Dictionary of British Arms – Medieval Ordinary Volume III, T. Woodcock, Sarah Flower

Автор: Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder, David Holton
Название: Greece in British Women`s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013
ISBN: 1433131935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433131936
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka Zinovieff formed special ties with Greece and made it the focus of their literary imagination. Moving from Bloomsbury to Mills & Boon, the book offers insight into the ways romantic literature has shaped readers’ perceptions about Greece. Why have female authors of such diverse backgrounds and literary orientations been attracted by a country burdened by its past and troubled by its present? What aspects of the country do they choose to highlight? Are female perceptions of Greece different from male ones? The book examines these and many more exciting questions. Given its focus and diversity, it is addressed to audiences in English and Greek studies, Classical reception, European modernism, cultural studies and popular fiction, as well as to non-academic English-speaking readers who have an interest in Greece.

Автор: Booker, Sparky (queen`s University Belfast)
Название: Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval ireland
ISBN: 1107128080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107128088
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Cultural exchange between English and Irish neighbours in the `four obedient shires` went both ways. Sparky Booker examines the nature of these complex interactions, the tensions that existed between assimilation and the preservation of distinct cultural identities, and the impact this had on English identity in Ireland.

Автор: J. L. Laynesmith
Название: Cecily Duchess of York
ISBN: 1474272258 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474272254
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. She was said to have ruled Edward IV 'as she pleased' and Richard III made his bid for the throne from her home. Yet Cecily has been a shadowy figure in modern histories, noted primarily for her ostentatious piety, her expensive dresses, and the rumours of her adultery. Here J. L. Laynesmith draws on a wealth of rarely considered sources to construct a fresh and revealing portrait of a remarkable woman. Cecily was the only major protagonist to live right through the Wars of the Roses. This book sheds new light on that bloody conflict in which Cecily proved herself an exceptional political survivor. Skilfully manipulating her family connections and contemporary ideas about womanhood, Cecily repeatedly reinvented herself to protect her own status and to ensure the security of those in her care. From her childhood marriage to Richard duke of York until her final decade as grandmother of the first Tudor queen, the story of Cecily Neville's life provides a rich insight into national and local politics, women's power and relationships, motherhood, household dynamics and the role of religion in fifteenth-century England.

Автор: Thomas Woodcock, Sarah Flower
Название: Dictionary of British Arms – Medieval Ordinary Volume IV
ISBN: 0854312978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780854312979
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This volume continues the major project of creating a reliable means of identifying British medieval coats of arms, which began in 1940; it will be of interest not only to heralds, but also to aid historians, archaeologists, genealogists, and antiquaries.