Category: England

By Judy Ann Ford

`Marvellously perceptive and insightful'. FIONA SOMERSET, Duke University.Written with mostly uneducated rural congregations in brain, John Mirk's Festial grew to become the most well-liked vernacular sermon choice of late-medieval England, but until eventually rather lately it's been ignored by means of students -- even though the query of well known entry to the Bible, definitely considered as the defend of discovered tradition, besides the comparable factor of the relative authority of written textual content and culture, is on the middle of either late-medieval heresy and the consequent reformulation of orthodoxy. It bargains, in reality, an remarkable chance to investigate the non secular ideology communicated via the orthodox church to the majority of humans in fourteenth-century England: the standard kingdom people. This publication represents the 1st significant exam of the Festial, having a look specifically on the problems with pop culture and piety; the oral culture; biblical and secular authority; and clerical power.JUDY ANN FORD is affiliate Professor within the historical past division of Texas A&M University-Commerce.

By Valerie G. Spear

This ebook is an exam of the overdue medieval English nunnery better as an influence dealer. established essentially upon historic files of 16 girl homes within the interval from 1280 to 1540, it addresses management versions, questions of social id and ranging perceptions of the position and function of the abbess or prioress. no matter if prime an abbey or priory, some of the best discharged accountability for either the religious and fiscal care of her convent in an period awesome for the subjugation of ladies and for its schizoid view in their actual and religious attributes. The dialogue is trained by means of a wide variety of documentary proof, together with decisions from episcopal registers, account rolls, plea rolls, Chancery files, letters, petitions, medieval literature and comparative fabric from extra nunneries. The subject matter of clash recurs all through, as spiritual ladies are published guidance their groups among the directives of the church and! the calls for in their budgets or their secular neighbours. The Dissolution and its results at the morale and behavior of the final superiors finish the learn.

By Simon Webb

By Sally Bedell Smith

“An first-class, all-embracing new biography.”—The long island Times

From the instant of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the item of unprecedented admiration and scrutiny. yet in the course of the fog of glamour and gossip, how good can we quite understand the world’s most famed monarch? Drawing on a variety of interviews and never-before-revealed files, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls again the curtain to teach in remarkable element the private and non-private lives of 1 of the world’s so much attention-grabbing and enigmatic ladies. In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the younger lady who all at once turns into “heiress presumptive” whilst her uncle abdicates the throne. We see the younger Queen suffering to stability the calls for of her activity together with her position because the mom of 2 young ones. And we achieve perception into the Queen’s day-by-day exercises, in addition to her own relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the affection of her lifestyles, her little ones and their often-disastrous marriages, her grandchildren and friends.

Scrupulously researched and compulsively readable, Elizabeth the Queen is a close-up view of the full of life, very good, and steadfast girl we’ve identified in basic terms from a distance, and an enthralling window into lifestyles on the middle of the final nice monarchy.

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“[An] enforcing, but nimbly written, biography [that] dwarfs the sphere . . . a so much gratifying and relaxing learn, one to be savored at length.”—Minneapolis famous person Tribune

By John Walter

This e-book makes an unique contribution to the historical past of the English Revolution and to the which means of crowd habit. It recreates probably the most well-known episodes, during which crowds from Essex and Suffolk attacked and plundered the homes of the gentry, and sought to "ethnically cleanse" their groups of Catholics. The deeper viewpoint provided by means of heritage exhibits that this motion was once no longer "blind violence": the e-book deciphers the common sense that trained the crowd's habit, and unearths facts of either the importance--and reach--of puritanism and renowned parliamentarianism.

By M. W Kirby

Hardcover with dirt jacket

By Harriet Harvey Wood

1066 continues to be the main recognized date in English historical past. Harriet Harvey wooden competitive and unlawful invasion destroyed a normal and hugely built civilization, a ways prior to different ecu societies within the sophistication of its political associations, artwork and literature. Harvey wooden explores the heritage and lead-up to the invasion and the reasons of the prime avid gamers, the nation of battle in England and Normandy in 1066, and the conflict itself. Judged ahead of the development, King Harold should have gained the conflict of Hastings easily and to have loved a calm and enlightened reign. That he didn't used to be mostly a question of sheer undesirable good fortune. This gripping and pleasing booklet indicates how he got here to be defeated, and what England misplaced due to his defeat and loss of life.

By Nick Pelling

Supplying essays, assets with questions and labored solutions, including heritage to every subject inside of Irish heritage, Nick Pelling offers a superb foundational textual content for the learn of Anglo-Irish family members. for hundreds of years the connection among eire and England has been tough. Anglo-Irish kinfolk, 1798–1922 explores the tempestuous occasions from Wolfe Tone's failed emerging to Michael Collins's arguably extra profitable attempt, culminating within the arguable Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. vintage struggles among key figures, resembling O'Connell and Peel, Parnell and Gladstone, and Lloyd George and Michael Collins, are mentioned and analyzed. The deeper concerns concerning the nature of British Imperial rule and the variety of Irish nationalism also are tested, highlighting the historiographical debate surrounding the so-called 'revisionist' view.

By Graham E Seel, David L. Smith

В 1603 г., всего через несколько часов после смерти Елизаветы I в Ричмонде, в Лондоне на трон взошел король Джеймс VI Шотландский, и был объявлен как Джеймс I, король объединенной Англии и Шотландии. Затем последовал период усиления религиозных и политических разногласий, достижение пика в Английской гражданской войне. В книге анализируются эти сложные события 1603-1642 гг, а также роль ключевых фигур того времени – Джеймса I и VI, Чарльза I, Бекингема, Стретфорда, Лода и др. Учебное пособие предоставляет информацию об этом периоде династии Стюартов в виде кратких конспектов, подкрепленных выдержками из источников. Затем следует подробный анализ изложенной исторической ситуации. Усвоенный материал предлагается проверить с помощью контрольных вопросов в конце каждого раздела. В помощь студентам, и в качестве образца, после ответов приводится правильный развернутый ответ.Образцы сканов:

By Christopher Hilliard

In twentieth-century Britain the literary panorama underwent a primary swap. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now incorporated manufacturing facility staff writing amid chaotic domestic lives, and married girls becoming a member of writers' golf equipment looking for inventive retailers. during this brilliantly conceived ebook, Christopher Hilliard unearths the intense historical past of "ordinary" voices.

Writing as an equipped pursuit emerged within the Nineteen Twenties, entire with golf equipment, magazines, guidebooks, and correspondence faculties. The journal The Writer helped coordinate a community of "writers' circles" all through Britain that provided potential authors--especially women--outside the proficient London elite a discussion board within which to debate writing. The legacy of Wordsworth and different English Romantics inspired the idea that would-be authors should still write approximately what they knew personally--that paintings flowed from actual adventure and approach was once of secondary value. The Nineteen Thirties observed a increase within the ebook of so-called proletarian writing, working-class males writing "in my very own language approximately my very own people," as Birmingham author Leslie Halward positioned it. in the course of international conflict II, squaddies grew to become to poetry to deal with the trauma of battle, and the preferred journal Seven promoted the concept somebody, despite social historical past, can be a artistic author. Self-expression grew to become a democratic correct.

In taking pictures the inventive lives of normal people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who before have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary tradition of a democratic age.