While recent literature has emphasized the circulation of materials relating to Jacobean and especially Caroline parliaments during the early 17th century, the article recovers the existence of a simultaneous interest in the parliamentary proceedings of the Elizabethan era. At a time when the future of...
Marian heads to the company happy to sell out for her son’s sake, if cranky about the task. “I’m a human being, a thinking human being, and this is a stack of mindless algorithms,” she says after testing out Charlotte. Charlotte announces she’s read “most poems in English publi...
The Palace of Westminster is a Victorian Gothic masterpiece designed by Sir Charles Barry and A.W. Pugin to replace the medieval parliament buildings, which burnt to the ground in 1834. The result of their work is one of the great buildings of the Victorian era and acts as home to the H...
Certainly, it seems that the graves and the chapel were the focus of veneration and may have been a destination for early pilgrims. Rock-cut graves on the headland On Main Street stands the Royal Hotel, a picturesque pub that began as a grain store in the Elizabethan period before it was ...
The Black Plague Also known as “The Bubonic Plague” or “Black Death.” Said to begin in Asia during the 1300’s. Spread to Europe and would continuously haunt the area on and off from the 14th-17th centuries. Killed 1/3 of Europe (about 20 million deaths) ...
Reprints of music scores of classical composers became a mainstay of the firm about 1970. Its 200 music titles in 1987 ranged from Elizabethan keyboard scores to ragtime rarities and full-score versions of all the operas in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle....
Worse, (though in fairness mainly outside the USA) there is an amazing level of confusion about the letters CE as to whether they refer to Common Era or to Current Era - a difference of about 2000 years!. There is now a further confusion building up world wide, namely that CE stands ...