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Governments around the globe are promoting co-production and
community social enterprise as policy strategies to address the
need for local, 21st century service provision - but can small
communities engage spontaneously in social enterprise and what is
the true potential for citizens to produce services? This book
addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including:
aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in
communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching
welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural
communities that are increasingly 'hollowed out' through lack of
working age people; and, how best to engender the development of
community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high
quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and
evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing
community social enterprise and co-producing services; how
communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in
terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make
them happen. This book is an antidote to the rhetoric of optimistic
governments that pronounce co-production as a panacea to the
challenges of providing local services and by drawing on the
evidence from a 'real-life' international study will make policy
makers more savvy about their aspirations for co-production, give
service professionals practical strategies for working with
communities, fill a gap in the academic evidence about community,
as opposed to individual, social enterprise and reassure community
members that they can deliver services through community social
enterprise if the right partnerships and strategies are in place.
Community Co-Production will appeal to students and scholars over a
broad range of disciplines including development, entrepreneurship,
public and social policy, economics and regional studies.
Contributors: S. Bradley, J. Farmer, C. Hill, S.-A. Munoz, K.
Radford, S. Shortall, S. Skerratt, A. Steinerowski, K. Stephen, S.
Whitelaw
The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the
North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was
a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one
that owed much of its character and identity to its place in a much
wider "North Sea World" that stretched from the English Channel to
Iceland, the Baltic and beyond. Relations between East Anglia and
its maritime neighbours have for the most part been peaceful,
involving migration and commercial, artistic, architectural and
religious exchanges, but have also at times beencharacterised by
violence and contestation. All these elements have played a
significant role in processes of historical change that have shaped
the history both of East Anglia and its North Sea world. This
collection of essays discusses East Anglia in the context of this
maritime framework and explores the extent to which there was a
distinctive community bound together by the shared frontier of the
North Sea during the Middle Ages. It brings together the work of a
range of international scholars and includes contributions from the
disciplines of history, archaeology, art history and literary
studies. David Bates is Professorial Fellow in History at the
Universityof East Anglia, Robert Liddiard is Professor of History
at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Anna Agnarsdottir,
Brian Ayers, Wendy R. Childs, Lynda Dennison, Stephen Heywood,
Carole Hill, John Hines, David King, Robert Liddiard, Rory
Naismith, Eljas Oksanen, Richard Plant, Aleksander Pluskowski,
Christopher Scull, Tim Pestell, Charles West, Gareth Williams, Tom
Williamson.
An investigation into the manifestations of religious art in East
Anglia and how they are connected to and inspired by their
locations. The relationship between religious or spiritual artworks
and the locality where such objects are made and used is the
central question this volume addresses. While it is a well-known
fact that religious artworks, objects and buildings can have a
power or agency of their own (iconoclasm, the violent defacement of
an object which paradoxically testifies to the fear and loathing it
has generated, being an extreme example), the sources of this power
are less well understood. It is this problem which the book seeks
to begin to remedy, using East Anglia, an area of Britain with an
exceptionally long history of religious diversity, as its prism.
Case-studies are taken from prehistory right up to the twenty-first
century, and from a variety of media, including wall-paintings,
church architecture, and stained glass; famous sites examined
include Seahenge and Sutton Hoo. Overall, the book shows how
profoundly religious artworks are embedded in local communities,
belief systems, histories and landscapes. T.A. Heslop is Professor
of Visual Arts, Elizabeth Mellings a Post-doctoral Research Fellow,
and Margit Thofner Senior Lecturer, at the School of World Art
Studies, University of East Anglia. Contributors: Margit Thofner,
T.A. Heslop, Elizabeth de Bièvre, Daphne Nash Briggs, Adrian
Marsden, Timothy Pestell, Matthew Champion, Carole Hill,
ElizabethRutledge, David King, John Peake, Nicola Whyte, Chris
King, Francesca Vanke, Stefan Muthesius, Kate Hesketh-Harvey, Karl
Bell, Elizabeth Mellings, Robert Wallis, Trevor Ashwin. Cover
artwork: Glowing Embers (Seahenge), 2000. Painting by Susan
Laughlin.
