Edited version of the 1837 journal of American musician Lowell Mason written while traveling through Europe.
By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir directorand teacher. He published many collections of sacred music that sold in unprecedented numbers and made him a household name. In 1837 he traveled to Europe on a little-publicized trip. This was a bold move decades before such trips by American musicians became commonplace, and his diaries from this time are a primary source of information on early nineteenth-century European music. This edition of Mason's 1837 journal has been carefully edited: throughout, Broyles has attempted to reproduce the original manuscript faithfully, making adjustments only where necessary for intelligibility. Appendices include a list names with brief biographies, an itinerary of the tour, and those letters received during the trip that still survive. An introduction completes this unique and highly readable volume. Michael Broyles is Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History Emeritus at PennState University and Visiting Professor at Florida State University.
Maria Perry
The Word of a Prince
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She gives the general reader fresh access to Elizabeth's mind and ideas, her wit, verve, eloquence, circumlocution, and formidable learning. OBSERVER
A new approach to historical biography - she has studied both the original sources and recent works of scholarship and has a thorough understanding of the period. SUNDAY TIMES
Until Maria Perry began her exploration of Elizabeth's papers, this vivid raw material had only been partially studied. From it, a fresh portrait of Elizabeth emerges, one which is often more cohesive and less baffling than some offered by her biographers. The dangers and insecurities of her early life, her sense of divine protection, her formidable education, all stand out as crucial elements in the formation of her character; but behind the acquired circumspection lies a personality of great warmth and spirit. On the teasing questions of love, marriage and virginity, the letters and speeches offer oblique comment; it seems certain that Robert Dudley was her one true love, and that she felt his second marriage to Lettice Knollys as a bitter betrayal.
MARIA PERRY is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, where she read history.
Jim Bradbury
The Medieval Archer
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A study of the archer and his weapon from the 11th to the 15th century, focusing on military tactics but also exploring the archer's position in society.
It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society. SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN
This book traces the historyof the archer in the medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. From a close study of early evidence, the author shows that the archer's role before the time of Edward I was an important but rarely documented one, and that his new prominence in the fourteenth century was the result of changes in development of military tactics rather than the introduction of the famous "longbow". A second thread of the book examines the archer's role in society, with particular reference to that most famous of all archers, Robin Hood. The final chapters look at the archer in the early fifteenth century and then chronicle the rise of the handgun as the major infantryweapon at the bow's expense.
JIM BRADBURY writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the Middle Ages.
Richard Barber
Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine
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`...excellent study of the prince's career. A first-class synthesis of the entire literature of this subject.' BRITISH BOOK NEWS
Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history, victor of three great battles and a model of chivalry and courtesy. Behind this image, which many of his contemporaries accepted and eagerly believed in, it is difficult to get at the realities of his character and of the life that he led. Most of his biographers have based their work on the splendid vision of chivalry conjured up by Froissart, but the present book deliberately shuns this approach, to see what can be found in official records, particularly from the prince's household and those who campaigned with the prince. Special attention has been paid not onlyto the confusing and confused accounts of the great battles, but also to the prince's early years, his close companions who contributed so greatly to his successes, and to his government of Aquitaine, an obscure but very importantpart of his career. A number of minor but persistent errors in early histories, deriving from Froissart, are corrected. A concluding chapter examines how the legend of the Black Prince (and his curious nickname) came into being.By separating the image and the reality, a clearer picture of the prince emerges. Dr RICHARD BARBER is the author of The Arthurian Legends, King Arthur: Hero and Legend, Tournaments, a biography of Henry II, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe, and the recently revised seminal study of The Knight and Chivalry.
Pablo Jauralde, Dolores Noguera, Alfonso Rey
La Edición de Textos
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Roy Strong
Art and Power
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A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautifully illustrated. SUNDAY TIMES
The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and a complex and subtle expression of political theory. From the Renaissance festivals ballet, opera and even the proscenium arch theatre are derived. Festivals are therefore a vital part of European cultural history. Here Roy Strong provides a guide to theirorigins and purpose, and their lasting influence.
A.V. Steward
A Suffolk Bibliography
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[East Anglian] A comprehensive guide to the literature on almost everyaspect of Suffolk.
