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First published in 1854, this is the second of a two-volume
collection of historical sources relating to the University of
Cambridge during the religious upheavals from the Elizabethan
period to the Restoration. This volume covers the period 1590 1661,
and documents the long-running debate between the Puritans in the
University Senate and their more liberal opponents. It also reveals
other areas of concern which still resonate today, including
smoking and the treatment of 'vagrants'. Letters and diary entries
provide additional insights into less contentious aspects of 'the
manners and pursuits of the University' at the time. The book will
be of interest to historians of the seventeenth century and its
turbulent religious currents, the English Civil War and its
aftermath, and to historians of education.
The historian and writer Thomas Fuller (1608 1661) published his
11-volume Church-History of Britain in 1655, together with an
appendix volume, the History of the University of Cambridge Since
the Conquest. A stand-alone edition of this appendix was prepared
with corrections and clarifications by Marmaduke Prickett, chaplain
of Trinity College and Thomas Wright, the prolific author of books
on the middle ages, and appeared in 1840. This historic account is
now republished, offering detailed and lively insights into the
university's origins, roots and traditions. It also provides an
informed commentary, sometimes biting, sometimes fantastic, on the
university's complex relationship with the church, Oxford and the
town authorities of Cambridge. Anyone interested in English history
from William the Conqueror to Charles I, through plague, upheavals
and civil war, or in the development of university education, will
enjoy this classic book.
First published in 1969. Part of this work was originally made
public as articles in 'Fraser's Magazine' and the 'Contemporary
Review'. It deals with the working classes, their views and as 'New
Masters' of the political and social situation.
First published in 1971. This volume written in 1868, is a
collection of articles some of which appeared in 'All the Year
Round', 'Chamber's Journal and the Star newspaper and looks at the
topics of the working classes in their public relations, and the
inner life of the 'great unwashed'.
First published in 1971. This volume written in 1868, is a
collection of articles some of which appeared in 'All the Year
Round', 'Chamber's Journal and the Star newspaper and looks at the
topics of the working classes in their public relations, and the
inner life of the 'great unwashed'.
First published in 1969. Part of this work was originally made
public as articles in 'Fraser's Magazine' and the 'Contemporary
Review'. It deals with the working classes, their views and as 'New
Masters' of the political and social situation.
Thomas Wright (1810-77), antiquarian, archaeologist and historian,
wrote many works on all his areas of interest, including several
reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. He was the first
excavator of the Roman city of Wroxeter, wrote on the history of
Ludlow and of Cambridge, and was interested in ethnology, folklore,
Old English, and etymology. This two-volume collection of his
essays was published in 1861: he selected them 'to embrace in some
manner the whole field of our own primeval history and that of the
Middle Ages'. The subjects range from the excavation of tumuli in
Yorkshire to the history of drama in the Middle Ages. Wright draws
on sources ranging from medieval charters to modern linguistic
studies, as well as the remains and artefacts uncovered by his own
and others' excavations. Volume 1 considers prehistoric finds,
aspects of Roman Britain, and the Anglo-Saxon and late medieval
period.
Thomas Wright (1810-77), antiquarian, archaeologist and historian,
wrote many works on all his areas of interest, including several
reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. He was the first
excavator of the Roman city of Wroxeter, wrote on the history of
Ludlow and of Cambridge, and was interested in ethnology, folklore,
the Celtic languages and Old English, and etymology. This
two-volume collection of his essays was published in 1861: he
selected them 'to embrace in some manner the whole field of our own
primeval history and that of the Middle Ages'. The subjects range
from the excavation of tumuli in Yorkshire to the history of drama
in the Middle Ages. Wright draws on sources ranging from medieval
charters to modern linguistic studies, as well as the remains and
artefacts uncovered by his own and others' excavations. Volume 2
contains articles on the medieval period, from language to
architecture and satire.
Although his yeoman father is said to have burnt his books to
discourage excessive studiousness, Thomas Wright (1711-86)
nevertheless acquired considerable knowledge in the fields of
mathematics, navigation and astronomy. Later benefitting from the
patronage of wealthy families, he also surveyed estates, designed
gardens, and tutored aristocrats. He is best known, however, for
his contribution to astronomy: this illustrated work of 1750 was
his most famous publication. Written in the form of nine letters,
the book quotes both poets and scientists in the opening discussion
as Wright sets out to fuse, rather than separate, science and
religion. Combining his observations of the Milky Way with his
theological belief in a universe of perfect order, he notes, among
other things, that our galaxy appears to be disc-shaped. While
largely ignored by contemporary astronomers, Wright's ideas can be
seen as a forerunner to more sophisticated conceptions of our
galaxy's configuration.
Thomas Wright (1810 77), a respected folklorist and medievalist,
wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. His work is,
however, considered broad rather than deep, and his extensive
output, while impressive, sometimes came at the expense of quality.
