Music 109 : notes on experimental music by Lucier, Alvin

Table of Contents: “…Symphony -- Studio fonologico -- Indeterminacy -- Graphic notation -- Town hall -- Rose Art Museum -- Cage and Tudor -- Sonic Arts Union -- Bell Labs -- Lenses, intervals -- Tape recorders -- Repetition -- Prose -- The piano -- Long string instrument -- Recordings -- Opera -- Words -- Voices -- String quartets.…”
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Local landmark.

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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable. by Smith, Lacey Baldwin

Table of Contents: “…More Memorable History (1485 to 1964); Henry VII, The First of the Tudors (1485-1509); Henry VIII and the Reconstruction of England (1509-1547); The Little Tudors (1547-1558); Elizabeth I, The "Unlooked-for Miracle" (1558-1603); The Gentry; Hot and Cold War (1567-1603); James I and VI or Mary Stuart's Revenge (1603-1625); The Planting of Colonies; Charles I-A Better Martyr than Monarch (1625-1649).…”
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The National Archives.

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A short history of Ireland. by Ranelagh, John O'Beirne

Table of Contents: “…Cover; A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the updated edition; Preface to the third edition; CHAPTER 1 Beginnings; GAELS; PATRICK; VIKINGS; ENGLISH; CHAPTER 2 Ascendancy; TUDORS; PLANTATION; CROMWELL; PENAL TIMES; '98; CHAPTER 3 Union; O'CONNELL; YOUNG IRELAND; FAMINE; FENIANS; CHAPTER 4 Home rule?…”
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The growth of English schooling, 1340-1548 : learning, literacy, and laicization in Pre-Reformation York Diocese by Moran Cruz, Jo Ann Hoeppner

Table of Contents: “…Medieval and early Tudor education and literacy : the debates -- Elementary and grammar education in late medieval England -- Scholars, schoolmasters, and schools -- The schools of York Diocese -- Church and educational change -- Literacy and the laicization of education -- Literary interests and educational motivations in York Diocese -- Appendix A : the testamentary sources used in the study -- Appendix B : Schools within the Diocese of York.…”
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Humanism and America : an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625 by Fitzmaurice, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The moral philosophy of Tudor colonisation; CHAPTER 3 The moral philosophy of Jacobean colonisation; CHAPTER 4 Rhetoric -- 'not the Words, but the Acts'; CHAPTER 5 Law and history; CHAPTER 6 The Machiavellian argument for colonial possession; CHAPTER 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Renaissance war studies by Hale, J. R. (John Rigby), 1923-1999

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Athens, Rome, and England : America's Constitutional Heritage. by Pauley, Matthew A.

Table of Contents: “…Part Three: The English Constitution and English Common Law8 The Importance and Origins of the English Constitution; 9 English Law from the Conquest to Magna Carta, 1066-1215; 10 From Magna Carta to the Origins of Parliament; 11 Henry VII and the Foundations of Tudor Constitutionalism; 12 Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, and the Tudor Constitutional Revolution; 13 James I and the Start of the English Constitutional Crisis of the Seventeenth Century; 14 From Civil War to Glorious Revolution; 15 From Classical and Common Law Background to American Constitutionalism; Conclusion; Notes; Index.…”
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Primary history.

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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England. by Brooks, Christopher W.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; 1 English history and the history of English law 1485-1642; 2 Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors; 3 The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome; 4 Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century; 5 The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c. 1610; 6 The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority.…”
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Alien Albion : literature and immigration in early modern England by Oldenburg, Scott K., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: forms of multiculturalims in early modern England -- From the Dutch acrobat to Hance Beerport: multicultural mid-Tudor England -- The rhetoric of religious refuge under Elizabeth I -- Artisanal tolerance: the case of Thomas Deloney -- Language and labour in Thomas Dekker's provincial globalism -- The "jumbled" city: The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money -- Shakespeare, the foreigner -- Conclusion: the return of Hans Beer-pot.…”
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Against all England : regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 by Barrett, Robert W., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life -- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays -- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial -- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial -- Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.…”
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Women and Work in Pre-industrial England