This volume is the result of nearly fifteen years' work since the idea of such a bibliography was first considered by the Suffolk Records Society in 1964. It is designed as a practical working bibliography, and gives a comprehensive guide to the literature on almost every aspect of Suffolk. The introduction sets out the history of the project, the minor exclusions made in order to keep the work within manageable proportions, and the form of arrangementunder approximately two hundred and twenty headings. In all, there are over eight thousand entries. Locations are given for items not in the Suffolk Record Office. A Suffolk Bibliography will be an invaluable tool forresearchers and a constant companion for the reader interested in Suffolk's past.
Diane Chaffee-Sorace
Góngora's Poetic Textual Tradition
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R. Allen Brown
Anglo-Norman Studies V
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Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; Chronicon ex Chronicis; Development of Stamford; Relations between Crown and Episcopacy. M. BAYLÉ, M. BENNETT, D. BERNSTEIN, M. CHIBNALL, K. CIGGAAR, R.R. DARLINGTON, J. DECAENS, R. GEM, J. GREEN, S.F. HOCKEY, R.C. JOHNSTON, L. KEEN, P. McGURK, C. MAHANY, D. ROFFE, D. WALKER. 64 plates, figs.
R.Allen Brown
Anglo-Norman Studies III
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Battle of Hastings; Séemiologie du tombeau de comte de Champagne; Romanesque Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey; Chichester Cathedral; Cluniacs in England; Battle Abbey; William fitz Osbern and Lyre Abbey; Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Honour of Clare; Norman Settlement in Dyfed; Women and Succession; Land and Power: Estates of Harold Godwineson; Danish Kings and England in 10c. R.A. BROWN, M. BUR, R. GEM, B. GOLDING, J.N. HARE, S.F. HOCKEY, E. VAN HOUTS, R. MORTIMER, I.W. ROWLANDS, E. SEARLE, A. WILLIAMS, D. WILSON
Benigno Sánchez-Eppler
Habits of Poetry: Habits of Resurrection
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R. Allen Brown
Anglo-Norman Studies I
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Bayeux Tapestry; Feudal Society in Orderic Vitalis; Sacre des rois Anglo-Normands et Angevins; Defeated Anglo-Saxons Take Service with the Eastern Emperor; Anglo-Saxon Warfare on the Eve of the Conquest; Norman Military Revolutionin England; Crusading Warfare 1092-1130; Norman Conquest: 1066, 1106, 1154? Domesday Book; Norman Settlement in Wales; English Royal Succession 860-1066; 11c Romanesque Sculpture. N.P. BROOKS, M. CHIBNALL, R. FOREVILLE, J. GODFREY, N. HOOPER, D. COOK, R. HILL, J.H.LE PATOUREL, H.R. LOYN, D. WALKER, A. WILLIAMS, G. ZARNECKI. 48 plates, figs.
Vivien Law
Insular Latin Grammarians
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The adaptation of Late Latin grammars from the schools of the Roman Empire for use in a foreign Christian society culminated in the British Isles in the 7th and 8th centuries in the development of two distinct types of grammar designed respectively for elementary and for more advanced students. These works, whether they take the form of elaborate commentaries on the classical grammarians, or of simple collections of paradigms, reflect the reading and intellectual preoccupations of their authors, the first teachers in the West to face the problem of large-scale formal foreign-language teaching. The influence of the Insular grammarians extended far beyond their own time: their works,taken to the Continent by Irish and Anglo-Saxon missionaries, shaped both the latinity and the pedagogical technique of their pupils the Carolingians, and their influencein foreign-language teaching has persisted until our own time.
A. Gordon Kinder
Casiodoro de Reina
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Judith Tick
American Women Composers before 1870
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First study of American women composers and attitudes towards women musicians in the nineteenth century.
Early American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in the New York Public Library, Yale University,Boston Public Library, and the New York Historical Society that form the basis of this study. Beginning with the first sheet music published by a woman in America, in the 1790s, the book goes on to examine music by mid-nineteenthcentury composers, including brief biographies of five prominent women active in the 1850s and 60s. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Francisco Agustín Tarrega
El Prado de Valencia
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Scott Messing
Neoclassicism in Music
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The first historical and critical study of neoclassicism from the genesis of the concept in fin de siecleFrance in the 1870s through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. By the end of the nineteenth century the traits of "classicism" in music had become clearly established. This codification cast long shadows over contemporary artists, encouraging a movement away from order, continuity and tradition towards freedom, innovation and novelty - and the term neoclassicism made its first appearance.