Wright was involved in many academic societies, and co-founded the
British Archaeological Association in 1843. Much of his work
promoted the use of vernacular literature for research into the
Middle Ages, and this dictionary, first published in 1857, was
compiled to help readers of historical literature navigate
unfamiliar vocabulary. It lists obsolete words and phrases, with
particular emphasis on those of Old English and Anglo-Norman
origin, and obscure or dialectal words. Many of the definitions
include illustrative examples or quotes as well as etymologies.
Examples include belly-timber, meaning 'food', and dweezle, a
Northamptonshire word that means 'to dwindle away'. Volume 1 covers
the letters A-F."
Thomas Wright (1810 77), a respected folklorist and medievalist,
wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. His work is,
however, considered broad rather than deep, and his extensive
output, while impressive, sometimes came at the expense of quality.
Wright was involved in many academic societies, and co-founded the
British Archaeological Association in 1843. Much of his work
promoted the use of vernacular literature for research into the
Middle Ages, and this dictionary, first published in 1857, was
compiled to help readers of historical literature navigate
unfamiliar vocabulary. It lists obsolete words and phrases, with
particular emphasis on those of Old English and Anglo-Norman
origin, and obscure or dialectal words. Many of the definitions
include illustrative examples or quotes as well as etymologies.
Examples include belly-timber, meaning 'food', and dweezle, a
Northamptonshire word that means 'to dwindle away'. Volume 2 covers
the letters G-Z."
Veering between unprecedented military successes and the violent
downfalls of kings, the period between the accession of Edward III
and the death of Edward IV was a rich subject for contemporary
political writers. This two-volume collection of poems and tracts
was first compiled by Thomas Wright as part of the Rolls Series,
commissioned to edit and publish publicly owned manuscript texts.
First published in 1859 and including thirty-five pieces in
English, French and Latin, Volume 1 covers the reigns of Edward III
and Richard II. It features poems by Gower and Deschamps, a
commentary on a fictional prophecy, and the much-contested Speght
text of Chaucer's apocryphal 'Complaint of the Ploughman'. Also
included are translations of the French poems, and a
contextualising introduction. A fascinating example of Victorian
scholarship and its expectations of readers, this set represents an
interested resource for students of English literature and history.
Veering between unprecedented military successes and the violent
downfalls of kings, the period between the accession of Edward III
and the death of Edward IV was a rich subject for contemporary
political writers. This two-volume collection of poems and tracts
was first compiled by Thomas Wright as part of the Rolls Series,
commissioned to edit and publish publicly owned manuscript texts.
First published in 1861 and including forty-four pieces in English,
French and Latin, Volume 2 covers the turbulent years between Henry
IV and Edward IV. It features poems by Gower, an account of the
battle of Agincourt, and Chaucer's apocryphal 'Jack Upland' with
'The Reply of Friar Daw'. Also included are translations of the
French poems, and a thorough, contextualising introduction. A
fascinating example of Victorian scholarship and its expectations
of readers, this set represents an interesting resource for
students of English literature and history.
Thomas Wright (1810 77) was a highly prolific scholar of Old and
Middle English and archaeology, although some of his work,
particularly that on prehistory, was contentious. The present work,
which he edited and published in 1863, comprises two texts by
Alexander Neckam (1157 1217). The son of Richard I's foster mother,
Neckam was a respected teacher and prolific scholar who became
abbot of Cirencester. The larger of these texts, De naturis rerum,
consists of a scientific manual followed by a theological treatise,
a commentary on Ecclesiastes. Neckam later produced an abbreviated
verse form of this, the second text found here. The first part of
each text is a compendium of all the scientific knowledge of
western Europe and England in the twelfth century, which Neckam
aimed to treat morally as well as factually. In producing this
edition, Wright has included the Latin marginal annotations,
possibly by Neckam himself, found in his manuscript exemplars.
This history of England in Anglo-Norman verse was extremely popular
during the first half of the fourteenth century. Composed by Pierre
de Langtoft (died c.1305), an English chronicler and Augustinian
Canon, it was intended for the French-reading aristocracy. Part of
the Rolls Series of publications of historical documents, the work
was edited by Thomas Wright (1810 77), an antiquarian and historian
with a special interest in Old English, Middle English and
Anglo-Norman. Wright was also a member of many learned societies,
including the Society of Antiquaries and the Academie des
Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris. This volume, published in
1868, begins with the coronation of Henry II and ends with the
death of Edward I. Langtoft openly shares his virulently
nationalistic and anti-Scottish views in the large part of the text
devoted to the Scottish Wars of Independence.
The nineteenth-century antiquarian Thomas Wright (1810 77) was a
prolific scholar, editor and bibliographer. His two-volume
anthology of twelfth-century Latin poetry, first published in 1872,
is the fullest available and this reissue will be especially useful
to scholars of medieval schools, religious life and satire, and
those interested in medieval literature's relationship with the
Latin classics. It remains the only published edition of important
poems by Geoffrey of Winchester, Hugh the Chanter, Reginald of
Canterbury, Serlo of Bayeux and Gualo Britto. Volume 1 contains
Nigel Witeker's two most important satirical works: his beast epic
Speculum Stultorum and his Contra Curiales. Also included are John
of Salisbury's Entheticus ad Policraticum and John of Hauville's
Architrenius, which describes the sorrowful journey of a fictitious
mourner through the twelfth-century church, court and schools.
