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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A mathematician's look at the chronology of the life of JesusKing Herod. The census that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. The guiding star. The building of the temple at Jerusalem. The crucifixion. These are among the events that we know of from the Bible that might be used to set the…life of Jesus in the historical record. But generations of researchers have found that it is far from easy to reconcile the different accounts of Jesus's life given in the four Gospels, and to tie them to independently verifiable historical dates. And in contrast to his massive significance in the centuries since his life, Jesus of Nazareth was known by only a few during his lifetime, and left little mark on the historical records of his time. As a result there is still much debate about the exact dates of his life. When was he born? When did his ministry begin, and when did he die?Stephen Dudley takes a mathematician's approach to the issue. He looks not only at the events in the Gospels that might be linked to independent histories, but also at the difficulties of dating each one. What exactly is meant by `in his thirtieth year', for instance? Even simple statements like this can be surprisingly misleading. Using a careful process of logical analysis, this account tries to identify both the evidence and the pitfalls in interpreting it. A suggested chronology of the life of Christ based on historical sources. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Miles Edmund Cotman (known to his contemporaries as Edmund) was given the role of sheet anchor to a family of outstanding artists, at the centre of which was his father, the brilliant Norwich School painter John Sell Cotman. Edmunds loyalty was to be detrimental to his own artistic career,…and perhaps unfairly, posterity has often dismissed him as an inferior hack artist. While he did not show the genius of his father, he did in fact produce a variety of distinguished and well-executed work. Geoffrey Searle looks at Edmund Cotmans background, the circumstances of his work, and the work itself that survives for us today.Illustrated with a representative sample of Cotmans works (including oils,watercolours and etchings), this is an important addition to the literature about the Norwich School. A critical study of artist Miles Edmund Cotman (18101858), son of John Sell Cotman, with reproductions of 10 of his works. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Norwich is blessed with more surviving medieval churches than any other city north of the Alps. Architect David Luckhurst worked in the city for more than 40 years before turning to painting and drawing in his retirement, and many buildings he designed are to be seen there. This high-qualit…y paperback reproduces his 32 paintings of Norwich's medieval churches (including the lone surviving tower of the bombed St Benedict), with an emphasis on their street setting. Each painting is accompanied by David's handwritten notes on the surrounding buildings and how the church interacts with them. The book is completed by David's hand-drawn map showing the location of each church and his pen drawing of their combined towers. Paintings of each of Norwich's 32 surviving city-centre medieval churches, with an emphasis on their street setting, accompanied by short notes on the surroundings of each one by the artist, a local architect. Also includes a map of Norwich showing the churches, and a line drawing of their towers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This eclectic selection of papers looks at historic and contemporary issues concerned with the redundancy of churches, and their subsequent reuse and maintenance. When did it come to be thought preferable to reuse the buildings rather than demolish them? What is the role of the Church of En…gland, and how has the law changed over time? How have ideas evolved about the acceptability of different uses - by members of other religions, for commercial purposes, and involving for instance licensed premises and martial arts? And how are heritage bodies entrusted with former churches, such as the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Churches Conservation Trust and the Norwich Historic Churches Trust (NHCT), coping with the challenges of maintaining and converting the buildings in an age of austerity?Papers presented at conferences organized by the NHCT and its Friends in 2014 and 2015 are supplemented by four specially written contributions on aspects of the NHCT itself: its history, its guiding principles, the Heavenly Gardens project to enhance churchyards, and the experiences of a tenant.The NHCT is entrusted with the care of 18 of Norwich's redundant medieval churches, and works not only to maintain them but to increase awareness of architectural, historical and other related aspects of our medieval ecclesiastical heritage. All profits from the sale of this book go to support its work. Illustrated papers on the repair and reuse of redundant churches, both historically and today, with a special emphasis on the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and the 18 Norwich medieval churches for which it is responsible. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: As New. vii 125p paperback, excellent condition, light wear to one corner of spine, otherwise entirely new and unmarked, pages clean with numerous bright colour photographs Language: English.