A Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland Place; which Will be Sold by Auction, on Monday, March 16, and Seventeen Following Days; on Monday, May 4, and Eleven Following Days; and on Monday, May 25, and Eleven Following Days, (Sundays Excepted,) by Mr. Evans, at His House, No. 93, Pall-Mall

A Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland Place; which Will be Sold by Auction, on Monday, March 16, and Seventeen Following Days; on Monday, May 4, and Eleven Following Days; and on Monday, May 25, and Eleven Following Days, (Sundays Excepted,) by Mr. Evans, at His House, No. 93, Pall-Mall
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Total Pages : 514
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Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland Place; which Will be Sold by Auction, on Monday, March 16, and Seventeen Following Days; on Monday, May 4, and Eleven Following Days; and on Monday, May 25, and Eleven Following Days, (Sundays Excepted,) by Mr. Evans, at His House, No. 93, Pall-Mall by : George Hibbert

The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9780191506994
ISBN-13 : 0191506990
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Synopsis The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern by : Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana
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Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433089897858
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Synopsis Bibliotheca Grenvilliana by : John Thomas Payne

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015004105212
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Synopsis Giovanni Pico della Mirandola by : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola