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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
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.
Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms-everything from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations. "The 4,260 marvelous heraldic emblems of Japan can be translated into embroidery designs...the shapes are delicate, interesting, and perfect."-Lady's Circle Needlework.
Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family
history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors'
stories to life. She looks at ways of overcoming the particular
problems family historians face when writing a family history --
how to deal with gaps in knowledge, how to describe generations of
people who did the same jobs or lived in the same area, how to
cover the numerous births, marriages and deaths that occur, and
when to stop researching and start writing. Her book provides
examples to help readers find their own writing style, deal with
family stories, missing pieces of information and anomalies. It
also offers advice on key aspects of composition, such as adding
local and social history context and using secondary material. The
focus throughout is on how to develop a story from beginning to
end. Exercises are a key feature of the text. There is guidance on
the various formats a family history can take and how to choose the
appropriate one, with examples of format and layout. Production and
publishing are also covered -- books, booklets, newsletters,
websites, blogs and ebooks.
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.
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.
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.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals
and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring
counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context
of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also
offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its
periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight
that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study
suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in
medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the
later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society,
especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where
there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of
chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed
light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of
the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique
insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in
representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is
examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the
project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on
seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over
the high and later Middle Ages.
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