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. `We had a very good dinner, stuffed olives, tomato soup, tinned salmon rissoles (no fresh fish came in yesterday), grilled chicken on mashed potatoes, then roast beef, boiled peas and tomatoes and potatoes, sago pudding and stewed tinned fruit and cheese savoury ` this is the fifth murder i…n five weeks, so you can imagine how thrilling it is to be here. `Charlie said, Look out, dont touch it, its a tarantula spider. `We next overtook a most weird dugout. One man was standing up behind paddling it and in the very front was a man enveloped in a shiny black mackintosh sitting in the bow with alligators all around.Mary Adelaide (Maida) Roberts married Dr Charles Hunter, a physician with the Colonial Medical Service, in 1907. In September 1908 she sailed with him to Bonthe, a small town on an island off the coast of Sierra Leone. Throughout the next year she wrote frequently to her family and friends in Caernarvon. The letters reproduced here are mostly to her younger sister Beatrice (Belle), and have been edited, with an introduction and postscript, by her daughter and grandson. As well as supporting Charlie in his work, Maida collected samples of local plants which she forwarded to the British Museum, butterflies and birds. She writes of daily life in Bonthe, the local flora and fauna, the fellow colonials who make up her social circle, her servants and pets, encounters with local chiefs and market traders, supper parties, shooting expeditions and trips on the river, the ritual `leopard murders, alarmingly common among the natives, and the mail boats with their regular delivery of cakes from Wales. Open minded, interested in everything, and determined to make a success of the posting, she is an engaging and illuminating correspondent. The illustrations include family photos, maps, old postcards and Maidas own paintings. Letters from the wife of a doctor posted in Bonthe, Sierra Leone, to her family in Wales (mostly to her sister). They cover domestic details and daily life, and touch on the 'leopard murders' and other contemporary public events. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Suffolk has been home to monastic communities since St Felix and St Fursey founded the first monasteries in the seventh century, and today the county is home to both awe-inspiring monastic ruins and living communities of men and women devoted to prayer. This first complete survey of the mon…astic history of Suffolk traces the development of monasticism in the kingdom of East Anglia, its recovery after Viking destruction, and the flourishing of an extraordinary variety of communities in medieval Suffolk, ranging from the immensely powerful Abbey of Bury St Edmunds to tiny friaries and nunneries. The book examines the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries and the survival of the monastic dream, against all odds, in post-Reformation Suffolk. Finally, the book surveys the revival of religious communities in modern Suffolk to the present day, and provides a comprehensive gazeteer of all past and present monasteries in the county. Traces the development of monasticism in the kingdom of East Anglia, the flourishing of an extraordinary variety of communities, the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries and the survival of the monastic dream. Surveys the revival of religious communities in modern Suffolk to the present day, and provides a comprehensive gazetteer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 114pp paperback, illusrstrated, containing six papers including Francis Young on Norwich's Catholic Chapels.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1417 Sir John Oldcastle (also known as Lord Cobham after his marriage to the great heiress Joan, Lady Cobham) was captured in a field in Wales. One of the most famous rebels in English history, he had been an outlaw on the run for more than four years. He was carried, badly injured, to t…he Tower of London, and from there to a trial before parliament, where he was found guilty of heresy and treason. Lady Cobham his wife of nine years was arrested at the same time, and also imprisoned in the Tower. After her husband had been hanged and then burned, she was quietly freed, and lived on for another sixteen years. Was Joan an innocent, whose marriage to Oldcastle had been arranged by others? Was she no more than a bystander to his plans for a revolution? Or was this husband her fourth one she had chosen for herself, not least because she shared his views and also wanted to change the world she lived in? Did she bring more than funding and an aristocratic name to the partnership? That she was not hanged or burned means little, since no English woman was executed for heresy or treason during her lifetime. None of Joans words survive, so we cannot know for certain what her thoughts were. But we know her ancestry, the places she lived, something of the children she bore, and more of her eminent relations and of the men she married. (She had fivehusbands in all. Two of them earned burial in Westminster Abbey, one was killed fighting for the king in the Low Countries, and one was a celebrated jouster, who might have come originally from Bohemia.) We know more still about the events she lived through, which made of Oldcastle a campaigner for a different and better world. Joan did not give her life for the Lollard movement for religious and political reform, but did she perhaps do more than history has credited her with to shape the events of her era? From the Peasants Revolt, through the Lollard Disendowment Bill to Oldcastles doomed attempt to remake his country; from Richard IIs rise and deposition, through Henry IVs dour reign and his son Henry Vs glorious one; through the rise and dramatic downfall of other relations, and through wars, rebellions and plague: the life of this real-life contemporary of Chaucers wife of Bath was a dramatic and eventful one. Susan Curran draws on a wide variety of sources to trace its course, and to illustrate it and give a sense of its texture. In exploring what its patterns suggest, she brings out from the shadows an extraordinary true story. Biography of Joan de la Pole, Lady Cobham (c. 1370-1434) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Fine. First edition. Softcover book, pictorial card wrappers. 134pp, quarto . With 59 b&w illustrations in plates. Detailed text by UEA historian, expert on the Norwich School artists and collector of their prints. near Fine. Previous owner's name to half-title page. Pictures available.