Table of Contents: “…'Churmaids, huswyfes and hucksters' : the employment of women in Tudor and Stuart Salisbury / Sue Wright -- 4. 'Words they are women, and deeds they are men' : images of work and gender in early modern England / Michael Roberts -- 5. …”
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Against all England : regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 by Barrett, Robert W., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life -- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays -- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial -- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial -- Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.…”
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The Debate on the English Reformation by O'Day, Rosemary

Table of Contents: “…Historiography contemporary to the English Reformation, 1525-70 -- Interpretations of the Reformation from Fuller to Strype -- Historians and contemporary politics, 1780-1850 -- The Church of England in crisis: the Reformation heritage -- The Tudor revolution in religion: the twentieth-century debate -- The Reformation and the people: discovery -- The Church: how it changed -- The debate in the age of peer review -- The place of the Reformation in modern biography, fiction and the media -- Conclusion: Reformation: reformulation, reiteration and reflection.…”
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London: A short history of the greatest city in the western world, Parts I & II. by Bucholz, Robert

Table of Contents: “…There's no place like London -- The rise and fall of Roman Londinium -- Medieval London's thousand-year climb -- Economic life in Chaucer's London -- Politics and religion in Chaucer's London -- London embraces the early Tudors -- Disc 2. Elizabeth I and London as a stage -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- East -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- West -- London rejects the early Stuarts -- Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th century London -- Plague and fire.…”
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Trust and Proof : Translators in Renaissance Print Culture. by Rizzi, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Translation, Print Technologies, and Modernity: Testing the Grand Narrative -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Translators' Rhetorics: Dedication and Imitatio -- 1 The Social Transmission of Translations in Renaissance Italy: Strategies of Dedication -- 2 Monkey Business: Imitatio and Translators' Visibility in Renaissance Europe -- 3 Rhetorical Ethos and the Translating Self in Early Modern England -- Part 2: Transcultural Translations -- 4 Multi-Version Texts and Translators' Anxieties: Imagined Readers in John Florio's Bilingual Dialogues -- 5 "No Stranger in Foreign Lands": Francisco de Hollanda and the Translation of Italian Art and Art Theory -- 6 Authors, Translators, Printers: Production and Reception of Novels between Manuscript and Print in Fifteenth-Century Germany -- 7 Reframing Idolatry in Zapotec: Dominican Translations of the Christian Doctrine in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca -- Part 3: Women Translating in Renaissance Europe -- 8 Paratextual Economies in Tudor Women's Translations: Margaret More Roper, Mary Roper Basset and Mary Tudor -- 9 Translating Eloquence: History, Fidelity, and Creativity in the Fairy Tales of Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier -- 10 Women Translators and Print Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany -- Conclusion -- Color Plates -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.…”
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The early history of banking in England by Richards, R. D. (Richard David)

Table of Contents: “…The goldsmith bankers and their transactions with the Exchequer -- ch. 4. Tudor and Stuart banking schemes -- ch. 5. The foundation of the Bank of England -- ch. 6. …”
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Rebellion and Riot : Popular Disorder in England during the Reign of Edward VI. by Beer, Barrett

Table of Contents: “…Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface; Chapter 1: Rebellion and Popular Disorder in Tudor England; Chapter 2: The England of Edward VI; Chapter 3: The Western Rebellion; Chapter 4: Robert Kett and the Commotion in Norfolk; Chapter 5: The Pacification of Norfolk; Chapter 6: All Other Parts of the Realm; Chapter 7: London; Chapter 8: The Struggle for Stability; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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Illuminations : private lives of medieval kings. Episode 3, Libraries gave us power by Ramirez, Janina, 1980-

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All wonders in one sight : the Christ child among the Elizabethan and Stuart poets by Kenney, Theresa M.

Table of Contents: “…Sacrament, Time, and Space in the Tudor and Stuart English Nativity Lyric -- The Christ Child on Fire: Southwell's Mighty Babe -- "Kisse Him, and with Him into Egypt Goe": John Donne and the Christ Child of "Nativitie" -- "My Saviour's Face": George Herbert's "Starre" and the Vanishing Christ Child -- "Wisest Fate Says No": Milton's Nativity Ode -- "We Kis't the Cradle of Our King": Affection, Awe, and Abridging the Laws of Time in Crashaw -- Conclusion: The Christ Child: Little Boy Lost.…”
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Nationalism in Ireland by Boyce, David George, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Nationalism and Ireland; Colony and Nation; Intimations of Nationalism in Tudor Ireland; For God, King and Country; From English Colony to Irish Nation: The Protestant Experience; 'The Irish, Properly So Called'; Patterns of Nationalism, 1842 1870; The Making of Parnellism and Its Undoing; The Battle of Three Civilizations; What Home Rule Stood For, 1891 1918; Nationalism, Socialism and the Irish Revolution; State and Nation in Modern Ireland; Conclusion: Ireland and Nationalism; Epilogues: History, Politics and Nationalism.…”
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King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons. Episode 3, Aethelstan : the First King of England

