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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. This
book continues the Dictionary of British Medieval Arms, a major
work which is designed to enable those with a working knowledge of
heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms. The Dictionary
is the result of a bequest to the Society of Antiquaries in 1926
for the production of a new edition of Papworth's Ordinary which
has remained, since its publication in 1874, the principal tool for
the identification of British coats of arms. An Ordinary, in this
context, is a collection of arms arranged alphabetically according
to their designs, as opposed to an armory which is arranged
alphabetically by surname. The indices of the four volumes act as
an armory. The Dictionary covers the period before the beginning of
the heraldic visitations in 1530. Its publication will mean that
the wide range of people interested in medieval arms - historians,
antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogist and those dealing in and
collecting medieval objects - will be able to identify accurately
the arms that occur in a medieval context. Even those without a
knowledge of the subject will be able, by means of the index,
todiscover the blazon of arms recorded under particular surnames in
the Middle Ages.
With the Almanach de Gotha's return in 1998, after a hiatus of more
than 50 years, Sir Stephen Runciman wrote in the Spectator "In this
present age, which we are often told sees the twilight of royalty,
it is comforting to be able to welcome the reappearance of the most
distinguished of genealogical almanacs." The 250th Anniversary 2013
edition follows the successful format of previous editions with
family listings including births, marriages and deaths of all
living members. Volume II lists the non-sovereign Princely and
Ducal Houses of Europe and has been fully updated to include
additional families and to note those houses that are now extinct.
A number of houses are included for the first time. This is the
official and authorised publication. The most comprehensive listing
of its kind, with an impeccable pedigree, the book remains an
essential reference for genealogists, libraries and scholars. There
is and never has been a comparable source, a book once described as
"the second most important ever published."
The Times Literary Supplement praised the Almanach de Gotha for a
"punctilious itemization of titles, lineage and heraldry (aiming)
for scholarship rather than sensation." Sir Stephen Runciman wrote
in the Spectator "In this present age, which we are often told sees
the twilight of royalty, it is comforting to be able to welcome the
reappearance of the most distinguished of genealogical almanacs."
The 250th Anniversary 2013 edition follows the successful format of
previous editions with families listed by rank in their
corresponding parts. Births, marriages and deaths of all members of
the Gotha have been updated and it remains the only publication to
list all the members of all the imperial, royal, princely and ducal
houses and the courts of the Holy Roman Empire. Even family
disputes are handled by the careful noting of competing claims.
This new edition also sees a full list of the households of the
courts of Europe, diplomatic listings and a full entry for the Holy
See. This is the official and authorised publication. The most
comprehensive listing of its kind, with an impeccable pedigree, the
book remains an essential reference for genealogists, libraries and
scholars. There is and never has been a comparable source, a book
once described as "the second most important ever published."
A study of Matilda of Scotland (wife to Henry I) and the political
acumen and personal skills she brought to the role of queen.
Matilda of Scotland was the daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland and
his Anglo-Saxon queen Margaret. Her marriage to Henry I of England
in 1100 thus brought to Henry, descendant of the conquering
Normans, a direct and politically desirable link to Matilda's
ancestor Alfred the Great. Her life makes clear that Matilda had
outstanding talents. She was educated in the exclusive convents of
Romsey and Wilton, a grounding which enabled her to further the
literate court culture of the twelfth century, and under her
control was a substantial demesne that allowed her to exercise both
lay and ecclesiastical patronage. In the matter of ruling, she was
an active partner in administering Henry's cross-channel realm,
served as a member of his curia regis, and on occasion acted with
what amounted to vice-regal authority in England while Henry was in
Normandy. Chroniclers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesoften
refer to her as Mathilda bona regina, or Matildis beatae memoriae,
and for a time she was popularly regarded as a saint. Huneycutt's
study shows how Matilda achieved such acclaim, both because the
political structures of her day allowed her the opportunity to do
so and because she herself was skilled at manipulating those
structures. This study will be valuable to those interested in not
only English political history, but also to historians of women,
the medieval church, and medieval culture. LOIS HUNEYCUTT is
professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Images and image cycles with genealogical content were everywhere
in the high and later Middle Ages. They represent families related
by blood as well as successive office holders and appear as family
trees and lineages of single figures in manuscripts, on walls and
in stained glass, and in sculpture and metalwork. Yet art
historians have hardly remarked on the frequency of these images.
Considering the physical contexts and functions of these works
alongside the goals of their patrons, this volume examines groups
of figural genealogies ranging across northern Europe and dating
from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. Joan A.
Holladay considers how they were used to legitimize rulers and
support their political and territorial goals, to reinforce
archbishops' rights to crown kings, to cement relationships between
families of founders and their monastic foundations, and to
commemorate the dead. The flexibility and legibility of this genre
was key to its widespread use.
The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation.
Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms,
embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies,
and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit
of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and
varied history of Americans' search for identity illuminates the
story of America itself, according to Francois Weil, as fixations
with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave
way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and
heritage. Seeking out one's ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the
colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the
British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class
diversion in the young republic. But over the next century,
knowledge of one's family background came to represent a
quasi-scientific defense of elite "Anglo-Saxons" in a nation
transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the
mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity
took hold, the practice of tracing one's family tree had become
thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com
attracts over two million members with census records and ship
manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities
exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the
stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise
new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past
and place in an ever-changing world.
