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The King's Dyke and Bradley Fen excavations occurred within the
brick pits of the Fenland town of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. The
investigations straddled the south-eastern contours of the Flag Fen
Basin, a small peat-filled embayment located between Peterborough
and the western limits of Whittlesey 'island'. Renowned principally
for its Bronze Age discoveries at sites such as Fengate and Flag
Fen, the Flag Fen Basin also marked the point where the prehistoric
River Nene debouched into the greater Fenland Basin. A henge, two
round barrows, an early fieldsystem, metalwork deposition and
patterns of sustained settlement along with metalworking evidence
helped produce a plan similar in its configuration to that revealed
at Fengate. In addition, unambiguous evidence of earlier second
millennium BC settlement was identified together with large
watering holes and the first burnt stone mounds to be found along
Fenland's western edge. Genuine settlement structures included
three of Early Bronze Age date, one Late Bronze Age, ten Early Iron
Age and three Middle Iron Age. Later Bronze Age metalwork,
including single spears and a weapon hoard, was deposited in
indirect association with the earlier land divisions and
consistently within ground that was becoming increasingly wet. The
large-scale exposure of the base of the Flag Fen Basin at Bradley
Fen revealed a beneath-the-peat or pre-basin landscape related to
the buried floodplain of an early River Nene. Above all, the
revelation of sub-fen occupation means we can now situate the Flag
Fen Basin in time as well as space.
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public
spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how
constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials
provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England.
The more important of these trials attracted substantial public
attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the
state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among
legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted
their independence from judges. In political history, the
government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this
period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the
Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial'
emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of
political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It
investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the
creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the
publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had
become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined
how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist
pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the
later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.
This book traces the emergence and development of Literature and
the Bible as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays
alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The
Western literary tradition has a long and complex relationship with
the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Authors draw on the Bible in
numerous ways and for different reasons, and there is also the
myriad of subconscious ways through which the biblical text enters
literary culture. Biblical stories, characters, motifs and
references permeate the whole of the literary tradition. In the
last thirty years there has been a growth of critical interest in
this relationship. In Literature and the Bible: A Reader the
editors bring together a selection of the key critical and
theoretical materials from this time, providing a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars. Each chapter contains: * An
introduction from the editors, contextualising the material within
and alerting readers to some of the historic debates that feed into
the extracts chosen * A set of previously published extracts of
substantial length, offering greater contextualisation and allowing
the Reader to be used flexibly * Lists of further reading,
providing readers with a wide variety of other sources and
perspectives. Designed to be used alongside the Bible and selected
literary texts, this book is essential reading for anyone studying
Literature and the Bible in undergraduate English, Religion and
Theology degrees.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully
reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of
'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary
debate.
The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession
crisis of the years 1678 to 1681 are the context for this new
study. It asks two key questions: was there an exclusion crisis?
and did these years witness the birth of modern political parties?
The author argues that the unrest was not simply due to a centrally
organized party machine based around the single issue of exclusion;
but was a broad-based controversy about the succession, fears of
popery and arbitrary government which produced ideological
polarization and political sophistication. Part One examines
central politics to explore the succession crisis within the
context of the court and an emergent political structure. Part Two
explores public opinion in the country as a whole, and argues that
propaganda electioneering, religious conflict and petitions
committed men to organized networks of belief.
This book traces the emergence and development of Literature and
the Bible as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays
alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The
Western literary tradition has a long and complex relationship with
the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Authors draw on the Bible in
numerous ways and for different reasons, and there is also the
myriad of subconscious ways through which the biblical text enters
literary culture. Biblical stories, characters, motifs and
references permeate the whole of the literary tradition. In the
last thirty years there has been a growth of critical interest in
this relationship. In Literature and the Bible: A Reader the
editors bring together a selection of the key critical and
theoretical materials from this time, providing a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars. Each chapter contains: * An
introduction from the editors, contextualising the material within
and alerting readers to some of the historic debates that feed into
the extracts chosen * A set of previously published extracts of
substantial length, offering greater contextualisation and allowing
the Reader to be used flexibly * Lists of further reading,
providing readers with a wide variety of other sources and
perspectives. Designed to be used alongside the Bible and selected
literary texts, this book is essential reading for anyone studying
Literature and the Bible in undergraduate English, Religion and
Theology degrees.
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern
Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal
boundaries and to undermine them. This interdisciplinary collection
considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern
Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the
anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical
invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the
traditional literary canon to investigate printed material of all
kinds, both textual and visual, it considers satire as a mode or
attitude rather than a literary genre and is distinctive in its
combination of broad historial range and thick description of
individual instances. Within an over-arching investigation of the
dual role of laughter and satire as a defence of communal values
and as a challenge to political, religious and social constructions
of authority, the individual chapters by leading scholars provide
richly contextualised studies of the uses of laughter and satire in
various settings - religious, political, theatrical and literary.
Drawing on some unfamiliar and intriguing source material and on
recent work on the history of the emotions, the contributors
consider not just the texts themselves but their effect on their
audiences, andchart both the changing use of humour and satire
across the whole early modern period and, importantly, the less
often noticed strands of continuity, for instance in the
persistence of religious tropes throughout the period. MARK KNIGHTS
is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. ADAM MORTON
is Lecturer in the History of Britain at the University of
Newcastle. Contributors: ANDREW BENJAMIN BRICKER, MARK KNIGHTS,
FIONA MCCALL, ANDREW MCRAE, ADAM MORTON, SOPHIE MURRAY, ROBERT
PHIDDIAN, MARK PHILP, CATHY SHRANK.
