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English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Marriage and Family, Property and Careers

By: Barbara Jean Harris

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English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Marriage and Family, Property and Careers

By: Barbara Jean Harris

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195056205

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part A

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part A

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.

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1312890088

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 1, 3rd Edition

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 1, 3rd Edition

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Notorious Astrological Physician of London

Works and Days of Simon Forman

By: Barbara Howard Traister

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The Notorious Astrological Physician of London

Works and Days of Simon Forman

By: Barbara Howard Traister

Quack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer—Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts—considered here in their entirety for the first time—paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice—the first such records known from London—as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226811425

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Bread of Life

Lenten Reflections for Individuals and Groups

By: Barbara Jean Essex

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Bread of Life

Lenten Reflections for Individuals and Groups

By: Barbara Jean Essex

This unique Lenten resource highlights the "I Am" sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of John. Targeting laypersons in congregations who desire a practical resource based on sound biblical exegesis that is easy to understand, Bread of Life will challenge, inspire, inform, and enrich the faith of those who use it. Each unit provides an overview of the context, original meaning, and audience, as well as word studies, questions, and a short meditation or prayer. A concluding chapter shows how this resource can be used for preaching and teaching in congregations.

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0829812768

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Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688

By: Barbara J. Shapiro

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Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688

By: Barbara J. Shapiro

This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this culture was expressed and communicated. While the discussion focuses primarily on genres such as the sermon, newsbook, poetry, and drama, it also considers the role of events and institutions. Shapiro is the first to explore and elucidate the entire web of communication in early modern English political life.

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Stanford University Press

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0804784582

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A Distant Mirror

The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

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A Distant Mirror

The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary NOTE: This edition does not include color images.

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Random House

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0307793699

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Growing Up in Medieval London

The Experience of Childhood in History

By: Barbara A. Hanawalt

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Growing Up in Medieval London

The Experience of Childhood in History

By: Barbara A. Hanawalt

When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare felt [:] 'The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'" Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instance that--contrary to the belief of some historians--medieval adults did recognize and pay close attention to the various stages of childhood and adolescence. For instance, manuals on childrearing, such as "Rhodes's Book of Nurture" or "Seager's School of Virtue," clearly reflect the value parents placed in laying the proper groundwork for a child's future. Likewise, wardship cases reveal that in fact London laws granted orphans greater protection than do our own courts. Hanawalt also breaks ground with her innovative narrative style. To bring medieval childhood to life, she creates composite profiles, based on the experiences of real children, which provide a more vivid portrait than otherwise possible of the trials and tribulations of medieval youths at work and at play. We discover through these portraits that the road to adulthood was fraught with danger. We meet Alison the Bastard Heiress, whose guardians married her off to their apprentice in order to gain control of her inheritance. We learn how Joan Rawlyns of Aldenham thwarted an attempt to sell her into prostitution. And we hear the unfortunate story of William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, two mercer's apprentices who found themselves forgotten by their senile master, and abused by his wife. These composite portraits, and many more, enrich our understanding of the many stages of life in the Middle Ages. Written by a leading historian of the Middle Ages, these pages evoke the color and drama of medieval life. Ranging from birth and baptism, to apprenticeship and adulthood, here is a myth-shattering, innovative work that illuminates the nature of childhood in the Middle Ages.

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Oxford University Press

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0199879974

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Devices of Wonder

From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

By: Barbara Maria Stafford,Frances Terpak,J. Paul Getty Museum

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Devices of Wonder

From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

By: Barbara Maria Stafford,Frances Terpak,J. Paul Getty Museum

Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.

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0892365900

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Melodrama and Meaning

History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk

By: Barbara Klinger

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Melodrama and Meaning

History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk

By: Barbara Klinger

Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema—academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass media—create meaning and ideological identity for films. Chapters focus on Sirk's place in the development of film studies from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as the history of the critical reception (both academic and popular) of Sirk's films, a history that outlines journalism's role in public tastemaking. Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalized" camp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture.

