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The Rox Chronicle

By: Krista Peele

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We're just like any other kids. Our talents are just a bit...extreme.Rox, a scrappy fourteen-year-old, is just trying to survive. Living in an orphanage full of 'gifted' students isn't easy. But when strange things begin to happen around Yangsly Academy, surviving becomes an even bigger challenge. Why are kids being sent away from the school at random? Could she be next? What is different about Yangsly Academy? Never one to sit on her hands, Rox gathers a gang of misfits to do some midnight sleuthing. Turning up more questions than answers, Rox's investigation also results in a friend's transfer to the mysterious other school. She and her quirky companions set out to find him, launching on a wild odyssey they'll never forget. Little do they know that at the end of their path they'll find something much larger and more nefarious than they ever dare imagine.The Rox Chronicleis for fantasy and adventure lovers alike. Rox and her gifted companions get in scrape after scrape, overcoming through pure stubbornness and more than a little orneriness.

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Tate Publishing

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1617398543

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9781617398544

Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700

By: K. J. Kesselring,Tim Stretton

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Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700

By: K. J. Kesselring,Tim Stretton

England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly on marriage. But why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation, and how did people in failed marriages cope with this absence? One part of the answer to the first question, Kesselring and Stretton argue, and a factor that shaped people's responses to the second, lay in another distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights. The bonds of marriage stayed tightly tied in post-Reformation England in part because marriage was as much about wealth as it was about salvation or sexuality, and English society had deeply invested in a system that subordinated a wife's identity and property to those of the man she married. To understand this dimension of divorce's history, this study looks beyond the church courts to the records of other judicial bodies, the secular courts of common law and equity, to bring fresh perspective to a history that remains relevant today.

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Oxford University Press

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0192849956

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9780192849953

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis

By: Krista De De Jonge

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Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis

By: Krista De De Jonge

The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century. Contributors: Karl Beelen (Karlsruhe IT), John Bintliff (Leiden University / Edinburgh University), Bieke Cattoor (TU Delft), Jill Desimini (Harvard University), Cecilia Furlan (TU Delft / KU Leuven), Ian Gregory and Christopher Donaldson (Lancaster University), Joanna Taylor (University of Manchester), Piraye Hacigüzeller, Frank Vermeulen and Devi Taelman (Ghent University), Ralf Vandam and Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven), Reinout Klaarenbeek (KU Leuven), Sanne Maekelberg (KU Leuven), Steffen Nijhuis (TU Delft), Cristina Purcar (TU Cluj-Napoca), Changxue Shu (KU Leuven, FWO), Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (University of Amsterdam), May Yuan and Arlo McKee (University of Texas, Dallas) Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Leuven University Press

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9462701733

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The Rox Chronicle

The Rox Chronicle

Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700

Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

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