[PDF] Defending Anglesey eBook

Author : Geraint Wyn Hughes
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 144569204X

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Secret Anglesey explores the lesser-known history of the island of Anglesey in Wales through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Random House
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1446475751

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In a brilliantly imaginative blend of military, social and diplomatic history, Norman Longmate retells our island story from the perspective of its defenders, in a narrative which stretches from the Celtic tribes who unsuccessfully fought against Ceasar to the great seabourne defence against the Armada of Philip of Spain. He has gone back to the original sources and investigated the original battlegrounds and weak spots in Britain's defences. But the real strength of his book is its seamless narrative of history, which uncovers the truth behind the legends. A mass of solidly researched fact, not readily found elsewhere, is seasoned with lively, humorous and occassionally gruesome anecdote. The result, providing at once an invaluable sourcebook for the specialist and an enthralling narrative for the general reader, is by far the most comprehensive and accessible history of England versus invasion ever published.

Author : Johanna Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192575589

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What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the historiography of Puritanism defined through editing and publishing; doctrinal controversy; and the history of emotions. This essay collection proposes that a Puritan literary tradition existed that was distinct from broader conceptions of early modern English and Protestant traditions and offers a nuanced account of the distinct and variegated contribution that Puritanism has made to the construction of literature as a concept in English. It ranges from the late sixteenth through to the nineteenth century, and spans British, European, and American Puritan cultures. It offers new analyses of well-known Puritan writers such as Anne Bradstreet, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, and John Milton, as well as less familiar figures, such as Mary Rowlandson and Joseph Hussey, and writers less often associated with Puritanism, such as Andrew Marvell and Aphra Behn.

Author : Deana Rankin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521843027

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An investigation of English writing in seventeenth-century Ireland, and its connections to Shakespeare, Sidney and Milton.

Author : Geraint Wyn Hughes
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445699850

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Anglesey at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the island of Anglesey in the last hundred and more years.