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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2001The boxmaker's revenge
'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the politics of the parish in early Stuart London
by Peter Lake, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640. Through Denison the book analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. Through Etherington, it eavesdrops on a London puritan underground that has remained largely hidden from view and which, while it was related to, indeed, parasitic upon, was not coterminous with, the order and orthodoxy-centred puritanism of Stephen Denison. By placing the Denison/Etherington dispute in its multiple contexts, the book becomes a study of puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute; of lay clerical relations and of the politics of the parish; and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2012Brave community
by John Gurney, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2010Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
by John Walter, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2007Brave community
by John Gurney, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2007Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
by John Walter, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2002Leicester and the court
Essays on Elizabethan politics
by Simon Adams, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most important essays looking at the Elizabethan Court, and the adventures and legacy of the Earl. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published much upon on Leicester's influence and activities. His work has reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. This volume will be essential reading for academics and students interested in the Elizabethan Court and in early modern British politics more generally. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2007Black Tom
by Andrew Hopper, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2000Londinopolis
Essays in the cultural and social history of Early Modern London c. 1500– c.1750
by Paul Griffiths, Peter Lake, Mark Jenner, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Events such as the fire of London and the Plague, and locations like the Globe, are part of our 'national heritage' however until recently the history of London between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. As a city London underwent exceptional changes - its population soared from around 50,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and by 1700 it was nearly half a million. Covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption the book encounters thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, 'great quantities of gooseberry pye' and the very taxing question of fresh water. Focuses on the experiences and perceptions of Londoners, rather than giving an account of a depersonalized and disembodied thing called "London". Will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of London or in the social and cultural history of early modern society. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2007Black Tom
by Andrew Hopper, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2012The politics of the public sphere in early modern England
Public Persons and Popular Spirits
by Peter Lake, Peter Lake, Steve Pincus, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book uses the notion of the public sphere to produce a new view of the history of England in the post reformation period, tracing its themes from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. The contributors, who are all leaders in their own fields, bring a diverse range of approaches to bear on the central theme. The book aims to put the results of some of the most innovative and exciting work in the field before the reader in accessible form. Each chapter stands alone in representing an important contribution to its own area of study and sub-period as well as to the overall argument of the book. Politics, culture and religion all feature prominently in the resulting analysis, which should be of interest to students and academics of early modern English history and literature. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2001Aspects of English Protestantism C.1530–1700
by Nicholas Tyacke, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689. For this collection the author has written a substantial introduction, and updated the essays by incorporating new research. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2001Cromwell's major-generals
Godly government during the English Revolution
by Christopher Durston, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
The first full-scale study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during 1655 and 1656. This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day. Contains chapters on the three most important aspects of the major-generals' work: the collection of the decimation tax; the attempt to improve the security of the regime; and the struggle to build the 'Godly Nation'. Concludes with an investigation of the 1656 election and the major-generals subsequent unexpected fall from power. Fills a major gap in the historiography of Cromwellian England. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2007Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
by Anthony Milton, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2011This England
by Patrick Collinson, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016News and rumour in Jacobean England
by David Coast, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2007
Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
by Anthony Milton, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2008Political passions
Gender, the family and political argument in England, 1680–1714
by Rachel Weil, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested. Using sources that range from high political theory to scurrilous lampoons, she considers public debates about succession, resistance and divorce. Weil examines the allegedly fraudulent birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688, the uses to which Williamite propagandists put the image of the paradoxically sovereign but obedient Mary II, anxieties about the influence of bedchamber women on Queen Anne, the political self-image of the notorious Duchess of Marlborough, the relationship of feminism and Tory ideology in the polemical writings of Mary Astell and the scandal novels of Delariviere Manley. Solidly grounded in current historical scholarship, but written in an engaging manner accessible to non-specialists, this book will interest students of literature, gender studies, political culture and political theory as well as historians. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017Literature and politics in the English Reformation
by Tom Betteridge, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Tourism industrySeptember 2015Risk and Safety Management in the Leisure, Events, Tourism and Sports Industries
by Mark Piekarz, Ian Jenkins, Peter Mills
The management of risk and safety is not simply a matter of trying to remove risks, but is necessary and vital to these industries. Sensible risk management is concerned with making the most of the positive opportunities or reducing the negative risks. This books shows how the absence of explicit risk practices is not necessarily an absence of risk management, and how many existing operational and strategic practices can be understood as part of a process of risk and safety management. Its main objective is to develop greater clarity in the communication of risks and the development of safety programmes, illustrating how organisations can use a single language of risk, relevant for all levels of management and areas of operation.
