Late-Georgian Churches. Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840, Hardback - Dr Christopher Webster

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the fin...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Davis explores the relationship between comic performance and the visual arts in England c.1780-1830, focussing on the influence of Hogarth and...

Reducere. DescriptionPlural eldership and Anglican polity have long been held to be incompatible. Anglicans have inherited a sole presybterate as the normal ...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Joshua C., J.D., Ph.D. TateIllustration(s): 9 b-w illus.Number of pages: 272Collection: Yale Law Library...

A beautifully packaged miscellany of stories about England's country churches and the rich history which surrounds them. Organised by county, it in...

Reducere. Description"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life...

Joseph Gandy dreams of being a great architect were frustrated, and his fame rests on the imaginative power of his unrealized projects, on his supe...

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows ho...

Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksAuthor(s): Dr. Christopher CleggIllustration(s): 85 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2017Dimensio...

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between pri...

The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Dr F. HaasFrom the beginning of the Church prayer has been a central part of Christian living and Church life. Praying with...

Reducere. At the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on t...

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 ...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst cla...

Reducere. This book begins with a selection of essays providing practical advice for families beginning the habit of daily prayer. This advice is merely base...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher HilliardIllustration(s): 1 table.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Reducere. This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographe...

Reducere. This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographe...

A thrilling family story of aristocratic decadence and decline at the heart of 18th century British empire.

Reducere. There is no better handbook for Anglican ministry than the Anglican ordinal - the authorized liturgy for ordaining new ministers. The ordinal conta...

This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It ...

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The Guardian best history book of 2016 - a fantastic story of an aristocratic family desperate to prove that one of their own is insane

Dr John Webster (1610-1682), was a defrocked cleric, Schoolmaster, alchemist, astrologer, surgeon and writer. He is at once arrogant, worldly and w...

DescriptionAn engaging introduction to the workings of church buildings and churchyards, explaining the integral elements of a working church and h...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Dr. Penelope CurtisIllustration(s): 8 colour, 60 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2006Dimens...

Divided into eighteen chapters - one for each of the coastal counties in the UK - this book will entertain and illuminate, by casting new light on ...

The ancient Axumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was possibly the first nation in the world to convert to Christianity. In AD 340 King Ezana co...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Gerald P. (Royalt...

DescriptionA deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country e...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Freya (University of Bristol, UK) GowrleyIllustration(s): 8 color and 27 bw illusNumber of pages...