Andersfield, Cannington, and North Pether-ton hundreds together
occupy the Lower Par-rett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge
in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol
Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south. By the late
11th century the settlement pattern was dense, especially between
the Quantocks and the Par-rett, an area crossed by the Saxon
'herpath' in the north and including the 10th-century strongholds
of Athelney and Lyng in the south and the Domesday royal manors of
Can-nington, North Petherton, and Creech St. Michael. The origin of
the medieval royal park at North Petherton can be traced to a
pre--Conquest royal forest on the Quantocks, and North Petherton
was an extensive minster parish. Bridgwater, a chartered borough
from 1200, is the only significant town. By the later Middle Ages
its port served central, south, and west Somerset, and until the
19th century heavy goods continued to be transported along the
Parrett, the Tone, and the Bridgwater and Taunton canal into Dorset
and Devon. The pattern of settlement is varied, with a few
nucleated villages, roadside villages, and many dispersed hamlets.
Interlocking parish boundaries indicate complex economic units and
late parochial formation. Arable farming predominated until the
16th century, partly in open arable fields. In the 17th century
there was an emphasis on stock rearing and an increase in dairying
and orchards, large-ly the result of improved drainage. Cheese was
an important product of the area in the 18th century, and in the
19th baskets from locally grown willow. Woollen cloth production
con-tinued into the 17th century. From the late 17th century the
alluvial clays of the Parrett valley provided material for the
bricks and tiles for which Bridgwater became well known in the 19th
century. Substantial estates whose houses wholly or partially
survive include Fairfield, Gothelney, Gurney Street, West Bower,
and Sydenham. Halswell House was from the later 17th century the
grandest mansion in the area, and Enmore Castle was built in the
later 18th century.
Hierdie bekende kultuurhistorikus se heldeboek bevat
gunstelingverhale oor onder andere bekende helde soos Racheltjie de
Beer, Shaka, Dirkie Uys, Wolraad Woltemade en Klara Majola. Dit is
’n hele paar jaar dat Grobbelaar al skrywende met die mense van sy
land die heldepad loop – al die mense van sy land, omdat hy met
opset nie net die heldedade van sy volk beskryf nie. Hy het helde
en heldedade op verskillende maniere benader: soms van buite, soms
van binne, soms deur die oe van ’n buitestander.
This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological
record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every
student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth
servicemen who have been awarded the highest honour for exceptional
acts of bravery and self-sacrifice are commemorated here. The first
VCs awarded for the Crimean War and in the nineteenth-century
colonial wars are described, as are the VCs awarded in the world
wars of the twentieth century and the most recent VCs awarded
during present-day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The
extraordinary exploits recounted in this fascinating book make
unforgettable reading. 'A fascinating new book, by historian Kevin
Brazier, lays out the best evidence to date. The Complete Victoria
Cross lists for the first time in chronological order every VC,
with an account of the action(s) for which it was won, the location
of every medal where known, and likewise the last resting place of
the VC holder.' ...The Times 'A wealth of information, all of which
makes this a valuable reference source. Everyone, whether they have
an interest or not in military history, would find this book
thoroughly absorbing.'...Britain at War 'The chronological
arrangement of this book is very effective, weaving together the
individual VC stories to produce a picture of the changing nature
of warfare since 1956 and the unchanging nature of bravery. '
...History of War 'This book is a must for anyone interested in the
Victoria Cross, whether they have a recent interest in the VC or
have been interested in the long term.'...Victoria Cross Forum
This is the second volume by David Dobson to identify vessels that
traveled from Ireland to North America before 1850 and were known
to, or were likely to, carry passengers. Based on research in
contemporary sources--particularly newspapers on both sides of the
Atlantic--this work identifies an additional 1,500 ships that were
involved in transporting immigrants to the U.S. or Canada.
This book provides a political narrative of the rise and fall of
the Tudor monarchy - key to understanding the history of the years
1450 to 1660.
The theme is the relationship between the Crown and the
aristocracy and how a partnership was created partly by the actions
of the Crown and partly by the changing composition and attitudes
of the political nation. It begins with the chaos of factional
quarrels which was the political life of England under Henry VI in
the 1450s and then examines the rebuilding of the strength of royal
government under Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII. That
government was tested in various ways under Edward VI and Mary,
reached its peak under Elizabeth, and declined under James I. The
partnership finally broke down in the civil war of the 1640s and
the Tudor monarchy collapsed.
This is the life cycle of a political system created out of
necessity and fashioned by a mixture of vision and circumstance.
After its collapse the Republic failed to create a viable
alternative, but the resurrection of the old system after 1660 was
more apparent than real.
A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating
in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New
Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales -
some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the
1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the
whole of England and Wales to do so. Our image of these
institutions has often been coloured by the work of authors such as
Charles Dickens, but what was the reality? Where exactly were these
workhouses located - and what happened to them? People are often
surprised to discover that a familiar building was once a
workhouse. Revealing locations steeped in social history,
Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders is a comprehensive and
copiously illustrated guide to the workhouses that were set up
across Wales and the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshire,
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. It provides an insight into the
contemporary attitudes towards such institutions as well as their
construction and administration, what life was like for the
inmates, and where to find their records today.
Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a
window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has
been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution.
This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the
role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the manner
in which the emperor's constitutional position as symbol has been
interpreted, the emperor's intersection with politics through
ministerial briefings, memories of Hirohito's wartime role,
nationalistic movements in support of Foundation Day and the
reign-name system, and the remaking of the once sacrosanct throne
into a "monarchy of the masses" embedded in the postwar culture of
democracy. The author stresses the monarchy's "postwarness," rather
than its traditionality.
History of Eastern Kentucky's Union Regiments during the Civil War
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal
institutions of the Middle Ages. The wars waged by the English in
France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that
arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This
led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime
disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle
Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly
attention. The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and
the wider cultural and political context in which they had
jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They
reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well
as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe.
They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges
to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex
political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were
international in reach because they were underpinned by
trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of
Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime
history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric
disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and
culture. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal
Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the
Department of History at University College London. Contributors:
Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K.
Heeboll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand
Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.
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