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Author: John Dickson Carr
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author: Alfred Marks
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Category : Popish Plot, 1678
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494740
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and "stroker", Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London. His death brought to a head a series of rumours about Catholic plots to kill Charles II and install his brother, James, Duke of York, on the throne. Identified as the victim of a Jesuit hit-man, Godfrey became overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.
Author: John Dickson Carr
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18996
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When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Historical mysteries including the case of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey.
Author: John Evelyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108078850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 523
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A three-volume 1906 edition of the memoirs and diary of Stuart writer John Evelyn, up to his death in 1706.
Author: John Evelyn
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Author: John Evelyn
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Hugh Ross Williamson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141390970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Sheds new light on a broad spectrum of tantalizing historical mysteries, answering questions, re-evaluating the evidence, and drawing on the latest research to offer provocative questions about Charles I's executioner, the true identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, the real father of Elizabeth I, and more. Original.