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Indiana University Press

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0253208750

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The Ties that Bound

Peasant Families in Medieval England

By: Barbara A. Hanawalt

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The Ties that Bound

Peasant Families in Medieval England

By: Barbara A. Hanawalt

Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

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New York : Oxford University Press

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0195045645

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9780195045642

Anonymity in Early Modern England

'What's In A Name?'

By: Barbara Howard Traister

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Anonymity in Early Modern England

'What's In A Name?'

By: Barbara Howard Traister

Expanding the scholarly conversation about anonymity in Renaissance England, this essay collection explores the phenomenon in all its variety of methods and genres as well as its complex relationship with its alter ego, attribution studies. Contributors address such questions as these: What were the consequences of publishing and reading anonymous texts for Renaissance writers and readers? What cultural constraints and subject positions made anonymous publication in print or manuscript a strategic choice? What are the possible responses to Renaissance anonymity in contemporary classrooms and scholarly debate? The volume opens with essays investigating particular texts-poetry, plays, and pamphlets-and the inflection each genre gives to the issue of anonymity. The collection then turns to consider more abstract consequences of anonymity: its function in destabilizing scholarly assumptions about authorship, its ethical ramifications, and its relationship to attribution studies.

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Routledge

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1317180615

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52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation

Bible Study

By: Barbara J. Essex

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52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation

Bible Study

By: Barbara J. Essex

Barbara Essex does it again in "52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation: Bible Study." The importance of group Bible study cannot be overstated. This book will help you find spiritual growth through Bible study. Fifty-two creative ways to bring new life to your Bible study group. Learn with the best as Essex helps you grow your church and helps church members find spiritual growth. Growing a church spiritually can be difficult, but "52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation: Bible Study" is a tool to help you.

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The Pilgrim Press

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082981969X

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9780829819694

Secret Gardens of East Anglia

By: Barbara Segall

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Secret Gardens of East Anglia

By: Barbara Segall

The big skies and the extraordinary light of East Anglia make it unlike anywhere else in Britain, and offer the most amazing natural conditions in which to create gardens. The twenty-two gardens selected for Secret Gardens of East Anglia celebrate the culture, beauty and diversity of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, and all deserve to be better known. Introduced by eminent East Anglian plantswoman and national treasure Beth Chatto, the gardens appearing on these pages are brought to life by the award-winning author and photographer team of Barbara Segall and Marcus Harpur. From each garden we can learn about the creator’s style, their talent for exploiting the genius loci, and the specific challenges and rewards they have encountered. Featured gardens include: -COLUMBINE HALL A moated garden with a series of green rooms -HELMINGHAM HALL GARDENS A gem of a garden hidden in its own moated island -KIRTLING TOWER A field of daffodils for a Tudor gatehouse -RAVENINGHAM HALL Exquisite planting in the RHS president’s private garden -THE MANOR HOUSE, FENSTANTON Garden rooms on Capability Brown’s private estate - ULTING WICK Thousands of tulips against a backdrop of black wooden barns -WINTERTON LIGHTHOUSE A lush yet restrained garden framing a lighthouse -WYKEN HALL Vines and roses around an Elizabethan manor house.

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Frances Lincoln

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1781012369

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The Early Stuart Masque

Dance, Costume, and Music

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

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The Early Stuart Masque

Dance, Costume, and Music

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

The Early Stuart Masque studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. It will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in English drama, dance, and music of the early modern period, including scholars and students within English literature, as well as modern artists, directors, and producers.

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Oxford University Press

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0199286590

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The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

And Many More Mysteries of America's Past

By: Barbara Karg

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The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

And Many More Mysteries of America's Past

By: Barbara Karg

Explore the secrets of America's past with the official companion to PBS's History Detectives Could a Civil War POW have fashioned a working camera from a tin can, a spyglass lens, and a pine plank? What can an ancient and battered banjo reveal about America's musical and segregated past? How could a man save his own life by proving that he had forged a painting? These are just a few of the intriguing and puzzling questions posed to super sleuths Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwendolyn Wright, and Tukufu Zuberi in this fascinating book. The perfect companion to the hit public television series, including an episode guide, this book is filled with intriguing case files, pictures, how-to's, and checklists that bring mysteries to life and give you the practical advice and tips you need to solve your own historical puzzles. From genealogical research to patent and property searches to DNA analysis and more, it gives you the lowdown on all of the high-tech tools that can help get to the bottom of a case. Packed with fun and useful information for the whole family, it will deepen your appreciation for the way in which seemingly ordinary objects can connect you to important people and events from the past and give you the know-how to do some history detecting of your own.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1620458853

