Early Modern English, Paperback - Charles Barber

This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers t...

Reducere. An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its h...

This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the ...

DescriptionCarlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 396Collection: Options for Teaching 25Publication date: 2010Cover type: HardbackE...

Reducere. When dreams and expectations clash in a flurry of sparks, an actress and an aristocrat find themselves searching for common ground. Lady Victoria P...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both ...

Building on the previous edition's success, this book tells the story of English from its early stages to today's still-evolving language, using re...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

Reducere. In 1597, fourteen years before the publication of the King James Bible, King James wrote and published Daemonologie, a philosophical monograph on t...

Reducere. Much of what was controversial more than 300 years ago when Robert Barclay wrote An Apology for the True Christian Divinity still exists in contemp...

This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkl...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

Reducere. Use body text from hardback title 1-58960-13-4 replacing title pages uploaded digitally. Use promotion code (IBCTAP-FILE) as per Jim Patterson.

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

Reducere. Margaret Gatty wrote these wonderful faith-building stories in the late 1800's. This paraphrased edition brings these lessons to a whole new genera...

An introduction to Late Modern English.

Reducere. This very small book is Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Self-Reliance, translated into modern English by me, Adam Khan. When I tell people about trans...

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Reducere. Within the pages of this book, you will find spiritual insight and Christian counseling from church history's best-known woman. These letters conta...

Reducere. The New Testament in Modern English, commonly known as the Ferrar Fenton Bible, was an early translation of the Bible into English as spoken and wr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Reducere. Jane Anger is credited with being the first feminist writer in the English language. Her pamphlet Protection for Women provides insight into the re...

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: David WrightA clear modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece of Middle English storyte...

Reducere. DescriptionA Modern English version of Brother Lawrence's conversations and letters about Practicing the Presence of God from the 1600's. Discover ...

DescriptionWhat did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use t...

Reducere. The Homilies were originally published in 1547, to help reform and renew the Church of England in the biblical faith of the Reformation. This serie...

Reducere. Henry Scougal's, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, continues to provide the most accurate description of real Christianity. It also provides the ...

DescriptionBodily contrasts from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and...