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of
literature and religion from a contemporary, critical perspective.
Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this
Companion looks at: key moments in the story of religion and
literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11;
a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and
literature; different ways that religion and literature are
connected, from overtly religious writing to subtle religious
readings; analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been
studied, re-written, and questioned by literature; political
implications of work on religion and literature. Thoroughly
introduced and contextualized, this volume is an engaging
introduction to this huge and complex field.
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of
literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective.
Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this
Companion looks at: Key moments in the story of religion and
literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11
A variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and
literature Different ways that religion and literature are
connected from overtly religious writing, to subtle religious
readings Analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been
studied, re-written, and questioned by literature Political
implications of work on religion and literature Thoroughly
introduced and contextualised, this volume is an engaging
introduction to this huge and complex field.
In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a
compelling analysis of the increasingly marginalized, but
undoubtedly influential Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his late 19th
and early 20th century fiction. In his Autobiography Chesterton
observed: "Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of
theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was
one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really
believed in devils." Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature
of evil is at the center of his fiction, Chesterton and Evil offers
an exciting, new interdisciplinary reading of Chesterton's work,
and provides a means of locating it among important theological and
cultural concerns of his age.
Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history
of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as
such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and
social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the interaction
of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office,
showing how these stories were intertwined and related. Linking
corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not
been attempted before, and Knights does this by drawing on
extensive interdisciplinary sources relating to the East India
Company as well as other colonial officials in the Atlantic World
and elsewhere in Britain's emerging empire. Both 'corruption' and
'office' were concepts that were in evolution during the period
1600-1850 and underwent very significant but protracted change
which this study charts and seeks to explain. The book makes
innovative use of the concept of trust, which helped to shape
office in ways that underlined principles of selflessness,
disinterestedness, integrity, and accountability in officials.
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Black Friday (Paperback)
Nancy Holly, Mike Metzler; Mark Knight
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The shopping centers, retailers and malls across America are
gearing up for the busiest shopping day of the year, the day after
Thanksgiving, Black Friday. The aptly named day of sales indicates
a retailer's opportunity to turn their income statements from red
to black in one day, but this year Black Friday will adopt a new
meaning for the United States, forever. Agent Bill Barton
frantically attempts to put the pieces of information together to
identify and avert a coordinated attack on U.S. soil that could
kill hundreds of innocent people and simultaneously cripple the
economy. As the information accumulates identifying the targets, he
realizes the scope of the operation proves too large for one man,
or a small team. Bart is going to need help, a lot of help, and at
a moment's notice.
A few short months have passed since Agent Barton and Arthur Mason
(Ahmad), fled Turkey and the failed attempt at preventing an Al
Qaeda plot to assassinate a prominent religious leader. Arthur has
taken up residence in an apartment complex in Oxnard, California,
courtesy of the U.S. government in hopes of leaving his past behind
and assimilating into American culture. His fiancee Belinda Johnson
(Behrukh), and her family (mother and brother) were also relocated.
Arthur's new job with a local delivery company seems innocent
enough until he meets an unsavory character that blinds his common
sense with the promise of quick cash. Arthur's motivation to marry
his fiancee, buy a home and live the American dream drives his
decision, but there is no turning back. While the whole world is
focused on the horrific events in Turkey and the impending
response, the CIA is thrust into investigating and averting an
impending terrorist attack of epic proportion. The terrorist
chatter indicates a possible attack on one of the 104 commercial
nuclear facilities in the US. Newly promoted CIA Director of
Domestic Terrorism, Marks tasks former Delta Force operative
Special Agent Barton as his lead man to head the investigation.
Time is of the essence as the agency realizes the magnitude and
destruction of a nuclear meltdown. Can he identify the target and
the players in time to avert the menacing plot?"
Title: The Highways and Byeways of Old Norwich ... With ...
illustrations drawn by P. E. Stimpson.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
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British Library Knights, Mark; 1887. 120 p.; 4 . 10351.h.23.
The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength
to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively
and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new
directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions
regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters
of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using
interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of
religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading
voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the
possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.
This work offers an important insight into the role that the
religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. The
study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to
strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and
provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new
directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions
regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters
of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using
interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of
religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading
voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the
possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.
Organised around important theological ideas this is a lucid,
accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of literature
and religion. Religion has always been an integral part of the
literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage
extensively with religious ideas and the development of English
Literature as a professional discipline began with an explicit
consideration of the relationship between religion and literature.
Both the recent theological turn of literary theory and the renewed
political significance of religious debate in contemporary western
culture have generated further interest in this interdisciplinary
area.This book offers a lucid, accessible and thoughtful
introduction to the study of religion and literature. The focus is
on Christian theology and post-1800 British literature, although
substantial reference is made to earlier writers, texts from North
America and mainland Europe, and other faith positions."An
Introduction to Religion and Literature" is organised around
important theological ideas, each of which is explored through
close readings of well-known and influential literary texts.
Throughout the book the reader is encouraged to think about the
ways in which religion and literature combine to trace and disclose
other worlds that might be seen as sacred.
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