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Free Download Robert J. Knecht, "Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France "
English | ISBN: 1472461495 | 2015 | 354 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ‘noble’ and ‘great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present volume brings together seventeen articles by Robert Knecht published over several decades on particular aspects of the reign, with three specially translated from French into English. They examine the period in more depth than was possible in the author’s 1994 biography of Francis I, and include studies of the Concordat of 1516 with the papacy, the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, the lit-de-justice of 1527, and the visit to France of the Emperor Charles V in 1540. Other articles consider the king’s attitude to the Reformation, his court, his relations with Paris and visits to Aquitaine, his patronage of architecture as demonstrated by his building of the château of Fontainebleau, and his relations with his mother, Louise of Savoy, and sister, Marguerite d’Angoulême. The king’s love of books and the political advice he received from scholars are also considered as well as the extent of his ‘absolutism’. Two articles compare the English and French Reformations and the nobilities of the two countries. The volume is intended as a contribution to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Francis I’s accession. (CS1055).

Free Download Anne Middleton, "Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History "
English | ISBN: 1409444929 | 2013 | 302 pages | EPUB, PDF | 447 KB + 4 MB
Anne Middleton’s essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their ‘crux-busting’ energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: ‘The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,’ ‘Chaucer’s ‘New Men’ and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,’ ‘The Physician’s Tale and Love’s Martyrs: ‘Ensamples Mo than Ten’ as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,’ ‘The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts,’ ‘Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman,’ ‘Making a Good End: John But as a Reader of Piers Plowman,’ ‘William Langland’s ‘Kynde Name’: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England,’ ‘Life in the Margins, or, What’s an Annotator to Do?’ It includes one essay previously unpublished, ‘Playing the Plowman: Legends of Fourteenth-Century Authorship.’

Free Download Victoria Walker, "Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1474478948 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 460 KB
This first book-length study of Anna Kavan’s writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan’s fiction as pivotal to understanding trends of experimentalism that emerged across the middle of the twentieth century, it offers close readings of her distinctive prose including her early Helen Ferguson texts, her writing of asylum incarceration, her wartime stories, and her postwar novels. Observing how her fiction challenges perceived divisions between experimental and realist writing, literary and popular genre and (late) modernist and postwar literatures, it focuses on the ways that Kavan’s writing undermines fixed or knowable identity and explores the relationship between reality and fiction. This study not only brings necessary attention to a neglected writer, but also suggests new taxonomies for reading experimental fiction in the mid-twentieth century.

Free Download Charles O. Oyaya, Nana Poku, "The Making of the Constitution of Kenya: A Century of Struggle and the Future of Constitutionalism"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1472474562 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.0 mb
Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises. The first related to the trauma of colonialism and struggle for independence. The second a period of constitutional dictatorship and the clamor for reform. The third, most recent crisis, being one of identity, legitimacy and the inability of the state to discharge its functions which has resulted in civil unrest, violent ethnic conflicts, poverty, social exclusion and inequality.

Free Download Chris Wickham, Inge Lyse Hansen, "The Long Eighth Century"
English | 2000 | pages: 199 | ISBN: 9004117237 | PDF | 177,3 mb
The eighth century has not been analysed as a period of economic history since the 1930s, and is ripe for a comprehensive reassessment. The twelve papers in this book range over the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean from Denmark to Palestine, covering Francia, Italy and Byzantium on the way. They examine regional economies and associated political structures, that is to say the whole network of production, exchange, and social relations in each area. They offer both authoritative overviews of current work and new and original work. As a whole, they show how the eighth century was the first century when the post-Roman world can clearly be seen to have emerged, in the regional economies of each part of Europe.

Free Download White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1982159189 | 403 pages | PDF | 44 Mb
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Free Download Chris Stray, "Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0906014239 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 4.7 mb
Eight essays from a Cambridge seminar held in 1996. Contributors are: Christopher Stray (The First Century of the Classical Tripos, 1822-1922); Robert Todd (Henry Sidgwick and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years 1866-69); Pat Easterling (The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play); Claire Breay (Women and the Classical Tripos 1869-1914); Judith Raphaely (Nothing but gibberish and shibboleths: the compulsory Greek debates 1870-1919); Mary Beard (The Invention of ‘Group D’: An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos 1879-1984); David Gill (Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum); John Crook and Joyce Reynolds (The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club).

Free Download Luigi Gussago, "A Century of Italian War Narratives: Voices from the Sidelines"
English | ISBN: 9004541101 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The volume explores Italian war narratives from the perspective of individuals largely excluded from the pages of official history: female partisans, deserters, POWs, and satirists among others. These unsung heroes’ actions offer novel insights into the contradictions of warfare rhetoric.

Free Download Dave Sloggett, "A Century of Air Warfare: The Changing Face of Warfare 1912-2012"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 178159192X | EPUB | pages: 240 | 4.7 mb
No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. From its early beginnings as simply a means of aerial reconnaissance to its utter supremacy on the battlefield, the aircraft has evolved into the most versatile and precise killing machine known to man.

Free Download Cynthia Vich, Sarah Barrow, "Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds"
English | 2020 | pages: 359 | ISBN: 3030525147б 3030525112 | PDF | 4,7 mb
This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years ofPeruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context.