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Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

By: Christopher Witcombe

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Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

By: Christopher Witcombe

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the privilegio and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

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BRILL

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9047413636

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9789047413639

The Shapwick Project, Somerset

A Rural Landscape Explored

By: Christopher Gerrard

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The Shapwick Project, Somerset

A Rural Landscape Explored

By: Christopher Gerrard

This book provides an introduction to the Shapwick Project's objectives, geographical background and previous work in the Somerset. It deals with excavations in the outlying parish and focuses on work in the village at Shapwick House.

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1939

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Routledge

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1351194933

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9781351194938

Ships Of Heaven

The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals

By: Christopher Somerville

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Ships Of Heaven

The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals

By: Christopher Somerville

‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’ The Spectator Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven. ‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’ Church Times

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273

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Random House

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1473527147

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9781473527140

The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700

By: Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales

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The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700

By: Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales

The Culture of English Puritanism is a major contribution to the debate on the nature and extent of early modern Puritanism. In their introduction the editors provide an up-to-date survey of the long-standing debate on Puritanism, before proceeding to outline their own definition of the movement. They argue that Puritanism should be defined as a unique and vibrant religious culture, which was grounded in a distinctive psychological outlook and which manifested itself in a set of highly characteristic religious practices. In the subsequent essays, a distinguished group of contributors consider in detail some of the most important aspects of this culture, in particular sermon-gadding, collective fasting, strict observance of Sunday, iconoclasm, and puritan attempts to reform alternative popular culture of their ungodly neighbours. Other contributions chart the channels through which puritan culture was sustained in the 80-year period proceding the English Civil War, the failure of attempts by the puritan government of Interregnum England to impose this puritan culture on the English people, the subsequent emergence of Dissent after 1600.

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340

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349244376

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9781349244379

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547

Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire

By: Christopher Ocker

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Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire

By: Christopher Ocker

This is a study of the religious controversy that broke out with Martin Luther, from the vantage of church property. The book shows how acceptance of confiscation was won, and how theological advice was essential to the success of what is sometimes called a crucial if early stage of confessional state-building.

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360

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BRILL

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9047409981

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9789047409984

The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven

Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640

By: Christopher Haigh

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The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven

Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640

By: Christopher Haigh

What did ordinary people believe in post-Reformation England, and what did they do about it? This book looks at religious belief and practice through the eyes of five sorts of people: godly Protestant ministers, zealous Protestant laypeople, the ignorant, those who complained about the burdens of religion, and the Catholics. Based on 600 court and visitation books from three national and twelve local archives, it cites what people had to say about themselves, their religion, and the religions of others. How did people behave in church? What did they think of church rituals? What did they do on Sundays? What did they think of people of other faiths? How did they get along together, and what sort of issues produced tensions between them? What did parishioners think of their priests and what did the clergy think of their people? Was everyone seriously religious, or did some people mock or doubt religion? If these questions have been tackled before, it has usually been by way of claims about what the common people believed in books written by members of the educated ranks about their contemporaries. In contrast, by going directly to other sources of evidence such court records and parish complaints, this book illuminates what ordinary people actually said and did. Written by one of our leading historians of early modern England, it is a lively and readable account of popular religion in England under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, dealing with the results of the Reformation, reactions to official policy, and the background to the Civil Wars of the mid-17th century.

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296

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OUP Oxford

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0191527114

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9780191527111

Copyright in the Renaissance

Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

By: Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

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Copyright in the Renaissance

Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

By: Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

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9004137483

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9789004137486

Burke

By: Christopher Morley

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By: Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He went to New College, Oxford University for three years on a Rhodes Scholarship, studying modern history. He moved to Philadelphia where he got his start as a newspaper reporter and then columnist for various publications. In 1920, he returned to New York City and took a job writing the column The Bowling Green for the New York Evening Post. He was one of the founders and long-time contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he became the founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Author of more than 100 books of essays, poetry, and novels, he is probably best known as the author of Kitty Foyle (1939), which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. His works include Parnassus on Wheels (1917), Shandygaff (1918), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), Where the Blue Begins (1922), Thunder on the Left (1925), The Trojan Horse (1937), and The Old Mandarin (1947).

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1406582670

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Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

The Shapwick Project, Somerset

The Shapwick Project, Somerset

Ships Of Heaven

Ships Of Heaven

The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700

The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547

The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven

The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven

Copyright in the Renaissance

Copyright in the Renaissance

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