A vivid account of the nature and significance of intense female
spirituality in one of England's greatest medieval cities. The
religious attachments and charitable activity of women in and
around late medieval Norwich are used here as a case study to
consider women and religion in the period more generally. Drawing
on uniquely rich and varied sources,the book demonstrates, far more
fully and effectively than studies for other cities have been able
to do, how links with continental Europe enriched female life.
Norwich's successful status as an international depot -
especiallyits trade with the Low Countries and with Germany --
became the vehicle for the transmission of various cults, artistic
expression and books related to continental female mysticism.
Norwich women's special attraction to aspects ofincarnational piety
is demonstrated by their devotion to the Body of Christ and to his
earthly family, exemplified by the popular cults of St Anne and her
daughter, the Virgin Mary. The wealth of fifteenth-century
literature, much of local provenance, which survives highlights
both this and other religious preoccupations of Norwich women.
Among them are, of course, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, who
are here reinterpreted within the wider context ofthe religious
life of the medieval city, and of women's contributions to it.
CAROLE HILL gained her PhD from the University of East Anglia.
The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the
North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was
a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one
that owed much of its character and identity to its place in a much
wider "North Sea World" that stretched from the English Channel to
Iceland, the Baltic and beyond. Relations between East Anglia and
its maritime neighbours have for the most part been peaceful,
involving migration and commercial, artistic, architectural and
religious exchanges, but have also at times beencharacterised by
violence and contestation. All these elements have played a
significant role in processes of historical change that have shaped
the history both of East Anglia and its North Sea world. This
collection of essays discusses East Anglia in the context of this
maritime framework and explores the extent to which there was a
distinctive community bound together by the shared frontier of the
North Sea during the Middle Ages. It brings together the work of a
range of international scholars and includes contributions from the
disciplines of history, archaeology, art history and literary
studies. Professor David Bates is Professorial Fellow in History,
RobertLiddiard is Professor of History, at the University of East
Anglia. Contributors: Anna Agnarsdottir, Brian Ayers, Wendy R.
Childs, Lynda Dennison, Stephen Heywood, Carole Hill, John Hines,
David King, Robert Liddiard,Rory Naismith, Eljas Oksanen, Richard
Plant, Aleksander Pluskowski, Christopher Scull, Tim Pestell,
Charles West, Gareth Williams, Tom Williamson.
Essays reflecting the interests and scholarship of one of our most
important and influential historians. For almost four decades
Carole Rawcliffe has been a towering figure among historians of the
later Middle Ages. Although now best known for her pioneering
contributions to medical history, including major studies of
hospitals, leprosy and public health, her published works range far
more broadly to encompass among other subjects the English
nobility, Members of Parliament, the regional history of East
Anglia and myriad aspects of political and social interaction. The
essays collected in this festschrift, written by a selection of her
colleagues, friends and former students, cover a wide spectrum of
themes and introduce such diverse characters as an estranged queen,
a bankrupt aristocrat, a female apothecary, a flute-playing Turkish
doctor and a medieval "Dad's Army" conscripted to defend England's
coasts. Linda Clark is Editor of the 1422-1504 section of the
History of Parliament; Elizabeth Danbury is an Honorary Senior
Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of
Advanced Study, University of London, and Honorary Research Fellow
at the Department of Information Studies, University College
London. Contributors: Jean Agnew, John Alban, Brian Ayers, Caroline
Barron, Christopher Bonfield, Carole Hill, Peregrine Horden, Hannes
Kleineke, Nicholas Vincent.
