The Ebbs And Flows Of Fortune

Author : David M. Head
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820316830

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The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune by David M. Head Pdf

The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune is the first comprehensive biography of Norfolk. In this study David M. Head confronts the central paradox of Norfolk's career - one that lies in his unpleasant personality, marked by vain and tyrannical behavior. Ultimately these flaws prohibited him from achieving the social position he believed was owed to him, mainly because of his family's status and wealth. Essentially a conservative, socially and religiously, Norfolk was uncomfortable with reformation ideology and the "low-brow" men of the court. The duke sought a primary position within the court on the model of that earned by Cromwell and Wolsey but was unwilling to perform the sustained hard work required to achieve that stature. By the 1540s Norfolk was probably the richest man in England, but nonetheless, at the hands of Cromwell and Wolsey, he was repeatedly exiled from the court for emotional excesses. He found himself assigned to posts at considerable distances from the crown - military assignments in France and diplomatic appointments to Ireland and Scotland. While in France he illustrated the cruelty of his character by hanging dozens of men and lamenting his lack of authority to execute more.

Author : Daniel Williman,Karen Corsano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501510052

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The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis by Daniel Williman,Karen Corsano Pdf

The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in the abbey library of St-Denis-en-France. The authors shed new light on the production process, identifying the illuminator of the Royal MS and naming the scribe. Detailed evidence links the codex to important events in history, such as the Council of Constance, and famous actors like Jean de France, duc de Berry, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry VIII, to name a few. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex. Another dimension of this study accounts for all twenty-two copies of the Chronicle, now scattered in nine cities from London to Vienna, placing each one in a scrupulously drawn stemma codicum and sketching its history.

Author : Nicola Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191087660

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Gender, Family, and Politics by Nicola Clark Pdf

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain.

Author : John Home
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000456361

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Douglas by John Home Pdf

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199566105

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare by Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

Contains forty original essays.

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA1001550031

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Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Compiled from the Dictionaries of Johnson, Todd ... by Professors Fleming and Tibbins by Charles Fleming Pdf

Author : Thomas Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015068368573

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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics by Thomas Curtis Pdf

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B3327207

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In High Places by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

Author : Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046971

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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]. by Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433000999049

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London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805242782

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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber Pdf

Part of the Jewish Encounters series The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been immortalized in books and plays, he provided readers throughout the world with a fascinating window into the world of Eastern European Jews as they began to confront the forces of cultural, political, and religious modernity that tore through the Russian Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But just as compelling as the fictional lives of Tevye, Golde, Menakhem-Mendl, and Motl was Sholem Aleichem’s own life story. Born Sholem Rabinovich in Ukraine in 1859, he endured an impoverished childhood, married into fabulous wealth, and then lost it all through bad luck and worse business sense. Turning to his pen to support himself, he switched from writing in Russian and Hebrew to Yiddish, in order to create a living body of literature for the Jewish masses. He enjoyed spectacular success as both a writer and a performer of his work throughout Europe and the United States, and his death in 1916 was front-page news around the world; a New York Times editorial mourned the loss of “the Jewish Mark Twain.” But his greatest fame lay ahead of him, as the English-speaking world began to discover his work in translation and to introduce his characters to an audience that would extend beyond his wildest dreams. In Jeremy Dauber’s magnificent biography, we encounter a Sholem Aleichem for the ages. (With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations)

Author : James ROUSE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017078254

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The Beauties and Antiquities of the County of Sussex, forming a general illustration on one hundred and forty nine ... lithographic views ... of its ecclesiastical and castellated remains, etc by James ROUSE Pdf

Author : John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1467 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598842999

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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes] by John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D. Pdf

Authority and accessibility combine to bring the history and the drama of Tudor England to life. Almost 900 engaging entries cover the life and times of Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, and much, much more. Written for high school students, college undergraduates, and public library patrons—indeed, for anyone interested in this important and colorful period—the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England illuminates the era's most important people, events, ideas, movements, institutions, and publications. Concise, yet in-depth entries offer comprehensive coverage and an engaging mix of accessibility and authority. Chronologically, the encyclopedia spans the period from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. It also examines pre-Tudor people and topics that shaped the Tudor period, as well as individuals and events whose influence extended into the Jacobean period after 1603. Geographically, the encyclopedia covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and also Russia, Asia, America, and important states in continental Europe. Topics include: the English Reformation; the development of Parliament; the expansion of foreign trade; the beginnings of American exploration; the evolution of the nuclear family; and the flowering of English theater and poetry, culminating in the works of William Shakespeare.

Author : Brian C. Lockey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317147107

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Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans by Brian C. Lockey Pdf

Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended those identities. Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth. Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Lauren Mackay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786735522

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Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay Pdf

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry's most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne's downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her and her brother their lives. A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir. In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren Mackay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the Boleyn men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and establishes their place in Tudor history.