Children of Ancient Britain
Author | : Louise Lamprey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Louise Lamprey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil Oliver |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0297867687 |
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago brought a new and warmer age and with it, one of the greatest tsunamis recorded on Earth which struck the north-east of Britain, devastating the population and flooding the low-lying plains of what is now the North Sea. The resulting island became, in time, home to a diverse range of cultures and peoples who have left behind them some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic monuments in the world. Through what is revealed by the artefacts of the past, Neil Oliver weaves the epic story - half a million years of human history up to the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD. It was a period which accounts for more than ninety-nine per cent of humankind's presence on these islands. It is the real story of Britain and of her people.
Author | : World Book |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780716626497 |
Where did the people of Ireland come from? Who was King Arthur? Explore the rich mythologies and legends of the many cultures of the peoples of Britain and Ireland. Famous Myths and Legends is a beautifully photographed and illustrated 12-volume series designed to narrate the ancient mythologies and inherited stories from the many diverse cultures throughout the world.
Author | : George H. Cooper |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596054131 |
Where is paradise located? George H. Cooper bold thesis in Ancient Britain is that the Biblical Eden is Salisbury Plain in England and that the streams of the Eden story in Genesis is the Avon River system in Wiltshire, England. He argues further that all the ancient stories regarding Eden and the doings of the gods revolve around the dramas enacted there by the ancient British, which culminated in the construction of the monolithic circles of Stonehenge. As evidence in support of this original thesis, Cooper discusses the monolithic structures of Britain, the Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, the relics of Mexico, and the Octimal Numeration invented by the author long before he had the slightest idea that it would become such a powerful factor in linking the religious culture of the East with the West. GEORGE H. COOPER also wrote Elementary Arithmetic of the Octimal Notatiion.
Author | : Jackie C. Horne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317121694 |
How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.
Author | : Lesley A. Beaumont |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136486690 |
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont focuses on the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, this is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks important new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a rich visual, as well as narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Jacomb Wilkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Josephine McDonagh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521781930 |
In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics, philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices. She places literary works within social, political and cultural contexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns, slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces a trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates on the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, and Thomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the haunting persistence of the notion of child murder within British culture in a volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.
Author | : Mary Lewis |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0124104398 |
Palaeopathology of Children: Identification of Pathological Conditions in the Human Skeletal Remains of Non-Adults provides archaeological examples of pathological child remains with varying degrees of disease manifestation, and where possible, presents illustrations of individually affected bones to help with identification. The structure and inclusion of photographs and summary diagnostic tables make this suitable for use as a textbook. Each chapter includes a table of international archaeological cases collated by the author from published and unpublished literature. Child skeletal remains come in a variety of different sizes, with bones appearing and fusing at different times during growth. Identifying pathology in such unfamiliar bones can be a challenge, and we often rely on photographs of clinical radiographs or intact anatomical specimens to try and interpret the lesions we see in archaeological material. These are usually the most extreme examples of the disease, and do not account for the wide degree of variation we may see in skeletal remains. - Provides a comprehensive review of the types of pathological conditions identified in non-adult skeletal remains - Contains chapters that tackle a particular disease classification - Features for each condition are described and illustrated to aid in the identification