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Author : Coleen Paratore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803733011
As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Gracepearl feels her deceased mother guiding her toward a decision between life on a remote, agrarian island with her childhood love, or somewhere far away with a young man in training to be a prince.
Author : Coleen Paratore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133798
Gracepearl Coal is the cook’s daughter on Miramore, the island all princes visit for their summer program in the Charming Arts. Each year, the princes-in-training arrive on gallant seacraft, guided by captains trained to navigate the island’s treacherous waters. Passage on one of these boats is the only method to leave the island—thus betrothal to a royal is the only way for Pearl to find her far-off destiny, the one that’s started haunting her dreams. but how will Pearl leave behind her ailing father or—hardest of all—marry a boy other than her long-time beloved, Mackree . . . who now finds it too painful to even speak to her?
Author : Richard MOORE (of Withal.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1675
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023418959
Author : Shirley Linden Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0961397810
Author : Stella Mary Newton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 085115767X
A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume, foreshadowing the later luxury of Richard II's court. Stella Mary Newton broke new ground with this detailed study, which discusses fourteenth-century costume in detail. She draws on surviving accounts from the Royal courts, the evidence of chronicles and poetry (often from unpublished manuscripts), and representations in painting, sculpture andmanuscript illumination. Her exploration of aspects of chivalry, particularly the choice of mottoes and devices worn at tournaments, and of the exchange of gifts of clothing between reigning monarchs, offers new insights into thesocial history of the times, and she has much to say that is relevant to the study of illuminated manuscripts of the fourteenth century. STELLA MARY NEWTON's lifelong interest in costume has been the mainspring of her work, from early days as a stage and costume designer (including designing the costumes for the first production of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral) to her later work at the National Gallery advising on the implications ofcostume for the purpose of dating, and at the Courtauld Institute where she set up the department for the study of the history of dress.
Author : Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547110590
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams and Delights" by Elizabeth Louisa Moresby. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : L. Adams Beck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368940003
Author : John Barth
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972009
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10934363
Author : Lakshmi Raghunandan
Publisher : Lakshmi Raghunandan
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Kerala (India)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000194340
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013384339
Author : David Kunzle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004123695
At once military, social and art history, this book elucidates various visual media, much of it little known, that denounce military cruelty in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. This unique Netherlands specialty contrasts with Rubens' glorification of war, and its justification in patriotic siege prints, Scipio Africanus, and the "courtiers" of the civic guard groups and Ter Borch.
Author : Thomas T. Allsen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295900
In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the ultimate luxury good of the Middle Ages, and the Chingissid imperium, the largest contiguous land empire in history, was their unmatched collector, promoter, and conveyor. Thomas T. Allsen examines the importance of pearls, as luxury good and political investment, in the Mongolian empire—from its origin in 1206, through its unprecedented expansion, to its division and decline in 1370—in order to track the varied cultural and commercial interactions between the northern steppes and the southern seas. Focusing first on the acquisition, display, redistribution, and political significance of pearls, Allsen shows how the very act of forming such a vast nomadic empire required the massive accumulation, management, and movement of prestige goods, and how this process brought into being new regimes of consumption on a continental scale. He argues that overland and seaborne trade flourished simultaneously, forming a dynamic exchange system that moved commodities from east to west and north to south, including an enormous quantity of pearls. Tracking the circulation of pearls across time, he highlights the importance of different modes of exchange—booty-taking, tributary relations, market mechanisms, and reciprocal gift-giving. He also sheds light on the ways in which Mongols' marketing strategies made use of not only myth and folklore but also maritime communications networks created by Indian-Buddhist and Muslim merchants skilled in cross-cultural commerce. In Allsen's analysis, pearls illuminate Mongolian exceptionalism in steppe history, the interconnections between overland and seaborne trade, recurrent patterns in the employment of luxury goods in the political cultures of empires, and the consequences of such goods for local and regional economies.
Author : Louis Rousselet,Charles Randolph Buckle
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : India
ISBN : 9788120618879
