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The Pilgrim's Progress is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of the narrative aspect of Christian media. It has been translated into more than 200 languages and never been out of print. It appeared in Dutch in 1681, in German in 1703 and in Swedish in 1727. The first North American edition was issued in 1681. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English. According to literary editor Robert McCrum, "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Enid Blyton. The words on which the hymn "To be a Pilgrim" is based, come from the novel.Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county prison for violations of the Conventicle Act of 1664, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established Church of England. Early Bunyan scholars such as John Brown believed The Pilgrim's Progress was begun in Bunyan's second, shorter imprisonment for six months in 1675, but more recent scholars such as Roger Sharrock believe that it was begun during Bunyan's initial, more lengthy imprisonment from 1660 to 1672 right after he had written his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

On April 10, 1606, King James I of England granted the following charter to the investors of the Virginia Company of London. It permitted them to settle a swath of the North American coast and led to the establishment of Jamestown a year later.

JOURNEY BACK INTO TIME as historian and author Matthew E. Thomas records the detailed history of all 73 known surviving Town Pounds of New Hampshire. Pounds were essential community landmarks used to restrain escaped farm/city livestock so they couldn't trample upon, and destroy private vegetable gardens, orchards, and sprawling fields of corn, pumpkins, wheat, rye and hay. An estimated 750 communities scattered throughout the six New England states formerly had Pounds, of which approximately 170 have survived into the 21st century. New Hampshire has the largest number of existing town pounds of all six New England states. Explore a list of the known Town Pounds in other New England states, listing towns & cities with Pounds, date of construction, and known addresses. Learn about the forgotten origin, use, customs, and purpose of historic Pounds built throughout New England between the years 1635 until the late 1800's.Sympathize with elected Town Pound-keepers who had the difficult task of capturing, feeding and caring for numerous livestock that until captured, could wreck devastating havoc upon countless gardens and crops.Adequate winter food storage often spelled the difference between life and death for many struggling families dependent upon whatever food they could grow in summer to survive the cold winter months. Thus, they did not appreciate roaming livestock destroying their crops. This is why Pounds were a vital necessity in countless towns and cities throughout New England.Welcome to the past...and ENJOY this truly fascinating journey into an often little-known, and nearly forgotten aspect of early New England life.

Nº 651Ñ de la serie Leyendas Bilingües: Este libro está en español y japonés.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Guillermo Adams salió a navegar en busca de riquezas, pero acabó como rehén náufrago en Japón. Ahora debe demostrar su valía ante el Shogun para convertirse en samurái.Esta ficción histórica se basa en la historia real de la desventura de un marinero inglés en un barco holandés. Su triunfo sobre la adversidad hace que este libro sea especialmente atractivo para los niños.Incluye elegantes ilustraciones de anime/manga.Créditos adicionalesTraductor de japonés: Kanta Tokunaga

A detailed analysis of the limitations of the system which relied on intermediaries and private suppliers to finance, build and maintain the French navy.

The Grampian Highlands lie in north-east Scotland, from Aberdeenshire to eastern Perthshire. In the 17th century the region was controlled by clans loyal to the Stuart kings.

Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten dreizehn Beiträge untersuchen interkonfessionelle Aushandlungsprozesse auf Reisen. Am Beispiel der Italienreisen von Adligen aus dem Alten Reich, aber auch von italienischen Adligen, die den deutschen Sprachraum besuchen, wird die Kontaktnahme mit der jeweils anderen Konfession im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert beschrieben. Fragen nach dem konfessionellen Gehalt von Landkarten gelangen dabei ebenso ins Blickfeld wie die interkonfessionelle Extremsituationen der Konversion oder der Tod im konfessionsfremden Territorium. Die zentrale Rolle, die den Künsten beim interkonfessionellen Austausch zukommt, wird am Beispiel der Kunst- und Wunderkammern und des Kolosseums behandelt.

