William of Wykeham: Patron of the Arts
Author | : Sir William Hayter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir William Hayter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 184540226X |
The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott's previously scattered essays and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years 1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive work, On Human Conduct. The essay from which the volume takes its title was intended as a companion piece to the third part of the latter work, and is just one of over sixty pieces that it includes. The volume draws together critical responses to works by major philosophers, historians, and political theorists of his own generation such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Herbert Marcuse, and Michael Polanyi as well as to some major figures of current scholarship such as Quentin Skinner and Roger Scruton.
Author | : Raluca Radulescu |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719068256 |
Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Author | : Virginia Davis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Continuum |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A rounded biography of one of the key-figures of late fourteenth-century England, an acquaintance of Chaucer and a man who wielded immense political power.
Author | : Clayton J. Drees |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2000-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1567507492 |
As part of a unique series covering the grand sweep of Western civilization from ancient to present times, this biographical dictionary provides introductory information on 315 leading cultural figures of late medieval and early modern Europe. Taking a cultural approach not typically found in general biographical dictionaries, the work includes literary, philosophical, artistic, military, religious, humanistic, musical, economic, and exploratory figures. Political figures are included only if they patronized the arts, and coverage focuses on their cultural impact. Figures from western European countries, such as Italy, France, England, Iberia, the Low Countries, and the Holy Roman Empire predominate, but outlying areas such as Scotland, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe are also represented. Late medieval Europe was an age of crisis. With the Papacy removed to Avignon, the schism in the Catholic Church shook the very core of medieval belief. The Hundred Years' War devastated France. The Black Death decimated the population. Yet out of this crisis grew an age of renewal, leading to the Renaissance. The great Italian city-states developed. Humanism reawakened interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Dante and Boccaccio began writing in their Tuscan vernacular. Italian artists became humanists and flourished. As the genius of Italy began spreading to northern and western Europe at the end of the 15th century, the age of renewal was completed. This book provides thorough basic information on the major cultural figures of this tumultuous era of crisis and renewal.
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 3341 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1845407822 |
A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?
Author | : Ronald H. Fritze |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 2002-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.
Author | : Richard Rex |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874135671 |
The essays in this single-author collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne, the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Richard Rex contends that how we think about Chaucer as a Christian depends largely on our interpretation of the Prioress's Tale, which in turn is linked to the brilliant portrait of Madame Eglentyne in the General Prologue.
Author | : Charles Robert Cockerell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Stevens Curl |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0199674981 |
With over 6,000 entries, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available.