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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers of the Sidney family, and the inheritors of Penshurst Place.
Author: Michael G. Brennan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780754650607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fields of politics, culture and literature the Sidney family was undoubtedly one of the major players in early modern England. This study provides the first book-length examination of their importance to political and court life, both in supporting the monarchy and parliament and in exploring alternative modes of government. Drawing upon both historical and literary sources it offers an absorbing insight into the self-perceptions of a leading renaissance family and how they adapted to the vicissitudes of the sixteenth and seventeenth century world.
Author: Grace Ioppolo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1134300069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.
Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1137006064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Author: Michael G. Brennan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-26
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1000152138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew families have contributed as much to English history and literature-indeed, to the arts generally-as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on family members and their impact, as historical and literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 1: Lives, begins with an overview of the Sidneys and politics, providing some links to court events, entertainments, literature, and patronage. The volume gives biographies to prominent high-profile Sidney women and men, as well as sections assessing the influence of the family in the areas of the English court, international politics, patronage, religion, public entertainment, the visual arts, and music. The focus of the second volume is the literary contributions of Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.
Author: Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 135170110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2: Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of family members -Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke - in the genres of prose romance, drama, poetry, psalms and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.
Author: David Knowles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-09
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1139430742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first of two volumes, now covering the heads of religious houses in England and Wales from the tenth-century reform to the death of Edward III, 940–1377. This first volume, by the great master of monastic history, Dom David Knowles, aided by Christopher Brooke and Vera London, was published first in 1972 and was quickly recognised as a major work of reference, noted for its mastery of accurate detail. It has now been brought up to date with substantial addenda and corrigenda by Christopher Brooke. The 1972 volume covers the period 940–1216, and comprises fully documented, critical lists of monastic superiors, with succinct biographical details. It is an essential foundation for all prosopographical study of the religious history of the period; and the precise chronology that it underpins is invaluable for dating innumerable undated documents. As such, the book is a fundamental tool of medieval research.
Author: Janet Dickinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1317323491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1590s have long been considered as having had a distinct character, separate from the remainder of Elizabeth’s reign. This book provides a reassessment of the politics and political culture of this significant period.
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 086193248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe palatinate of Chester survives Tudor centralisation.
Author: Nicholas Tyacke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1456
ISBN-13: 9780199510146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period when both institutionally and intellectually the University was expanding. Oxford and its University, moreover, had a major role to play in the tumultuous religious and political eventsof the century: the Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration. In this volume, leading experts in several fields combine to present a comprehensive and authoritative analysis and overview of the rich pattern of intellectual, political, and cultural life in seventeenth-century Oxford.