The nineteenth-century antiquarian Thomas Wright (1810 77) was a
prolific scholar, editor and bibliographer. His two-volume
anthology of twelfth-century Latin poetry, first published in 1872,
is the fullest available and this reissue will be especially useful
to scholars of medieval schools, religious life and satire, and
those interested in medieval literature's relationship with the
Latin classics. It remains the only published edition of important
poems by Geoffrey of Winchester, Hugh the Chanter, Reginald of
Canterbury, Serlo of Bayeux and Gualo Britto. Volume 2 contains
several hundred short epigrams and poems, including works by Marbod
of Rennes, Roger of Caen, Serlo of Wilton and Henry of Huntingdon,
along with a number of longer works, including Alain of Lille's
influential Anticlaudianus and De Planctu Naturae. An appendix
presents the eighth-century riddles of Tatwine and Aldhelm.
The English historian and antiquary Thomas Wright (1810 70)
co-founded and joined a number of antiquarian and literary
societies. He was greatly interested in Old English, Middle English
and Anglo-Norman texts, and in the 1840s and 1850s he published
widely within these areas. Gradually his focus shifted to the
archaeology of Roman Britain and to Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
Although much of Wright's research has been completely superseded,
his work is still considered worth consulting, as he collected
material not readily available elsewhere. This two-volume 1851
publication is testimony to Wright's interest in folklore, sorcery
and legend. In Volume 1 the author accounts of sorcery across
Europe, and he considers the legendary Dr Faustus as an archetypal
magician who called 'the demon'. Wright also discusses the place of
the occult in England during and after the Reformation, writing
about magicians such as John Dee, and describing King James I's
views on witchcraft.
The English historian and antiquary Thomas Wright (1810 70)
co-founded and joined a number of antiquarian and literary
societies. He was greatly interested in Old English, Middle English
and Anglo-Norman texts, and in the 1840s and 1850s he published
widely within these areas. Gradually his focus shifted to the
archaeology of Roman Britain and to Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
Although much of Wright's research has been completely superseded,
his work is still considered worth consulting, as he collected
material not readily available elsewhere. This two-volume 1851
publication is testimony to Wright's interest in folklore, sorcery
and legend. In Volume 2, he maintains a broad perspective while
surveying instances of witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
Wright writes about such famous cases as the Earl of Somerset, the
Ursuline nuns of Loudun, and the Mohra witches in Sweden, to whom
the Devil appeared with a red beard and a high-crowned hat.
Thomas Wright Blakiston (1832 1891) was an army officer, explorer
and naturalist who served with the British forces in Ireland, Nova
Scotia and the Crimea before being posted to Canton during the
second Opium War in 1859. While in Canton, Blakiston organised an
expedition up the Yangtsze river and Five Months on the Yang-tsze
(1862) is his account of his experiences navigating 'one of the
greatest rivers in the world a distance of eighteen hundred miles'.
Despite the region being subject to extensive insurgency, Blakiston
was able to travel 900 miles further up the river than any European
before him except Jesuits wearing local attire. His narrative,
divided into nineteen chapters with illustrations by Alfred Barton,
contains many observations relating to the politically volatile
situation in China as well as descriptions of the local landscape,
flora and fauna. It remained the standard account of the region for
fifty years.
First published in 1854, this is the first of a two-volume
collection of historical sources relating to the University of
Cambridge during the religious upheavals from the Elizabethan
period to the Restoration. This volume covers the period 1570 90,
and documents the long-running debate between the Puritans in the
University Senate, who sought to regulate forms of worship, and the
heads of colleges, who accepted the new University Statutes of
1570. It also reveals other areas of controversy including
religious tests on graduation, dress, and even public bathing.
Letters and diary entries provide additional insights into less
contentious aspects of 'the manners and pursuits of the University'
at the time. The book will be of interest to historians of the
Elizabethan period and its turbulent religious currents, and to
historians of education.
2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet's coup on
September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and
executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next
fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in
countries around the world. Out of their anguish and anger come
these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives--the
first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and
updated. Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the
principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be
destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often
failed to sustain families. Many marriages collapsed, and children
lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule
returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a
homeland forever changed. This timely update of the 1998 collection
continues to remind us of the fracturing legacy and enduring
oppression of usurpation and authoritarian rule long after its time
has passed.
Nick Willing writes and directs this British horror starring Olivia
Williams and Matthew Modine. When renovations expert Meg Hamilton
(Williams) and her husband Alex (Modine) decide to relocate their
family to their newly-purchased country house on the wild Yorkshire
Moors, Meg becomes increasingly worried as members of her
restoration team begin leaving the project. After their first night
in the house, Meg's daughter Penny (Antonia Clarke) claims she has
seen a ghostly figure in her room and, later, when Meg discovers a
secret attic room housing a mysterious painting depicting the
murder of the former lady of the manor, she starts to think that
Penny's suspicions of the house being haunted could be true...
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