The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England
The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England

Author: Maurice Howard

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Building accounts, government regulation and theoretical writing on the one hand and pictorial representation on the other directed new ways of documenting the changed appearance of the buildings in which people lived, worshipped and worked. This book shows how changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of building a new society through the image-making of public and private patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.

York
York

Author: Sarah Rees Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 019820194X

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This volume is a study of the development of the city of York as a place and as a community between 1068 and 1350.

The Fall of Cromwell’s Republic and the Return of the King
The Fall of Cromwell’s Republic and the Return of the King

Author: Timothy Venning

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2023-04-20

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 152678940X

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This book completes the series of studies of the 'British Revolution of the Three Kingdoms of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland' and covers the period from the fall of the 'failed state' and Protectorate in 1657 to the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and Charles II in 1660, examines the Restoration settlement in depth and a high point in Stuart pro-French and Catholic policy - contrary to the 1660 Restoration understanding when Charles II vowed reluctance 'go on {his} travels again' and follows the Stuart Restoration and pro-French - and pro-Catholic foreign policy to 1670. Cromwell's death had signaled the end of an overarching figure who held the failing state together and began England's nascent 'great power' foreign and 'colonial' policy. It covers Richard Cromwell's emergence and as a figure far from the 'Tumbledown Dick' of popular legend. Also, the remarkable role of General George Monck as the genial military man guiding the failing and chaotic state to Restoration and stability. Monck underpinned the gentry and merchant class as the root of state and society which outlived civil wars, military dictatorship, political chaos and Stuart monarchical rule.

Archaeology in British Towns
Archaeology in British Towns

Author: Patrick Ottaway

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1134761708

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Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this period, and considers how long-term urban research projects have revealed new information about towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The work of the urban archaeologist is examined in close detail, and attention is given to the critical problems of preserving our urban past, especially when the interests of archaeology and property development clash.

Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1786721570

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The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of an increasingly secularising society, religion continued to play a key role in politics, family life and wider society and the eighteenth-century Church was still therefore a considerable force, especially in questions of morality. This book integrates themes of gender and sexuality into a broader understanding of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. It shows that, rather than distancing itself from sex through diminishing teaching, regulation and punishment, the Church not only paid attention to it, but its attitudes to sex and sexuality were at the core of society's reactions to the first sexual revolution.