A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of hist. English Pages [] Year The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impact on the people of T. An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of Englis.
A revised and updated version of Brooke's work "The Monastic World". This comprehensive study of me. Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers. By ,. Scobie and G. Greenlee and Charles M. Noll, editors 14 Children of Peace W. It also acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program.
Monasticism and religious orders for women — France — History. Most particularly, she thanks him for the many patient hours he has spent bringing order and meaning to her data. She thanks the editor of the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History for agreeing to the inclusion in the book of material previously published in that journal. Finally, she would like to express her lifelong gratitude to Beatrice Binney, rscj, a wonderful history teacher, to whose memory she dedicates this work.
Helyot, Dictionnaire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires Paris: N. Gosselin, — ,vol. My English ancestors lived in Huntingdonshire, one of the most Puritan of counties, and their allegiance was to Oliver Cromwell.
A sort of residual loyalty, then, gives me my excuse for starting with a story about Cromwell. Having risen to power, he needed to do the right thing and pose for a portrait. But while the portrait was necessary, the flattery that customarily went into it was not. In that respect, Cromwell was not like most other great men. This would not have been their first choice, which would be no portrait at all; for they wished to live in obscurity.
