Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace's Roman de Rou (c. 1160–1174) and Beno?t de Sainte-Maure’s Chronique des ducs de Normandie (c. 1174–1189). In both cases, Henry adopted the new genre of vernacular historical writing in Old French verse in an effort to disseminate a royalist version of the past that would help secure a grip on power for himself and his children. Wace was the first to be commissioned, but in 1174 the king abruptly fired him, turning the task over to Beno?t de Sainte-Maure.Urbanski examines these histories as part of a single enterprise intended to cement the king’s authority by enhancing the prestige of Henry II’s dynasty. In a close reading of Wace’s Rou, she shows that it presented a less than flattering picture of Henry’s predecessors, in effect challenging his policies and casting a shadow over the legitimacy of his rule. Beno?t de Sainte-Maure’s Chronique, in contrast, mounted a staunchly royalist defense of Anglo-Norman kingship. Urbanski reads both works in the context of Henry’s reign, arguing that as part of his drive to curb baronial power he sought a history that would memorialize his dynasty and solidify its claim to England and Normandy.
Автор: Urbanski, Kimberly Buescher Название: Second language literacy pedagogy ISBN: 1800417632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781800417632 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 53800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Urbanski, Jan Permuth, Steve Название: Truth about bullying ISBN: 160709410X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607094104 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 159110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book includes a straightforward yet comprehensive approach to bullying prevention and intervention outlining the role of the educator, the parent, the community, and the student. Each chapter concludes with action steps and questions to generate discussion providing all that is needed for a successful prevention program.
Автор: Oldman, Gary,Urbanski, Douglas Название: Blood Riders ISBN: 0751562181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751562187 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The second razor-sharp thriller by the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Gray Man.
Автор: Oldman, Gary,Urbanski, Douglas Название: Blood Riders ISBN: 075156219X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751562194 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 14160.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The second razor-sharp thriller by the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Gray Man.
Автор: Oldman, Gary,Urbanski, Douglas Название: Blood Riders ISBN: 0751562211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751562217 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 8090.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The second razor-sharp thriller by the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Gray Man.
Автор: Urbanski, Debbie Название: After World ISBN: 1668023458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781668023457 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 21450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Buescher, Susan Название: Unicorn pizza party ISBN: 1684620694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684620692 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Buescher, Susan Название: Cute baby animals ISBN: 1684620686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684620685 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of “spirit machines,” and advocate of free love. In his captivating biography, John Buescher brings to life Spear's superlatively odd story. While no photograph or engraving of Spear exists, and his letters and personal papers are scarce, Buescher recreates in this book a sympathetic, even heroic, figure who spent the most energetic decades of his career absent, in a sense, from his own life, displaced by other spirits.
Born in 1804, John Murray Spear started his career as a Universalist minister. He later was a close colleague of William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Parker in the abolitionist movement, an operator on the underground railroad in Boston, an influential leader in the effort to end the death penalty and to reform prison conditions, and a public advocate of the causes of pacifism, women's rights, labor reform, and socialism. Buescher chronicles Spear's work as an activist among the New England reformers and Transcendentalists such as Bronson Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, and Dorothea Dix.
In mid-life Spear turned to the new revelation of spiritualism and came under the thrall of what he believed were spirit messages. Spear's spirits dictated that he and a small group of associates embark on plans for a perpetual motion machine, an electric ship propelled by psychic batteries, a vehicle that would levitate in the air, and a sewing machine that would work with no hands. As Buescher documents, Spear's spirit-guided efforts to harness technology to human liberation—sexual and otherwise—were far stranger than anyone outside his closest associates imagined, and were aimed at the eventual manufacturing of human beings and the improvement of the race. Buescher also examines the way in which Spear's story was minimized by his embarrassed fellow radicals. In the last years of his life, retired by the spirits and regarded by fellow Gilded Age progressives as a visitor from another age, if not another planet, Spear helped organize support for anarchist, socialist, peace, and labor causes. Buescher portrays Spear's life as an odd mixture of comic absurdity and serious foreshadowing of the future—for both good and ill—that provides us with a unique perspective on nineteenth-century American religious and social life.
Автор: Buescher, John B. Название: Echoes From Empty Sky ISBN: 1559392207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781559392204 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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