Bøger om Sent 17. århundrede

"When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe represented a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world. In this fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, Nandini Das offers an insider's view of Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue, scandal, lotteries, and wagers that unfold as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia."--

In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? This compellingly narrated account of the catastrophe draws on a rich cache of historical material including letters, diaries, and ships' logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain to its core.

"Between 1643 and 1645, Basing House in Hampshire, England, was besieged three times. Its owner, the Marquess of Winchester, reportedly had the motto Love loyalty etched into the windows. Winchester refused all terms of surrender. As royalist strongholds crumbled around the country, the Winchesters--and Basing House--stood firm. 'Loyalty House', as it was known, became the king's principal garrison. But the drum of the parliamentary army beat ever louder--and closer--and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells the story of these dramatic events, not only recounting the sallies and skirmishes, but the experiences of the men, women, and children caught in the crossfire"--

In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule. With the return of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, the puritan-led colonies faced enormous pressure to conform to the crown's priorities. Charles demanded that puritans change voting practices, baptismal policies, and laws, and he also cast an eye on local resources such as forests, a valuable source of masts for the English navy. Moreover, to enforce these demands, the king sent four royal commissioners on warships, ostensibly headed for New Netherland but easily redirected toward Boston. In the face of this threat to local rule, colonists had to decide whether they would submit to the commissioners' authority, which they viewed as arbitrary because it was not accountable to the people, or whether they would mobilize to defy the crown. Those resisting the crown included not just freemen (voters) but also people often seen as excluded or marginalized such as non-freemen, indentured servants, and women. Together they crafted a potent regional constitutional culture in defiance of Charles II that was characterized by a skepticism of metropolitan ambition, a defense of civil and religious liberties, and a conviction that self-government was divinely sanctioned. Weimer shows how they expressed this constitutional culture through a set of well-rehearsed practices--including fast days, debates, committee work, and petitions. Equipped with a ready vocabulary for criticizing arbitrary rule, with a providentially informed capacity for risk-taking, and with a set of intellectual frameworks for divided sovereignty, the constitutional culture that New Englanders forged would not easily succumb to an imperial authority intent on consolidating its power.

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed?from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer?for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law. Now, in A Thousand Times More Fair, Yoshino turns his attention to the question of what makes a fair and just society, and delves deep into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through fresh and insightful readings of Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Othello, and others, he addresses the fundamental questions we ask about our world today and elucidates some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life. Enormously creative, engaging, and provocative, A Thousand Times More Fair is an altogether original book about Shakespeare and the law, and an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society?and our own.

In a world of chaos and disease, one group of driven, idiosyncratic geniuses envisioned a universe that ran like clockwork. They were the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world. At the end of the seventeenth century, sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were indistinguishable, and the world's most brilliant, ambitious, and curious scientists were tormented by contradiction. They believed in angels, devils, and alchemy yet also believed that the universe followed precise mathematical laws that were as intricate and perfectly regulated as the mechanisms of a great clock. The Clockwork Universe captures these monolithic thinkers as they wrestled with nature's most sweeping mysteries. Award-winning writer Edward Dolnick illuminates the fascinating personalities of Newton, Leibniz, Kepler, and others, and vividly animates their momentous struggle during an era when little was known and everything was new?battles of will, faith, and intellect that would change the course of history itself.

The Eastern Association is best known for its performance at the battle of Marston Moor and the rise of Oliver Cromwell, but it was so much more.

