History of Hull (Annales Regioduni Hullini)
Author: Thomas Gent
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 306
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Author: Thomas Gent
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 306
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elaine Treharne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 0191613592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Author: Edward Hailstone
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 102
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Frost
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 260
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Britton
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Published: 1812
Total Pages: 1030
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Miller
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-03-29
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0191537136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe religious and political history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This was the period when party conflict - exacerbated by religious enmities - became a normal part of English life. Rather than denying the importance of partisan divisions, this book reveals how civic celebration, designed as an expression of unity and amity, was often used for partisan purposes, reaching a peak in the 1710s. The animosities were most marked in elections, which were often corrupt and drunken, and sometimes very violent. But division and conflict were not universal. Many towns avoided electoral contests, not because they were in the pocket of a great aristocrat, but as a matter of deliberate policy. Despite occasional disorder, urban government rarely broke down, and even violent elections ended with bruises rather than fatalities. Professor Miller suggests an explanation for this in the nature of urban governance. While the formal structures of town government were profoundly undemocratic - vacancies on corporations were most often filled by co-option - there was much participation, consultation, and negotiation in the lower levels of government. In addition, corporation members lived in close proximity to, and did business with, their fellow townspeople, and needed to meet their expectations. These expectations might have been modest - they wanted streets to be reasonably clean and kept in adequate repair, sewage and rubbish to be removed, law and order maintained, and the deserving poor relieved. But they were the things that made daily life tolerable, and for many they mattered more than politics.
Author: Richard Gough
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Published: 1814
Total Pages: 476
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