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Township and Borough: The Ford Lectures 1897

With an Appendix of Notes Relating to the History of Cambridge

By: F. W. Maitland,Frederic William Maitland

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Township and Borough: The Ford Lectures 1897

With an Appendix of Notes Relating to the History of Cambridge

By: F. W. Maitland,Frederic William Maitland

Frederick William Maitland (1850-1906) is generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history. In this volume, which was originally published in 1898, Maitland discusses the development of English towns, and the concurrent transition from rural to urban habits which occurred amongst the townspeople. The text was produced as the companion volume to The Ford Lectures, which were given by Maitland during 1897. Consummately researched, it is distinguished by the thorough and sensitive use of primary sources which is characteristic of Maitland's work, a sensitivity that is combined with a lively and engaging written style. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and the process of urbanisation.

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Cambridge University Press

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052117628X

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9780521176286

The Use of Hereford

The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite

By: William Smith

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The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite

By: William Smith

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices. This is the fullest examination of Hereford liturgical sources ever undertaken and may stimulate similar and much-needed studies of other diocesan uses, in particular Sarum and York. As well as describing in detail the various manuscript sources, the rare single edition printed Hereford texts, the missals and breviaries, are also discussed. Unlike books of the Sarum and York rites, these ’one-offs’ were never revised and reissued. In addition to the examination of these sources, William Smith discusses the possible origins of the rite and provides an analysis of the Hereford liturgical calendar, of the festa, including those of the cathedral’s patron St Ethelbert and the no less famous St Thomas Cantilupe, that helped to make Hereford use so distinctive.

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Routledge

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1317012720

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The Use of Hereford

The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite

By: Mr William Smith

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The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite

By: Mr William Smith

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147241277X

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9781472412775

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Marking Readers in Renaissance England

By: William H. Sherman

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Marking Readers in Renaissance England

By: William H. Sherman

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition. William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase "mark my words" quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers. Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. The chapters address the place of book-marking in schools and churches, the use of the "manicule" (the ubiquitous hand-with-pointing-finger symbol), the role played by women in information management, the extraordinary commonplace book used for nearly sixty years by Renaissance England's greatest lawyer-statesman, and the attitudes toward annotated books among collectors and librarians from the Middle Ages to the present. This wide-ranging, learned, and often surprising book will make the marks of Renaissance readers more visible and legible to scholars, collectors, and bibliophiles.

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283

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812203445

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9780812203448

Julian Bell

From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War

By: Peter Stansky,William Abrahams

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Julian Bell

From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War

By: Peter Stansky,William Abrahams

Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic Roger Fry. This biography draws upon the expanding archives on Bloomsbury to present Julian's life more completely and more personally than has been done previously. It is an intense and profound exploration of personal, sexual, intellectual, political, and literary life in England between the two world wars. Through Julian, the book provides important insights on Virginia Woolf, his mother Vanessa Bell, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group. Taking us from London to China to Spain during its civil war, the book is also the ultimately heartbreaking story of one young man's life.

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Stanford University Press

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0804777926

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.

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387

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Routledge

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1000749584

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DK Eyewitness Books: Flag

By: William Crampton

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DK Eyewitness Books: Flag

By: William Crampton

Flags are used worldwide and are important symbols that embody the very spirit of each nation they represent. Flags and banners have a long and rich history that can be found in this spectacular guide to flags aroundthe world. Filled with thousands of full-color photographs, be and "eyewitness" to the story behind flags-from the earliest heraldic banners to the national flags of today. See the flag of a Chinese pirate ship, the banners of medieval knights, the flags of the French and Russian revolutions, and the national flags of 160 different countries. Learn how to signal by semaphore, how to hoist a flag, what stars represent on the American flag, and how flags were hoisted on the Moon and at the South Pole. Discover how Britain's Union Jack has changed over the years, the story behind the Japanese "rising sun," why many Dutch flags feature a picture of a hat on the end of a pole, and much, much more! Discover the story behind flags and banners their history, their meanings,and how they are used all over the world.

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Penguin

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0756668123

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9780756668129

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

By: William St Clair

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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

By: William St Clair

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Cambridge University Press

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052181006X

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9780521810067

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II

By: William D Brewer

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II

By: William D Brewer

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Taylor & Francis

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1000743896

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Reading London in Wartime

Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature

By: William Cederwell

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Reading London in Wartime

Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature

By: William Cederwell

Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the representation of London in wartime and early post-war literature through each writer’s unique perspective on the pressures of 1940s city life. Exploring the use of London imagery, this book considers how literature redirects attention to individual, subjective experience at a time of enforced co-operation, uniformity and community. Unlike government information films and news broadcasts, which often used London to prop up prevailing clichés and stereotypes, and encouraged patriotic support for the war, literature had the freedom to express more recalcitrant truths. London writing of the 1940s was not a literature of opposition or dissent, but in offering more nuanced depictions of the period, it was a counterweight to propaganda and the general war temperament. In writing, the city becomes a more complex place, no longer the easy symbol of defiance and stoicism, of the shared sacrifice of ration book and war work.

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Routledge

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1351239058

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9781351239059

Book's by William Plomer

Township and Borough: The Ford Lectures 1897

Township and Borough: The Ford Lectures 1897

The Use of Hereford

The Use of Hereford

The Use of Hereford

The Use of Hereford

Used Books

Used Books

Julian Bell

Julian Bell

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

DK Eyewitness Books: Flag

DK Eyewitness Books: Flag

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II

Reading London in Wartime

Reading London in Wartime

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