Calendar
Author: University of OxfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Illustrated London Almanack
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Illustrated London Almanack
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Dublin University Calendar
Author: Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Author: Patrick J. MurphyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction writer and storyteller, he was also a provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and a legendary and influential scholar whose pioneering work in the study of biblical texts and medieval manuscripts, art, and architecture is still relevant today. In Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Patrick J. Murphy argues that these twin careers are inextricably linked. James’s research not only informed his fiction but also reflected his anxieties about the nature of academic life and explored the delicate divide between professional, university men and erratic hobbyists or antiquaries. Murphy shows how detailed attention to the scholarly inspirations behind James’s fiction provides considerable insight into a formative moment in medieval studies, as well as into James’s methods as a master stylist of understated horror. During his life, James often claimed that his stories were mere entertainments—pleasing distractions from a life largely defined by academic discipline and restraint—and readers over the years have been content to take him at his word. This intriguing volume, however, convincingly proves otherwise.
Genealogical Memoirs of the Kindred Families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield
Author: Robert Edmond Chester WatersPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Two chapters from the unpublished memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley.
The Official Catalogue of the Exhibits
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley, their ancestors and descendants, etc
Author: Robert Edmond Chester WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The College Calendar for the Free Church of Scotland
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
College Life in the Old South
Author: E. Merton CoulterPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331996
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.
