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Author: Ian Mortimer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-10-25
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1439112908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.
Author: Allan Chapman
Publisher: Lion Books
Published: 2016-11-18
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0745970400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies work, and what heals them. Embarking on a four-thousand-year odyssey, science historian Allan Chapman brings to life the origin and development of medicine and surgery. Writing with pace and rigorous accuracy, he investigates how we have battled against injury and disease, and provides a gripping and highly readable account of the various victories and discoveries along the way. Drawing on sources from across Europe and beyond, Chapman discusses the huge contributions to medicine made by the Greeks, the Romans, the early medieval Arabs, and above all by Western Christendom, looking at how experiment, discovery, and improving technology impact upon one another to produce progress. This is a fascinating, insightful read, enlivened with many colourful characters and memorable stories of inspired experimenters, theatrical surgeons, student pranks, body-snatchers, 'mad-doctors', quacks, and charitable benefactors.
Author: Jill Seal Millman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005-06-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780719069178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of previously unpublished and hard-to-find poetic material from early modern women who wrote in manuscript form. It features a broad and useful introduction examining the phenomenon of manuscript writing, and biographical notes preface the work of each author
Author: Margaret Spufford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1984-07-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0826426700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret Spufford has written as detailed an account of the lives and activities of the chapmen as there is likely to be, given the widely-spread and fragmented evidence. She shows where and when they were active, and in particular their rise in the 17th century, their ranks and their typical careers, the variety of the cloths and other wares they carried, and the attitude of authority towards them.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 079107675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 2198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-10-12
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1137555386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself.
Author: Frances N. Teague
Publisher: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis case study traces the stage history and critical reception of Ben Jonson's play from 1614, when it was first performed, until 1978, when two productions ran concurrently in London. It discusses the play's rise, fall, and rise within the social and theatrical contexts in which Jonson wrote the play; the milieus in which it has been produced; and its adventures over more than three centuries.
Author: Leah S. Marcus
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-03-23
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780226504520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts."—Jean E. Howard
