The World Of The Stonors

Author : Elizabeth Noble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132246716

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The World of the Stonors by Elizabeth Noble Pdf

First full-length survey of the Stonors, an important gentry family during the middle ages, exploring the wide connections they fostered. The Stonor letters and papers are second in quantity only to the Paston letters. Nevertheless, while studies of the parvenu Pastons of Norfolk abound, no historian has used the Stonor archive to write about this significantly longer-established gentry family from Oxfordshire, despite the fact that their letters and papers have been available in print since the early twentieth century and have been recently re-issued. This present study helps to rectify that oversight. It argues that lineage, land and lordship were crucial elements in the Stonors' world, both materially and culturally, providing them with status and identity. They asserted their gentle lineage using a range of symbolic and other means, but did not neglect the more mundane management of their scattered lands. Ties of lordship with the influential helped them to retain these lands, and it is clear that the Stonors worked hard to fosterrelationships with kin and neighbours: indeed, their letters and papers allow us a far more extensive yet intimate view of all these social ties [extending over several counties] than is usually possible for the gentry. Dr ELIZABETH NOBLE teaches in the School of the Humanities, University of New England, New South Wales.

Author : Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521555868

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Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford Pdf

The Stonor letters and papers form one of only three surviving archives of gentry correspondence from late medieval England. The collection - which includes documents ranging from love letters to household accounts - provides us with a wealth of otherwise unobtainable detail about the lives and careers of a gentry family, their servants and their friends. Much of the material comes from the period of the Wars of the Roses, and allows us an insider's view on national events and the people involved in them. Originally edited by the historian C. L. Kingsford at the beginning of the century, the complete collection is reissued here, with a new introduction and annotation by Christine Carpenter. In many ways more representative of gentry life than the Paston letters, the Stonor letters and papers will be invaluable to scholars of late medieval England, and will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Wars of the Roses or life in medieval England.

Author : Cinzia Russi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110488401

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Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics by Cinzia Russi Pdf

The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. Distinctive features of the book, which make it appealing to a wider audience, are the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters and the range of languages addressed.

Author : Dom Julian Stonor
Publisher : Angelico Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781621388937

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Father Stonor's Love by Dom Julian Stonor Pdf

Father Stonor's Love is a luminous compilation of letters and sermons written by Benedictine monk Dom Julian Stonor, who sees the details of our world in all its variety as sacramental. The special value of these writings is the intimate and honest perspective they offer of the spiritual drama inherent in the author's vow of obedience. In truth, few writings even come close to so riveting a description of the hidden drama lived out by the conscientious religious monk or nun of the Catholic Church. Upon being entrusted with these materials by the estate of Father Julian's beloved cousin and Newport society doyenne, Noreen Stonor Drexel, Father Julian Stead of Portsmouth Abbey (who had been Father Julian Stonor's pupil) wrote: "I was astounded. I saw they would be an important addition to English spiritual literature. The author seems to have seen God and Heaven with his own eyes, which affected how he saw his fellow man and the rest of creation. The good is what he saw."

Author : Susan Rose
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785707391

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The Wealth of England by Susan Rose Pdf

The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; gentry who based their wealth on producing this commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to prominence in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who acquired wealth and influence like William de la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth made by these and other wool-men transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The export of wool also gave England links with Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain. Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England. She shows how this simple product created wealth and status among men of hugely varying backgrounds, transformed market towns both economically and in architectural terms and contributed to fundamental social and cultural changes through trading links with Italy and other European countries at the height of the Renaissance

Author : Jennifer Hole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319388601

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Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500 by Jennifer Hole Pdf

Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole’s socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologians and philosophers, but how these influenced assumptions and preoccupations about material concerns in late medieval English society. Beginning with late medieval English writings on economic ethics and its origins, the author illuminates a society which, although strictly hierarchical and unequal, nevertheless fostered expectations that all its members should avoid greed and excess consumption. Throughout, Hole aims to show that economic ethics had a broader application than trade and usury in late medieval England.

Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589422

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The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders Pdf

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Author : R. Lexton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137353627

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Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur by R. Lexton Pdf

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon to engage with contemporary problems of kingship and rule.

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134802371

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.

Author : Elizabeth Robins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547593836

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Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins Pdf

Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins is a powerful play that delves into the suffragette movement. Set against the backdrop of societal upheaval, the play captures the passion, challenges, and determination of women fighting for their right to vote. Robins' compelling characters and poignant dialogues make this a must-watch for theater enthusiasts.

Author : Angela Thirkell
Publisher : Virago
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349007410

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Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell Pdf

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend the summer in the neighbouring house, he dreads the intrusion to his idyll: Daphne, capable and ambitious, is too lively for his taste, whereas her brother Denis, a composer, he finds a crashing bore. But their wit and good sense charm the residents of Barchester, and they win over Lord Bond with an impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan evening. Even Jack begins to thaw. Before long, Daphne and Lord Bond's son become attracted to each other, but each believes the other is attached to someone else. Can disaster be averted before she marries the wrong man? First published in 1939, Before Lunch is a sparkling comedy from Angela Thirkell's much-loved classic series.

Author : Giles Scott-Smith,Hans Krabbendam
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 071465308X

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The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 by Giles Scott-Smith,Hans Krabbendam Pdf

The articles that comprise this collection constitute an evaluation of overt and covert influences on political and cultural activity in Western European democracies during the earliest period of the Cold War.

Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1784707708

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The Suitcase by Frances Stonor Saunders Pdf

Author : Simon Townley
Publisher : Victoria County History
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1904356389

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A History of the County of Oxford by Simon Townley Pdf

Authoritative account of the history of Henley-on-Thames and its neighbouring parishes. Focused on the south-west Chilterns, this volume looks at the riverside market town of Henley-on-Thames, now famous for its annual Royal Regatta, and at the four neighbouring parishes of Bix, Harpsden, Rotherfield Greys and Rotherfield Peppard. Henley began as a planned town, probably in the late twelfth century, and became a major inland port, funnelling grain, wood and (later) malt into London. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it developed as a coaching centre, and from the nineteenth flourished as a fashionable resort and commuting area, following the belated arrival of the railway and the self-conscious promotion of the Regatta. The adjoining parishes stretch from the river to the Chilterns uplands, comprising a mixed landscape of wood pasture, small hedged closes, and (in the Middle Ages) small open fields. Settlement is characteristically dispersed, and as elsewhere in the Chilterns the balance between crops, grazing and wood exploitation varied over time. The area contains deserted or shrunken settlements, including Bolney and the newly-discovered site of Bix Gibwyn church; its important buildings include Greys Court, established probably in the eleventh century, while Henley itself contains a richness of eighteenth-century brick-built houses alongside medieval timber-framing, several examples of which have recently been dated by dendrochronology.

Author : Susan Croft
Publisher : Aurora Metro Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015080854188

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Votes for Women and Other Plays by Susan Croft Pdf

The best collection of Suffrage Plays today,introduced and set in context by Dr Susan Croft. Full playtexts from the following suffragette writers: 'How the Vote was Won' by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John 'The Apple' by Inez Bensusan 'Jim s Leg' by L.S. Phibbs 'Votes for women' by Elizabeth Robins 'At the Gates' by Alice Chapin 'In the Workhouse' by Margaret Wynne Nevinson 'A Change of Tenant' by Helen Margaret Nightingale. Also contains a chronology.