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8 de may. de 2024 · Gothic Fiction from the 18th Century to the Romantics. English Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; The Castle of Otranto, 1764; The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story, 1777; The Recess, or a Tale of Other Times, 1783–85; Vathek, 1786; Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake, 1789
Hace 2 días · Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9781316631737; 340pp.; Price: £64.99. Martin Ingram’s 1987 book Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640 is celebrated for many reasons. (1) Not least, it is recognised for its importance in rescuing ecclesiastical ...
Hace 6 días · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
Hace 5 días · English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England.It has distinctive attributes of its own, but is also very similar to wider British cuisine, partly historically and partly due to the import of ingredients and ideas from the Americas, China, and India during the time of the British Empire and as a result of post-war immigration.
Hace 4 días · A Roman Catholic school for girls had been founded at the Bar Convent in 1686 and a boys' school was established in Ogleforth in 1796, but the only Protestant nonconformist school was that founded by the Quaker, Esther Tuke, the second wife of the founder of the Retreat, in 1785. The school closed in 1814 but was the nucleus, as it were, from ...
Hace 4 días · Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750. London, Clarendon Press, 1998; 449pp. Worshippers at the main dominical services of the Church of England have, with greater or lesser frequency according to usage, custom, or personal inclination from 1549, and until the revision of the prayer book in 1980, publicly and collectively asserted ...
Hace 6 días · George I 1 Aug 1714 - 11 Jun 1727. George II 11 Jun 1727- 25 Oct 1760. George III 25 Oct 1760 - 29 Jan 1820. (Regency 1810/1811 (parts), then 52- 60 Geo III 25 Oct 1811 - 1820) Adoption of Gregorian/New Style Calendar. Under Chesterfield's Act 1751, 24 Geo II c.23 1 January became the first day of 1752, 2 September 1752 was followed by 14 ...
