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Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

By: James Daybell

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Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

By: James Daybell

This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities, document 'higher' forms of female literacy, and highlight women's mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. The book also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships, and as media for personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship networks; they were active as suitors for crown favour, and operated as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally on the wider political stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.

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Oxford University Press

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0192566687

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Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

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Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Romans have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, emperors, the development of civilisation and armies all have a fascinating history... but so too do tattoos, collecting, fattening, recycling, walking, poison, fish, inkwells and wicked stepmothers! Each of these subjects is equally fascinating in its own right, and each sheds new light on the traditional subjects and themes that we think we know so well.

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Atlantic Books

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1786497743

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Histories of the Unexpected: World War II

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

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Histories of the Unexpected: World War II

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, World War II has been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, battles, bombs and bravery all have a fascinating history... but so too do handkerchiefs, furniture, Mozart, insects, blood, mothers, suicide, darkness, cancer and puppets! Each of these subjects is equally fascinating in its own right, and each sheds new light on the traditional subjects and themes that we think we know so well.

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178649776X

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Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

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Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

By: Sam Willis,James Daybell

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightforward way - but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, ships, raiding and trade have a fascinating history... but so too do hair, break-ins, toys, teeth, mischief, luck and silk! Each of these subjects is equally fascinating in its own right, and each sheds new light on the traditional subjects and themes that we think we know so well.

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1786497727

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A Renaissance Marriage

The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella D'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

By: Carolyn James

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A Renaissance Marriage

The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella D'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

By: Carolyn James

The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of early modern political marriage - a relationship born from strategic alliance, but built on cooperation and mutual respect.

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019968121X

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The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800

Communities, Culture and Identity

By: James E. Kelly

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The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800

Communities, Culture and Identity

By: James E. Kelly

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.

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Routledge

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1317034023

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Empowered Women

Find Your Strength and Inspiration

By: James W. Goll,Michal Ann Goll

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Empowered Women

Find Your Strength and Inspiration

By: James W. Goll,Michal Ann Goll

EmpoweredWomen is a devotional dedicated to the memory of Michal Ann Goll and to the honor of all women who are passionate about helping others. It is a compilation of the best from three of her books in the Women on the Front Lines series: A Call to Courage;A Call to the Secret Place; Compassion:A Call to Take Action. This inspiring and challenging devotional serves as a motivation for all who want to follow Michal Ann s example of positively impacting others through fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised worldwide. You will enjoy not only the insights but the depth of compassion found within Empowered Women. You will be lifted above the daily grind into a realm of spiritual, mental, and emotional peace and comfort where you can allow God to immerse you with His love and grace. Michal Ann s extravagant and contagious love for others is manifested in this devotional and exemplified through the examples she chose to write about including Fanny Crosby, Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa, and Catherine Booth. It has been my goal and desire to love the Lord with all my heart all the days of my life.My desire is to leave with my family, friends and ministry partners a challenge to always love and honor God with all your life. I request that you not forget the poor that Jesus died for, and that you carry on my ministry of Compassion Acts to the world. Michal Ann Goll, February 4, 2008

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768496926

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

By: James Gregory

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

By: James Gregory

In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350142441

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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

By: James Gregory

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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

By: James Gregory

Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.

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135014259X

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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4

By: Caroline Bowden,Katrien Daemen-de Gelder,James E Kelly,Richard G Williams,Carmen M Mangion,Michael Questier,Emma Major

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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4

By: Caroline Bowden,Katrien Daemen-de Gelder,James E Kelly,Richard G Williams,Carmen M Mangion,Michael Questier,Emma Major

Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.

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Taylor & Francis

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104024372X

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Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559

By: Susan Broomhall,Carolyn James

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Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559

By: Susan Broomhall,Carolyn James

The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely dynasties, the authors show the breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making. The work thus expands the ways in which the authors can think about women's participation in war and politics. It makes use of a wide range of sources such as literature, art and material culture, as well as more conventional text forms. Women's voices and actions are prioritized in making sense of evidence and claims about their activities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009415964

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The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

By: James Charles Roy

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The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

By: James Charles Roy

Queen Elizabeth’s bloody rule over Ireland is examined in this “richly-textured, impressively researched and powerfully involving” history (Roy Foster, author of Modern Ireland, 1600–1972). England’s violent subjugation of Ireland in the sixteenth century under Queen Elizabeth I was one of the most consequential chapters in the long, tumultuous relationship between the two countries. In this engaging and scholarly history, James C. Roy tells the story of revolt, suppression, atrocities, and genocide in the first colonial “failed state”. At the time, Ireland was viewed as a peripheral theater, a haven for Catholic heretics, and a potential “back door” for foreign invasions. Tormented by such fears, lord deputies sent by the queen reacted with an iron hand. These men and their subordinates—including great writers such as Edmund spencer and Walter Raleigh—would gather in salons to pore over the “Irish Question”. But such deliberations were rewarded by no final triumph, only debilitating warfare that stretched across Elizabeth’s long rule.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526770733

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9781526770738

English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

By: James E. Kelly

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English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

By: James E. Kelly

Re-orientates our understanding of English convents in exile towards Catholic Europe, contextualizing the convents within the transnational Church.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108479960

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9781108479967

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

By: James Dougal Fleming

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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

By: James Dougal Fleming

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.

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1040047327

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A Door in the Woods

By: James Dashner

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A Door in the Woods

By: James Dashner

Jimmy Fincher never expected that a normal day in the woods would drastically change his life. Deep in the forest, he discovers an old wooden door, setting off a chain of events that explode into a torrent of suspense and excitement. One mysterious door is going to change the world... forever.

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Cedar Fort Publishing & Media

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1462103278

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9781462103270

English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800

By: Kathryn James

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English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800

By: Kathryn James

This richly illustrated book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. Offering a technical introduction to the handwriting of the period, case studies tracing the significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, and exercises to practice reading and transcription, the book opens the study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of students and scholars.

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Yale University Press

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0300254350

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Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans

Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans

Histories of the Unexpected: World War II

Histories of the Unexpected: World War II

Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

A Renaissance Marriage

A Renaissance Marriage

The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800

The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800

Empowered Women

Empowered Women

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4

English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4

Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559

Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559

The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

A Door in the Woods

A Door in the Woods

English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800

English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800

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