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King and country : England and Wales in the fifteenth century by Griffiths, Ralph A. (Ralph Alan), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Queen Katherine of Valois and a Missing Statute of the Realm; 7. Henry Tudor: The Training of a King; 8. Public and Private Bureaucracies in England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century.…”
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Timber Framed Buildings Explained. by Yorke, Trevor

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Section I: A History of Timber Framed Buildings; Chapter 1: Definition and Origins; Chapter 2: Medieval 1200-1450; Chapter 3: Tudor and Stuart 1450-1700; Chapter 4: Georgian and Modern 1700-2000; Section II: Timber Framed Buildings in Detail; Chapter 5: The Frame Posts, Beams and Trusses; Chapter 6: The Infill Wattle and Daub and Roof Coverings; Chapter 7: The Fittings Windows, Doors and Floors; Further Information; Places to Visit; Glossary; Index.…”
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Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature by Richards, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Types of honesty: civil and domestical conversation; CHAPTER 2 From rhetoric to conversation: reading for Cicero in The Book of the Courtier; CHAPTER 3 Honest rivalries: Tudor humanism and linguistic and social reform; CHAPTER 4 Honest speakers: sociable commerce and civil conversation; CHAPTER 5 A commonwealth of letters: Harvey and Spenser in dialogue; CHAPTER 6 A new poet, a new social economy: homosociality in The Shepheardes Calender; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England by Wood, Andy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; I 1549: The last medieval popular rebellions; II Social conflict and the origins of capitalism in mid-Tudor England; Part I Context; 1 The 1549 rebellions; 2 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549-1553; Part II Political language; 3 Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices; 4 Rebel political language; Part III Consequences; 5 The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.…”
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Secular Cycles. by Turchin, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Table of Units and Currencies; Table of Units and Currencies; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Theoretical Background; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Theoretical Background; Chapter 2: Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150-1485); Chapter 2: Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150-1485); Chapter 3: Early Modern England: The Tudor-Stuart Cycle (1485-1730); Chapter 3: Early Modern England: The Tudor-Stuart Cycle (1485-1730).…”
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Secular Cycles. by Turchin, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Table of Units and Currencies; Table of Units and Currencies; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Theoretical Background; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Theoretical Background; Chapter 2: Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150-1485); Chapter 2: Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150-1485); Chapter 3: Early Modern England: The Tudor-Stuart Cycle (1485-1730); Chapter 3: Early Modern England: The Tudor-Stuart Cycle (1485-1730).…”
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A companion to Renaissance poetry

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Contexts; Transitions and Translations; Chapter 1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry; References; Chapter 2 Translation and Translations; Introduction; Early Developments, Foreign Foundations; Genre and Form; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty; Echo Repetita; Untimely Love or "Spare the Buds"; Notes; References; Further Reading; Religions and Reformations.…”
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David Hume : the philosopher as historian by Phillipson, N. T. (Nicholas T.)

Table of Contents: “…s Agenda for a History of England -- 5 The History of England 1: The Stuarts and the Origins of the Matchless Constitution -- 6 The History of England 2: The Tudors and the Early History of England -- 7 Philosophy, History and The History of England -- Notes and Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K…”
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Bridges Explained : What They Do and How They Work. by Yorke, Trevor

