History : Great Britain

In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception. more...

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Charles, duc d'Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress the English nobility around him), and a masterful poet, innovative, witty, and intensely self-aware. Discussion of his manuscripts, his social and political relationships, his extensive library, and his poetry in two languages reveal him as a shrewd observer of life, which in his poetry he describes in ways not seen again until the Renaissance. more...

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Ten papers presented by Irish and British historians at a September 2003 colloquium in Belfast highlight the importance of charters as sources for the history of royal administration, for perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, and other aspects of history and written culture. They consider such topics as address and delivery in Anglo-Norman ro more...

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Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society. more...

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Providing a much-needed insight into Victorian attitudes, including that of Christian morality, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the history of crime, social welfare and the family. more...

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