Composés à partir de 1691, les contes de Perrault comprennent trois contes en vers --Grisélidis, Les Souhaits ridicules, Peau d'âne -- et huit en prose : La Belle au Bois dormant, Le Petit Chaperon rouge, La Barbe-bleue, Le Maître Chat ou Le Chat botté, Cendrillon, Le Petit Poucet, Les Fées, Riquet à la houppe.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als 1660 der englische König Charles II aus dem französischen Exil nach London zurückkehrte und somit die Stuart-Monarchie nach 11 Jahren restauriert wurde, begann nicht nur politisch gesehen ein neues Zeitalter. Die Literatur der Restaurationszeit war und ist noch heute von großer Bedeutung, zumal sie nicht selten die revolutionären politischen Ereignisse ihrer Zeit verarbeitete und widerspiegelte. Allen voran ist John Dryden ein Autor, in dessen Werken die politischen Aussagen offensichtlich werden. Auf all diese Hintergründe werde ich zu Beginn meiner Hausarbeit im zweiten Kapitel ausführlicher eingehen um mich anschließend intensiver mit dem Drama Ödipus von John Dryden zu beschäftigen. Dabei werde ich vor allem folgende These diskutieren: ¿Drydens Stück behandelt in der Figur des Ödipus das Prinzip der Monarchie. Dabei bringt der Autor mit der Konstruktion der Ödipus-Figur eine eindeutige politische Aussage zum Ausdruck.¿ Um diese These zu untermauern werde ich eine Figurenanalyse des Protagonisten vornehmen und an geeigneten Stellen Parallelen zwischen der Handlung im Stück und dem geschichtlichen Hintergrund der Restaurationszeit herstellen.Gegen Ende werde ich die politische Aussage Drydens spezifizieren. Um die Tragweite dieser Aussage besser zu verstehen, gebe ich zunächst einen Überblick über die wichtigsten historischen Ereignisse, die der Produktion des Dramas im Jahr 1678 vorausgingen.

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.

Printed Musical Propaganda exposes a relationship between music and propaganda that crossed generations and genres. Music, in theory and practice, was consistently used as propaganda in a variety of printed genres that included or discussed music from the English Civil Wars through the reign of William and Mary.

La Rochefoucauld a eu l'idée de composer un grand nombre de maximes, et surtout de les publier, dans le salon de Madeleine de Sablé où a été lancé le genre littéraire des maximes. On trouve d'ailleurs une certaine proximité de préoccupations dans les maximes de celle-ci et celles de La Rochefoucauld. Les maximes étaient discutées par Madeleine de Sablé ainsi que Jacques Esprit, la princesse de Guéméné, la duchesse de Schomberg, la comtesse de Maure ou Eléonore de Rohan. Les transformations effectuées à la version de l'édition de 1665 doivent beaucoup à ces amis influents.Les Maximes ont été souvent réimprimées depuis les cinq éditions originales données du vivant de l'auteur. Voltaire dira de cet ouvrage : « C'est un des ouvrages qui contribuèrent le plus à former le goût de la nation, et à lui donner un esprit de justesse et de précision... Il accoutuma à penser et à renfermer des pensées dans un tour vif, précis et délicat »- Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV, chapitre 32

L'intrigue couvre les aventures d'un pauvre gentilhomme, Hidalgo de la Manche, dénommé Alonso Quichano, obsédé par les livres de chevalerie, qu'il collectionne dans sa bibliothèque de façon maladive. Ceux-ci troublent son jugement au point que Quichano se prend un beau jour pour le chevalier errant Don Quichotte, dont la mission est de parcourir l'Espagne, pour combattre le mal et protéger les opprimés.À la fois roman médiéval -- un roman de chevalerie -- et roman de l'époque moderne alors naissante, le livre est une parodie des moeurs médiévales et de l'idéal chevaleresque, ainsi qu'une critique des structures sociales d'une société espagnole rigide et vécue comme absurde. Don Quichotte est un jalon important de l'histoire littéraire et les interprétations qu'on en donne sont multiples : pur comique, satire sociale, analyse politique. Il est considéré comme l'un des romans les plus importants de la littérature mondiale et comme le premier roman moderne.Le personnage, Alonso Quichano, est à l'origine de l'archétype du Don Quichotte, personnage généreux et idéaliste qui se pose en redresseur de torts

Until this book was published in 1974, many of the letters in this book between Charles I Prince Rupert his nephew and the leading Royalist commander had never been published. From a mainly private collection, the letters give a fascinating insight into the stormy relationship between the monarch and his nephew.