A Distant Prospect Of Wessex

Author : Martin J. P. Davies
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910791
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Prospect of Wessex: Archaeology and the Past in the Life and Works of Thomas Hardy. written by Martin J. P. Davies and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Davies examines Thomas Hardy's involvement with the past and the role it plays in his life and literary work. Hardy's life encompasses the transformation of archaeology out of mere antiquarianism into a fully scientific discipline. He observed this process at first hand, and its impact on his aesthetic and philosophical scheme was profound.

Author : Martin John Peter Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Prospect of Wessex written by Martin John Peter Davies and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hadrian Cook
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275367
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex: A Landscape History written by Hadrian Cook and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.

Author : Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book The Marches of Wessex written by Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Bevis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199576467
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry written by Matthew Bevis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.

Author : Josie Gill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350109487
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Remains written by Josie Gill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological knowledge in literature and literary criticism. The book's eight chapters explore a wide array of archaeological approaches and methods, including scientific archaeology, identifying intersections with literature and literary studies which are textual, conceptual, spatial, temporal and material. Examining literary authors from Thomas Hardy and Bram Stoker to Sarah Moss and Paul Beatty, scholars from across disciplines are brought into dialogue to consider fictional narrative both as a site of new archaeological knowledge and as a source and object of archaeological investigation.

Author : Desmond Hawkins
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex written by Desmond Hawkins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Beer
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Wessex written by Patricia Beer and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl J. Weger
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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Hardy of Wessex written by Carl J. Weger and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tracy Joanne Borman
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553908251
Total Pages : 373 pages
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Download or read book Queen of the Conqueror written by Tracy Joanne Borman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William furiously dragged her to the ground by her hair and beat her mercilessly. Matilda’s outraged father immediately took up arms on his daughter’s behalf. But just a few days later, Baldwin was aghast when Matilda, still recovering from the assault, announced that she would marry none but William, since “he must be a man of great courage and high daring” to have ventured to “come and beat me in my own father’s palace.” Thus began the tempestuous marriage of Matilda of Flanders and William the Conqueror. While William’s exploits and triumphs have been widely chronicled, his consort remains largely overlooked. Now, in her groundbreaking Queen of the Conqueror, acclaimed author and historian Tracy Borman weaves together a comprehensive and illuminating tapestry of this noble woman who stood only four-foot-two and whose role as the first crowned Queen of England had a large and lasting influence on the English monarchy. From a wealth of historical artifacts and documents, Matilda emerges as passionate, steadfast, and wise, yet also utterly ruthless and tenacious in pursuit of her goals, and the only person capable of taming her formidable husband—who, unprecedented for the period, remained staunchly faithful to her. This mother of nine, including four sons who went on to inherit William’s French and English dominions, confounded the traditional views of women in medieval society by seizing the reins of power whenever she had the chance, directing her husband’s policy, and at times flagrantly disobeying his orders. Tracy Borman lays out Matilda’s remarkable story against one of the most fascinating and transformative periods in European history. Stirring, richly detailed, and wholly involving, Queen of the Conqueror reveals not just an extraordinary figure but an iconic woman who shaped generations, and an era that cast the essential framework for the world we know today. Praise for Queen of the Conqueror “[Tracy Borman] brings to life Queen Matilda’s enormous accomplishments in consolidating early Norman rule. Alongside her warrior husband, William I, Matilda brought legitimacy, a deeper degree of education, diplomatic savvy and artistic and religious flowering to the shared Norman-English throne. Borman . . . the chief executive of Britain’s Heritage Education Trust, fleshes out the personality of this fascinating woman, who set the steely precedent for subsequent English female sovereigns by displaying great longevity and stamina in a rough, paternalistic time. . . . A richly layered treatment of the stormy reign that yielded the incomparable Bayeux Tapestry and the Domesday Book.”—Kirkus Reviews “Tracy Borman tells this story with a steady eye and a steady hand, tracing what can be known of Matilda’s part in the events that were to change the course of English history.”—Helen Castor, Literary Review