The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character, Fleming James Dougal
Автор: Fleming Название: The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 3319403001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319403007 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a 'real' or 'universal' character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information—what has been called the infosphere.
Автор: Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree Название: News, Business and Public Information: Advertisements and Announcements in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers, 1620-1675 ISBN: 9004420827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004420823 Издательство: Brill Цена: 264320.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The history of newspaper advertising began in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The newspaper publishers of the Dutch Republic were the first to embrace advertisements, decades before their peers in other news markets in Europe. In this survey, Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree have brought together the first 6,000 advertisements placed in Dutch and Flemish newspapers between 1620 and 1675. Provided here in an English translation, and accompanied by seven indices, this work provides for the first time a complete overview of the development of newspaper advertising and its impact on the Dutch book trade, economy and society. In these evocative announcements, ranging from advertisement for library auctions, the publication of new books, pamphlets and maps to notices of crime, postal schedules or missing pets, the seventeenth century is brought to life. This survey offers a unique perspective on daily life, personal relationships and societal change in the Dutch Golden Age.
Автор: H. S. Jones Название: Intellect and Character in Victorian England ISBN: 0521876052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521876056 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first full-length study of a distinguished Victorian intellectual who stood at the epicentre of the revolutions that transformed English academic and intellectual life in the nineteenth century: the secularisation of thought, the emergence of the academic profession, and the challenges posed by the German idea of the research university.
Автор: Randolph C. Head Название: Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400–1700 ISBN: 1108473784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108473781 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 111930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing on a wide range of archives, from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin, this detailed comparative study shows how recorded political knowledge was understood, organised and managed in chancelleries and repositories across Western Europe from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
Автор: O`Day Rosemary Название: An Elite Family in Early Modern England ISBN: 178327087X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783270873 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides a full, detailed picture of the life of an aristocratic family in early modern England.
Название: Anglo-saxon england ISBN: 110849935X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108499354 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh to the eleventh century. The study of a fragment of a tenth-century sacramentary offers new evidence for the role of music in Anglo-Saxon England, while consideration of charter-evidence in both Latin and Old English from Worcester c.870 to 992 sheds fresh light on institutional interaction between the two main languages of Anglo-Saxon England. Two contributions consider Beowulf and its immediate manuscript-context, the first focusing on the spellings of the second scribe, and the next on the later history of the manuscript into the sixteenth century, facilitating its survival to this day. Finally, a detailed study of English landed society before and after the Norman Conquest has resulted in new perspectives on landed wealth in England in 1066 and 1086. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
Автор: Richard W. Hoyle Название: The Farmer in England, 1650-1980 ISBN: 1409439615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409439615 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented.
Автор: Adrian Wilson Название: Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England ISBN: 1409468127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409468127 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the `ceremony of childbirth`, the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this.
Автор: Lloyd Bonfield Название: Devising, Dying and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early Modern England ISBN: 1409434273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409434276 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focusing on property law as reflected in cases of disputed wills, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into English seventeenth-century society. As well as charting shifting conceptions of property and inheritance law, accounts taken from the numerous cases quoted offer a poignant reminder of how the law had to cope with difficult situations affecting real lives.
Автор: Jennifer C. Vaught Название: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England ISBN: 1409432084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409432081 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. This title demonstrates how these texts were used - and misused - by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South.
Автор: Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, John Walter Название: Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England ISBN: 1783270179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783270170 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.