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Commemorating the Seafarer

Monuments, Memorials and Memory

By: Barbara Tomlinson

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Commemorating the Seafarer

Monuments, Memorials and Memory

By: Barbara Tomlinson

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843839709

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The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The years of fame, 1836-1863

By: Barbara Kendall-Davies

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The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The years of fame, 1836-1863

By: Barbara Kendall-Davies

The name of Pauline Viardot Garcia was well known during her lifetime, but after her death in 1910, she passed into obscurity. She was born in Paris in 1821, the youngest child of the Spanish tenor, Manuel Garcia; her sister was Maria Malibran, and her brother, Manuel Patrizio, was an eminent teacher of singing. The first volume of her biography ranges from 1836 until 1863 and covers the most important years of her operatic career. Several composers wrote for her, including Meyerbeer, for whom she created Fidès in â ~Le Prophèteâ (TM); Saint Saëns modelled the role of Delilah on her and Brahms composed the Alto Rhapsody, which she premiered in 1870. She encouraged Gounod to write his first opera, â ~Saphoâ (TM), and sang the title role in the premiere at the Paris OpÃ(c)ra and at Covent Garden. Schumann dedicated his Liederkreis Op.24 to Viardot, and FaurÃ(c) dedicated several of his songs to her. She launched the career of Jules Massenet, and gave valuable assistance to Sullivan, Bizet, Stanford, Arthur Goring Thomas and several other musicians at the beginning of their careers. Although she was not good looking, she had a fascinating personality and great charm and several men fell in love with her, including Alfred de Musset, Gounod, Maurice Sand, Ary Scheffer, Berlioz, and Ivan Turgenev, who loved her devotedly for forty years, although she was married to Louis Viardot for the whole of that time. She was a linguist, artist, composer and talented pianist who studied with Franz Liszt, as well as being a superb singer and actress. Liszt admired her songs and said that she was the first woman composer of genius. Her talent for friendship was great, and she counted Chopin and George Sand as two of her most intimate friends. From 1863 until 1870, she lived in Baden-Baden where she became a celebrated musical hostess, as well as a fine teacher and composer. This book traces the life and work of one of the most important sopranos of the nineteenth century, Pauline Viardot Garcia. Her influence on figures like Meyerbeer, Turgenev and Liszt alone makes this volume, the first comprehensive biography ever published in English, indispensable to the musicologist with an interest in the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge Scholars Press

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1904303277

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The Last Asylum

A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By: Barbara Taylor

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The Last Asylum

A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By: Barbara Taylor

In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London

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University of Chicago Press

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022627392X

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9780226273921

The Shakespeare Trade

Performances and Appropriations

By: Barbara Hodgdon

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The Shakespeare Trade

Performances and Appropriations

By: Barbara Hodgdon

Hodgdon's work should be required reading for anyone concerned with Shakespeare's cultural capital at the end of the twentieth century."—South Atlantic Review

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812213890

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9780812213898

Chaucer's England

Literature in Historical Context

By: Barbara Hanawalt

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Chaucer's England

Literature in Historical Context

By: Barbara Hanawalt

Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452901171

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English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

Forms Outside the Canon

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

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English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

Forms Outside the Canon

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between 1500 and 1660, covering a wide range of different formats. An introduction provides a survey of current criticism, exploring both early modern and contemporary definitions of the 'history play'. Individual essays in chronological order discuss a wide variety of possible sources for historical drama, ranging from oral traditions to chronicles. They also explore genres outside the canon which think of 'history' in different ways, such as shows, moralities and closet drama.

