The Eton College Register 1441 1698 By Sir Wasey Sterry
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The Eton College Register, 1441-1698
Author | : Eton College |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |
Eton College Register 1441-1698
Author | : W. Sterry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781845510459 |
Six Renaissance Men and Women
Author | : Elisabeth Salter |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754654407 |
In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds.The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. This book will appeal to historians of the late-medieval period and the Renaissance, and will serve as an exemplary model to scholars of biographical reconstruction.
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Author | : Greg Walker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1998-09-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521563313 |
Analyses the role of drama in English and Scottish court politics during the sixteenth century.
Reading Practice
Author | : Melissa Reynolds |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226823636 |
Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading Practice tells the story of how ordinary people grew comfortable learning from commonplace manuscripts and printed books, such as almanacs, medical recipe collections, and herbals. From the turn of the fifteenth century to the close of the sixteenth century, these were the books English people read when they wanted to attend to their health or understand their place in the universe. Before then, these works had largely been the purview of those who could read Latin. Around 1400, however, medical and scientific texts became available in Middle English while manuscripts became less expensive. These vernacular manuscripts invited their readers into a very old and learned conversation: Hippocrates and Galen weren’t distant authorities whose word was law, they were trusted guides, whose advice could be excerpted, rearranged, recombined, and even altered to suit a manuscript compiler’s needs. This conversation continued even after the printing press arrived in England in 1476. Printers mined manuscripts for medical and scientific texts that they would publish throughout the sixteenth century, though the pressures of a commercial printing market encouraged printers to package these old texts in new ways. Without the weight of authority conditioning their reactions and responses to very old knowledge, and with so many editions of practical books to choose from, English readers grew into confident critics and purveyors of natural knowledge in their own right. Melissa Reynolds reconstructs shifting attitudes toward medicine and science over two centuries of seismic change within English culture, attending especially to the effects of the Reformation on attitudes toward nature and the human body. Her study shows how readers learned to be discerning and selective consumers of knowledge gradually, through everyday interactions with utilitarian books.
Richard Brome
Author | : Matthew Steggle |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780719063589 |
Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.
The Convention Parliament 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members
Author | : George L. Cherry |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |