The Fifteenth Century XVI: Examining Identity By Linda Clark (ed.)
2018 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1783273615 | PDF | 7 MB
The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination, the parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the influence of their learned vicar, how monastic chroniclers changed their focus as the century progressed, the perhaps unjustified reputation of Bishop Ayscough of Salisbury, and the significance of Edward IV's charter of ecclesiastical liberties. Another strand concentrates on Ireland, to explore both the complex relations between the Gaelic-speaking peoples of the west and the Stewart monarchy in Scotland, and the status and participation in government of the English settled near Dublin. Unusual perspectives on London are derived from a study of those engaged in identity theft there at the start of the century, and two heralds' accounts of the public processions and elaborate funeral rites accorded to a French ambassador at its end.
The Fifteenth Century XV: Writing, Records and Rhetoric By Linda Clark (ed.)
2017 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 178327249X | PDF | 9 MB
The focus of this volume may be summed up as "The Word". Its essays examine the contents and provenance of manuscripts which were written for polemical purposes, treasured by the duchess of York, and through the new medium of print introduced to a wider public topics of historical interest and illustrations of the geography of the known world. The essays here also consider official records of forest administration, expressed in arcane language; documents preserved in the papal curia which reveal significant facts about the lives of Scottish bishops; archives produced by the English chancery noting the movements of a royal councillor; and letters, poems and songs exposing the political strategy of a German prince. Nor is the 'spoken' word neglected, whether employed in speeches delivered at the start of parliaments, using as their themes scriptures and classical texts to set a political agenda; or as sermons to open-air congregations gathered at St. Paul's Cross, where the oratory of Bishop Alcock stirred his listeners in different ways.
The Fifteenth Century XI: Concerns and Preoccupations By Linda Clark (ed.)
2012 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1843837579 | PDF | 3 MB
The concerns of people over differing levels of fifteenth-century society are the focus of the essays contained in this volume. How would a queen in exile wish to be depicted on a medal, or a newly-crowned king deal with recalcitrant London merchants when their interests clashed with his policies? The logistics of an invasion of France present a challenge to the military advisers of another king, and by bringing fresh insights to the text a translator of Vegetius' 'De re militari' addresses the fears of rulers and ruled in a time of civil unrest. English supplicants to the papal curia require expert advice to navigate bureaucratic procedures at Rome; while Welsh students encounter other obstacles as they embark on careers in Church and state. Manuscript and printed versions of parliamentary statutes point to differing preferences on the part of government clerks and practising lawyers in their choice of language; while the papers of a professional estate manager from Norfolk reveal antiquarian interests and an affinity with William of Worcester.
Robert Markley, "The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730"
English | 2006 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 052181944X, 0521126959 | PDF | 32,4 mb
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European goods, and as vast, inexhaustible storehouses of spices and luxury wares. Robert Markley explores the significance of attitudes to the wealth and power of East Asia in rethinking conceptions of national and personal identity in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English literature. Alongside works by canonical English authors, this study examines the writings of Jesuit missionaries, Dutch merchants, and English and continental geographers, who directly contended with the challenges that China and Japan posed to visions of western cultural and technological superiority. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, in this 2006 book Markley examines the ways in which the writings of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalised and which, until 1800, was dominated - economically at least - by the empires of the Far East.
The Essential Rice Cooker Cookbook: Take Your Appliance Beyond the Rice with 60 Complete Meals Made Perfect Every Time by Shree Mitra
English | August 23rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1645675882 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 133.41 MB
Delicious Recipes Made Fast and Simple with One Convenient Appliance
The Equity Edge: A Complete Guide to Building Wealth through the Stock Market by Mark Jeavons
English | March 24, 2020 | ISBN: 0857197983 | True EPUB | 248 pages | 4.6 MB
The Equity Edge provides a complete system for successfully building and managing an investment portfolio of stocks and shares that steadily grows wealth and generates a reliable income.
The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business
English | 2021 | ISBN: 183982199X | 650 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
Although an emerging technology, blockchain is here to stay. Since its inception, imaginative thinkers have identified new ways for this powerful technology to bring innovative solutions to problems in the business world. Considered by many as an extreme and disruptive change, how can business leaders overcome resistance to the implementation of blockchain solutions and maximize its potential?
The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 By Katharina Rowold
2009 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 0415205875 | PDF | 3 MB
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women's higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women's nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.
The Economics of Scientific Misconduct: Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367443600 | 329 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics and psychology over the past half-century. Here scientific misconduct is considered from the perspective of a single discipline such as economics likely for the first time in intellectual history.
A.S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming"
English | ISBN: 1732294119 | 2018 | 452 pages | AZW3 | 686 KB
Hamrah is committed to his ambivalence, conveying it with a mixture of precision and conviction that will remind you how much more there is to be gleaned from a review than whether a movie is 'good' or 'bad' (even if it's a movie you happen to deem very good or very bad indeed) . . . A political awareness imbues Hamrah's criticism without weighing it down. He doesn't succumb to a leaden moralizing because he pays close attention to the medium he's writing about, alert to what he sees and hears. -Jennifer Szalai,