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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.
This monograph is based on a symposium held in the National
Gallery, London which showed how Richard II's beliefs may have been
expressed in the highly religious work, the Wilton Diptych, and how
he aspired to equal in magnificence the royal figures of Europe, in
particular Bohemia and France. Richard's love of material splendour
from the rebuilding of Westminster Hall to his lavish expenditure
on dress and gifts is argued in these essays. All the facets of the
regal image are underpinned by experts in the history, sociology
and artefacts of the period, who in their studies aim to bring out
the political difficulties under which Richard was operating.
More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the
Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art
and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings,
sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously
illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these
treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia
in the eighteenth century. Distinguished critic John Russell
provides the introduction for this book, and eminent British and
Russian scholars offer chapters on such topics as British gardeners
and the vogue of the English Garden, the Houghton sale, British
architects in Russia, and English porcelain and the Russian court.
The book includes color illustrations of 164 items from the
Hermitage collections of British art, including such highlights as
full-length portraits by Van Dyck painted in England, assorted
pieces of the celebrated Green Frog dinner service commissioned
from Josiah Wedgwood for the Chesmensky Palace, Charles Kandler's
huge Rococo silver "Jerningham" wine cooler, other silver items by
Augustine Courtauld and Paul de Lamerie, and some furniture and
important architectural drawings by Charles Cameron. The collection
also includes sculpture, jewelry, watches, clocks, medals, cameos,
and gems. Published for the Yale Center for British Art, The Toledo
Museum of Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum,
Gov. Thomas Welles came to New England in 1635, settling in
Hartford in 1636 and moving to Wethersfield in 1646. The Welles
Family Association presents in Volume 2 the fifth-generation
descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles and his first wife, Alice Tomes.
The genealogy includes descendants in both the male and female
lines. Part B covers those descended from Thomas Welles, Samuel
Welles, and Sarah (Welles) Chester. This generation fought in the
French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars. It included farmers,
generals, judges, government leaders, college presidents,
silversmiths, housewives, poets, ministers, deacons, and medical
doctors. Family names include Baldwin, Bostwick, Chester,
Curtis(s), Clarke, Hawley, Judson, Lewis, Nichols, Shelton, Walker,
Welles, and Wells. From Hartford, Wethersfield, Milford,
Farmington, and Stratford, families spread to new towns in the
Connecticut Hills, and to Massachusetts and upstate New York.
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Narrative Biographies of the Anderson Family Genealogy
- Genealogy of Anderson, Keefer, Gaugler, Livezey, Bortner, Kelly, Bucher, Kent, Arnold(2), Emerich, Shaffer, Mantz, Culin, Herrold, Felty, Ney, Zink, St Clair, Swartz, Epley, Heilman, Taylor, Knopf, B
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Mason M. Smith, Marc D. Thompson
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After the Civil War (1860-1865), many new areas of the country were
opened up for settlement. The Stambaugh family, and various allied
famiies, were among the ones who migrated West between 1865 and
1870. John George Snyder and his wife, Sarah Stambaugh, were among
the new settlers who arrived in Callaway County, Missouri. The
migrants prospered, and their children married and raised families
of their own. Over the passage of time, the ties to family back in
Pennsylvania became blurred and often forgotten. Such was the case
with Sarah Stambaugh Snyder. The information remembered about her
by later generations was confused and often misleading. This book
is an attempt to clarify the family ties and to show just where
Sarah belonged within the Stambaugh family tree. In addition, a
brief outline of her children and their marriages and descendants
has also been presented.
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