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Medieval East Anglia (Hardcover)
Christopher Harper-Bill; Contributions by A E Oliver, Brian Ayers, Carole Hill, Carole Rawcliffe, …
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Medieval East Anglia - one of the most significant and prosperous
parts of England in the middle ages - examined through essays on
its landscape, history, religion, literature, and culture. East
Anglia was the most prosperous region of medieval England; far from
being an isolated backwater, it had strong economic, religious and
cultural connections with continental Europe, with Norwich for a
time England's second city. The essays in this volume bring out the
importance of the region during the middle ages. Spanning the late
eleventh to the fifteenth century, they offer a broad coverage of
East Anglia's history and culture; particular topics examined
include its landscape, urban history, buildings, government and
society, religion and rich culture. Contributors: Christopher
Harper-Bill, Tom Williamson, Robert E. Liddiard, P. Maddern, Brian
Ayers, Elisabeth Rutledge, Penny Dunn, Kate Parker, Carole
Rawcliffe, James Campbell, Lucy Marten, Colin Richmond, T. M. Colk,
Carole Hill, T.A. Heslop, A.E. Oliver, Theresa Coletti, Penny
Granger, Sarah Salih
The essays collected here provide fresh insight into a range of
important topics across the period. They discuss religion (both
orthodox, as revealed by the lives of anchoresses living in
Norwich, and heretical, as practised by lollards living in
Coventry); politics (exploring the motivations of individuals
seeking election to parliament, and how the way Cade's Rebellion
was recorded by contemporaries affected its subsequent perception);
law (whether it may be deduced from manorial court rolls that
lawyers were employed by peasants, and an examination of the
process of peace-making in feuds on the Scottish border); national,
ethnic and political identity in the British Isles; social ranking
and chivalry (in particular knighthood in Scotland); and verse (a
consideration of the poem Lydgate addressed to Thomas Chaucer, and
the occasion of its composition). Contributors: JACKSON W.
ARMSTRONG, JACQUELYN FERNHOLTZ, TONY GOODMAN, DAVID GRUMMITT,
CAROLE HILL, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, JENNI NUTTALL, SIMON PAYLING,
ANDREA RUDDICK, KATIE STEVENSON, MATTHEW TOMPKINS
Young Earth advocates often use the Grand Canyon as a showcase to
argue not only that the thick fossil-bearing layers were laid down
in a single catastrophic flood, but that the Bible requires this to
be true. In The Grand Canyon, eleven authors and editors--all
scientists and apologists--address both the biblical and scientific
claims that Noah's flood can account for the Earth's fossil-rich
layers. Like many in the scientific community, they find these
assumptions to be riddled with factual errors. This visually
stunning book is written primarily for nonscientist Christians who
have a desire to clearly understand the arguments and evidence in
favor of both young- and old-Earth models, to find answers to those
who make the Grand Canyon's majesty the centerpiece of their
arguments, or to improve their ministry to scientifically literate
believers and seekers. Readers will learn that Young Earth
interpretations of Genesis are not necessarily true to the original
Hebrew meaning. They will come away with an appreciation for why
the vast majority of Christian geologists acknowledge an ancient
Earth and why modern science is not antithetical to faith, but
rather supports it. Readers will find that the Grand Canyon has a
much grander history--in keeping with its Creator&mdashthan the
brief period of compressed creation posited by flood geologists.
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Dragon Tears (Paperback)
Carol Hill; Illustrated by Mark And Carol Hill; Carol A. Hill
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In a time when the unrest and bloody crisis of the Middle East
causes us to wonder if there is any hope for the war-torn nations
there, a story offering a beautiful picture of hope emerges. A
modern-day Esther, poised to save her people, rises from the ashes
and confronts us with the courage and determination we should all
strive to live by. Desert Rose introduces a fresh, new genre for
Christian readers. An exotic setting, timely scenario, relevant
life lessons and original ideas bring the characters to life on the
pages, keeping readers intensely involved. C. Hill weaves an
enchanting story, as rich and colorful as a Bedouin tapestry, and
readers will want to know more as hero Dahlia learns of a new faith
and finds a ministry perfectly suited for her by a personal and
loving God.
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