Historical Dictionary Of Stuart England 1603 1689
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Historical Dictionary of Stuart England 1603 1689
Author | : Ronald H. Fritze,William Baxter Robison,William B. Robison |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:49015002853142 |
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Primary focus of coverage has been political and religious history, although important cultural, social, economic and intellectual topics have been included.
Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England 1272 1485
Author | : Ronald H. Fritze,William B. Robison |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 2002-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9798216096566 |
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Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.
Queenship in Britain 1660 1837
Author | : Clarissa Campbell Orr |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719057698 |
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Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne.
Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy
Author | : Kenneth John Panton |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781538175774 |
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Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries that cover significant events, places, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, economics, politics, and society.
Reference Sources in History
Author | : Ronald H. Fritze,Brian E. Coutts,Louis A. Vyhnanek |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2004-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781851095223 |
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Fully annotated and completely updated—the most comprehensive guide to reference books in the field of history. Reference Sources in History catalogs atlases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, sourcebooks, bibliographies, and chronologies and makes sense of it all. Its broad scope and systematic organization make it an accessible, reliable resource for experienced and inexperienced researchers alike. Fully annotated and updated, the new edition summarizes hundreds of reference works on every conceivable subject in history—from ancient to modern, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. This edition also reflects the dramatic impact of the digital revolution on historical research by integrating a wide range of Internet and CD-ROM sources. Reference Sources in History is a time-saving alternative to searching the reference stacks or getting lost in an online thicket of dubious historical websites.
When God was King
Author | : Martyn Whittock |
Publsiher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780745980423 |
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Islam is not the only religion that has sought political power, or believed that it should be possible to create a theocracy. In the seventeenth century, Christians in the British Isles and North America attempted to follow the examples of sixteenth-century European radicals, while attempting to learn from their mistakes. This occured first in Scotland, and then during the upheavals of the Civil Wars, culminating in Oliver Cromwell attempting to impose just such a rule of the saints across the whole country. On the other side of the Atlantic the Mayflower Pilgrims and other godly colonists sought to establish a New Jerusalem in the New World. At the same time, millenarian groups planned a religious, political, and social revolution to usher in the return of Christ; while others argued for something akin to modern democracy and some a form of rural communism. And even after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, millenarian groups continued to plot an overturning of the world order. Among groups, such as the Quakers, their faith continued to have a radical impact on their politics and their seventeenth-century legacy influenced the later development of Dissent and Nonconformity in the United Kingdom and in North America. Nor is Christian political radicalism dead today it has influenced politicians ever since, and can be seen in recent political developments in the USA in the twenty-first century. This book is a fascinating study of the ideas and actions of these political radicals and the kind of societies and life experiences that produced them.
Reader s Guide to British History
Author | : David Loades |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 4319 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000144369 |
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The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author | : Gilbert Tournoy |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9058673324 |
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