Table of Contents: “…""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Section I""; ""Chapter 1: Building Bridges""; ""Section II""; ""Chapter 2: Roman and Medieval Arched Bridges""; ""Chapter 3: Tudor and Stuart Arched Bridges""; ""Chapter 4: Georgian Arched Bridges""; ""Chapter 5: Cast-Iron, Steel & Concrete Arched Bridges""; ""Section III""; ""Chapter 6: Beam, Truss and Girder Bridges""; ""Chapter 7: Cantilever Bridges""; ""Chapter 8: Suspension Bridges""; ""Chapter 9: Moving Bridges""; ""Section IV""; ""Chapter 10: Viaducts""; ""Chapter 11: Aqueducts""; ""Section V""; ""Bridges to Visit""…”
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Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics by Hadfield, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction: Shakespeare and the Varieties of Early Modern Political Culture; Chapter One: True and False Sovereigns in the English History Plays; Chapter Two: The Power and Rights of the Crown; Chapter Three: Republicanism and Constitutionalism; Chapter Four: Alternative Forms of Government; Chapter Five: The Reality of Jacobean Politics; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX 1 The Plantagenet Dynasty; APPENDIX 2 The Tudor Dynasty; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.…”
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Recycling the Cycle : the City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays. by Mills, David

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PLAY MANUSCRIPTS -- 1 Approaches to Early Drama -- 2 Time and Space in Tudor Chester -- 3 Writing the Record -- 4 A Spectrum of Ceremonial and Entertainment -- 5 The Midsummer Celebrations -- 6 Religious Feasts and Festivals -- 7 Professionalism, Commercialism, and Self-Advertisement -- 8 The Past in the Present: The Text of the Whitsun Plays -- 9 Manuscripts, Scribes, and Owners -- 10 Medievalism and Revival -- POSTSCRIPT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Reading literature historically : drama and poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation by Walker, Greg, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Literature and History: The Risks of Conversation -- Part I: Drama -- Chapter 1 Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance -- Chapter 2 'To Speak before the King, it is no Child's Play': Godly Queen Hester in 1529 -- Chapter 3 Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis -- Part II: Poetry, 1380-1532 -- Chapter 4 Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Chapter 5 The Plowman's Tale and the Politics of 1532: A Cautionary Tale? …”
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The Politics of Female Households : Ladies-in-Waiting Across Early Modern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Tudor England. -- Petticoats and politics: Elisabeth Parr and female agency at the early Elizabethan court / Helen Graham-Matheson -- Jane Dormer's recipe for politics: a refuge household in Spain for Mary Tudor's ladies-in-waiting / Hannah Leah Crumme -- Habsburgs. -- The imperial court in Vienna. -- Ladies-in-waiting at the imperial court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: structures, responsibilities and career patterns / Katrin Keller -- "In service to my lady, the empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria / Vanessa de Cruz Medina -- The court in the Spanish Netherlands. -- Women and the politics of access at the court of Brussels: The infanta Isabella's camareras mayores (1598-1633) / Birgit Houben and Dries Raeymaekers -- Dwarfs-and a loca-as ladies' maids at the Spanish Habsburg courts / Janet Ravenscroft -- France. -- 'A stable of whores'? …”
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This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746 by Carlton, Charles, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Early Tudor warfare, 1485-1558 -- Give me spirit : joining and training -- This happy breed of men : Elizabethan warfare, 1558-1603 -- Why men fought -- Those were golden days : early Stuart warfare, 1603-1639 -- Low intensity combat : campaigning -- All diseas'd : civil wars and commonwealth : events, 1638-1660 -- Talk you of killing : civil wars and commonwealth : impact, 1638-1660 -- High intensity combat : battles and sieges -- Restoration to glorious revolution, 1660-1688 -- The peril of the waters : war at sea -- Let slip the dogs of war : after the Glorious Revolution : 1688-1746 -- The hurlyburly's done : the aftermath of combat.…”
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This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746 by Carlton, Charles, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Early Tudor warfare, 1485-1558 -- Give me spirit : joining and training -- This happy breed of men : Elizabethan warfare, 1558-1603 -- Why men fought -- Those were golden days : early Stuart warfare, 1603-1639 -- Low intensity combat : campaigning -- All diseas'd : civil wars and commonwealth : events, 1638-1660 -- Talk you of killing : civil wars and commonwealth : impact, 1638-1660 -- High intensity combat : battles and sieges -- Restoration to glorious revolution, 1660-1688 -- The peril of the waters : war at sea -- Let slip the dogs of war : after the Glorious Revolution : 1688-1746 -- The hurlyburly's done : the aftermath of combat.…”
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The gaze of the listener : English representations of domestic music-making by Hohl Trillini, Regula

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