Editore: Lasse Press, Norwich 2017
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. (xvi) 160pp including index. Illustrated stiff card boards with titles to front and spine. No inscriptions. Clean tight and bright. A lovely copy.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This eclectic selection of papers looks at historic and contemporary issues concerned with the redundancy of churches, and their subsequent reuse and maintenance. When did it come to be thought preferable to reuse the buildings rather than demolish them? What is the role of the Church of En…gland, and how has the law changed over time? How have ideas evolved about the acceptability of different uses - by members of other religions, for commercial purposes, and involving for instance licensed premises and martial arts? And how are heritage bodies entrusted with former churches, such as the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Churches Conservation Trust and the Norwich Historic Churches Trust (NHCT), coping with the challenges of maintaining and converting the buildings in an age of austerity?Papers presented at conferences organized by the NHCT and its Friends in 2014 and 2015 are supplemented by four specially written contributions on aspects of the NHCT itself: its history, its guiding principles, the Heavenly Gardens project to enhance churchyards, and the experiences of a tenant.The NHCT is entrusted with the care of 18 of Norwich's redundant medieval churches, and works not only to maintain them but to increase awareness of architectural, historical and other related aspects of our medieval ecclesiastical heritage. All profits from the sale of this book go to support its work. Illustrated papers on the repair and reuse of redundant churches, both historically and today, with a special emphasis on the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and the 18 Norwich medieval churches for which it is responsible. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A mathematician's look at the chronology of the life of JesusKing Herod. The census that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. The guiding star. The building of the temple at Jerusalem. The crucifixion. These are among the events that we know of from the Bible that might be used to set the…life of Jesus in the historical record. But generations of researchers have found that it is far from easy to reconcile the different accounts of Jesus's life given in the four Gospels, and to tie them to independently verifiable historical dates. And in contrast to his massive significance in the centuries since his life, Jesus of Nazareth was known by only a few during his lifetime, and left little mark on the historical records of his time. As a result there is still much debate about the exact dates of his life. When was he born? When did his ministry begin, and when did he die?Stephen Dudley takes a mathematician's approach to the issue. He looks not only at the events in the Gospels that might be linked to independent histories, but also at the difficulties of dating each one. What exactly is meant by `in his thirtieth year', for instance? Even simple statements like this can be surprisingly misleading. Using a careful process of logical analysis, this account tries to identify both the evidence and the pitfalls in interpreting it. A suggested chronology of the life of Christ based on historical sources. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Miles Edmund Cotman (known to his contemporaries as Edmund) was given the role of sheet anchor to a family of outstanding artists, at the centre of which was his father, the brilliant Norwich School painter John Sell Cotman. Edmunds loyalty was to be detrimental to his own artistic career,…and perhaps unfairly, posterity has often dismissed him as an inferior hack artist. While he did not show the genius of his father, he did in fact produce a variety of distinguished and well-executed work. Geoffrey Searle looks at Edmund Cotmans background, the circumstances of his work, and the work itself that survives for us today.Illustrated with a representative sample of Cotmans works (including oils,watercolours and etchings), this is an important addition to the literature about the Norwich School. A critical study of artist Miles Edmund Cotman (18101858), son of John Sell Cotman, with reproductions of 10 of his works. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Norwich is blessed with more surviving medieval churches than any other city north of the Alps. Architect David Luckhurst worked in the city for more than 40 years before turning to painting and drawing in his retirement, and many buildings he designed are to be seen there. This high-qualit…y paperback reproduces his 32 paintings of Norwich's medieval churches (including the lone surviving tower of the bombed St Benedict), with an emphasis on their street setting. Each painting is accompanied by David's handwritten notes on the surrounding buildings and how the church interacts with them. The book is completed by David's hand-drawn map showing the location of each church and his pen drawing of their combined towers. Paintings of each of Norwich's 32 surviving city-centre medieval churches, with an emphasis on their street setting, accompanied by short notes on the surroundings of each one by the artist, a local architect. Also includes a map of Norwich showing the churches, and a line drawing of their towers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. `We had a very good dinner, stuffed olives, tomato soup, tinned salmon rissoles (no fresh fish came in yesterday), grilled chicken on mashed potatoes, then