Register of the Freemen of the City of York from the City Records
Author : Surtees Society
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Surtees Society
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : D. M. Palliser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0191667579
Medieval York provides a comprehensive history of what is now considered England's most famous surviving medieval city, covering nearly a thousand years. The volume examines York from its post-Roman revival as a town (c. 600) to the major changes of the 1530s and 1540s, which in many ways brought an end to the Middle Ages in England. York was one of the leading English towns after London, and in status almost always the 'second city'. Much research and publication has been carried out on various aspects of medieval York, but this volume seeks to cover the field in its entirety. David Palliser offers an up-to-date and broad-based account of the city by employing the evidence of written documents, archaeology (especially on the rich results of recent city centre excavations), urban morphology, numismatics, art, architecture, and literature. Special attention is paid to the city's religious drama and its wealth of surviving stained glass. The story of Medieval York is set in a wide context to make comparisons with other English and Continental towns, to establish how far York's story was distinctive or was typical of other English towns which have been less fortunate in the survival of their medieval fabric. It is essential reading for anyone interested in York's past and in its rich heritage of medieval churches, guildhalls, houses, streets, and city walls - the most complete medieval circuit in England.
Author : Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780903857673
Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000531783
In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified parts—staging, playing, pyrotechnics and magic—and drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical life on busy city streets and across open arenas. The chapters variously explore and analyse the important backwaters of material culture that enabled, facilitated and shaped performance yet have received scant scholarly attention. It is here, among the itemised payments to carpenters and chemists, the noted requirements of mechanics and wheelwrights, or tucked away among the marginalia of suppliers of staging and ingenious devices that Butterworth has made his stamping ground. This is a fascinating introduction to the very ‘nuts and bolts’ of early theatre. Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre is a closely argued celebration of stagecraft that will appeal to academics and students of performance, theatre history and medieval studies as well as history and literature more broadly. It constitutes the eighth volume in the Routledge series Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies and continues the valuable work of that series (of which Butterworth is a general editor) in bringing significant and expert research articles to a wider audience. (CS 1105).
Author : York (England)
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1896
Category : York (England)
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Author : Catholic Church. Province of York (England). Archbishop, 1286-1296 (John Romanus)
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 1917
Category : England
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Author : Richard Barrie Dobson
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN : 9781904497165
Author : Sara M. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1317610253
England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other European authorities. Using the coroner's inquest as a lens, this book hopes to offer a fresh perspective on the process of death investigation in medieval England. The central premise of this book is that medical practitioners did participate in death investigation – although not in every inquest, or even most, and not necessarily in those investigations where we today would deem their advice most pertinent. The medieval relationship with death and disease, in particular, shaped coroners' and their jurors' understanding of the inquest's medical needs and led them to conclusions that can only be understood in context of the medieval world's holistic approach to health and medicine. Moreover, while the English resisted Southern Europe's penchant for autopsies, at times their findings reveal a solid understanding of internal medicine. By studying cause of death in the coroners' reports, this study sheds new light on subjects such as abortion by assault, bubonic plague, cruentation, epilepsy, insanity, senescence, and unnatural death.
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Page : 980 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Steven J. Gunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0198802862
War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII. Henry fought many wars throughout his reign, and this book explores how this came to dominate English culture and shape attitudes to the king and to national history, with people talking and reading about war, and spending money on weaponry and defence.