wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I
ISBN: 9781032440958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1982, Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, privy councillor to James I.
First published in 1982, Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, privy councillor to James I.
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472,56 zł |
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The Mental World of the Jacobean Court
ISBN: 9780521021043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The reign of James I (1603-25) has long been overshadowed by the prior glory of Elizabeth and the later outbreak of the Civil War. Yet how, without understanding the Jacobean court, are we to understand the world of Jonson, Donne and the late Shakespeare, divine right theory, court scandal and reform, appeals to the ancient constitution and reason of state, arguments from necessity and parliamentary precedent, chivalric nostalgia and classicism, mannerist excess and baroque grandeur? In this volume an international group of specialists in history literature and political theory set about...
The reign of James I (1603-25) has long been overshadowed by the prior glory of Elizabeth and the later outbreak of the Civil War. Yet how, without un...
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307,74 zł |
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Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780521842327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade to Asia, Africa, the East and West Indies; new building, furnishing, and collecting; and the new relationship of technology, luxury and science. As contemporaries eagerly appropriated and copied foreign material culture, the expansion of luxury consumption continued across...
A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy i...
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708,40 zł |
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Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
ISBN: 9780415093682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Private alliances and exchange of favours permeated political, social, economic, and artistic life in early modern Europe. These informal patronage relationships, which helped construct ties between monarchs and political elites, were especially strong in early Stuart England. As court patronage grew, so did opportunities for betrayal and corruption. But was early Stuart government really more corrupt than Tudor government? Were the structures of governance becoming unworkable, or were they badly managed by the Stuarts? Did corruption aid modernization? In this study, Linda Levy Peck tackles...
Private alliances and exchange of favours permeated political, social, economic, and artistic life in early modern Europe. These informal patronage re...
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215,71 zł |
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Women of Fortune: Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781107034020 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.
Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.
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137,66 zł |