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Download Lordship and the Urban Community: Durham and its Overlords, by Margaret Bonney PDF

By Margaret Bonney

Town of Durham, even though geographically a ways faraway from the centre of political strength in England within the later medieval interval, used to be of serious strategic and ecclesiastical significance in the course of its early background. It was once the seat of the prince bishops, an army headquarters for the defence of the northern borders of britain, a centre for pilgrimages to the shrine of St Cuthbert and the important marketplace city for the area. After tracing Durham's past due tenth-century origins, the booklet examines the following advancements in non secular and armed forces construction paintings at the peninsula which followed the expansion of a winning city group within the 11th and 12th centuries. This part of the e-book is complemented via the replica of the entire extant medieval plans for Durham in an appendix, which additionally comprises later maps of town and several other illustrations which aid to provide an explanation for the advanced topography. in addition, even if at the beginning sight Durham's overlords might sound oppressive, there's little proof of the townsmen's dissatisfaction with their rule, and none of city rebellion in past due medieval Durham.

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Download Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World by Kwasi Kwarteng PDF

By Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwasi Kwarteng is the kid of folks whose lives have been formed as topics of the British Empire, first of their local Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a different standpoint and impeccable educational credentials to a story historical past of the British Empire, person who avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and in its place sees the Empire for what it used to be: a chain of neighborhood fiefdoms administered in various levels of competence or brutality by means of a solid of characters as oversized and whimsical as whatever conjured by means of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The fact, as Kwarteng unearths, is that there has been no such factor as a version for imperial management; as an alternative, appointees have been schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. for that reason the Empire was once the product no longer of a grand proposal yet of usually chaotic person improvisation. The idosyncracies of viceroys and soldier-diplomats who ran the colonial firm keeps to affect the realm, from Kashmir to Sudan, Baghdad to Hong Kong.

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Download John Wyclif by Stephen Edmund Lahey PDF

By Stephen Edmund Lahey

John Wyclif (d.1384) has too usually been defined as ''Morning superstar of the Reformation'' and only in the near past began to be studied as a fourteenth-century English thinker and theologian. This paintings attracts on contemporary scholarship situating Wyclif in his fourteenth-century milieu to give a survey of his notion and writings as a coherent theological place bobbing up from Oxford's ''Golden Age'' of theology. Lahey argues that lots of Wyclif's top recognized opinions of the fourteenth-century Church come up from his philosophical dedication to an Augustinian realism evocative of the concept of Robert Grosseteste and Anselm of Canterbury. This realism is understandable by way of Wyclif's sustained specialize in semantics and the houses of phrases and propositions, a ''linguistic turn'' characterizing post-Ockham philosophical theology. coming up from this propositional realism is a sturdy emphasis at the position of Scripture in either formal and utilized theology, which used to be the start line for lots of of Wyclif's quarrels with the ecclesiastical establishment in past due fourteenth-century England. This survey takes into consideration either Wyclif's previous, philosophical works and his later works, together with sermons and Scripture remark. Wyclif's trust that Scripture is the everlasting and excellent divine note, the paradigm of human discourse and the definitive embodiment of fact in production is crucial to an realizing of the binds he believes relate theoretical and functional philosophy to theology. This connection hyperlinks Wyclif's curiosity within the propositional constitution of truth to his realism, his hermeneutic application, and to his schedule for reform of the Church. Lahey's survey additionally highlights Wyclif's rejection of Bradwardine's determinism in desire of a version of human freedom in gentle of God's ideal foreknowledge, and in addition explores the relation of Wyclif's spatiotemporal atomism to his rejection of transubstantiation. this is often the 1st book-length, entire survey of Wyclif's idea, and should be of curiosity to scholars of later medieval theology, philosophy, background, and literature.

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Download The Diplomas of King Aethlred ’the Unready’ 978-1016 by Simon Keynes PDF

By Simon Keynes

The reign of 'thelred 'the Unready' (978-1016) is understood to us quite often from a sequence of annals within the Anglo-Saxon Chrolicle, written at or after its shut and as a result conveying an impact of amassing doom as Viking armies ravaged the rustic and at last, less than the management of Swein Forkbeard and Cnut, led to its conquest. Dr Keynes is right here involved to set up what mild the royal diplomas issued in King 'thelred's identify throw in this unsatisfied and infamous interval. He first considers the final concerns that undergo without delay at the price of royal diplomas as old facts for all sessions of Anglo-Saxon background, discussing the situations below which those records were preserved, the thoughts to be had for his or her feedback, and the preparations that existed for his or her construction. He then demonstrates how an in depth research of 'thelred's diplomas can remodel our knowing of this reign. On a pragmatic point they supply helpful proof at the operation of royal govt, and on a private point they find the money for a amazing perception into the relatives among the king and his councillors, suggesting an image of political manoeuvring and court docket intrigue which compensates for the chronicler's emphasis at the fight opposed to the marauding Vikings. via putting the well-known account of incessant conflict within the context of those household affairs it turns into attainable for the 1st time to determine the reign in its real point of view.

