wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780804786287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of... The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent mar... |
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452,47 zł |
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Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676
ISBN: 9781526117885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lady Anne Clifford (15901676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a...
Lady Anne Clifford (15901676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, Ja...
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132,30 zł |
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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780804790550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of...
The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marria...
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102,90 zł |
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590-1676
ISBN: 9781526117878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lady Anne Clifford (15901676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a...
Lady Anne Clifford (15901676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, Ja...
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423,36 zł |
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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare's Sibyls
ISBN: 9780415877923 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity - played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient Greek... This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissa... |
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728,97 zł |
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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare's Sibyls
ISBN: 9781138868878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity - played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient Greek... This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissa... |
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241,27 zł |
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Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record
ISBN: 9780719091872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 992 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Records, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, including a wide variety of records that provide an unbroken view into life on the Clifford estates in England, (as well as the borders of Wales, Ireland, and Scotland) for centuries, as well as the family's involvement at the centre of political life. Here we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers, and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. We see how rebellions, crusades, and...
Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Records, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, includin...
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cena:
793,80 zł |