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Springer

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0230593267

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Henry IV, Part Two

By: Barbara Hodgdon

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Henry IV, Part Two

By: Barbara Hodgdon

This valuable introduction to Henry IV Part Two as a performance text draws on traditional methods of performance analysis as well as theatre semiotics, historical analysis, feminism and cultural materialism. Barbara Hodgdon demonstrates how each intersects with sociocultural circumstances, producing a dialogue between a transhistorical 'Merrie England' and the historically local circumstances of present-day theatrical and political cultures. The key stagings discussed include those of Michael Redgrave, Terry Hands, Trevor Nunn and Michael Bogdanov. Ranging beyond the bounds of the conventional theatre, Barbara Hodgdon also looks at Orson Welles' film adaptation, Chimes at Midnight, and at David Giles' production for the BBC/Time-Life Shakespeare series.

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Manchester University Press

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0719027519

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International Law Issues in the South Pacific

By: Geoff Leane,Barbara von Tigerstrom

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International Law Issues in the South Pacific

By: Geoff Leane,Barbara von Tigerstrom

Exploring a selection of current issues in international law as they pertain to South Pacific countries and Antarctica, this volume covers diverse topics including mass refugee flows, transnational crime, international terrorism, freedom of navigation, climate change, international trade agreements and bioprospecting in Antarctica. As well as presenting a critical evaluation of these issues, the book offers an introduction to the South Pacific region and the instruments and institutional arrangements which facilitate co-operation and co-ordination within it. Tensions and interactions with external forces emanating from the global community and from key players outside the region are analyzed in the context of particular issues. International Law Issues in the South Pacific will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in the region and in contemporary international law issues.

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Routledge

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1351155466

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9781351155465

Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution

Harmonizing Earth with Heaven

By: Barbara Allen

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Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution

Harmonizing Earth with Heaven

By: Barbara Allen

Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, with its profound influence on his democratic theory. This book also examines Tocqueville's claim that religious beliefs are among the most important determinants of a people's social structure and political institutions.

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Lexington Books

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0739111744

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9780739111741

Writing Women in Jacobean England

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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Writing Women in Jacobean England

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

When was feminism born - in the 1960s, or in the 1660s? For England, one might answer: the early decades of the seventeenth century. James I was King of England, and women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate, and silent. Some, however, were not, and these are the women who interest Barbara Lewalski - those who, as queens and petitioners, patrons and historians and poets, took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England. Setting out to show how these women wrote themselves into their culture, Lewalski rewrites Renaissance history to include some of its most compelling - and neglected - voices. As a culture dominated by a powerful Queen gave way to the rule of a patriarchal ideologue, a woman's subjection to father and husband came to symbolize the subjection of all English people to their monarch, and all Christians to God. Remarkably enough, it is in this repressive Jacobean milieu that we first hear Englishwomen's own voices in some number. Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, and Mary Wroth published original poems, dramas, and prose of considerable scope and merit; others inscribed their thoughts and experiences in letters and memoirs. Queen Anne used the court masque to assert her place in palace politics, while Princess Elizabeth herself stood as a symbol of resistance to Jacobean patriarchy. By looking at these women through their works, Lewalski documents the flourishing of a sense of feminine identity and expression in spite of - or perhaps because of - the constraints of the time. The result is a fascinating sampling of Jacobean women's lives and works, restored to their rightful place in literary historyand cultural politics. In these women's voices and perspectives, Lewalski identifies an early challenge to the dominant culture - and an ongoing challenge to our understanding of the Renaissance world.

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Health Information in a Changing World

Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians

By: W. Bernard Luckenbill,Barbara Froling Immroth

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Health Information in a Changing World

Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians

By: W. Bernard Luckenbill,Barbara Froling Immroth

This holistic guide explains how school librarians and teachers can successfully integrate relevant health concepts and life skills throughout the curriculum for students K through 12. In the United States, convenience food and soft drink-based diets, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and obesity have become common in youth culture. The importance of health education merits integration throughout school curricula; unfortunately, research shows that many teachers do not feel prepared to teach health issues within their subject areas. This book will encourage all librarians and teachers—no matter their specific area of instruction—to include health lessons in their teaching. Health Information in a Changing World: Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians provides a complete action plan for librarians and teachers who want to provide better health information to students and their caregivers. It contains an extensive discussion of teaching health within curriculum areas such as literature, history and biography, art, science and mathematics, industrial technology, and agriculture. Tips on accessing and evaluating health information in print and electronic media are presented, as well as practical suggestions for effective instructional methods, including ideas on conducting demonstrations, field trips, speaker programs, and online distance education. New findings regarding teaching effectiveness assessment are also presented.

