The Illustrious and Renown'd History of the Seven Famous Champions of Christendom. in Three Parts ... the Sixth Edition

The Illustrious and Renown'd History of the Seven Famous Champions of Christendom. in Three Parts ... the Sixth Edition PDF

Author: RICHARD. JOHNSON

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781385400692

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress N067701 Anonymous. By Richard Johnson. An edition of 'The most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome'. Page 120 is misnumbered 20. London: printed for R. Ware; C. Hitch; and J. Hodges, 1750. 119,20 [i.e. 120],121-156p., plate: ill.; 12°

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

The Legend of Guy of Warwick PDF

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1000525570

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First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.

The Illustrious and Renown'd History of the Seven Famous Champions of Christendom

The Illustrious and Renown'd History of the Seven Famous Champions of Christendom PDF

Author: Richard Johnson

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781379635369

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T066808 Anonymous. By Richard Johnson. An edition of 'The most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome'. London: printed for T. Norris; for A. Bettesworth, 1719. 162, [6]p.: ill.; 12°