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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives by Davis, Natalie Zemon at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 067495520X - ISBN 13: 9780674955202 - Harvard University Press - 1995 - Hardcover
This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of "Britons" thriving today just as its object has become problematic? The book conveys the mutability of national conceits. Samuels calls as witness numerous authorities - Bede and Gerald of Barri, Macaulay and...
He Was An Architect By Ashon Crawley | NPR Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images In my undergraduate studies I was able to take two courses from the architecture major. We learned a lot about design, cultivated attention to the built environment. My professors emphasized imagining things as they could be, if only we had the fortitude and verve to bring those things we sensed with our imagination into being. I loved it. One of my favorite parts of those classes was creating "section drawings" of imagined spaces. As Frank Ching writes in his hallowed reference text Arc...
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption Little Richard in the studio, circa 1959. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In my undergraduate studies I was able to take two courses from the architecture major. We learned a lot about design, cultivated attention to the built environment. My professors emphasized imagining things as they could be, if only we had the fortitude and verve to bring those things we sensed with our imagination into being. I loved it. One of my favorite parts of those classes was creating "section drawings" of imagined spaces. As F...