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Author: Tita Chico
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780838756058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room embodies contradictory connotations, linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet.
Author: Amanda E. Herbert
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0300177402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.
Author: Marjorie Quennell
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Burlison Mooney
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780813926735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction : "An art which shews so much" -- Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect -- "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron -- "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry -- "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process -- Learning to become "good mechanics in building" -- Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions -- Political power and the limits of genteel architecture
Author: Edward T. Corp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521584623
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Author: Sarah Kerr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1783277572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on their contributions to the lived experience of the household and wider society. Why were lodging ranges built, for example, and how were they used? It is this gap in our knowledge which the present book aims to fill. It draws on archaeological and architectural analysis of lodging ranges to show that they were some of the finest living spaces within the great house, built as accommodation for high-ranking members of the household. Their low-, even single-, occupancy rooms, accessible via individual doors, were innovatory, showing how the idea of privacy developed. The explicit displays of uniformity upon the lodging ranges' symmetrical facades were juxtaposed with variations within. Surviving lodging ranges (including Wingfield Manor, Middleham Castle and Dartington Hall) are examined, alongside the lost example of Caister Castle, demonstrating how lodging ranges simultaneously reflected and shaped medieval life; the author argues that their very form and stones, and their manipulation of space, enabled them to have multi-faceted functions, including the representation of multiple and even conflicting identities.
Author: Dan Cruickshank
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1446416720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation. All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public. But their owners have opened their doors and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage in the cellars as he teases out the story of each house - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them. Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is inseparable from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is thus expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them. Together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in a rich new telling of our island story.
Author: Jonathan B. Durrant
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-06-22
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9047420551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.
Author: Elizabeth Spiller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 113949760X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged, contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic identity.
Author: Thomas Kidwell
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1489703446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResiding in rural southern Oklahoma, its only been within the last seven years that Thomas Kidwell has come to fully express his passion for writing. In his novel, Forever Will, he writes about a very unlikely romance that is patterned after a true-life event that unfolded in Virginia during the turbulent years of the Civil War and the reconstruction years thereafter. That such a romance could flourish between two seemingly opposite people would be difficult to fathom in todays society, but such a romance not only occurred, it endured. Thomas leads us by the hand while we experience the daily toils, traumas, and passions of two very special peoplepeople who arose from the ashes of war to make a better life for themselves. Forever Will is truly a fascinating read with a distinct message sent to us over the span of time: Love will endure. Dr. H. Norman Stillwell "I have known Tom for over thirty years now, yet its always been impossible for me to predict what he will do next. At seventy years of age, Tom sums it up best in his own words when he says, I still havent figured out what I want to do when I grow up. Dr. David Landis