This study, the first ever critical examination of "neoclassicism" in music, provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins, then looks in turn at Wagner and the French reaction to him; Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel and their French contemporaries; Germany and France in the decade which includes the First World War, with special reference to Thomas Mann and Ferrucio Busoni, and to Jean Cocteau and the "New Simplicity"; and Igor Stravinsky, the composer most frequently cited in connection with this term.
Reprint; first published 1988.
Christopher Harper-Bill
Blythburgh Priory Cartulary Part One
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Cartulary of one of the earliest houses of Augustian canons to be established in the diocese of Norwich.
The priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Blythburgh was one of the earliest of the many houses of Augustinian canons established in the diocese of Norwich; the beginnings of conventual life most likely date from the mid-12th century.
Mary D. Lobel
The Victoria History of the County of Oxford
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Deborah J Stein
Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality
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Study of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.
The harmonic language of the late nineteenth-century is studied here as a development of common-practice tonality, taking as a model selected songs by Hugo Wolf. Late nineteenth-century romantic composers employed extended-tonallanguage in a variety of genres, and a special feature of such tonal exapansion was the use of extra musical elements. Hugo Wolfs output, encompassing over 160 miniature masterworks, displays all the necessary characteristics, and makes an ideal subject for studying extensions of tonality. The study is organised to focus on individual techniques of tonal expanison, then to explore the foundations of that technique, and finally, to illustrate the conclusions with particular Wolf songs. Necessarily, Wolf's relationship to Richard Wagner, and to Wagner's revolutionary musical language, forms a part of this study, and so too does the similarity of Wolf's music to that of his contemporaries.
Ivy A. Corfis
Diego de San Pedro's 'Tractado de Amores de Arnalte y Lucenda'
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Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman
The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal
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Sonia Mattalia
La Figura en el Tapiz: Teoría y práctica narrativa en Juan Carlos Onetti
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William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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The volume contains histories of the eleven ancient parishes in Leyland hundred (Leyland, Penwortham, Brindle, Croston, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Tarleton, Rufford, Chorley, Hoole, Eccleston, Standish) and of two of the five ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred (Blackburn parish and Whalley). Some very considerable places in the volume never achieved the status of ancient parish: Darwen was part of Blackburn parish, and Whalley included Accrington, Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, and Nelson. In the Middle Ages the area was relatively poor, with extensive royal forests used for deer and, later, cattle and sheep farming. From the late 18th century the woollen industry gave way to cotton spinning and weaving in hundreds of factories, and the coalfield was exploited. Despite the growth of industry the area retains much undeveloped countryside, gentry houses in the lush pasture land of the Ribble Valley, and many oldfarmhouses on the slopes of the Pennine moorlandsand Pendle Hill.
Bege K. Bowers
Reading and Writing Women's Lives
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The contributors to this volume -- including Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Janet Egleson Dunleavy, James R. Kincaid and Joseph Wiesenfarth -- focus on how men and [particularly] women respond to the ideological pressure of manners for their gender and class as they attempt to define themselves in the novel of manners. Focusing on literary, feminist, and general political concerns, the essays explore the relationships between society's and literature's conventions in works by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf and Barbara Pym, among others. Bege K. Bowers is Associate Provost at Youngstown State University. Barbara Brothers is Professor Emeritus, Youngstown State University.
John Walker
Metaphysics and Aesthetics in the Works of Eduardo Barrios
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Antonio de Capmany
Centinela Contra Franceses
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Ann E. Wiltrout
A Patron and a Playwright in Renaissance Spain
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R.B. Pugh
A History of Wiltshire
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Ecclesiastical History, Industries, Roads, Canals, Railways, Population Table, Sport, Spas and Mineral Springs, Freemasonry, Forests. Indexed.
Julio Alonso Asenjo
La Comedia erudita de Sepúlveda
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Shelley Stevens
Rosalía de Castro and the Galician Revival
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George O. Schanzer
The Persistence of Human Passions: Manuel Mujica Láinez's Satirical Neo-Modernism
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E.T. Aylward
Cervantes: Pioneer and Plagiarist
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Lou Charnon-Deutsch
The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Story
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William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Oxford
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Ecclesiastical History, Religious Houses, Social and Economic History, Table of Population, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Ancient Earthworks, Sport.
Herlinda Charpentier Saitz
Las 'Novelle' de Ramón Gómez de la Serna
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Diego de San Pedro's 'Cárcel de Amor'
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La Infelice Dorotea
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Federico García Lorca y las Vanguardias: Hacia el Teatro
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Elizabeth Crittall
A History of Wiltshire
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Wilton borough, Old Salisbury borough, New Salisbury city, Underditch hundred. Indexed.
