The Bells of Victory

The Bells of Victory
Author: Richard Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002-08-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521521321

Emphasizes the role of teamwork in the British government's conduct of the Seven Year's War.

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)
Author: Arja Nurmi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289727

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Author: Barbara Jean Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2002
Genre: Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN: 0195056205

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.

Following the Levellers, Volume Two

Following the Levellers, Volume Two
Author: Gary S. De Krey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 134995330X

The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers. Far from ending in the 1649 troop revolts, the Leveller impact continued in the Interregnum climacterics of 1653 and 1659-60, times of acute political and religious unsettlement. Indeed, Leveller ideas resurfaced in Restoration political and religious crises in 1678-83 and again in 1687-8 and flourished in populations that once followed the Levellers. Analysis of London, army, and county Levellers reveals connections to subsequent outbursts of unrest. Sectarian communities in London’s peripheral neighbourhoods and nearby counties sustained the Leveller ethos, and ordinary people like those who followed the Levellers remained active in petitioning and protest about political and religious liberties through the Glorious Revolution.

Powers, Possessions and Freedom

Powers, Possessions and Freedom
Author: Alkis Kontos
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1487591039

Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory. The essays brought together here from eminent scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powers, possessions, and freedom, the central problems in political theory. They are arranged in a historical sequence, touching on the thought of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Macpherson himself, and facing with vigour and originality the dilemmas of liberal-democratic and Marxian theory of social and political life. It concludes with an explication by the editor of the inner parable of Durrenmatt's play, The Visit, as a profound critique of capitalism, and with a bibliography of Macpherson's published work.

Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe
Author: A.E. Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317879287

Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines "The Book", to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow. Including her spiritual experiences, but focusing most particularly on her day-to-day life, he builds an intriguing picture of bourgeois society in late medieval Lynn, and the wider world of late medieval towns in England and Europe more generally.

Historical Sociolinguistics

Historical Sociolinguistics
Author: Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317882164

This volume presents a sociolinguistic perspective on the history of the English language. Based on original empirical research, it discusses the social factors that promoted linguistic changes in earlier English, and the people who were the leading force behind them. The authors focus on the major grammatical developments that shaped the language in Tudor and Stuart times, the period that laid the foundations for modern Standard English. Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg adopt an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the extent to which sociolinguistic models and methods can be applied to the history of English.

The Early Tudor Church and Society 1485-1529

The Early Tudor Church and Society 1485-1529
Author: John A F Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317898672

This text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid insight into Tudor life.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Author: Patrick Hanks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192527479

Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.