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In the present volume, the third selection of his articles to be
published, Professor Mayer deals with questions of royal authority
and power in the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. He first examines
the relationship between the monarchy and the Church, questions of
royal succession, and aspects of the royal chancery, but is also
concerned to trace the king's efforts to create a new clientele of
loyal vassals. The second group of studies reverses the
perspective, and looks at the origins and development of the
lordships of the kingdom, notably at the important county of Jaffa
and at the role of the Ibelin, the most significant family in the
land.
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker
or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's
handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about
their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces
the many trades and crafts, looks at their practices and long
traditions, and identifies and explains the many sources you can go
to in order to discover more about them and their families.
Chapters cover the guilds, the merchants, shopkeepers, builders,
smiths and metalworkers, cordwainers and shoemakers, tailors and
dressmakers, coopers, wheelwrights and carriage-makers, and a long
list of other trades and crafts. The training and apprenticeships
of individuals who worked in these trades and crafts are described,
as are their skills and working conditions and the genealogical
resources that preserve their history and give an insight into
their lives. A chapter covers the general sources that researchers
can turn to - the National Archives, the census, newspapers, wills,
and websites - and gives advice on how to use them.Adele Emm's
introduction will be fascinating reading for anyone who is
researching the social or family history of trades and crafts.
Winner of the 1991 QSPELL Prize for Non-fiction One of Canada's
founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing
stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth
century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova
Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of
Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had
depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman,
"was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed
Ireland." Flight from Famine is the moving account of a
Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems
hardly credible in the light of Ireland's modern prosperity. The
famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed
Black '47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and
perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of
Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians
can claim proud Irish descent.
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June 14 is Flag Day, but with so many American flags proudly displayed, every day seems like Flag Day. Perfect for reading together with a young child, F Is for Flag shows in simple terms how one flag can mean many things: a symbol of unity, a sign of welcome, and a reminder that-in good times and in bad-everyone in our country is part of one great big family.
For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually
unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political
power perceived as a family affair across the globe and throughout
history. At the heart of royal dynasties, kings were inflated to
superhuman proportions, yet their status came at a price: whilst
they may have reigned, they were very often ruled by others who
sheltered behind the ruler's proclaimed omnipotence. Descent
through the female line also occurred, subverting our common view
of dynasty as built on father-son succession. Everywhere, women
were important as mothers of boy-kings, and could even rule in
their own right in some places. In this Very Short Introduction
Jeroen Duindam connects the earliest history of kings and queens to
contemporary examples of family-based leadership. His sweeping
overview of five millennia of dynastic rule brings to light
recurring predicaments of families on the throne. Examining
persistent family conflict and the dilemmas of leadership, he shows
how the challenge of governing the family was balanced by the
necessity of family scions, close or distant, for the survival of
dynasties. Tensions between ageing fathers and eager sons can be
found among ancient kings as well as in modern business empires.
Guidebooks for rulers throughout history provided counsel that will
appear strikingly familiar to contemporary leaders. The thoughts
and confessions of rulers added a more personal touch to these
rules of thumb. Throughout, Duindam sheds light not only on
similarities, but also on divergence and change in dynastic
practice. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Brenda Ralph Lewis presents an informative overview of how kings
and queens came about and of the many forces that have shaped the
identity of monarchy and in many cases caused its downfall.
Detailed evidence of the workings of local administration and
justice in the fourteenth century. The court rolls of the two
manors of Walsham le Willows provide detailed evidence of the
workings of local administration and justice in the fourteenth
century, and were themselves working documents designed to be
accessible to all. As Ray Lock says of the documents edited in the
first volume, 'they protected the interest of the ordinary man and
woman as well as that of the lord of the manor.' This second volume
completes the transcription of all surviving court rolls for the
fourteenth century manors of Walsham le Willows, covering the
proceedings of ninety-nine courts after the Black Death had
tragically reduced the local population. Serious difficulties still
had to be overcome: for example, two successive reeves of Walsham
manor were heavily fined for gross dereliction of duty, and in 1353
a large number of tenants refused to perform services for their
lord. In general, however, these rolls give ample evidence of
increased prosperity as land-holdings grew in size, and as the land
and labour markets quickly stabilised. RAY LOCK is a retired civil
servant who has become immersed in the study of local history since
his move to Suffolk. He edited the first volume of Walsham le
Willows court rolls for the Suffolk Records Society (published in
1998), and has written on the local effects of the Black Death in
the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and
History.
The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Indie Bound Bestseller
'Those who like to insist that blood is always thicker than water should read Inheritance, and let their own hearts slowly and gently expand.'-- The Observer
'All my life I had known there was a secret. What I hadn't known: the secret was me.'
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. Everything she had believed about her identity was a lie.
Shapiro's parents had died when she was in her twenties. With only a handful of figures on a webpage, Shapiro sets out to discover the truth about herself and her history.
Inheritance is a genetic detective story; a memoir that reads like a thriller. It is a book about secrets -secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
The author is a journalist descendant of three generations of
eminent lawyers, who made the surname famous-perhaps especially Sir
Henry Curtis-Bennett, KC. She could get no further than the early
18th century so turned her attention to the distaff side with
rewarding results. "A wealth of illustrations, photographs and
family trees and a bibliography add interest to the lively and
entertaining text." Family Tree Magazine
Henry VIII had extravagant ideas of image and authority and loved his possessions. He owned over 2000 pieces of tapestry and 2028 items of gold and silver plate. This work is not only a catalogue, but also a source of information for the study of Tudor society. In its listings the inventory provides information about Henry's personal and declining health problems, for example his bandages for ulcers are listed.;The original inventory is in two parts: one in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries and the other in the Harley Collection of the British Library. Volume one is a transcription of the inventory itself. The second and third volumes include explanatory essays by experts together with illustrations. In addition, the authors provide evaluations of the objects in monetary and social terms.
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