Trevor J. Dadson
The Genoese in Spain: Gabriel Bocángel y Unzueta (1603-1658)
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
La Realidad Invisible
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Calderón y la obra corta dramática del siglo XVII
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William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon
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John H. Turner
The Myth of Icarus in Spanish Renaissance Poetry
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N.D. Shergold, J.E. Varey
Teatros y Comedias en Madrid: 1699-1719
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Consuelo López-Morillas
The Qur'an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79
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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Language of the Texts Tapsir The Texts Glossary Photographs of the Texts Bibliography and Abbreviations
Dario Fernández-Morera
The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral
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Juan Manuel Studies
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William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Kent
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Gonzalo de Berceo
El Sacrificio de la Misa, La Vida de Santa Oria, El Martirio de San Lorenzo (Obras Completas V)
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Rita Goldberg
Tonos a lo Divino y a lo Humano
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Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo
Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti
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N.D. Shergold
Teatros y Comedias en Madrid: 1687-1699
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H. Arthur Doubleday, William Page
A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
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William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Natural History. Early Man. Anglo-Saxon Remains. Domesday. The Fuedal Baronage.
Joan Pataky-Kosove
The 'Comedia Lacrimosa' and Spanish Romantic Drama (1773-1865)
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Lia Noemia Rodrigues Correia Raitt
Garrett and the English Muse
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William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester
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Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses. Social and Economic History. Industries. Agriculture. Forestry. Sport. Schools.
William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Topography: West Derby hundred (cont., including Liverpool, Wigan), Salford hundred.(part, including Manchester)
Andrew P. Debicki
Antología de la Poesía Mexicana Moderna
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Donald Sultana
Benjamin Disraeli in Spain, Malta and Albania, 1830-32
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A full study of Disraeli's long and important journey to the East, which exercised a decisive influence upon his personal development as well as affecting his foreign policy when he became price minister. The tour covered Gibraltar and Spain, Malta, Corfu and Albania, and the Middle East.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham
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R. A. McKinley
A History of the County of Leicester
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Rachel Phillips
Alfonsina Storni
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Alan C. Soons
Haz y Envés del Cuento Risible en el Siglo de Oro
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Escritos Autobiográficos y Epistolario
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R.B. Pugh, Elizabeth Crittall
A History of Wiltshire
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Bradford, Melksham, and Potterne and Cannings hundreds (including Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, and Trowbridge). Indexed.
J. P. C. Roach
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
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This volume contains the history of the City of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the Colleges and Halls of the University. Also included are Cambridge University and Borough Hearth Tax Assessments.
William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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The volume contains the histories of the three ancient parishes in Blackburn hundred north of the Ribble (Mitton, Chipping. and Ribchester) and of the eight ancient parishes in Amounderness hundred (Preston, Kirkham, Lytham, Poulton-le-Fylde, Bispham, part of Lancaster, St. Michael-on-Wyre, and Garstang). A very large part of Amoundernesshundred is the level area between the Ribble estuary and Cockerham Sands called the Fylde and one known as 'the wheatfield of Amounderness'. Some of the ancient parishes include places that have become larger, more populous, and better known than the old centres ofpopulation which gave the parishes their names. Poulton-le-Fylde includes Fleetwood, and Bispham is better known to the world as the seaside resort of Blackpool, which also extends into Poulton.
Sara E. Schyfter
The Jew in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós
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A study of Galdós' Jewish characters and what they tell us about the place of Jews in C19th Spanish society and culture.
Few Spanish novelists have dealt with the problem of religion and religious commitment more comprehensively than Benito Pérez Galdós. His lifelong preoccupation with man in search of transendence repeatedly led him to evaluate andcriticize the religious institutions that stifled rather than helped man in his search. In the Jews, Galdós saw a people who, though victimized by religious intolerance, managed to survive persecution and affirm an abiding faithin God. He created Jewish characters throughout his long literary career and therefore presents the most comprehensive portrait of Jews as they existed in the culture, the religion and fabric of C19th Spanish society.
William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Topography: Lonsdale hundred, north and south, Index to Vol III, Corrigenda.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Norfolk
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William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Topography: West Derby hundred (part including Prescot).
Vernon A. Chamberlin
Galdós and Beethoven: 'Fortunata y Jacinta'
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William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses. Political History. Industries. Agriculture. Forestry. Sport. Ancient Earthworks. Schools. Index to vols I and II.