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July 1976Spectaculum 24
Fünf moderne Theaterstücke
by Thomas Bernhard, Bertolt Brecht, Mark Medoff, Sean O'Casey, Peter Weiss, Maik Hamburger
Thomas Bernhard, 1931 in Heerlen (Niederlande) geboren, starb im Februar 1989 in Gmunden (Oberösterreich). Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftstellern und wurde unter anderem 1970 mit dem Georg-Büchner-Preis und 1972 mit dem Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet. Der Suhrkamp Verlag publiziert eine Werkausgabe in 22 Bänden. Bertolt Brecht wurde am 10. Februar 1898 in Augsburg geboren und starb am 14. August 1956 in Berlin. Von 1917 bis 1918 studierte er an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Naturwissenschaften, Medizin und Literatur. Sein Studium musste er allerdings bereits im Jahr 1918 unterbrechen, da er in einem Augsburger Lazarett als Sanitätssoldat eingesetzt wurde. Bereits während seines Studiums begann Brecht Theaterstücke zu schreiben. Ab 1922 arbeitete er als Dramaturg an den Münchener Kammerspielen. Von 1924 bis 1926 war er Regisseur an Max Reinhardts Deutschem Theater in Berlin. 1933 verließ Brecht mit seiner Familie und Freunden Berlin und flüchtete über Prag, Wien und Zürich nach Dänemark, später nach Schweden, Finnland und in die USA. Neben Dramen schrieb Brecht auch Beiträge für mehrere Emigrantenzeitschriften in Prag, Paris und Amsterdam. 1948 kehrte er aus dem Exil nach Berlin zurück, wo er bis zu seinem Tod als Autor und Regisseur tätig war. Peter Weiss wurde am 8. November 1916 in Nowawes bei Berlin geboren und starb am 10. Mai 1982 in Stockholm. Zwischen 1918 und 1929 lebte er in Bremen, wo er das Gymnasium besuchte. 1929 kehrte die Familie Weiss nach Berlin zurück, musste jedoch 1934 emigrieren. Die erste Station bildete London, darauf folgte 1936 die SR. In diesen Jahren widmete sich Peter Weiss vorwiegend der Malerei – 1937/1938 studierte er Malerei an der Kunstakademie in Prag. In dieser Zeit besuchte er Hermann Hesse während zweier längerer Aufenthalte in der Schweiz. Die dritte und letzte Emigrationsstation bildete 1939 Schweden, wo Peter Weiss zunächst in Alingsås, ab 1940 in Stockholm wohnte. Hier setzte er seine Tätigkeit als Maler fort. 1947 hielt er sich als Korrespondent einer schwedischen Tagesszeitung in Berlin auf. Seine Artikel versammelte er 1948 zu seiner ersten Buchpublikation. Der Band erschien posthum 1985 unter dem Titel Die Besiegten. Ab diesem Zeitraum entstanden, in schwedischer Sprache, die ersten Prosaarbeiten, Gedichte, und Dramen. Zu den wichtigsten Erzählungen aus dieser Schaffensperiode zählen Die Situation aus dem Jahre 1956 sowie das 1980 unter dem Autorenpseudonym Sinclair veröffentlichte Buch Der Fremde. Keines seiner Manuskripte wurde jedoch von einem schwedischen Verlag zur Publikation angenommen. Mitte der fünfziger Jahre begann Peter Weiss in deutscher Sprache zu schreiben. 1960 erschien sein erstes Prosabuch Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers. Zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre wand sich Peter Weiss wieder der Prosa zu. Zwischen 1975 und 1981 erschien der dreibändige Roman Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, deren letzter Band begleitet wird von Notizbücher 1971 – 1980. Ihm wurde posthum der Georg-Büchner-Preis für das Jahr 1982 zuerkannt.