The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler, though this spelling also occurs in first editions) is a book by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verseWalton was born in Stafford and moved to London when he was in his teens in order to learn a trade. The Compleat Angler reflects the author's connections with these two locations, especially on the River Dove, central England, that forms the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire in the Peak District. The book was dedicated to John Offley of Madeley, Staffordshire, and there are references in it to fishing in the English Midlands. However, the work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting at Tottenham.Walton was not sympathetic to the Puritan regime of the 1650s and the work has been seen as a reaction to the turbulence of the English Civil War and its aftermath; "the disorder of the present times received muted comment in the work's scenes of harmony", is the view of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[2] "Study to be Quiet" was one of Walton's favourite mottos.

Descendant d'une famille de petite noblesse ruinée, Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban fut un soldat courageux, un ingénieur de génie, un visionnaire hardi, un infatigable travailleur, un fidèle serviteur du roi Louis XIV qui eut une haute estime de lui en l'élevant à la dignité de Maréchal de France, et en lui prodiguant le titre de marquis. Il fut tout cela à la fois, pour la grandeur de la France. Cet homme au grand coeur n'oublia pas pour autant ses origines modestes, dans le rude Morvan bourguignon. Humaniste dans l'âme, il mit son franc-parler, sa générosité, sa probité, sa haute conscience et sa gloire au service des paysans écrasés d'impôts et des protestants persécutés.C'est assurément l'une des plus nobles figures de l'Histoire de France.

Der systematische Erwerb von Kenntnissen im Umgang mit Quellen in jüdischen Sprachen ist im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ein Desideratum. Das vorliegende Buch liefert hierzu eine praktische Einführung. Die ausgewählten handschriftlichen und gedruckten Quellen dokumentieren jüdische Geschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert in vier jüdischen Sprachen - Hebräisch, Jiddisch, Judendeutsch und Judenspanisch. Neben der jeweils als Faksimile wiedergegebenen Quelle werden eine Transkription und eine deutsche Übersetzung geboten. Das Buch ermöglicht nicht nur einen Einstieg in die Quellenkunde, insbesondere die Paläographie, sondern durch Kurzbeschreibungen der Texte auch einen Einblick in die Geschichte der Juden im Heiligen Römischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten. Das Lehrbuch liegt nun in einer überarbeiteten Neuauflage vor.

A young woman's daring quest to free the ... PRISONER OF WALLABOUT BAYSarah Barrett has only two choices ... She can bow to her mother's nagging and marry a handsome young lawyer who is well-connected to the British military occupying New York. Or she can stick to her inky grind as a lowly apprentice at a newspaper where her foul-mouthed, ill-tempered boss keeps assigning her stories on ladies' hair trends instead of the Revolutionary War intrigue she so wants to cover. Sarah's relentless digging uncovers a story that nobody wants to even talk about, no less print. The British have set up decaying prison ships in the waters off New York. Risking everything, Sarah fights to expose rampant cruelty and wretched conditions, and in the process just happens to find love.

"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--

The Passing of New France a Chronicle of Montcalm by William Wood has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Der Mann mit dem Schlapphut von Frans Hals gehört zu den bekanntesten Meisterwerken der Kasseler Gemäldegalerie. Schon Lovis Corinth bekannte 1907 bei seinem Besuch: "der Franz Hals hat genau so gemalt wie ich. [...] Ich brauche mich gar nicht zu verstellen." Das Ergebnis war eine schöpferische Kopie nach dem Gemälde, welche - bei aller Unterschiedlichkeit - die Seelenverwandtschaft beider Künstler offenbart. Erstmals sind beide Werke in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe gemeinsam zu sehen. Ergänzt werden sie durch eine moderne Paraphrase von Slawomir Elsner, die vom Museumsverein Kassel e. V. erworben wurde. Auch sie belegt: Frans Hals inspiriert bis heute! Frans Hals «Der Mann mit dem Schlapphut» Lovis Corinth Slawomir Elsner

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter 'A' for 'Adulteress'

