East Anglian Silver, 1550-1750
East Anglian Silver, 1550-1750

Author: Christopher Hartop

Publisher: John Adamson Dist A/C

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

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This book describes a wealth of important silver articles made in the region, including a beaker by Elizabeth Haslewood, Norwich's only woman silversmith of the Stuart period, and a magnificent Charles II tankard. The essays set the silver in its historical context, presenting a fascinating perspective on everyday life.

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750
A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750

Author: Victor Morgan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780521350594

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This volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Dutch and Flemish Artists in Britain, 1550-1800
Dutch and Flemish Artists in Britain, 1550-1800

Author: Juliette Roding

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 328

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In January 2001 the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, the research centre for Anglo-Dutch cultural and intellectual relations at Leiden University (STBI), co-organized the international conference 'Dutch artists in Britain, 1550-1750', together with the Leiden centre for early Modern studies (LINT). Aim of the conference was to shed light on the largely uncharted area of the presence of Dutch artists in England and the works of art they produced. Many questions were raised and (party) answered, about the road to success for some, or the causes of failure for others, about the role of intermediairies and patrons and their attitude to Dutch art, about the way artists from the Low Countries adapted to the English market. Selection of the papers presented at the conference.

Norfolk Record Society
Norfolk Record Society

Author: Norfolk Record Society

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

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Vols. 4-6, 8-16; include the society's Annual report, 4th- 1933-

Family & Friends
Family & Friends

Author: Andrew W. Moore

Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 276

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Published to coincide with the Norfolk Portraits exhibition at the Castle Museum, Norwich, in September 1992, this book is a history of portraiture in Norfolk.

When Scotland Was Jewish
When Scotland Was Jewish

Author: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0786455225

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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.