William Page
Index to The Victoria History of the County of York
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D.A. Crowley
A History of Wiltshire
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THE VOLUME relates the history of the 15 parishes in Kinwardstone hundred in east Wiltshire. The hundred lay between two medieval royal forests, Savernake and Chute. It is generally fertile and was devoted to sheep-and-corn husbandry. Each of c. 45 villages and hamlets in it had its own set of open fields and its own common pasture, and there is evidence of colonization from some of the larger villages. Much of the common pasture was inclosed in the 17th century, most of the open fields were inclosed in the 18th. Outside the villages new farmsteads were built on downland in the 19th century, and in many of the villages in the later 10th century the sites of farmsteads were used fornew housing. The largest villages are Great Bedwyn, which was an early borough and retains a small market square, Pewsey, which had a market in the 19th century and became a local shopping centre in the 20th, and Burbage. Only 12parish churches stood in the hundred in the Middle Ages, when most of their revenues were taken by religious houses and prebendaries of Salisbury cathedral; their parishes were large and most villages lacked a church. Five new churches were built in the 19th century. A great estate in the hundred was accumulated by Protector Somerset, whose descendants built Tottenham House in parkland on the edge of Savernake forest. Notable among other secular buildingsin the hundred is the red-brick almshouse for 50 widows which was built at Froxfield in the 1690s.PARISHES: GREAT BEDWYN (INCLUDING GRAFTON), LITTLE BEDWYN, BURBAGE, BUTTERMERE, CHILTON FOLIAT, CHUTE, CHUTE FOREST, COLLINGBOURNE KINGSTON, EASTON, FROXFIELD, MILTON LILBOURNE, PEWSEY, SAVERNAKE, TIDCOMBE (AND FOSBURY), WOOTTON RIVERS.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Lincoln
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The volume was published more than eighty years ago, and its reissue makes available what is virtually an antiquarian book; it is nevertheless a work of reference that in many respects has not been replaced. Half the volume is devoted to Ecclesiastical History and separate histories of the religious houses of the county, numbering no less than 125 and including Lincoln cathedral and Crowland abbey; several of those histories were written by Rose Graham andthe accounts of the seventeen friaries by A. G. Little. The second half of the volume contains chapters on Political History (by C. H. Vellacott), Social and Economic History (including a table of population summarizing the firsteleven national censuses), Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Endowed Schools, and Sport.
Juan de Mena
Tratado Sobre el Título de Duque
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Mary D. Lobel
A History of the County of Oxford
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Bullingdon Hundred, including Cowley, Cuddesdon, Headington, Iffley, Nuneham, Courtney.
L.Margaret Midgley
A History of the County of Stafford
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The Staffordshire section of Domesday Book; West Cuttlestone hundred (villages south-west of Stafford to the Shropshire border).
H.E. Salter
The Victoria History of the County of Oxford
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The volume was originally published in 1954, and was the work of a team of distinguished historians. It broke new ground, for although separate histories of the university and its colleges had been written, it was the first comprehensive scholarly account of all those institutions. The opening chapter on the history of the university from its 12th-century beginnings to the mid 20th century is followed by chapters on the grammar schools of the medieval university and on the architectural and institutional history of the several university buildings. The greater portion of the book is devoted to the histories of the colleges and halls, each of which is the subject of a separate article. The articles are precise and fully referenced, telling of such matters as the foundation and buildings of the college, its estates, its religious and academic history, and its outstanding personalities. The many illustrationsinclude plates of old prints and drawings; there are also plans which carry forward the work of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. 'The book abounds in new and interesting information ... the result of research in muniments which have not before been so carefully and intelligently investigated.' (F. M. Powicke in English Historical Review).
William Page
The Victoria History of London
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T. P. Hudson
A History of the County of Sussex
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William Farrer
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
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Topography: Salford hundred (cont., including Rochdale), Index to vols III, IV and V.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Sussex
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Ecclesiastical History, religious Houses, Maritime, History, Social and Economic History, Industries, Agriculture, Endowed Schools, Sport.
Susan Reynolds
A History of the County of Middlesex
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CONTAINED in the volume, originally published in 1962, are the histories of fourteen parishes in south-west Middlesex: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, and Teddington in Spelthorne hundred; Heston-and-Isleworth and Twickenham in Isleworth hundred; and Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield, and Harlington in Elthorne hundred. The whole area is now divided between the London Boroughs of Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Richmond upon Thames and the District of Spelthorne. Among its extensive modern suburbs are the vestiges of the earlier agricultural villages, and the best known of the surviving large houses are Syon House, Osterley Park, and StrawberryHill. The index covers both Volumes Two and Three.