Salem, Massachusetts, has built a thriving industry of tourism on the foundations of its dark past. But, beneath the seaside charm, bewitching shops, and seasonal surge of witches and thrill-seekers, the ancient darkness still lurks.Oblivious to the brewing danger, Skye Temple buys an historic house in the witch capital of the world and on her first day uncovers a skeleton and ancestral diaries in her new home's library.This guide will help you with the following:The Puritans of the MayflowerThe Accusations BeginMass Hysteria in SalemThe First ExecutionsCorey's Death by PressingThe Legacy of Witchcraft in SalemAnd much more!These witches had the power to curse and terrify the citizens of the town. They also believed other creatures such as ghosts, witches' familiars, and demons, existed physically in our realm. When a few of the townsfolk of Salem started to exhibit signs such as muscular spasms or convulsions, visions, and strange behavior, it was assumed these townsfolk were cursed by witches.

By: William MacFarlane Jones, Pub.1928, reprinted 2023, 408 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-110-4.Goochland County was created in 1728 from Henrico County. The Douglas Register is an extremely valuable set of records covering births, marriages, and deaths from 1750 to 1797. The registers are for St. James Northam Parish (Dover Church) and King William Parish both of Goochland County. These entries under the headings of births, marriages, and deaths are arranged in alphabetical order covering several thousand persons for Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Orange, and Spotsylvania Counties. The author has also included lists of Huguenot settlers at Manakin-Town (King William Parish) and an index of Goochland County wills, 1728-1840, containing approximately 1,000 names with references to dates and locations.

By: Peyton Neale Clarke, Pub. 1897, reprinted 2023, 216 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-107-4.King William County was created 1702 from King and Queen County. In 1720 Spotsylvania County was formed from parts of King William, King and Queen, and Essex counties, and in 1727 parts of King William County were carved off to create Caroline County. This book is divided onto two parts. The first part gives the names many homes located in the county with a small history of the dwelling, covering such things as: current owner, past owner, description of the building, owner's occupation, and etc... The second part consists of genealogical sketches of some seventy-five early families and their descendants. Surnames of these biographies: Allen, Atkinson, Aylett, Baylor, Bolling, Braxton, Brecknock, Brown, Butler, Byrd, Claiborne, Cole, Coleman, Conway, Corr, Dandridge, Dickey, Dunbar, Edwards, Ellett, Fontaine, Fowke, Freeman, Gregory, Griswold, Henry, Hill, Hundley, Johnson, King, Kinkead, Lewis, Lipscomb, Littlepage, Lynn, McElwee, Moncure, Morancy, Neale, Newman, Pemberton, Peyton, Pollard, Quarles, Robins, Robinson, Shawhan, Taliaferro, Tatum, Teackle, Thornton, Trimble, Walker, Waller, and West. The author also, has included a lengthy history of the Edwards family, the descendants of Ambrose Edwards of Cherry Grove. The Index mentions approximately 3,000 persons.

Bringing together an international cast of scholars from a range of disciplines, this highly illustrated book traces the history of colour through its relationship with clothing in Europe over four centuries in the pre-modern period. A Revolution in Colour reveals how, during this era, dyes spurred on aesthetic experiment, new modes of empirical observation and an intensification of globally interconnected trade. The book demonstrates that merchants and craftspeople generated much of the social value for new aesthetic possibilities through dye tones, successfully arguing that this set off a 'revolution in colour' that intertwined with the first age of globalization and consumerism. Whilst providing clear evidence that even dress obtained by middling people in Europe could be much more expensive than paintings, A Revolution in Colour also shows that vibrant coloured clothing and accessories based on complex chemical experiments were ubiquitous. A broad range of natural dyes made for exciting and highly successful products by creating novelty and new emotional experiences for the masses.

This volume identifies many of the Irish soldiers in the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean from around 1650 until 1825.

