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The Golden Age: Nostalgia in Word and Image
PreviewIn Alastair Bellany's words, 'the political elite [. ... taken by 2 Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern Englandࣟ: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1666 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 86.
Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics ...
Peter LakeIn making these claims I am drawing on work by Pauline Croft on the libels consequent upon the death of Robert Cecil,14 and by Tom Cogswell, Andrew McRae, and Alastair Bellany on libels more generally construed,15 by Bellany again on ...
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News ...
Alastair BellanyThis is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder.
The Murder of King James I
Alastair BellanyIlluminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
PreviewKenneth Fincham and Peter Lake, 'Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself', EHR, 1 (1996): 856–81. The 'poisoning of James I' is the subject of important new work by Alastair Bellany and Tom Cogswell, ...
Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, ...
Andrew CambersAs Alastair Bellany has shown, a libel was attached to the hearse of the late Archbishop Whitgift – a satirical attack on anti-puritan policies in a space usually reserved for congratulatory verse. It was written (or at least copied) by the ...
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642
Tim Harris1628)', ODNB; Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, England's Assas- sin: John Felton and the Killing of the Duke ofBuckingham (forthcoming). Clarendon, History, I, 37–8; TNA, PRO, SP 16/117, fol. 120. Samuel R. Gardiner, A History ...
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici
Una McIlvennaSee, for example, Alastair Bellany, ' “Railing Rhymes and Vaunting Verse”: Libellous Politics in Early Stuart England, 1603–28', Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England, eds. Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), ...
Roy Lichtenstein (Penguin Special): How Modern Art Was Saved ...
Alastair SookeWhat do his paintings really tell us? And what is his legacy? This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, is a perfect introduction to the artist and his work.
Managing the Brief For Better Design
Alastair BlythBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blyth, Alastair, 1958- Managing the brief for better design / Alastair Blyth ...
Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far
Alastair CookGraham Gooch was head coach, leading some great players and big personalities, including Andy Flower and Ronnie Irani. It meant a lot to me to open the batting for Essex with Will Jefferson, with whom I had spent so much time in our ...
Henri Matisse: A Second Life
Alastair SookeTheir medium? Coloured paper and scissors. This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, focuses on Matisse's extraordinary final decade, which he called 'a second life', after he had returned from the grave.
Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in ...
PreviewThe Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, second report (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 580 and passim. See: Alastair Northedge, 'Survey of the terrace area at Amman citadel', Levantxii (1980), pp. 150 ff.; Alastair Northedge, 'The Qasr of Amman', ...
Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social ...
Blyth AlastairTeachers noted that they feel safer after the refurbishment. The roofing has an 8- year warranty. Photo 3: example of outdoor education spaces. © Alastair Blyth School Esperanza Villasana Heredia José Maria Pino Suarez, Alvaro Obregon,.
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature
Alastair FowlerIn this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself.
Pop Art: A Colourful History
Alastair SookePop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement.
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