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Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England
This book traces the influence of Anglican writers on the political thought of inter-war Britain, and argues that religion continued to exert a powerful influence on political ideas and allegiances in the 1920s and 1930s. It counters the prevailing assumption of historians that inter-war political thought was primarily secular in content, by showing how Anglicans like Archbishop William Temple made an active contribution to ideas of community and the welfare state (a term which Temple himself invented). Liberal Anglican ideas of citizenship, community and the nation continued to be central to political thought and debate in the first half of the 20th century. Grimley traces how Temple and hi...
Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester
Over 6000 objects were recovered during the Winchester excavations (1961-1971), offering insight not only into the industries and arts, but the economic, cultural, and social life of medieval Winchester. This volume covers all the objects from the finest products of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s skill to the iron tenter-hooks of the cloth industry.
John le Carré: The Biography
John le Carré is still at the top more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. Written with exclusive access to le Carré, his personal archives, and many of the people closest to him, Adam Sisman's definitive biography is a highly readable, fascinating portrait of the life, times and espionage career that inspired a literary master. Always secretive about his background and Secret Service career (blocking one biography from publication in the 1990s, then choosing a biographer who abandoned the project), John le Carré (David Cornwell) has finally given his blessing to Adam Sisman, who has delivered a biography that reads like a novel. From...
Sultan of Swing
Sir David Butler pioneered the science of elections, transforming the way we analyse election results. In 1945, aged only twenty, Butler was the first to turn British constituency results into percentages, and thereby founded the science of psephology. Appearing as an expert on Britain's first TV election night in 1950, he promoted the idea of 'swing' to explain gains and losses to the public. Later, he invented the BBC's popular Swingometer, which is still used today. He has publicly analysed every British general election since the Second World War, and done more than anyone to transform TV coverage of elections, with a style that combined authority and showmanship with his phenomenal memo...
Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance
Considers lyrical works and the reception of Petrarch's poetry in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It explores these themes in the light of development of literary canons, poetic imitation, and production, from Thomas Wyatt to William Shakespeare.
The Glory of Byzantium
Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name, surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261. Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition "Age of Spirituality," which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium. Preceding the catalogue, 17 essays treat the historical context, religious sphere, and secular courtly realm of the empire, and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures. Abundantly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Mirror and Veil
Spenser not only dedicated The FAerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this volume a convincing reading of the great poem. The author shows how Spenser used Vergil as his model in celebrating and judging his own age. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
An Interpretation of Edmund Spenser's Colin Clout
"Sam Meyer presents an interpretive reading of Edmund Spenser's pastoral allegory Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, written while the poet resided at his estate of Kilcolman Castle, County Cork, Ireland, and dedicated in 1591 to Sir Walter Raleigh. This first full-length study considers the poem for its intrinsic literary merit. The book gives major attention to conventions, attitudes, and understandings which influenced writings of the Renaissance. It demonstrates clearly the poem's unity of design and theme. Meyer's method develops certain new outlooks on the poem: the cardinal roles of the abundant rhetorical figures in building up blocks of verse; the intimate relationship between the vocabulary and the prosody; the use of imagery, formulated by logic-taught modes, to objectify concepts and to symbolize values; and the dramatic quality of the poem and the emotional vibrancy of the speeches of Colin. Meyer discovers that, despite its manifest elements of autobiography and history, the fundamental orientation of the poem is imaginative. He shows how the last human values which the poem explores confer upon it a truly universal quality." -Publisher.