"From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape, and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln's rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war would make clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society"--

Captain Jacob Clarke is promoted to major in the final years of the American Revolution. Along with General Francis Marion, their story, The Wolf and the Fox, continues the quest to liberate South Carolina from the British. Some of the bloodiest fighting in the war is about to occur, spanning from Shubrick's Plantation to the last major battle in Eutaw Springs. Beginning in 1780, this historical tale concludes on Victory Day, December 16, 1783, when the triumphant revolutionary army liberates Charleston. This is the sixth and final book in a series about Jacob Clarke that Erick W. Nason began writing in 2016. Holding a doctorate in history, he notes, "There is not much written on the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution."Erick W. Nason grew up in Glens Falls in upstate New York, the heart of Rogers Rangers country, halfway between Fort Edward, Fort William Henry, Fort Ticonderoga, and other battlefields in between. He currently lives with his wife Karin in Sumter, South Carolina, near where General Sumter is buried. "I am retired Army Special Operations, served twenty years in both the Rangers and in Special Forces. I am a military historian working to preserve the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution by supporting the education program Liberty Live, Southern Campaign 1780, and Southern Battlefield Preservation Trust." A battle reenactor for over thirty years, he is also a presenter at the annual Francis Marion Symposium. The author is currently a government contractor managing search and rescue programs for U.S. Air Force Central Command and the Middle East.

Forfatteren skriver: Som ungt menneske fik jeg en bog forærende af min morfar med titlen Christenze Kruckow – en adelig troldkvinde fra Chr. IV’s tid. Bogen indeholder det omfattende domsmateriale, som endte med, at Christenze Kruckow blev henrettet i København i 1621, anklaget for trolddom. Hun blev som den eneste henrettet ved sværd, da hun var adelig. Min morfar hed Jørgen Kruchow og havde slægten Kruchows våbenskjold hængende og var meget interesseret i sagen. Om min mors familie virkelig er i familie med denne kvinde, ved jeg ikke noget om, men jeg har simpelthen ikke kunnet slippe den historie. Hvad skete der? Hvorfor blev hun dømt? Var det retfærdigt? Og var hun en heks? Jeg har igennem læsning af alskens kilder prøvet at krybe ind under huden på denne usædvanlige kvinde.

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Wandmalereien, Skulpturen, Bilderhandschriften sowie Körperbilder des 16. Jahrhunderts in Mexiko. Julia Kloss-Weber analysiert, inwiefern viele der im Rahmen der Neuspanien-Mission entstandenen Bilder Alterität, also Identität stiftende Andersartigkeit, thematisieren. Gleichzeitig fragt sie nach jener Form von Alterität, die Bildern als Spannungsfelder einer ,ikonischen Differenz' (Gottfried Boehm) zukommt. Dadurch werden zwei Diskursfelder zusammengeführt, die sich bisher weitgehend unabhängig voneinander entwickelt hatten: Reflexionen auf Konstruktionen des ,Anderen' im Rahmen der Postcolonial Studies und bildtheoretische Debatten. So wird deutlich, inwiefern Bilder nicht nur zwischen Kulturen vermitteln, sondern selbst Gegenstand transkultureller Übersetzungsprozesse sind.

Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten die Entstehung von bedeutenden Zeichnungssammlungen in Wien und Mitteleuropa, die heute vielfach den Grundstock der großen Kabinette etwa in Wien, Berlin, Dresden und Hamburg bilden. Sie fragen nach den Akteuren, ihren internationalen Verflechtungen und ihren Motivationen, nach besonderen Sammlungsschwerpunkten und Erwerbungsstrategien wie nach Aufbewahrung und Ordnungssystemen. Die mediale Verbreitung der Sammlungen im Reproduktionsstich oder durch Katalogwerke kommt ebenso zur Sprache wie Strukturen des Kunst- und Aktionshandels und das Zusammenspiel von Sammeln, Kennerschaft und Zeichnungswissenschaft. Der Band zeigt dabei auch, wie stark Zeichnungssammlungen vor allem im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert die Kunstgeschichte und die methodische Entwicklung des Fachs geprägt haben.