roast beef, boiled peas and tomatoes and potatoes, sago pudding and stewed tinned fruit and cheese savoury ` this is the fifth murder i…n five weeks, so you can imagine how thrilling it is to be here. `Charlie said, Look out, dont touch it, its a tarantula spider. `We next overtook a most weird dugout. One man was standing up behind paddling it and in the very front was a man enveloped in a shiny black mackintosh sitting in the bow with alligators all around.Mary Adelaide (Maida) Roberts married Dr Charles Hunter, a physician with the Colonial Medical Service, in 1907. In September 1908 she sailed with him to Bonthe, a small town on an island off the coast of Sierra Leone. Throughout the next year she wrote frequently to her family and friends in Caernarvon. The letters reproduced here are mostly to her younger sister Beatrice (Belle), and have been edited, with an introduction and postscript, by her daughter and grandson. As well as supporting Charlie in his work, Maida collected samples of local plants which she forwarded to the British Museum, butterflies and birds. She writes of daily life in Bonthe, the local flora and fauna, the fellow colonials who make up her social circle, her servants and pets, encounters with local chiefs and market traders, supper parties, shooting expeditions and trips on the river, the ritual `leopard murders, alarmingly common among the natives, and the mail boats with their regular delivery of cakes from Wales. Open minded, interested in everything, and determined to make a success of the posting, she is an engaging and illuminating correspondent. The illustrations include family photos, maps, old postcards and Maidas own paintings. Letters from the wife of a doctor posted in Bonthe, Sierra Leone, to her family in Wales (mostly to her sister). They cover domestic details and daily life, and touch on the 'leopard murders' and other contemporary public events. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Suffolk has been home to monastic communities since St Felix and St Fursey founded the first monasteries in the seventh century, and today the county is home to both awe-inspiring monastic ruins and living communities of men and women devoted to prayer. This first complete survey of the mon…astic history of Suffolk traces the development of monasticism in the kingdom of East Anglia, its recovery after Viking destruction, and the flourishing of an extraordinary variety of communities in medieval Suffolk, ranging from the immensely powerful Abbey of Bury St Edmunds to tiny friaries and nunneries. The book examines the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries and the survival of the monastic dream, against all odds, in post-Reformation Suffolk. Finally, the book surveys the revival of religious communities in modern Suffolk to the present day, and provides a comprehensive gazeteer of all past and present monasteries in the county. Traces the development of monasticism in the kingdom of East Anglia, the flourishing of an extraordinary variety of communities, the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries and the survival of the monastic dream. Surveys the revival of religious communities in modern Suffolk to the present day, and provides a comprehensive gazetteer. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1417 Sir John Oldcastle (also known as Lord Cobham after his marriage to the great heiress Joan, Lady Cobham) was captured in a field in Wales. One of the most famous rebels in English history, he had been an outlaw on the run for more than four years. He was carried, badly injured, to t…he Tower of London, and from there to a trial before parliament, where he was found guilty of heresy and treason. Lady Cobham his wife of nine years was arrested at the same time, and also imprisoned in the Tower. After her husband had been hanged and then burned, she was quietly freed, and lived on for another sixteen years. Was Joan an innocent, whose marriage to Oldcastle had been arranged by others? Was she no more than a bystander to his plans for a revolution? Or was this husband her fourth one she had chosen for herself, not least because she shared his views and also wanted to change the world she lived in? Did she bring more than funding and an aristocratic name to the partnership? That she was not hanged or burned means little, since no English woman was executed for heresy or treason during her lifetime. None of Joans words survive, so we cannot know for certain what her thoughts were. But we know her ancestry, the places she lived, something of the children she bore, and more of her eminent relations and of the men she married. (She had fivehusbands in all. Two of them earned burial in Westminster Abbey, one was killed fighting for the king in the Low Countries, and one was a celebrated jouster, who might have come originally from Bohemia.) We know more still about the events she lived through, which made of Oldcastle a campaigner for a different and better world. Joan did not give her life for the Lollard movement for religious and political reform, but did she perhaps do more than history has credited her with to shape the events of her era? From the Peasants Revolt, through the Lollard Disendowment Bill to Oldcastles doomed attempt to remake his country; from Richard IIs rise and deposition, through Henry IVs dour reign and his son Henry Vs glorious one; through the rise and dramatic downfall of other relations, and through wars, rebellions and plague: the life of this real-life contemporary of Chaucers wife of Bath was a dramatic and eventful one. Susan Curran draws on a wide variety of sources to trace its course, and to illustrate it and give a sense of its texture. In exploring what its patterns suggest, she brings out from the shadows an extraordinary true story. Biography of Joan de la Pole, Lady Cobham (c. 1370-1434) Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
