Henry Thomas Riley's Books

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

This early diary of John Adams contains material about his life as an undergraduate at Harvard, his law studies, his ambitions, and his observations on girls. -- Dust jacket.

These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).

This six-volume edition and translation of the important thirteenth-century legal treatise known as Bracton was published between 1878 and 1883. It was largely a reprint of the first printed edition of 1569, rather than being based on a collation of the many surviving manuscripts.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

A two-volume Latin history of England from before the Norman Conquest to the late fourteenth century, published 1889-95.

An edition of Henry Elsyng's early 17th-century treatise on how to conduct the business of parliament.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

America has a rich history of creating unique sayings and phrases, here are collected some of the finest. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book's by Henry Thomas Riley

Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, Preserved in her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1293-1301

Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, Preserved in her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1293-1301

The Earliest Diary of John Adams

The Earliest Diary of John Adams

Law and Religion in Chaucer's England

Law and Religion in Chaucer's England

De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

Chronicon Henrici Knighton Vel Cnitthon, Monachi Leycestrensis

Chronicon Henrici Knighton Vel Cnitthon, Monachi Leycestrensis

Judicature in Parlement

Judicature in Parlement

Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, Preserved in her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1302-1307

Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, Preserved in her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1302-1307

A People's History of Classics

A People's History of Classics

American Sayings - Famous Phrases, Slogans and Aphorisms

American Sayings - Famous Phrases, Slogans and Aphorisms

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