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Philip Augustus
  • Language: en

Philip Augustus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Constantinople
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Constantinople

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-13
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  • Publisher: BookRix

A word of introduction is necessary to explain the nature of this sketch of the history of Constantinople. It is the holiday-task, very pleasant to him, of a College don, to whom there is no city in the world so impressive and so fascinating as the ancient home of the Caesars of the East.

Constantinople
  • Language: en

Constantinople

"Where ocean bathes earth's footstool these sea-bowersBedeck its solid wavelets: wise was heWho blended shore with deep, with seaweed flowers, And Naiads' rivulets with Nereids' sea."Strictly speaking the peninsula on which the city stands is of the form of a trapezium. It juts out into the sea, beating back as it were the fierce waves of the Bosphorus, and forcing them to turn aside from their straight course and widen into the Sea of Marmora, which the ancients called the Propontis, narrowing again as it forces its way between the near banks of the Hellespont, which rise abrupt and arid from the European side, and slope gently away in Asia to the foot of Mount Ida. Northwards there is the ...

The English Church from the Accession of Charles I. to the Death of Anne (1625-1714) by the Rev. William Holden Hutton...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402
Constantinople
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Constantinople

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

By Thames and Cottswold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

By Thames and Cottswold

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1908
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Misrule of Henry III
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

The Misrule of Henry III

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Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England

This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could...

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

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The Cambridge History of English Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Cambridge History of English Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1933
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

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