wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781403940711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why should films be historically accurate? Why are some monarchs popular subjects in film and others virtually ignored? Leading historians analyze films set in Tudor and Stuart Britain, exploring their historical context and their accuracy. They explore the preoccupations of the filmmakers, the sources they used and each film's reception.
Why should films be historically accurate? Why are some monarchs popular subjects in film and others virtually ignored? Leading historians analyze fil...
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176,64 zł |
Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1500-1689
ISBN: 9780415205788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It is designed to make accessible to readers much of the most recent research, and to guide them through the major historical controversies of the last twenty-five years: * the causes of the English Reformation By adopting a thematic... Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventee... |
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192,23 zł |
Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603
ISBN: 9780415073523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work describes and analyzes the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. Doran examines the religious views and policies of the Queen, the making of the 1559 settlement and the resulting reforms. The changing beliefs of the English people are discussed, and the author charts the fortunes of both Puritanism and Catholicism. Finally the strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I herself are examined.
This work describes and analyzes the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. Doran examines the relig...
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192,23 zł |
Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1500-1689
ISBN: 9780415205771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It is designed to make accessible to readers much of the most recent research, and to guide them through the major historical controversies of the last twenty-five years: * the causes of the English Reformation By adopting a thematic... Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventee... |
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701,59 zł |
Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I
ISBN: 9780415756501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Monarchy and Matrimony is the first comprehensive study of Elizabeth I's courtships. Susan Doran argues that the cult of the Virgin Queen' was invented by her ministers, and that Elizabeth was forced into celibacy by political necessity.
Doran's detailed examination of the different suits is based on extensive archival research across Europe. Rather than focusing on Elizabeth's personality and image, she views the question within a wider political and religious context. She shows how the question of Elizabeth's marriage was divisive for England, affecting both political life and... Monarchy and Matrimony is the first comprehensive study of Elizabeth I's courtships. Susan Doran argues that the cult of the Virgin Queen' was invente...
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228,62 zł |
Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I
ISBN: 9780415119696 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Monarchy and Matrimony is the first comprehensive study of Elizabeth I's courtships. Susan Doran argues that the cult of the Virgin Queen' was invented by her ministers, and that Elizabeth was forced into celibacy by political necessity.
Doran's detailed examination of the different suits is based on extensive archival research across Europe. Rather than focusing on Elizabeth's personality and image, she views the question within a wider political and religious context. She shows how the question of Elizabeth's marriage was divisive for England, affecting both political life and... Monarchy and Matrimony is the first comprehensive study of Elizabeth I's courtships. Susan Doran argues that the cult of the Virgin Queen' wa...
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701,59 zł |
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
ISBN: 9780199574957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers - Susan Doran provides a vivid and often dramatic account of political life in Elizabethan England and the queen at its center, offering a deeper insight into Elizabeth's emotional and political conduct - and challenging many of the popular myths that have grown up around her. It is a story replete with fascinating questions. What was the...
This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a...
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149,03 zł |
Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780230004634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor's historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to the 20th century. Re-appraising aspects of her reign that have been misrepresented the book creates a more balanced, objective portrait of England's last Catholic, and first female, monarch.
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor's historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to...
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181,84 zł |
Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781138146655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At her accession in 1558 Elizabeth I inherited a troublesome legacy with a long history of wars against France and Scotland. This international situation was becoming a huge financial burden on the English crown and economy.
Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy describes and assesses England's foreign policy during the second half of the sixteenth century. It includes coverage of Elizabeth's relations with foreign powers, the effect of Reformation on foreign affairs, Elizabeth's successs as a stateswoman and the war with Spain. At her accession in 1558 Elizabeth I inherited a troublesome legacy with a long history of wars against France and Scotland. This international situat...
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701,59 zł |
Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781403940704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Film can be an invaluable teaching resource. Tudors and Stuarts on Film provides analyses of films about the Tudor and Stuart period from leading historians. The accuracy of each film is assessed, and they are also placed within the context of the period in which they were made, and the influence they have had on popular conceptions of early modern England.
Film can be an invaluable teaching resource. Tudors and Stuarts on Film provides analyses of films about the Tudor and Stuart period from leading hist...
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571,67 zł |
England and Europe 1485-1603
ISBN: 9781138836693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This Seminar Study introduces students to England's foreign policy during the reigns of the Tudor monarchs. In this succinct introduction the author addresses the key questions facing students - for example, to what extent did monarch or minister make policy. Each reign is analysed in turn providing a narrative and explanation of the major events and policy decisions throughout the Tudor period.
This Seminar Study introduces students to England's foreign policy during the reigns of the Tudor monarchs. In this succinct introduction the author a...
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701,59 zł |
The Elizabethan World
ISBN: 9780415712972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated, multi-disciplinary volume approaches the Elizabethan world thematically. It conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, science, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world of change.
This lavishly illustrated, multi-disciplinary volume approaches the Elizabethan world thematically. It conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religi...
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337,75 zł |
England and Europe in the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9780333567753 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, security concerns, religious ideology and commercial interests on the making of policy. It draws attention to aspects of continuity with the late-medieval past but argues, too, that the European Reformation brought new challenges which forced a rethinking of policy. Far from treating the sixteenth century as the period when England began its rise as a Great Power, the author emphasises the structural weaknesses of the English armed forces and...
This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, security ...
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176,64 zł |
Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy, 1558-1603
ISBN: 9780415153553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At her accession in 1558 Elizabeth I inherited a troublesome legacy with a long history of wars against France and Scotland. This international situation was becoming a huge financial burden on the English crown and economy.
Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy describes and assesses England's foreign policy during the second half of the sixteenth century. It includes coverage of Elizabeth's relations with foreign powers, the effect of Reformation on foreign affairs, Elizabeth's successs as a stateswoman and the war with Spain. At her accession in 1558 Elizabeth I inherited a troublesome legacy with a long history of wars against France and Scotland. This international situat...
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187,04 zł |
Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603
ISBN: 9781138133532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Susan Doran describes and analyses the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. She examines the religious views and policies of the Queen, the making of the 1559 settlement and the resulting reforms. The changing beliefs of the English people are discussed, and the author charts the fortunes of both Puritanism and Catholicism. Finally she looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I as royal governor, and of the Church of England as a whole.
Susan Doran describes and analyses the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. She examines the relig...
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701,59 zł |
Lives of Simeon Stylites
ISBN: 9780879075125 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression. Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted. Three views of the Stylite in three lives.
In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the r...
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128,94 zł |
Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
ISBN: 9781784993597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal...
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada yea...
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136,76 zł |
Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
ISBN: 9780719086069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long captured the interest of historians and literary scholars, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. Our book remedies this situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The...
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Que...
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492,35 zł |
The Myth of Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780333930847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unanimously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and continue to reverberate...
Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection...
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197,43 zł |
The Elizabethan World
ISBN: 9780415409599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Encompassing social, political, cultural, religious and economic history, and...
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history....
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1195,31 zł |