Author: John Berger File Type: epub Bergers modern classic updated with glorious photos.John Berger has spent a lifetime experimenting with new ways of storytelling, often using both words and images as in books such as Another Way of Telling and A Fortunate Man, where he worked with photographer Jean Mohr, and in his world-renowned Ways of Seeing. Now, together with artist-photographer Patricia MacDonald, the beautiful love story found in his earlier collection, Once in Europa, is retold, in an emotionally and visually stunning combination. Macdonalds powerful images, made from the air and close to the ground, and containing many layers of meaning, create a landscape and a weather for this contemporary classic.

Author: Louise Hill Curth File Type: pdf This book is about medical beliefs and practices for animals in early modern England. Although there are numerous texts on human health, this is the first to focus exclusively on animals during this period. For most academics, the foundation of the London Veterinary College in 1791 marks the beginning of modern veterinary medicine, with the period before unworthy of serious study. In fact, there is ample evidence of how the importance of animals resulted in a highly complex system of both preventative and remedial care.This book is divided into sections which start by setting the scene with an overview of animals in early modern England and the contemporary principles behind health and illness. It moves onto an examination of the medical marketplace and printed literature on animal health care, followed by an in-depth look at preventative and remedial methods. It ends by addressing the question of what impact, if any, new colleges had on veterinary beliefs and practices.

Author: Peter Lake File Type: pdf Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her case was comparable to those of other separatist females who were in trouble with the law at the same time, in particular Anne Foster, also of York. In doing so, they shed new light on the fascinating stories of these unruly women whose fates have been excluded from Catholic and women narratives of the period. The result is a work which considers the questions of religious sainthood and martyrdom through a gender lens, providing important insights into the relationship between society, the state and the church in Britain during the 16th century. This is a major contribution to our understanding of both English Catholicism and the Protestant regime of the Elizabethan period.Review New archival resources, a deeper contextualization in contemporary case studies, and a keen attention to the roles played by early modern women, government, and religious memorial make this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow essential to our understanding of a pivotal time in English reformation history. Lori Anne Ferrell, John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Claremont Graduate University, USA A major achievement. The Times Literary Supplement[A] lively new book [with] compelling ideas at play... while this is a work that will resonate with Tudor historians, it is as interesting to a lay reader. Literary Review Essential reading for anybody engaged in, or embarking on, the study of post-Reformation Catholicism and, by extension, the English Reformation as a whole. English Historical ReviewIn this superb display of historical imagination Peter Lake and Michael Questier demonstrate how one horrendous event - the pressing to death of a Catholic woman, Margaret Clitherow, at York in March 1586 - can be suggestive of a great deal about the community and state in which it occurred. Journal of the Northern Renaissance About the Author Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, USA. He is the author of many books, including Bad Queen Bess? Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (2015), Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England A Northamptonshire Maids Tragedy (2015 with Isaac Stephens) and The Anti-Christs Lewd Hat Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England (2002 with Michael Questier).Michael Questier is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the editor of Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation (2010 with G. Crosignani and T. McCoog), and the author of Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625 (2009) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 (2006).

Author: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos File Type: pdf Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study traces Pounds intimate engagement with specific occultists (W.B. Yeats, Allen Upward, Alfred Orage, and G.R.S. Mead) and their ideas. The author argues that speculative occultism was a major factor in the evolution of Pounds extraordinary aesthetic and religious sensibility, much noticed in Pound criticism. The discussion falls into two sections. The first section details Pounds interest in particular occult movements. It describes the tradition of Hellenistic occultism from Eleusis to the present, and establishes that Pounds contact with the occult began at least as early as his undergraduate years and that he came to London already primed on the occult. Many of his London acquaintances were unquestionably occultists. The second section outlines a tripartite schema for The Cantos (katabasisdromenaepopteia) which, in turn, is applied to the poem. It is argued here that The Cantos is structured on the model of a initiation rather than a journey, and that the poem does not so much describe an initiation rite as enact one for the reader. In exploring and attempting to understand Pounds occultism and its implications to his [Pounds] oeuvre, Tryphonopoulos sheds new light upon one of the great works of modern Western literature. **