K.J. Allison
A History of the County of York East Riding
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Beverley stood high among the provincial towns of medieval England, with the great minster church and the college of St. John. Linked with the port of Hull and the Humber by a canalized beck and the navigable river Hull, it had athriving trade in cloth and wool. Around the town lay large common pastures which are still a prominent feature of the landscape, and beyond the borough half a dozen townships were within the liberties of Beverley. The decline oftrade in the 15th century and the suppression of the college in 1548 reduced the town's prosperity, and its role in the 16th and 17th centuries was little more than that of a market town. The 16th century, however, brought freedomfrom the lordship of the archbishop and eventually full self-government with the granting of a charter of incorporation in 1573. From the late 17th century Beverley became the administrative and social centre of the East Riding. A wealth of Georgian buildings still bears witness to its renewed prosperity. Industry expanded and diversified in the 19th century, and ironworks, mills, tanneries, and shipyards provided employment. Beverley was designated asthe county town of the East Riding in 1892, and it became the administrative centre of the county of Humberside created in 1974 and of the district later known as the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley, albeit with the loss to thetown of its ancient borough status. Industrial decline in the later 20th century was partly balanced by development as a residential area and as a centre for tourism. Meanwhile the appearance of Beverley was being transformed: anouter bypass and inner relief roads changed old patterns, and the building of new houses went on in and around the town.
The volume describes thirteen hundred years in the life of the city of Gloucester from the late 7th century A.D. to the mid 1980s. William the Conqueror's order for the Domesday survey at his Christmas council at Gloucester in 1085, the spectacu-lar architectural achievements of the monks and their masons at St. Peter's abbey in the 14th century, and the city's resistance to the siege which turned the course of the Civil War in 1643 are events of nationalsignificance familiar to students of English history. Less well known is the complex story of development in which those events are landmarks. The volume describes how the Saxon borough, formed in the shell of Roman colonia at a crossing of the river Severn, became in the early Middle Ages a royal administrative centre, military base, and seat of religious foundations; it exam-ines the variety of economic functions which sustained the city throughout the medieval and early modern periods, with at different times ironworking, clothmaking, the trade on the river, pinmaking, market trade, and banking coming to the fore; and it traces the efforts of the townspeople to gain control of their own affairs and recounts how the system of government which they secured from the Crown in 1483 hardened into oligarchy in the 16th century, fuelled politi-cal dissension in the 17th, and proved surprisingly effective as a force for city improvement in the 18th. It tells how in the 19th century railways and the trade brought by the Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal gave a new direction to the Georgian cathedral city, bringing new industries and rapidgrowth, and how an array of public bodies grappled with the consequent need for better public services, new churches, and schools. The story of Gloucester is continued into the later 20th century when changing patterns of employment and major redevelopment removed many familiar landmarks, leaving the ornate Perpendicular cathedral and the extensive Victorian docks as the most substantial reminders of a rich and varied history. The account of Gloucester'shistory is divided into three parts. The first is a sequence of five chapters, divided chrono-logically. The second deals with particular features and institutions of the city, topic by topic. The third describes topographicallythe outlying hamlets and parishes that have been taken into the modern city.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of York
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Natural History, Early Man, Schools and Forestry.
William Page
The Victoria History of the County of Kent
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L. Margaret Midgley
A History of the County of Stafford
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East Cuttlestone hundred (towns and villages in the Cannock Chase area).
H. Arthur Doubleday
The Victoria History of the County of Cumberland
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Susan M. Keeling, C.P. Lewis
A History of the County of Sussex
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Six volumes of the Victoria County History of Sussex were published between 1905 and 1953 . Until now they have been without an index, apart from the Domesday index included in Volume I. The present volume is designed to make their contents far more readily accessible, directing the reader to the pages on which places, persons, and the principal subjects are mentioned. An essential key is thus at last provided to the general chapters in Volumes I and II, to the accounts of Romano-British Sussex and of the City of Chichester in Volume III, and to the histories of the towns and villages in the rapes of Chichester (Volume IV), Lewes (Volume VII), and Hastings (Volume IX). Each futurevolume will, like that on the southern part of Bramber rape (Volume VI, part 1) published in 1980, contain its own index.
William Page
Index to the Victoria History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