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Download Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena by Simon Kuper PDF

By Simon Kuper

Prime quality worldwide journalism calls for funding. Please proportion this text with others utilizing the hyperlink under, don't reduce & paste the object. See our T&Cs and Copyright coverage for extra element. e mail ftsales.support@ft.com to shop for extra rights. https://www.ft.com/content/fc390d8a-7d61-11de-b8ee-00144feabdc0 a long time in the past I ran into Michel Platini, the French midfielder, in a Brussels lodge hall. In my most sensible schoolboy French i wanted him strong success within the significant online game, an delivering which the curly-haired maestro greeted with predictable disdain. this day, Platini is much less curly-haired, and could be top often called the English most popular League's largest critic. As president of UEFA, Platini believes the wealthy "Big 4" English golf equipment are ruining the game with cash-fuelled successes at the box that make soccer boringly predictable. such a lot observers suppose that every one good soccer lovers trust him. The final 14 Premiership titles were received via both Manchester United (9 wins), Arsenal (3) or Chelsea (2). In that point basically Liverpool - the ultimate member of the massive 4 - has heavily challenged the name. This dominance is uninteresting and is placing fanatics off the sport, or so the argument is going. This, after all, is nonsense. I say "of path" simply because i have learn Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski's new ebook Why England Lose & different Curious soccer Phenomena defined. It demolishes Platini's idea and lots of different football shibboleths via utilising the rigorous common sense of statistical analytics and mathematical theorem to questions equivalent to "Are consequences unfair?" and "Which nation on this planet loves soccer the most?" So, ask Kuper and Szymanski, if predictable effects bored lovers, why do not extra of them visit suits the place the result of the result's doubtful? utilizing the unique suggestion of really learning attendance figures, the duo turn out that enthusiasts want unbalanced leagues. Why? Unbalanced leagues offer you David v Goliath contests, which fanatics love; dominant groups have c

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Download Frommer's Ireland 2007 (Frommer's Complete) by Christi Daugherty PDF

By Christi Daugherty

Adventure a spot the best way the locals do. benefit from the top it has to supply. Frommer's. the simplest journeys begin the following. eire is without doubt one of the such a lot old and most up-to-date international locations in Europe. Our writer publications you to the easiest of the outdated and new at the Emerald Isle. Outspoken evaluations on what is worthy a while and what is no longer. specified costs, so that you can plan the correct journey no matter what your finances. Off-the-beaten-path stories and undiscovered gem stones, plus new takes on best sights.

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Download Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson PDF

By Bill Bryson

"Suddenly, within the house of a second, i spotted what it was once that I enjoyed approximately Britain-which is to claim, all of it."

After approximately 20 years spent on British soil, invoice Bryson-bestsellingauthor of the mum Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the U.S.. ("I had lately read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million american citizens believed they had been kidnapped via extraterrestrial beings at one time or another,so it was once transparent that my humans wanted me.") yet earlier than departing, he set out ona grand farewell journey of the golf green and kindly island that had see you later been his home.

Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and again back, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt round the unprecedented floating kingdom that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and areas with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. the result's an uproarious social observation that conveys the real glory of england, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.
"Suddenly, within the house of a second, i noticed what it used to be that I enjoyed approximately Britain-which is to claim, all of it."
After approximately twenty years spent on British soil, invoice Bryson-bestselling writer of ,i>The mom Tongue</i> and Made in America-decided to come to the U.S.. ("I had lately read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million americans believed they'd been kidnapped via extraterrestrial beings at one time or one other, so it used to be transparent that my humans wanted me.") yet ahead of departing, he set out on a grand farewell journey of the fairway and kindly island that had goodbye been his domestic.
Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and again back, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt round the exceptional floating country that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and areas with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. the result's an uproarious social statement that conveys the genuine glory of england, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.

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Download The Angry Brigade: A History of Britain's First Urban by Gordon Carr PDF

By Gordon Carr

In response to vast examine, this booklet is still the basic examine of the offended Brigade, a gaggle of city guerillas, who, between 1970 and 1972, used weapons and bombs on embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and military barracks, boutiques and factories, govt departments, and the houses of cupboard ministers in addition the legal professional normal and the commissioner of the metropolitan police. An avalanche of police raids undefined, culminating within the "Stoke Newington eight" conspiracy trial—the longest legal trial in British criminal history—which is throughly mentioned during this volume. Updated with a comprehensive chronology of the "Angry Decade" and new illustrations, this re-creation additionally provides introductions by means of Stuart Christie and John Barker, of the defendants, who speak about the political and social context of the movement and its long term importance.

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