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Eve and the New Jerusalem

Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

By: Barbara Taylor

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Eve and the New Jerusalem

Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

By: Barbara Taylor

When Eve and the New Jerusalem was first published over thirty years ago, it was received as a political intervention as well as a landmark historical work. Barbara Taylor became the first woman to win the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the book went on to become a feminist classic. As women across the globe find themselves at the sharp end of neoliberal 'austerity' programmes, discriminatory social policies and fundamentalist misogyny, Eve and the New Jerusalem is as essential as it ever was. Book jacket.

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Bringing the Montessori Approach to your Early Years Practice

By: Barbara Isaacs

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Bringing the Montessori Approach to your Early Years Practice

By: Barbara Isaacs

Have you ever wondered what the Montessori approach is all about and how it can be used to benefit the young children in your setting? This book explains how the Montessori approach works offering guidance on planning and assessment methods alongside practical activities for practitioners to try. Throughout there are practical examples involving children of different ages in a wide range of settings to show how Montessori principles have been implemented. . This new edition has been fully updated to include: The revised areas of learning in the EYFS and how these link to Montessori practice An examination of early effective learning Approaches to effective learning in Montessori settings A new chapter on Montessori approaches to the assessment requirements of the EYFSquestions for reflection This convenient guide will help early years practitioners, students and parents to really understand what the Montessori approach means to their setting and children.

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Whispering Mountains: A History of Lewis, New York

By: Barbara Matthews,Marilyn Cross

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Whispering Mountains: A History of Lewis, New York

By: Barbara Matthews,Marilyn Cross

For years, Marilyn Cross has enjoyed researching and writing about the area and residents of Lewis, New York, where she grew up. With some gentle prodding from a cousin, Marilyn pulled out her research materials to create this book. "Whispering Mountains" tells the story of the town of Lewis, New York. Lewis celebrated its bicentennial in 2005. Download the "Preview" to see if your family are included in the book's index. If you have more pictures, anecdotes or records that ought to be included in this book, or if you have better identifications for any of the pictures, or if you spot any errors, please contact Barb Matthews at barb@oncalldba.com. This book is an evergreen document that can be added to as additional material becomes available. Purchase a book here, or contact Marilyn directly at crossm@bluemoo.com.

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Lulu.com

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Bad Girls of the Bible

Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue

By: Barbara J. Essex

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Bad Girls of the Bible

Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue

By: Barbara J. Essex

This study explores the traditionally misunderstood or despised women of the Bible and reveals what their stories have to tell us today. Included are questions for reflection and discussion.

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The End Crowns All

Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History

By: Barbara Hodgdon

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The End Crowns All

Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History

By: Barbara Hodgdon

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

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American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Swing City

Newark Nightlife, 1925-50

By: Barbara J. Kukla

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Swing City

Newark Nightlife, 1925-50

By: Barbara J. Kukla

New Jersey is one of the smallest and most densely populated states, yet the remarkable diversity of its birdlife surpasses that of many larger states. Well over 400 species of birds have been recorded in New Jersey and an active birder can hope to see more than 300 species in a year.William J. Boyle has updated his classic guide to birding in New Jersey, featuring all new maps and ten new illustrations. The book is an invaluable companion for every birder - novice or experienced, New Jerseyan or visitor.A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey features: More than 130 top birding spots described in detailClear maps, travel directions, species lists, and notes on birdingAn annotated list of the frequency and abundance of the state's birds, including waterbirds, pelagic birds, raptors, migrating birds, and northern and southern birds at the edge of their usual rangesA comprehensive bibliography and indexThe guide also includes helpful information on: Birding in New Jersey by seasonTelephone and internet rare bird alertsPelagic birdingHawk watchingBird and nature clubs in the state

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