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28 produkter
Medieval Children
Häftad, 2003
581 kr
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What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a complete history of childhood in England from …
Chaucer's England
Inbunden, 2026
447 kr
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A lively account of medieval England through the eyes of its most famous poet and chroniclerWho were Chaucer’s thirty-three pilgrims, and why were they heading to Canterbury? What do they and their tales tell us about medieval England as a place, and about the daily lives of its people?Nicholas …
Saints of Cornwall
E-bok, 2000
2420 kr
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Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor ''Celtic'' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by …
The Saints of Cornwall
Inbunden, 2000
3819 kr
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Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor 'Celtic' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by …
English Hospital, 1070-1570
Av Nicholas Orme, Margaret Webster
Inbunden, 1995
678 kr
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The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society—from the gentry and clergy to pilgrims, travelers, beggars, and lepers. Excluded from towns but placed by main highways where they could gather …
Medieval Schools
Roman Britain to Renaissance England
Inbunden, 2006
473 kr
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A sequel to Nicholas Orme’s widely praised study, Medieval ChildrenChildren have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, …
Going to Church in Medieval England
Häftad, 2022
161 kr
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An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth centuryParish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme …
History of England's Cathedrals
Häftad, 2024
239 kr
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The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster England’s sixty-two Anglican and Catholic cathedrals are some of our most iconic buildings, attracting millions of worshippers and visitors every year. Yet although much has been …
Tudor Children
Häftad, 2024
141 kr
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The first history of childhood in Tudor England “Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new way of engaging with the past.”—Joanne Paul, Times (UK) What was it like to grow up in England under the Tudors? How …
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2012
2649 kr
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Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at …
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2012
603 kr
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Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at …
Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719
Häftad, 1983
309 kr
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In 1857 Everard Digby, an extrovert Cambridge scholar, published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Six months later he was expelled from his college, and dies in obscurity as a country parson. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a great pioneer …
Unity And Variety
A History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall
Häftad, 1991
300 kr
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A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian …
English Church Dedications
With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon
Häftad, 1996
264 kr
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Church dedications are as widely used as they are little studied, yet their histories are often obscure and complicated. Frequently forgotten after the Reformation, they were revived on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with many guesses and mistakes, resulting in numerous alterations. Church …
Unity And Variety
A History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall
E-bok, 2015
296 kr
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A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian …
Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter
Av David N Lepine, Nicholas Orme
Häftad, 2003
309 kr
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Death, burial, and the commemoration of the dead have been much studied by historians in recent years, but far less has been done to make available the sources on which these studies are based. This book sets out to fill the gap with an anthology of the rich and varied evidence that survives from …
Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew
Av John Chynoweth, Nicholas Orme m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
406 kr
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The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew, published in 1603, is the first and classic description of Cornwall, The first of two parts describes its landscape, mining, agriculture, fishing, communications, and government, anddiscusses the Cornish people, their speech, customs and recreations. The …
Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral
Biographies, 1250-1548
Häftad, 2013
345 kr
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Exeter Cathedral is rich in its medieval archives, which record not only its buildings but also its personnel from the thirteenth century onwards. This volume lists the names of about a thousand people who served in the Cathedralbetween 1250 and the Reformation in 1548, including vicars choral, …
From Childhood to Chivalry
The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
Inbunden, 2017
2072 kr
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Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows …
From Childhood to Chivalry
The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
Häftad, 2019
530 kr
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Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows …
From Childhood to Chivalry
The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
E-bok, 2017
646 kr
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Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows …
From Childhood to Chivalry
The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
E-bok, 2017
641 kr
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Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows …
Ten Cathedral Ghosts
Häftad, 2022
123 kr
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Acester (known as Ayster) is one of England’s oldest cathedrals. It is also home to a startling assortment of ghosts. They include a bishop’s skeleton, a mischievous imp, a Jacobean actor, an eighteenth-century murderer, a woman in a mirror, a legless and an eyeless ghost, a mysterious chorister, …
A History of the County of Cornwall
II: Religious History to 1560
Inbunden, 2010
1234 kr
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First survey of the religious history of Cornwall, from the county's Romano-British origins to the sixteenth century.Highly Commended in Class 6 - Non-Fiction: History and Creative Arts of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2011.Religious history is the focus of this volume, which covers the development of …
The History of England's Cathedrals
Av Nicholas Orme, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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England's sixty or so Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals are among its most iconic buildings and attract thousands of worshippers and visitors every year. Yet though much has been written about their architecture, there is no complete guide to their history and activities. This book provides …
Medieval Pilgrimage: With a survey of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol
Häftad, 2018
166 kr
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